Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher:
ISBN: OSU:32435012797668
Category: Authors, Russian
Page: 251
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 1375915118
Category: History
Page: 262
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and ...
Author: Ted Chiang
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781447281986
Category: Fiction
Page:
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Includes 'Story of Your Life' the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality. . . Chiang's rigorously imagined fantasia invites us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher:
ISBN: 1436582407
Category:
Page: 256
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.I will not deny , Victor , " said Blanche with naïveté , " that you have gained my
heart , and that the attachment I have for you will only finish with my life ; but I tell
you at the same time that nothing shall ever separate me from my father , who is
old ...
Author: Jean Nicolas Bouilly
Publisher:
ISBN: CHI:097063104
Category:
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The successful country singer reveals her life since leaving home at the age of eighteen to pursue a singing career, while discussing her personal philosophies, her marriage, her friendships, and her achievements
Author: Dolly Parton
Publisher: Harpercollins
ISBN: 0061092363
Category: Music
Page: 332
View: 869
The successful country singer reveals her life since leaving home at the age of eighteen to pursue a singing career, while discussing her personal philosophies, her marriage, her friendships, and her achievementsstayed for several years until her small order disbanded because it could no
longer support itself . Many of her sister nuns chose to find houses together to try
to maintain a semblance of their old life with outside jobs , but at that point
Maureen ...
Author: Robin Beeman
Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
ISBN: STANFORD:36105041626396
Category: Fiction
Page: 162
View: 261
A collection of short stories... according to the newspapers, I should be loath to charge him with taking
David's money; I should say David might have lost it somewhere else." Nobody
spoke. Captain Bennett whistled softly. " I never felt so bad in my life," continued
Green, ...
Author: Heman White Chaplin
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015063918687
Category:
Page: 305
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In this engaging collection of tales, London spans the gamut between romance, exploration of unknown lands, and much in between.
Author: Jack London
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 9781775419587
Category: Fiction
Page: 209
View: 410
Although best known as a master of the action-adventure genre, Jack London's interests were wide-ranging, and the topics he addressed in his prodigious body of work varied significantly, as well. In this engaging collection of tales, London spans the gamut between romance, exploration of unknown lands, and much in between.“Promise, Daphne,” my father said. “I promise,” I said, crossing my fingers. What
did it matter? Sure enough, he let out a long rattling sigh. And that, as they say,
was that. Except I'd just spent five years punching my time card at the glue factory
...
Author: Beth Bosworth
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 9780822978466
Category: Fiction
Page: 218
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From “The Eight Rhetorical Mode” Later he asked, “Would you like to go for a hike sometime?” and two trains of thought left the station: He means to get to know me and we might leave the city together and it’s been a long time since I climbed a mountain. That train chugged into a wider brighter country all the time. The other train went by another route through the panicked interior. He’s a lunatic, it whistled. He’s been in and out of hospitals. He will take you to a mountaintop and throw you right off into the bright air: choo choo! Post-divorce dating is one more cause for celebration (or a quick call in to the police) in Beth Bosworth’s revelatory new book, The Source of Life and Other Stories. The spine of this collection is a series of linked stories about Ruth Stein, a Brooklyn author whose first book has exposed her father’s abuses; while the voice here, speaking across a lifetime, ranges from bittersweet to humorous to lethal. In other stories Bosworth’s narrators—a mother left to care for her son’s suicidal dog, an editor haunted by a dog-eared manuscript—seem to grab hold of the reins and run off with their fates. Meanwhile Bosworth explores the extended family, the bonds of friendship, an apocalyptic Vermont, the rank yet redeemable Gowanus Canal; also rites of passage, race relations, divorce, middle-aged romance, dementia, funerals, alcoholism, and the Jewish religion. Reality is just another stumbling block for Bosworth’s characters, who might help themselves but don’t always choose to. There are leaps of faith here, nonetheless, as the collection dispenses a kind of narrative psychotropic for survival and redemption, with a chaser of humor mixed in.I was never blind to his faults , ” she said , “ but I loved him as a wife should love
her husband . ” “ Then you ought , in ... I shall grieve , too ; long before your
marriage I had made him my child , I had sacrificed my life to him . If he dies I
shall be ...
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
ISBN: STANFORD:36105015145787
Category:
Page:
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Of particular interest to newly diagnosed cancer patients and their families, the final story recounts the author's own path during the eleven years since her diagnosis of breast cancer.
Author: Thelma Vaughan Mueller
Publisher:
ISBN: 1600476597
Category:
Page: 170
View: 334
Eight stories of exceptional insight into the human condition: A young student, faltering and unsure, finds himself caring for a dying neighbor and grows toward manhood. An eleven-year-old girl is caught between her mother, her father and her father's new wife. Teenage hoodlums wreak Halloween havoc. A retired woman tries to help a deprived young girl. An egocentric medical resident is tone-deaf to the value of his convenient wife. A grandmother watches her beloved grandson marry a beautiful but exploitative girl. In a purely fictional spoof, a wet and bedraggled George W. is confronted by an elderly teacher during an Alabama tornado. Of particular interest to newly diagnosed cancer patients and their families, the final story recounts the author's own path during the eleven years since her diagnosis of breast cancer.Then Percy Holdsworth and I fell in love with each other , and he wasn ' t a
baronet then , and the Sawles set their faces against it , and the Luttrells , who
had been undermining for some ... Oh , my life ! my life after that , my sad , broken
life !
Author: Annie Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: OXFORD:600057995
Category:
Page: 379
View: 704
And have you come up with a genius way to never do homework again? All of these things have happened to Tom Weekly. His life is an exploding chicken, and the book in your hands is his attempt to glue it back together again.
Author: Tristan Bancks
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 9780857985316
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 192
View: 419
Have you ever run from the dentist? Are you petrified of clowns? Have giant head lice tried to attack and eat you? Do you ever chew on your grandfather's toenails for short story inspiration? And have you come up with a genius way to never do homework again? All of these things have happened to Tom Weekly. His life is an exploding chicken, and the book in your hands is his attempt to glue it back together again.He smiled indulgently. “You have no conception of what it means to shape your
life to your income. I am poor, and I know. Years ago I had to choose between
mediocrity and”––he looked at her peculiarly––“and love, or advancement alone.
Author: Will Lillibridge
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN: EAN:4064066191498
Category: Fiction
Page: 536
View: 899
"A Breath of Prairie and other stories" by Will Lillibridge. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.He seemed anxious , too , to hear about my little Effie , and asked a great many
questions about her ; but somehow I did not care to talk about her to him . What
was she to him ? She was a part of my own old life , my city life . She was my dear
...
Author: John Rixon (fict.name.)
Publisher:
ISBN: OXFORD:600067935
Category:
Page: 96
View: 138
"Oh, no," she said, with a quick, impatient movement of her head, "not that,
Joseph; that died years ago—you are the same to me as other men, excepting
that you are Marg'et Ann's father. It's for her. It's the only way I can live my life over
again, ...
Author: Margaret Collier Graham
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN: EAN:4064066192433
Category: Fiction
Page: 185
View: 693
"The Wizard's Daughter, and Other Stories" by Margaret Collier Graham. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.