The Figure in the Carpet
Author: Henry James
Publisher:
Published: 1916
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13:
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The Phoenix and the Carpet
Author: Edith Nesbit
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781853261558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFive British children discover in their new carpet an egg, which hatches into a phoenix that takes them on a series of fantastic adventures around the world.
Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge
Author: Antoine Dechêne
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-08-16
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 331994469X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting traditional detective story conventions, offer a multiplicity of motifs – the overwhelming presence of chance, the unfulfilled quest for knowledge, the urban stroller lost in a labyrinthine text – that generate a vast array of epistemological and ontological uncertainties. Analysing the works of a wide variety of authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry James, this book is vital reading for scholars of detective fiction.
THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET
Author: E. NESBIT
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0359553443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sequel to Five Children and It follows the wondrous adventures of Robert, Jane, Cyril, Anthea, and The Lamb as they discover a clever phoenix and a magic carpet. The children find an egg in the carpet, which hatches into a talking Phoenix. The Phoenix explains that the carpet is a magic one that will grant them three wishes a day. The children are on a fantastic ride with the hopelessly vain but good-hearted phoenix and his flying carpet. They travel to a French castle, to a tropical island, foil a burglar, arrange a marriage, change people's disposition, and have to figure out how to get 199 Persian cats, 398 muskrats, a cow, and a policeman out of their house. Their charming adventures not only entertain but teach them, and the reader, a few gentle lessons." The Phoenix and the Carpet"" is a wonderful book for the young and the young at heart. The adventures are continued and concluded in the third book of the trilogy, "The Story of the Amulet"
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
Author: Henry James
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 2008-04-17
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0199536171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.
The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories
Author: Henry James
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2007-12-06
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 014192196X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James’s writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society. The motif and title story, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, is an inspired joke, a masterpiece of double-entendre that demands the reader’s undivided love and attention and continues to baffle its critics. Also included are ‘The Author of Beltraffio’, an absorbing story of family infighting, authorship and tragedy, and ‘The Private Life’, a spirited tale that considers the contrast between the artist alone and at work. While many of these stories appear to be elaborate Jamesian games, all employ irony and humour to allegorize artistic creation.
The Pattern in the Carpet
Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2009-09-16
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0547391544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique blend of memoir and history takes “a multi-layered look at jigsaw puzzles . . . charming [and] fascinating” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Award-winning author Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression. Alongside curious facts and discoveries—for example, that the 1929 stock market crash was followed by a boom in puzzle sales—Drabble introduces us to her beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their first trip to London together, the books they read, and the jigsaws they completed. With penetrating sketches of her parents, siblings, and children, Drabble shares her thoughts on the importance of childhood play, art and writing, aging and memory. And she does so with her customary intelligence, energy, and wit.
The Author of Beltraffio
Author: Henry James
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 61
ISBN-13: 1776534093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOften regarded as one of the most important literary figures of his era, American-born author Henry James possessed a unique knack for describing the idiosyncrasies of dysfunctional families. The Ambient family at the center of the novella The Author of Beltraffio ranks among his most compelling creations. The patriarch Mark Ambient is an acclaimed novelist whose wife strongly disapproves of his work. Will this discordance bring the family to its knees?
A Well-Timed Enchantment
Author: Vivian Vande Velde
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2006-06-01
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0547351631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's bad enough that Deanna has to waste her summer in France and her only friend is a mangy black cat, but now she's staring hopelessly into a well, trying to figure out what in the world to wish for. Before she can make a wish, the cat scratches her, her watch falls into the well, and then . . . so has she! Except that now she's in medieval France, the cat is a handsome young man, and her watch has the power to completely change history. Maybe a quiet summer would have been nice?
Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
Author: Franz Kafka
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 2013-06-26
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 0804150788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—to the people in his life, from his years as a student in Prague in the early 1900s to his final months in the sanatorium near Vienna where he died in 1924. Sometimes surprisingly humorous, sometimes wrenchingly sad, these letters, collected after Kafka's death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, include charming notes to school friends; fascinating accounts to Brod about his work in its various stages of publication; correspondence with his publisher, Kurt Wolff, about manuscripts in progress, suggested book titles, type design, and late royalty statements; revealing exchanges with other young writers of the day, including Martin Buber and Felix Weltsch, on life, literature, and girls; and heartbreaking reports to his parents, sisters, and friends on the declining state of his health in the last months of his life.
