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Author: John Collier
Publisher: eNet Press
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Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1618865021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of John Collier short stories won the International Fantasy Award in 1951. His fantastic ability to mix satire with thought provoking 'what ifs' is clearly seen in this compilation of thirty-two short stories.
Author: John Collier
Publisher: eNet Press
Published:
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1618865072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA schoolmaster in the heart of Africa takes his best and most attentive student, a chimp, to England. The chimp, Emily, has learned to read and obtained a classically trained mind. We listen as her thoughts become a searchlight upon the English culture of the 1920s. A remarkable social satire, and a best seller.
Author: John Collier
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Collier
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 600
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes the novel His monkey wife and short stories.
Author: Paula Croyle
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2015-02-03
Total Pages: 12
ISBN-13: 1449462863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho wouldn't want to be a princess? You get to wear pretty dresses, sparkling shoes, and travel around in a royal carriage. But being a regular kid isn't so bad, either! This beautifully illustrated book invites young readers to imagine all the wonder and joy of being a princess, while gently reminding them that being yourself is a pretty great thing, too!
Author: John Collier
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781983699917
DOWNLOAD EBOOK" 'The art of painting in oils, ' says the author of this little handbook, "is a very difficult one, and not the least of its difficulties consists in the great uncertainty that exists as to the proper methods to be pursued." So far as results recommend a particular method, Mr. Collier's modus operandi is abundantly recommended. His system, as set forth here, is a modification of Mr. Poynter's, from whose teaching in the Slade School it is directly derived. But Mr. Collier does not restrict students to his own method, and in this manual he gives those of other artists, as well as his own, and the rules in force in the South Kensington Schools. His own method is a direct one, and beginners in the art of oil painting will receive valuable assistance from the suggestions he gives. The work is divided into two parts, dealing respectively with practice and theory. The second part is as interesting to the general reader as it is helpful to the student; for, besides containing the rules governing aerial perspective, it includes a very lucid description of Young's undulatory theory of light; -- a theory which explains Achromatopsia and other puzzling anomalies in colour sensation." --The Ruskin Reading Guild Journal, Volume 1
Author: Tatyana Tolstaya
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2016-10-25
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1681371731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A postmodern literary masterpiece.” –The Times Literary Supplement Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job—transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe—and though he doesn’t enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he’s not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator harnessed to a troika. He has a house, too, with enough mice to cook up a tasty meal, and he’s happily free of mutations: no extra fingers, no gills, no cockscombs sprouting from his eyelids. And he’s managed—at least so far—to steer clear of the ever-vigilant Saniturions, who track down anyone who manifests the slightest sign of Freethinking, and the legendary screeching Slynx that waits in the wilderness beyond. Tatyana Tolstaya’s The Slynx reimagines dystopian fantasy as a wild, horripilating amusement park ride. Poised between Nabokov’s Pale Fire and Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, The Slynx is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art: an account of a degraded world that is full of echoes of the sublime literature of Russia’s past; a grinning portrait of human inhumanity; a tribute to art in both its sovereignty and its helplessness; a vision of the past as the future in which the future is now.
Author: Gert Ledig
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1590178157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break through enemy lines, bog down in a swamp, while a German runner, bearing messages from headquarters to the front, scrambles desperately from shelter to shelter as he tries to avoid getting caught in the action. Through it all, Russian artillery—the crude but devastatingly effective multiple rocket launcher known to the Germans as the Stalin Organ and to the Russians as Katyusha—rains death upon the struggling troops. Comparable to such masterpieces of war literature as Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel and Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, The Stalin Front is a harrowing, almost photographic, description of violence and devastation, one that brings home the unforgiving reality of total war.
Author: Stefan Zweig
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2011-12-07
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1590175603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig’s final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig’s story. This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work’s unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection.
Author: Victor Serge
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2011-03-09
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1590174267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence—at least of the crime of which they stand accused. But The Case of Comrade Tulayev, unquestionably the finest work of fiction ever written about the Stalinist purges, is not just a story of a totalitarian state. Marked by the deep humanity and generous spirit of its author, the legendary anarchist and exile Victor Serge, it is also a classic twentieth-century tale of risk, adventure, and unexpected nobility to set beside Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and André Malraux's Man's Fate.
