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Author: Martin Cendreda
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 2021-07-20
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781683964957
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Author: Nicole Claveloux
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1681371081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in paperback, a collection of “darkly humorous, existential, erotic, trance inducing” (The New York Times) short stories by the lauded French comics artist Nicole Claveloux. Nicole Claveloux’s short stories—originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English—are among the most beautiful comics ever drawn: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us into lands that are strange but oddly recognizable, filled with murderous grandmothers and lonely city dwellers, bad-tempered vegetables and walls that are surprisingly easy to fall through. In the title story, written with Edith Zha, a new houseplant becomes the first step in an epic journey of self-discovery and a witty fable of modern romance—complete with talking shrubbery, a wised-up genie, and one very depressed bird. This selection, designed and introduced by Daniel Clowes, presents the full achievement of an unforgettable, unjustly neglected master of French comics.
Author: Vaughan Kester
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-07-22
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 3752349018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: The Hand of the Mighty and Other Stories by Vaughan Kester
Author: Franz Rottensteiner
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2008-12-31
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780819568311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHandsomely equipped with a comprehensive introductory historical essay, editor's notes and selected bibliography, this distinguished anthology is a model of genre research. These previously untranslated stories, published from 1871 onward, offer reading virtually unknown to most American (and many German) readers. Some authors combine scientific and philosophical issues, like Kurd Lasswitz in his witty tale "To the Absolute Zero of Existence: A Story from 2371, " while others, as in Erik Simon's 1983 title story, pose psychological puzzles involving alien phenomena. Though the earlier stories in particular demand painstaking reading, all of them repay it with rewarding insights into German and Austrian culture and the many possible uses and misuses of science.
Author: Grant Allen
Publisher: Aeterna Classics
Published: 2018-05-14
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 3963767723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI first met Césarine Vivian in the stalls at the Ambiguities Theatre. I had promised to take Mrs. Latham and Irene to see the French plays which were then being acted by Marie Leroux's celebrated Palais Royal company. I wasn't at the time exactly engaged to poor Irene: it has always been a comfort to me that I wasn't engaged to her, though I knew Irene herself considered it practically equivalent to an understood engagement. We had known one another intimately from childhood upward, for the Lathams were a sort of second cousins of ours, three times removed: and we had always called one another by our Christian names, and been very fond of one another in a simple girlish and boyish fashion as long as we could either of us remember. Still, I maintain, there was no definite understanding between us; and if Mrs. Latham thought I had been paying Irene attentions, she must have known that a young man of two and twenty, with a decent fortune and a nice estate down in Devonshire, was likely to look about him for a while before he thought of settling down and marrying quietly.
Author: Leonid Andreyev
Publisher: Alma Books
Published: 2018-08-28
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 0714549010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHaunting, disquieting, shocking, `The Abyss' - one of the most powerful short stories ever written - is accompanied in this volume by fifteen other stories. Together, they provide a clear account of the lasting legacy of Russia's foremost man of letters of the early twentieth century. As the young Zinaida and her sweetheart, the student Nemovetsky, stroll through the idyllic Russian countryside, their memories, dreams and thoughts about life and the future mingle in the evening breeze. But when night falls, they hasten to retrace their steps back to town through a small wood, where they are accosted by three threatening drunkards, who knock Nemovetsky unconscious and start to chase the girl through the underwood. When the young student comes round, he is confronted with the horror of what has just happened. Haunting, disquieting, shocking, `The Abyss' - one of the most powerful short stories ever written - is accompanied in this volume by fifteen other stories, never translated into English before by Andreyev, including `Silence', `The Thief' and `Lazarus, some of them never translated before into English. Together, they provide a clear account of the lasting legacy of Russia's foremost man of letters of the early twentieth century.
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1995-01-26
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 0141909986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adventure stories featuring the author's unique knowledge of the Yukon and the behavior of humans and animals facing nature at its cruelest.
Author: Frances Noyes Hart
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-08-16
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 3368911813
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Author: A.F McGuinness
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Published: 2014-03-31
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 0992712122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA.F. McGuinness's debut collection of haunting tales is inspired by masters of mystery, imagination and horror: Poe, M.R.James and Kafka. They delve deep into the dark recesses of the human heart, exploring the fine line between dream and nightmare, good and evil, real and unreal; a twilight world where nothing and nobody is quite what they seem.
Author: Gil Ndi-Shang
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2021-04-27
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1942876769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn moving into a new apartment abroad in his Bavarian hometown, the narrator realises that some of his possessions and elements of his new neighbourhood open a window into a flurry of memories, serving as allegorical threads to his childhood, self-consciousness and discovery of the world. What begins as a personal narrative quickly cedes to a social archaeology, inviting the reader/listener on a homegoing journey in the backdrop of Cameroon’s tottering democratic trajectory. Modulated with poetry and music, The Radio tunes in to diaspora, home, nation, education, existence, religion as well as Mbum popular culture, showcasing creative re-appropriation and re-mixing of global trends and icons in specific communities.
