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Author | : Nikolai Gogol |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374722277 |
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An original selection of short fiction by Nikolai Gogol, “the Russian Dickens,” translated by the great Constance Garnett and curated by Natasha Randall, that captures the genius of one of the most daring, inventive writers of the nineteenth century. A wounded solider vanishes into notoriety. A nose is found in a loaf of bread. Places—like the Nevesky Prospect—are not what they seem. Nikolai Gogol was one of the nineteenth century’s greatest and most influential Russian writers, a realist whose acerbic observations and taste for the absurd give his writing its strange, comic voice. In this edition of A Place Bewitched and Other Stories, Natasha Randall presents a new, curated collection of Gogol’s short fiction, selected from the work of Constance Garnett, one of Gogol’s earliest translators. Randall has lightly revised Garnett’s essential translations and frames the collection with a new foreword. Full of the wit of Gogol’s work, this edition is the perfect introduction to a great writer and a must for the enthusiast.
Author | : Nikolai Gogol |
Publisher | : Xist Publishing |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2016-03-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681952157 |
Download The Mantle and Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of short comic stories “This world is full of the most outrageous nonsense. Sometimes things happen which you would hardly think possible.”-The Nose, Nikolai Gogol This is a collection of five short satiric stories by Nikolai Gogol that focus on the ugly and the sad elements in life.
Author | : Billy O'Callaghan |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062856618 |
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“I know of no writer on either side of the Atlantic who is better at exploring the human spirit under assault than Billy O’Callaghan.”—Robert Olen Butler The prizewinning Irish short-story writer and author of the highly praised novel, My Coney Island Baby, delivers his most accomplished book of short fiction to date—a poignant story collection that “grips from the opening page” (Bernard MacLaverty). These are twelve poignant, quietly dazzling, and carefully crafted stories that explore the resiliency of the human heart and its ability to keep beating in the wake of bereavement, violence, lost love, and incomparable trauma and grief. Spanning a century and two continents, from the muddy fields of Ireland to a hotel room in Paris, a dingy bar in Segovia to an airplane bound for Taipei, The Boatman and Other Stories follows an unforgettable cast of characters. Three gunshots on the Irish border define the course of a young man’s life; a writer clings fast to a star-crossed affair with a woman who has never been fully within his reach; a fisherman accustomed to hard labor rolls up his sleeves to dig a grave for his child; and a pair of newlyweds embark on their first adventure, living wild on the deserted Beginish Island. Ranging from the elegiac to the brutally confrontational, these densely layered tales reveal the quiet heroism and gentle dignity of ordinary life. Billy O’Callaghan is a master celebrant of the smallness of the human flame against the dark: its strength and its steady brightness.
Author | : Washington Irving |
Publisher | : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-10-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by an American writer Washington Irving. The story is set in the end of the 18th century in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, called Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky and extremely superstitious teacher from Connecticut competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer, Baltus Van Tassel. One autumn night, when Ichabod was returning from the party at the Van Tassels' homestead, he was followed by a rider without a head. Presumably, it was a ghost of Hessian cavalryman, who had been beheaded by a stray shot in one of the “unnamed battles” during the War of Independence (USA) and after that “rode during the night in a search of his head”…
Author | : Craig Laurance Gidney |
Publisher | : Lethe Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590210662 |
Download Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ancient folklore and modern myth come together in these stories by author Craig Laurance Gidney. Here are found the struggles of a medieval Japanese monk, seduced by a mischievous fairy, and a young slave who finds mystery deep within the briar patch of an antebellum plantation. Gidney offers readers a gay teen obsessed with his patron saint, Lena Horne, and, in the title story, an ailing tourist seeking escape at a distant shore but never reckons on encountering an African sea god. Rich, poetic, dark and disturbing, these are tales not soon forgotten. A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.
Author | : Flannery O'Connor |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780156364652 |
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Author | : Николай Васильевич Гоголь |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1927 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Saki - H H Monroe |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2016-10-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1365205193 |
Download The Blind Spot and Other Stories of the Supernatural Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Saki: The Blind Spot and Other Stories of the Supernatural Hector Hugh Munro is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's ""golden afternoon"" - those slow and peaceful years prior to the outbreak of World War I. The good wit of bad manners, elegantly spiced with irony and deftly controlled malice, has made Saki stories small, perfect gems of the English language. The Blind Spot and Other Stories of the Supernatural contain all his short stories about the supernatural.
Author | : Ethel May Dell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1925 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Perrault |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0804153698 |
Download Little Red Riding Hood and Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Puss in Boots," "Blue Beard," "Tom Thumb," and other beloved fairy tale classics, as set down by the man who first rescued them from the oral tradition in the 17th century. Contains six color plates and 30 black-and-white illustrations.