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IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
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A collection of the well-known stories, including "How the Whale Got his Throat," "The Elephant's Child," and "The Butterfly That Stamped." For more than 100 years, these brilliant, delightful tales by Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling have entertained young and old alike. Full color.
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Newly discovered stories from one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century.
Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen - the writer never spoke of them. Why did he choose not to publish them along with the others? One possible answer is that he was developing his themes in preparation for his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time; another is that the stories were too audacious - too near to life - for the censorious...
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Originally published in 1922, "Stories, Dreams and Allegories" is a posthumous collection of writings by Schreiner inspired by dreams and her experiences living on a South African farm. Contents include: 'The Buddhist Priest's Wife', 'On the Banks of a Full River', 'Two Visions', and many more. Olive Schreiner (1855—1920) was a South African anti-war campaigner, intellectual, and author most famous for her highly-acclaimed novel "The Story of an...
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Beginning with the Middle Ages, this 1909 literary history considers all variations of the English-language short story: those told for instruction and pleasure, the writings of the heirs of Chaucer-John Lydgate and Thomas Occleve-the writings from the Renaissance, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and those of such modern masters as Poe, Hawthorne, Stevenson, and Kipling.
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What is a short story? This 1913 study defines the genre, tracing the development of the English-language short story from medieval to modern times-accompanied by some stellar examples by Chaucer, Samuel Johnson, Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Brown, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling.
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A collection of ten international stories covering a period of sixty years from the mid-twentieth century that explore human behavior in the face of remarkably unexpected circumstances. The subjects of each story find themselves faced with obstacles ranging from bearing witness to murder to the complications of greed and class superiority.
Everyday, normal events can quickly turn to loss, love, grief, or even relief, but it is our responses...
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In his previous life, he was framed by his family, broke his legs, expelled from his family and died of depression!
Now he has returned from an accidental rebirth, re-cultivated the cultivation of the Immortal Emperor, and become the most powerful master of the city!
In this life, I want to be the most powerful in the world!
I want to make up for all the regrets of my previous life, and pay back the humiliation I have suffered twice!...
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Short Stories for Thought and Wonder is a fabulously creative literary collection for lovers of diversity and the unexpected.
It is time to reignite your sense of wonder! Immerse into blissful escapism with eight beautifully written short stories by American author and artist Avonelle Kelsey. Dreams, sci-fi, culture, philosophy, whimsy... Where will Kelsey's imagination take you next?
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A pile of sensational bizarre blood cases, a cold silent body, what kind of crimes and secrets are hidden? A calm and wise female forensic doctor, an experienced criminal investigation captain, in the face of a paper forensic identification, one by one, the blood, violence and terror behind the dissection of the body, everything seems to have no trace, but in the bizarre doomed to the curse of the murderer
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En este ensayo, Santiago Vizcaíno nos propone entrar en "Casa tomada", el cuento de Julio Cortázar, "por la parte trasera y por la noche".
El autor se ha propuesto huir de la interpretación, para lograr internarse en el relato, o atravesar los múltiples intentos hermenéuticos que el cuento ha provocado, para dar con esa casa esencial.
Desafío especialmente complicado si se asume que el texto del escritor argentino ha sido creado con una estructura...
12) Nueve Cuentos
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Una vida inmortal.
Una oportunidad fáustica.
Un pasado sinuoso.
Un viaje iniciático.
Una celebración imaginaria.
Un viejo sin infancia.
Un recuerdo encerrado.
Una vida a contrapelo.
Un asilo de genios.
Nueve historias para el lector que las prefiere breves. Fantásticas o realistas, nueve ejercicios de sustancia en un envoltorio pequeño y entretenido.
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En este nuevo trabajo, Loti Ambrosi nos conmueve con su percepción amorosa de las cosas, de los lugares, de la gente. El presente volumen de cuentos nos transporta a la mirada interior de esta escritora polifacética, con su humor ácido, su fantasía, su ternura. Entrañable lectura para los que aprecian los buenos detalles de la vida y el valor de vivirla intensamente.
15) Flying High
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The Ian St James Awards enabled new writers from every walk of life to break into print. 1993's collection introduced more new writers than ever before, with six short stories and ten longer pieces.
Entertaining, thought provoking, original, each of these stories is a winner, selected from thousands of entries from all over the world.
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The country has been routed of any good paying jobs with a world ready to accommodate at very low cost. Every product distributed nationwide is made in other countries primary China and even the high quality customer experience received is provided from a foreign country at a faction of the cost. The future of the economy looks grim in a very fast escalating world population looking to help themselves to everything America has to offer through the...
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The author of a story book has the compulsions of dealing with the vagaries provided by life and the dichotomy that is life. The stories of the book are in a way reflections of life itself. Each story therefore is cast with different mould, as the genre remains the same the take off and landing is on perpetual stagger. The gripping point of each story in the book comes from its uniqueness, the unparrelleled themes, the changing facades, and unblinking...
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When a Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry with six or seven books to his credit and a writer whose translations of an Urdu poet have been nominated for a Nobel who also has six or seven books to her credit get together and bring out a compilation of their essays on India in a post-modern, minimalist, aporia-ridden effort what will the result be? A delectable potpourri, a Cortazarian hopscotch, a collage, a montage, a bricolage, an assemblage of fragments...
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In his first collection of short stories The Familiar Stranger and Other Stories, Frederick Mordi tells the compelling stories of ordinary folks trying to make ends meet and the not so ordinary people engaged in power play. The stories are spiced with a generous dose of humour that will hold the reader's attention all through to the end. A versatile writer, he won the Commonwealth Award for Short Stories in 2004. His award-winning entry is published...
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A través de la mirada de un joven que quiere ser escritor -a caballo entre la crónica, el cuento, la epístola, el diario, la autobiografía y las memorias-, en este libro se narran las vicisitudes cotidianas; las tradiciones y costumbres; los movimientos estudiantiles; las catástrofes naturales y sociales; las tragedias familiares; la apropiación y la decadencia, ecológica y social, de los espacios citadinos; la violencia contra las mujeres...
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