The Old Forest and Other Stories
Author: Peter Taylor
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1996-08-15
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780312146955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFourteen tales of domestic life in the south during the thirties and forties.
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Author: Peter Taylor
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1996-08-15
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780312146955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFourteen tales of domestic life in the south during the thirties and forties.
Author: Michael Flynn
Publisher: Phoenix Pick
Published: 2010-11
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781604504798
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Interesting, engaging, and believable."-San Diego Union Tribune *** Here is an eclectic collection of science fiction stories (and three short poems) by multiple award winning author Michael Flynn, author of such acclaimed titles as Eifelheim (Hugo nominee) and Firestar, called by the San Diego Union Tribune a 'knockout.' *** This collection itself includes two Hugo nominated stories ("The Forest of Time" and "Melodies of the Heart") as well as a selection of some of the author's finest works of short fiction that were originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. *** Included in this edition are three humorous poems which also originally appeared in Analog. ***
Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0393635538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." —Ann Patchett The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
Author: Juliet Marillier
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1429913460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaughter of the Forest is a testimony to an incredible author's talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love. Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader; Diarmid, with his passion for adventure; twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling; rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight; and the young, compassionate Padriac. But it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift. To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror. When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once. Juliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-07-08
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1387088874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1846 in the present form, famous English story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's book 'Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories' is a collection of fictional short stories. The collection includes several previously-published short stories, and was named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. The first edition was published in 1846. Hawthorne seems to have been paid $75 for the publication. Many of the tales collected in Mosses from an Old Manse are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the negative side of human nature. Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville noted this aspect in his review ""Hawthorne and His Mosses"" ""This black conceit pervades him through and through. You may be witched by his sunlight, -transported by the bright gildings in the skies he builds over you; but there is the blackness of darkness beyond; and even his bright gildings but fringe and play upon the edges of thunder-clouds.""
Author: Натаниель Готорн
Publisher: Litres
Published: 2021-12-02
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 5040885121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David M. Robinson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0813189772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA leading figure in modern southern literature, described by Newsweek as "one of the best American storytellers," Peter Taylor secured a national following through his long relationship with the New Yorker and his widely read volumes from the 1980s, The Old Forest and Other Stories and A Summons to Memphis. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's portrayals of the battles of strong-willed fathers and mothers with their equally strong-willed sons are at the center of his achievement in fiction. David Robinson presents Taylor as a writer deeply concerned with the interworkings of family relationships, and emphasizes his role as chronicler of the shifts in southern culture in this century. World of Relations provides an important critical assessment of the work of one of the South's greatest writers, and includes the first extensive critical discussion of Taylor's last two works, The Oracle of Stoneleigh Court (1993) and In the Tennessee Country (1994).
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-01-06
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 3988289302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1842 to 1845, Nathaniel Hawthorne lives with his newlywed wife, the painter Sophia Peabody, in the old rectory in Concord, Massachusetts. For him, it's a paradise of little things. But then the couple has to leave the house because rent debts have piled up. Nevertheless, the writer will think back on this time as a happy one for the rest of his life. In 1846, "Mosses from an old Manse" is published. An autobiographical essay in which Hawthorne once again takes himself back to the place where he led a relatively carefree, liberated life. Gröls Classics - English Edition
Author: Peter Taylor
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2002-09-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780807128435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of four prose and four intimately told verse stories was first published in 1977, and the following year Peter Taylor was given the Gold Medal Award for the short story by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Set mostly in Nashville and Memphis amid Taylor's fictional genteel Tennessee society, these tales belie serene manners and lovely neighborhoods with undercurrents of irony, violence, disgrace, sexual transgressions, and generational divide. Often shadowing male despair in the modern world, they describe the power of unleashed passion once the restraint of custom has given way.