Short Stories. The Old Nurse’s Story and other Tales
Short Stories. The Old Nurse’s Story and other Tales

Author: Gaskell E.C.

Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published:

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 5521068295

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell’s best known novels are Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters.

Master and Man and Other Tales and Plays
Master and Man and Other Tales and Plays

Author: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2008-04-01

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 1434469565

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This volume includes "Master and Man," "The Kreutzer Sonata" and its sequel, "The Bekabrists," and other stories.

Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar
Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar

Author: Mercedes Lackey

Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Published: 2003-12-02

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1101524367

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THE CLASSIC FANTASY PHENOMENON: Explore the world of Valdemar alongside the realm’s magical protectors and their horse-like Companions in this fantasy anthology featuring 13 epic short stories! Step into the ancient land of Valdemar! A world beset by war and internal conflicts, it’s protected by the Chosen Heralds—Mindspeakers, Firestarters, and Empaths alike—who endeavor to keep the peace and defend their country in the name of their monarch. Emissaries, spies, diplomats, scouts, warriors, judges and counselors, the Heralds follow a rigorous code of ethics and are bonded for life with their horse-like Companions. Join Tanya Huff, Michelle West, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Judith Tarr, Fiona Patton and others as they add their own special touch to the world of Valdemar. Discover how the abilities of one remarkable individual can bring peace to two lands which have been sworn enemies for centuries . . . Learn why pain and tragedy are the most valuable teachers an empath can have . . . and see how a man never Chosen can still be a Herald in this heart. Discover the fantasy phenomenon in this epic collection of 13 tales of magic and valor—including an all-new novella by Mercedes Lackey herself!

Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales”
Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales”

Author: Becky Renee McLaughlin

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-07-20

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1501514067

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Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with paranoia and psychosis, this book explores the ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for Chaucer’s tales are rife with issues of mastery and control that emerge as conflicts not only between authority and experience but also between power and knowledge, word and flesh, rule books and reason, man and woman, same and other – conflicts that erupt in a macabre sprawl of broken bones, dismembered bodies, cut throats, and decapitations. Like the macabre sprawl of conflict in the Canterbury Tales, this book brings together a number of conflicting modes of thinking and writing through the surprising and perhaps disconcerting use of “shadow” chapters that speak to or against the four “central” chapters, creating both dialogue and interruption.