Author : Rachelle Rowlett
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0359610986
A collection of short stories exploring similar themes of escape, self-realization and fear, as well as the dark and sometimes surreal aspects of human nature.
Author : Mrs. Henry Wood
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 1901
Category : French drama
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Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1899
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Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Children's stories, American
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Author : Karen White
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 110140437X
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels comes a story of old wounds and second chances, set in the small South Carolina town of Folly Beach. To most people, Folly Beach is simply the last barrier island before reaching the great Atlantic. To some, it’s a sanctuary for lost souls... When Emmy Hamilton’s mother encourages her to buy the local book store, Folly’s Finds, she hopes it will distract her daughter from the loss of her husband. But the seller has one condition that changes everything: Emmy must allow Lulu, the late owner’s difficult elderly sister, to continue selling her bottle trees from its back yard. For the most part Emmy ignores Lulu as she sifts through the love letters she finds in a box of used books. But the more she discovers about the letters, the more she understands Lulu. As details of a possible murder and a mysterious disappearance during WWII are revealed, the two women discover that circumstances beyond their control have brought them together, here on Folly Beach. And it is here that their war-ravaged hearts can find hope again…
Author : Gilbert Sorrentino
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1566892899
“Gilbert Sorrentino has long been one of our most intelligent and daring writers. But he is also one of our funniest writers, given to Joycean flights of wordplay, punning, list-making, vulgarity and relentless self-commentary.”—The New York Times “Sorrentino’s ear for dialects and metaphor is perfect: his creations, however brief their presence, are vivid, and much of his writing is very funny and clever, piled with allusions.”—The Washington Post Book World Bearing his trademark balance between exquisitely detailed narration, ground-breaking form, and sharp insight into modern life, Gilbert Sorrentino’s first-ever collection of stories spans 35 years of his writing career and contains both new stories and those that expanded and transformed the landscape of American fiction when they first appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Harper’s, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories. In these grimly comic, unsentimental tales, the always-memorable characters dive headlong into the wasteland of urban culture, seeking out banal perversions, confusing art with the art scene, mistaking lust for love, and letting petty aspirations get the best of them. This is a world where the American dream is embodied in the moonlit cocktail hour and innocence passes at a breakneck speed, swiftly becoming a nostalgia-ridden cliché. As Sorrentino says in the title story, “art cannot rescue anybody from anything,” but his stories do offer some salvation to each of us by locating hope, humor, and beauty amidst a prevailing wind of cynical despair. Gilbert Sorrentino has published over 20 books of fiction and poetry, including the classic Mulligan Stew and his latest novel, Little Casino, which was shortlisted for the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award. After two decades on the faculty at Stanford University, he recently returned to his native Brooklyn.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : Golgotha Press
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 14134 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1621070980
Love is in the air! Read 25 classic romances, poems, and stories to celebrate this Valentine's Day!Works include:EmmaThe Black MothThe Fair Maid of Perth (St Valentine's Day)Old ValentinesJane EyreThe SheikNorth and SouthVanity FairMiddlemarchMadame BovaryThe Beautiful and Damned†̈The Blue LagoonCleopatraJude the ObscureThe Phantom of the OperaThe RainbowA Room with a ViewThis Side of ParadiseWuthering HeightsThe House of MirthGreen MansionsDamsel in DistressSwan SongThe Scarlet PimpernelWashington Square
Author : Stendhal
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 19526 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
DigiCat presents to you a unique collection of the greatest classics of French literature, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: A History of French Literature François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel Molière: Tartuffe or the Hypocrite The Misanthrope The Miser The Imaginary Invalid... Jean Racine: Phaedra Pierre Corneille: The Cid Voltaire: Candide Zadig The Huron A Philosophical Dictionary Letters on England Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Confessions Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma Honoré de Balzac: Father Goriot Eugénie Grandet Lost Illusions The Lily of the Valley A Woman of Thirty Cousin Bette Cousin Pons Colonel Chabert The Magic Skin The Unknown Masterpiece Victor Hugo: Les Misérables The Man Who Laughs The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Toilers of the Sea The Last Day of a Condemned Man Claude Gueux George Sand: Mauprat Alexandre Dumas pere: The Three Musketeers Twenty Years After The Vicomte de Bragelonne Ten Years After Louise de la Valliere The Man in the Iron Mask The Count of Monte Cristo Marguerite de Valois The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas fils: The Lady with the Camellias Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary Émile Zola: Thérèse Raquin The Fortune of the Rougons The Kill The Fat and the Thin The Conquest of Plassans Abbe Mouret's Transgression His Excellency Eugene Rougon The Dram Shop A Love Episode Nana Piping Hot The Ladies' Paradise The Joy of Life Germinal His Masterpiece The Earth The Dream The Human Beast Money Doctor Pascal Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Around the World in Eighty Days The Mysterious Island Journey to the Centre of the Earth From the Earth to the Moon Around the Moon In Search of the Castaways Guy de Maupassant: A Life Bel-Ami Mont Oriol Notre Coeur Pierre and Jean Strong as Death The Necklace The Horla Boul de Suif Two Friends Madame Tellier's Establishment Mademoiselle Fifi Miss Harriet... Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera The Mystery of the Yellow Room The Secret of the Night The Man with the Black Feather Marcel Proust: Swann's Way
