XIX Century Fiction, Volume One
XIX Century Fiction, Volume One

Author: M. Sadleir

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 1195

ISBN-13: 0520349768

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Bowling Alley Bandit
Bowling Alley Bandit

Author:

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2013-06-04

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0805090762

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Arnie the talking doughnut is delighted to be Mr. Bing's new pet "doughnut-dog." So when Mr. Bing starts rolling gutter balls during a big bowling tournament, Arnie suspects foul play and sets out to solve the mystery. Illustrations.

Arnie, the Doughnut
Arnie, the Doughnut

Author: Laurie Keller

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Published: 2018-12-18

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1250239311

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This ebook includes audio narration. A deliciously imaginative story about friendship—from the author / illustrator of The Scrambled States of America. Arnie was fascinated as he watched the customers stream into the bakery. One by one, doughnuts were chosen, placed in paper bags, and whisked away with their new owners. Some went by the dozen in giant boxes. "Good-bye!" Arnie yelled to each doughnut. "Have a good trip!" "This is so exciting!" Arnie beamed. "I wonder who will choose ME?" At first glance, Arnie looks like an average doughnut—round, cakey, with a hole in the middle, iced and sprinkled. He was made by one of the best bakeries in town, and admittedly his sprinkles are candy-colored. Still, a doughnut is just a doughnut, right? WRONG! Not if Arnie has anything to say about it. And, for a doughnut, he sure seems to have an awful lot to say. Can Arnie change the fate of all doughnuts—or at least have a hand in his own future? Well, you'll just have to read this funny story and find out for yourself. This title has Common Core connections Arnie, the Doughnut is a 2004 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

An Alley of Flashing Spears and other stories
An Alley of Flashing Spears and other stories

Author: Donn Byrne

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-10

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13:

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This collection of short stories showcases a sharp psychological penetration, pure romance, and a unique portrayal of life. Some stories featured in this volume are "An Alley of Flashing Spears," the story of an Irish labor head torn between love and public duty, "Treachery," the tale of the puzzle in which a murderer's wife was placed, "The Master of Raymond Lully," wherein a reporter remarkably unravels the mystery of a fake "prophet," "Executive Session," in which a rebel clerk threatens his boss with a gun, "The Happy Townland," the ironic story of a businessman who had forever desired of living in the country, and other delightful stories.

Relocated Memories
Relocated Memories

Author: Marguérite Corporaal

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2017-04-24

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0815653980

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The Great Famine radically transformed Ireland; nearly one million people of the rural countryside died, and the eviction of farmers led to massive emigration. The Famine encouraged anti-English, nationalist sentiments, and this trauma is seen as pivotal in the development of an Irish anticolonial consciousness and in the identity formation of transatlantic Irish communities. In Relocated Memories, Corporaal challenges the persistent assumption that the first decades after the Great Irish Famine were marked by a pervasive silence on the catastrophe. Discussing works by well-known authors such as William Carleton and Anthony Trollope as well as more obscure texts by, among others, Dillon O’Brien and Susanna Meredith, Corporaal charts the reconfigurations of memory in fiction across generations and national borders.

The Alley of Fireflies and Other Stories
The Alley of Fireflies and Other Stories

Author: Raymond Roussel

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780998829098

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Fiction. Short Stories. Translated from the French by Mark Ford. Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) is one of the most distinctive and compelling French writers of the twentieth century, yet many aspects of Roussel's life remain shrouded in mystery. An extremely wealthy and always exquisitely dressed homosexual dandy, Roussel was also a compulsive writer. Despite the strangeness of his work, he was convinced that it would make him as popular as Victor Hugo or Shakespeare. His suicide at the age of 56 was in part prompted by the continual disappointment of his hopes for fame. The full extent of Roussel's writing only became clear in 1989 when a trunk was unearthed in a furniture warehouse containing a vast trove of his manuscripts. The most exciting discoveries were the full draft of Locus Solus (over twice as long as the published version) and the typescript of what would have been his third novel, THE ALLEY OF FIREFLIES, which is translated here for the first time into English by the leading Roussel scholar, Mark Ford. Ford has also translated two haunting extracts from the drafts of Locus Solus, and versions of two of the young Roussel's most intriguing short stories, Chiquenaude and AMONG THE BLACKS. Roussel's work was vociferously championed by Surrealist writers and painters such as André Breton, Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dalì, and later proved a significant influence on Oulipians (particularly Georges Perec), on nouveaux romanciers like Alain Robbe-Grillet, as well as on John Ashbery and Harry Mathews, who named their pioneering magazine of the 1960s Locus Solus, after Roussel's second novel.

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works
A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

Author: Christopher Riches

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-01-29

Total Pages: 1431

ISBN-13: 019251850X

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Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.