Thickhead and Other Stories
Author : Haldun Taner
Publisher : Unesco
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Haldun Taner
Publisher : Unesco
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Fantasy fiction, Russian
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Author : Maksim Gorky
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 1915
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Author : Anjana Appachana
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2006-12
Category : India
ISBN : 9780143100911
The Stories In This Collection Are Set In The Early Eighties, And Anjana Appachana Wonderfully Captures The Raw, Vibrant Energy And Optimism Of A Time When We Drank Chai For Thirty Paise, And Twenty Thousand Rupees Spent On &Lsquo;Gifts&Rsquo; For The Boy&Rsquo;S Side Was An Enormous Amount Of Money For Middle-Class Indians. Her Characters Strain For A Place Beyond The Boundaries Of A Prescribed Way Of Life In Urban Middle India: A Hapless College Student Gets Gated A Few Days Before Her Appointment For An Abortion; A Disgruntled Clerk Philosophises Gloomily About His Place In The Scheme Of Things; A Young Girl, Against All Odds, Decides To Keep Her Sister&Rsquo;S Deep, Dark Secret. By Turns Warm, Gullible, Arrogant And Bigoted, Appachana&Rsquo;S Characters Live Their Lives Amid Contradictions And Double Standards, Superstitions And Impossible Dreams, But Ultimately Usurp Their Familiar Landscape And Imbue It With An Idiosyncratic Vision.
Author : Emily Andrew
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 1919
Category :
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Author : Adolfo Bioy Casares
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780811212120
This collection of traditional and experimental stories by Argentinian novelist Bioy Casares ( The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata ) offers sophisticated, seamless prose, as well as magical realism and biting political satire. - Publishers Weekly
Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 1996-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486290301
Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity, anxiety, and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story — considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work — plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1529013186
Anton Chekhov was one of the world’s most accomplished short-story writers and this collection displays the breadth and variety of his genius. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. In the Ravine & Other Stories are translated by Constance Garnett and selected and introduced by novelist Paul Bailey. Chekhov had an incomparable ability to write about the seemingly every day with insight, humour and compassion. His characters are brilliantly drawn, from the church warden who’s convinced his wife’s a witch because strangers arrive on the doorstep whenever there’s a storm, to the wronged wife who confronts her husband’s chorus-girl lover, to the melancholy school teacher who imagines how her life might have been.
Author : Simon Kernick
Publisher : Random House
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473552699
From Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick - the UK's answer to Harlan Coben - come two electrifying novellas and three gripping short stories published in book form for the very first time. Fans of David Baldacci, Stuart MacBride and Peter James will not be disappointed! 'High impact, fast paced - a real adrenalin rush!' -- ***** Reader review 'Simon Kernick never fails to deliver' -- ***** Reader review 'All action!' -- ***** Reader review 'Kept me gripped from the very start' -- ***** Reader review 'Suspense at every page turn!' -- ***** Reader review 'A real rollercoaster read...' -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************************************** ONE BOOK. FIVE THRILLERS. Including: DEAD MAN'S GIFT MP Tim Horton arrives home to find his seven-year-old son has been abducted - and the nanny brutally murdered. The kidnapping gang's demands are simple: Tim must sacrifice his own life to save his son's. A dead man's gift... ONE BY ONE Six former school-friends have been reunited on a remote island. Separated since a fateful night twenty-one years ago, when their friend Rachel was killed, they're afraid for their lives - because the man arrested for Rachel's murder has been released. They think he's coming for them. They're almost right. Plus three more thrillers guaranteed to keep you gripped to the page... Can you withstand five full-strength doses of Simon Kernick?
Author : Mary E. Hullah
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Children's stories, English
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