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Author: Samuil Marshak
Publisher: Tate
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781849761024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects four stories, including "The Circus," in which rhyming text describes different circus performances.
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-09-20
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 3734019621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: The Party and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Author: Danielle Michaud Aubrey
Publisher: Petra Books
Published: 2019-12-06
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 1989048390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK10 new and original stories with painted illustrations by Nadia Ilchuk. Imaginative stories of day-to-day adventures with human and animal characters that teach a life lesson. The story-telling is in the style of classics like The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, The Wind in the Willows or Winnie the Pooh in which animal characters have normal yet imaginative adventures, providing a vehicle for learning about community, compassion and collaboration. The elements used to craft the stories are: • normal, every-day activities into which is woven a challenge or a difficult situation. • talking animal characters engaged with human characters, involved in adventures. • lessons relating to teamwork, safety, helping others and kindness. About 2000 words per story.
Author: Joan Tate
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rubem Fonseca
Publisher: Open Letter Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 193482402X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first collection of Fonseca's short stories to appear in English, ranging across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, where vast disparities, in wealth, social standing and prestige are untenable. Rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order and violence and deception are the essential tools of survival. From the tale of the businessman who rans over pedestrians to let off steam to a serial killer being pushed to kill more by his lover, this collection is a true gem.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2010-10-06
Total Pages: 693
ISBN-13: 0307760022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling’s finest works, including the stories “In the House of Suddhoo,” “The Disturber of Traffic,” and “The Eye of Allah,” the poems “The Runners,” “The Return of the Children,” and “The Last Ode,” and his famous story about Afghanistan, “The Man Who Would Be King.” Each piece was selected by poet and scholar Craig Raine, who writes in his Preface, “We need to think about Kipling. He is our greatest short-story writer, but one whose achievement is more complex and surprising than even his admirers recognize.”
Author: Stephen Crane
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-20
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The Open Boat and Other Stories' is a collection of short stories by American author Stephen Crane. It was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent. Crane was stranded at sea for thirty hours when his ship, the SS Commodore, sank after hitting a sandbar. He and three other men were forced to navigate their way to shore in a small boat; one of the men, an oiler named Billie Higgins, drowned after the boat overturned. Crane's personal account of the shipwreck and the men's survival, titled "Stephen Crane's Own Story", was first published a few days after his rescue.
Author: Henry Kitchell Webster
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 398
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2007-04-05
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0141902876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRyünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. ‘Rashömon’ and ‘In a Bamboo Grove’ inspired Kurosawa’s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as ‘The Nose’, ‘O-Gin’ and ‘Loyalty’ paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as ‘Death Register’, ‘The Life of a Stupid Man’ and ‘Spinning Gears’, Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.
Author: Julia Kindt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-01-11
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 1009411373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed to our own intrinsic animal nature. Yet the idea that, in one way or another, our humanity is entangled with the non-human has a much longer and more venerable history. In the West, it goes all the way back to classical antiquity. This grippingly written and provocative book boldly reveals how the ancient world mobilised concepts of 'the animal' and 'animality' to conceive of the human in a variety of illuminating ways. Through ten stories about marvelous mythical beings – from the Trojan Horse to the Cyclops, and from Androcles' lion to the Minotaur – Julia Kindt unlocks fresh ways of thinking about humanity that extend from antiquity to the present and that ultimately challenge our understanding of who we really are.
