Stories My Father Told Me
Author | : Helen Zughaib |
Publisher | : Cune Press Classics |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2020-01-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781951082659 |
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Author | : Helen Zughaib |
Publisher | : Cune Press Classics |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2020-01-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781951082659 |
Author | : E. R. Morris |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2023-05-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1039155316 |
In this original collection of short stories, author E. R. Morris updates classic nursery rhymes and fairytales with a modern, grown-up bent. Written with other adults in mind—especially grandparents—Morris gives these well-worn tales a wry sardonic spin, often asking how they might change if they were set today. Threaded through these mature re-tellings is a constellation of fascinating historical information about their origins. Deftly weaving these facts in with these ironic re-tellings, Morris offers a truly unique collection sure to inspire laughter and eyebrow-raising for the grown-ups familiar with the originals, who might just learn something along the way, too.
Author | : Jeffrey Lyons |
Publisher | : WW Norton |
Total Pages | : 589 |
Release | : 2011-06-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0789260018 |
An incredible collection of celebrity stories and photographs from 1934 to the present, from the archives of "The Lyons Den" by eminent New York Post columnist Leonard Lyons, compiled by his son, movie critic Jeffrey Lyons. This amazing collection of choice anecdotes takes us right back to the Golden Age of New York City nightlife, when top restaurants like Toots Shor’s, “21,” and Sardi’s, as well as glittering nightclubs like the Stork Club, Latin Quarter, and El Morocco, were the nightly gathering spots for great figures of that era: movie and Broadway stars, baseball players, champion boxers, comedians, diplomats, British royalty, prize-winning authors, and famous painters. From Charlie Chaplin to Winston Churchill, from Ethel Barrymore to Sophia Loren, from George Burns to Ernest Hemingway, from Joe DiMaggio to the Duke of Windsor: Leonard Lyons knew them all. For forty glorious years, from 1934 to 1974, he made the daily rounds of Gotham nightspots, collecting the exclusive scoops and revelations that were at the core of his famous newspaper column, “The Lyons Den.” In this entertaining volume Jeffrey Lyons has assembled a considerable compilation of anecdotes from his father’s best columns, and has also contributed a selection of his own interviews with stars of today, including Penélope Cruz and George Clooney, among others. Organized chronologically by decade and subdivided by celebrity, Stories My Father Told Me offers fascinating, amusing stories that are illustrated by approximately seventy photographs. He so captured the tenor of those exciting times that the great Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg said: “Imagine how much richer American history would have been had there been a Leonard Lyons in Lincoln’s time.”
Author | : Hallie Quinn Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kate Bernheimer |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2010-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101464380 |
The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction. Neil Gaiman, “Orange” Aimee Bender, “The Color Master” Joyce Carol Oates, “Blue-bearded Lover” Michael Cunningham, “The Wild Swans” These and more than thirty other stories by Francine Prose, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, Lydia Millet, and many other extraordinary writers make up this thrilling celebration of fairy tales—the ultimate literary costume party. Spinning houses and talking birds. Whispered secrets and borrowed hope. Here are new stories sewn from old skins, gathered by visionary editor Kate Bernheimer and inspired by everything from Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” and “The Little Match Girl” to Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard” and “Cinderella” to the Brothers Grimm’s “Hansel and Gretel” and “Rumpelstiltskin” to fairy tales by Goethe and Calvino and from China, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, Norway, and Mexico. Fairy tales are our oldest literary tradition, and yet they chart the imaginative frontiers of the twenty-first century as powerfully as they evoke our earliest encounters with literature. This exhilarating collection restores their place in the literary canon.
Author | : Patricia Cisneros Young |
Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Short stories, American |
ISBN | : 1602475482 |
' These] vignettes of Brownsville people, part real and part fiction, capture the character of our border community. The reader becomes involved with the characters and the stories. It's as though the essence of our society and culture had been opened to view through a historical prism. And the stories are just plain pleasurable to read.' -Dr. Anthony Knopp, Ph.D, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas
Author | : Ruth Stiles Gannett |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486492834 |
A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.
Author | : Esten Moen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Fosston (Minn.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : E. R. Morris |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2023-06-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1039155332 |
In this original collection of short stories, author E. R. Morris updates classic nursery rhymes and fairytales with a modern, grown-up bent. Written with other adults in mind—especially grandparents—Morris gives these well-worn tales a wry sardonic spin, often asking how they might change if they were set today. Threaded through these mature re-tellings is a constellation of fascinating historical information about their origins. Deftly weaving these facts in with these ironic re-tellings, Morris offers a truly unique collection sure to inspire laughter and eyebrow-raising for the grown-ups familiar with the originals, who might just learn something along the way, too.
Author | : Alexandra Styron |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416591818 |
"Reading My Father" is an intimate, moving, and beautifully written portrait of the novelist William Styron by his daughter, Alexandra.