Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher:
ISBN: OSU:32435012797668
Category: Authors, Russian
Page: 251
View: 976
The Dog That Ruined My Life and Other Stories from the Road
The strangest journey of my life and other stories by F Pigot
My Life and Other Stories
They may or may not be able to join you Christmas day because they have
obligations to visit their in—laws or have to work the next day and can't travel, or
whatever the circumstance. You find yourself alone now, like once before in your
life, ...
Author: Bob Elles
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781481752909
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 206
View: 935
Intelligence comes from ignorance as wisdom comes from naiveté and there is nothing like gathering both from people who represent a diverse swath of nations throughout the world. As cultures require contact with each other in order to grow and remain viable, and not succumb to atrophy, man too requires contact with men of different beliefs and practices. No one nation or culture or religion has a hold on logic or is immune to extremism. I feel blessed that I’ve had the opportunity to absorb and learn about aspects of life that I’m sure I wouldn’t have learned otherwise. In fact, my whole belief system was changed over the past forty-five years through this contact. I began to do some research on my family and what I learned, coupled with what I had experienced in my life, literally brought me to tears in gratitude and admiration, and hopefully in wisdom. If you like to sit down and listen to stories told by, say, an old friend, an uncle, or a person with wrinkles on his face, grey in his hair, and a sparkle of wisdom in his eyes, coupled with a smile on his face, then you should so bother. If you don’t, then stop right here and go pick up and read a book on vampires or love’s lost or whatever turns your fancy. My life has been tragic and wondrous and I have what I call life lessons that I believe you will find helpful in your life. I’ll even go so far as to say that, given even a fraction of introspection in you, your life will be significantly altered after you’ve read this book. I know that doesn’t sound humble but I also know this to be true. I have learned, forgot, and made up many a good story. Keep this in mind when you read these chapters (stories) compiled within this book. Are they all true? Mostly, with only the most embarrassing events removed. An old retired Air Force fighter pilot once told me “I have secrets only God and I know – and that’s the way it will remain.”My Life and Other Stories
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: Palala Press
ISBN: 1378667433
Category: History
Page: 262
View: 774
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.Stories of Your Life and Others
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.My Life in The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories 1896 1904 Translated with Notes by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by Paul Debreczeny Penguin Classics
My Life as a Deaf Gay Man and Other Stories
Peter Beach Morier. MY LIFE EAF GAY MAN AND OTHER STORIES PETER
BEACH MORIER My life asaDEAF Gay Man and Other Stories Peter Beach. Front
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Author: Peter Beach Morier
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781477262924
Category: Deaf gay men
Page: 128
View: 399
Preface: The Inner Man By Margaret A. Pitts Peter B. Morier, who is deaf and gay, knows why he exists. I met him at Chestnut Lane, an assisted-living facility for deaf and blind people, while he was doing court-ordered community service. He was living in the past and present, and he also hoped that there would be a future for him-because at that point, his future was uncertain. He does not like to waste time. Peter has given his life to serving justice rather than adding to the numerous injustices and inequalities and the never-ending violence and viciousness that the world contains. At one point, Peter had thought that he would not make a difference. But he realizes that he was wrong to feel that way. Furthermore, other people have said that he has indeed made a difference. He never regretted the commitment he made. Peter shared his feelings with me and, at this point in his life, he is ready to keep moving forward. He has written this book with two goals. He wants to remove the stigmas that have been wrongfully placed on his life and give credibility to the Deaf and gay perspective. My name is Margaret Pitts, and I reside in Gresham, Oregon. I am Peter's ghostwriter, and he also considers me to be his "adopted sister." One part of Peter's book is one of the saddest yet most joyful stories ever printed. It is the story of how Peter found peace again, overcoming his fears with a newfound trust and transforming his life. It is truly a wonderful story to read and very inspiring. Peter has been praised for managing to tell such a difficult story. How painful it must have been for him to look back at those difficult times and transcend them. It is a wonderfully strong story, an epic journey about hope, strength, justice, and overcoming a multitude of adversities. It is a true test of human spirit and should inspire everyone to reach their highest potential in life, no matter what physical, psychological, or emotional obstacles are placed in his or her way. Peter is one of the most remarkable and multitalented human beings I know. I am proud to be his sister.Nobody Told Me My Life with the Yardbirds Renaissance and Other Stories
Another stunt involved calling up Frank Sinatra in Hollywood, and leaving a
message saying “Jim called.” Paul, on the other hand, could wade into any
situation and, in that quiet, wise way of his, tell whoever was complaining to snap
out of it.
Author: Jim McCarty
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9780244966508
Category: Art
Page: 306
View: 478
Nobody Told Me is the long awaited autobiography by Jim McCarty, a founding and current member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Yardbirds, a founder member of Renaissance, Together and Box of Frogs, and an internationally respected songwriter. Open, honest, modest and affecting, Jim looks back on his long and remarkable career with both a keen eye for detail and his trademark sense of humour. From the birth of the British R&B boom to the latest incarnation of his much beloved band, Jim tells of his life on and off stage, alongside some of the most legendary musicians in rock history - including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page (who also contributed the book's introduction). From the Yardbirds, the story unfolds across Together, Renaissance and Illusion, collaborations with the Pretty Things and the British Invasion All Stars, Box of Frogs, Stairway and more.The Source of Life and Other Stories
I. The children are in school, their older sister asleep upstairs, my pages
scattered across the ornamented floor. This is Brooklyn with innumerable birds.
Just this morning Lila picked up the book that had frightened her and said, “I can
read it in ...
Author: Beth Bosworth
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 9780822978466
Category: Fiction
Page: 218
View: 116
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.My Life as a Mermaid and Other Stories
"My Life as a Mermaid and Other Stories, Jen Grow's stirring debut collection and winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, takes a look at the dark side of what it means to live 'happily ever after.
Author: Jen Grow
Publisher:
ISBN: 1938103033
Category: Fiction
Page: 216
View: 363
"My Life as a Mermaid and Other Stories, Jen Grow's stirring debut collection and winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, takes a look at the dark side of what it means to live 'happily ever after.' In these twelve stories, many of the characters--among them, a suburban wife, an alcoholic mother, two homeless men, and an injured veteran--grapple with being voiceless and feeling trapped. The image of water shows up in many of these stories representing both the safety of the womb and the threat of drowning. The title story juxtaposes the lives of two sisters: one a suburban wife and mother, the other a relief worker in Honduras. In "Joe Blow," two homeless men confront the gentrification of their neighborhood when the abandoned truck that they call home is towed away. "What Girls Leave Behind" is an alcoholic mother's account of how she lost custody of her daughters. The story "Fixed," inspired by the Patti Smith song "Don't Say Nothing," is a young woman's attempt to fit in at a party after the grief of losing her boyfriend to a heroin overdose. The narrator of "I Get There Late" tries, in passive-aggressive ways, to cause trouble between a married couple after showing up unannounced in their driveway one night, while the narrator of "Stray" leaves her husband to rendezvous at a motel pool with a man she paints as a clown. "Injured" tells the story of an Iraq war vet who returns home as an amputee, then glorifies war for a reporter. In the final story, "O.K., Goodbye," written in a loop of possible scenarios, a woman's attempts to leave her cheating husband are thwarted by lost keys and car trouble. Yet, she sees hope in her doppelganger, a girl with pink hair who is walking away" --How Coffee Saved My Life
Throughout the book, vignettes tied to the Spanish language flow from observation to theological analysis.
Author: Ellie Roscher
Publisher: Chalice Press
ISBN: 9780827214699
Category: Religion
Page: 176
View: 819
Based on the author's true life experiences, How Coffee Saved My Life is a funny, tragic, provocative and touching story of a rich, white, North American overachiever who spends a year in Uruguay in hopes of becoming a more responsible and sensitive member of the global community. Throughout the book, vignettes tied to the Spanish language flow from observation to theological analysis.How Paul Robeson Saved My Life and Other Stories
Carl Reiner will have you laughing out loud at these twenty-five nostalgic tales with an off-beat flair, as he tackles such wide-rangeing topics as: Phone Sex: Dial 411 for Legal Smut Evangelism: Sissy Sue and the Reverend Reverend Love at ...
Author: Carl Reiner
Publisher: Dey Street Books
ISBN: 0060932511
Category: Fiction
Page: 176
View: 883
A sweet, wry, and whimsical collection of short stories from one of America's truly great comedic minds. Carl Reiner will have you laughing out loud at these twenty-five nostalgic tales with an off-beat flair, as he tackles such wide-rangeing topics as: Phone Sex: Dial 411 for Legal Smut Evangelism: Sissy Sue and the Reverend Reverend Love at first sight: Warren Waits and the Spaghetti-Strap Girl God: The AlmightyA Beautiful Life and Other Stories
After Halloween came Thanksgiving and our first on North Road was a
memorable one. We all sat around the large drop-leaf table in the dining room—
my parents, brother and sister, my grandfather, and Auntie Merle and Uncle Ula
from ...
Author: Writers' Discussion Group (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Publisher: Righter Bookstore
ISBN: 9781934936665
Category: American poetry
Page: 404
View: 619
An eclectic variety of stories, articles, travelogues, commentary, life stories and poetry by 25 talented writers. This is the fifth book by The Writers¿ Discussion Group of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.My Life in a CULT Other Stories
Little could he had ever imagined where his journey would lead him. Extraordinary adventures of self- discovery, of social & political importance & change!" -"The Don"
Author: Don Vito Radice
Publisher:
ISBN: 0648674479
Category:
Page: 156
View: 838
"The adventures of a sensitive, young "Italian WOG" boy, living in Sydney, Australia in the '70s & '80s, searching for the "Holy Grail", the meaning of life! Little could he had ever imagined where his journey would lead him. Extraordinary adventures of self- discovery, of social & political importance & change!" -"The Don"The Life Manager and Other Stories
“May I have a teaspoon of your yogurt and cake?” Mr. L asked me. “I am on a diet.
But I can taste.” “If what?” I pursued the interrupted thread of the conversation. I
put a piece of cake with yogurt on it on his plate. “Well, in life it's sometimes easy
...
Author: Mirela Roznoveanu
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9780595766727
Category: Fiction
Page: 262
View: 969
In Mirela Roznoveanu's new book of fiction, human love is everywhere but strangely hard to find. Love animates a world where the tangled web of sexuality, commitment, language, place, and history enthralls us with its tantalizing detours, its cruel pretenders, and its unexpected pleasures. These tumultuous pages introduce us to people we can instantly recognize and never forget. From adventures that vividly signal a lifetime's meaning each returns with something new-something utterly different from that which was sought. Here in her first major work in English, we find the pulsing, streaming vision of time, place, history and character that distinguishes Roznoveanu's work in her native Romanian. Roznoveanu restores a visionary spirit lost to English for two or more generations. These stories come to us in the circuitous wake of the great early modernists, offering prodigious healing power for the grave psychic wounds that have afflicted the human condition since the crucial turning point of 1945. The Life Manager and Other Stories scintillates with cascades of luminous images and narrative reversals that seize our attention and don't let go. This is a book to return to again and again for its endlessly intriguing glimpses of the elusive peace and joy our souls thirst for.The Lottery and Other Stories
+ MY LIFE WITH R. H. MACY AND THE FIRST THING THEY did was segregate
me. They segregated me from the only person in the place I had even a speaking
acquaintance with; that was a girl I had met going down the hall who said to me: ...
Author: Shirley Jackson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429957840
Category: Fiction
Page: 320
View: 395
One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane. The Lottery and Other Stories, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual short stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range -- from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous -- and her power as a storyteller.Still Life and Other Stories
As translator, I have now read these stories a great many times, but continue to
be moved by them anew. Sometimes I marvel at the simple beauty of the stories
and their wonderful, unstinting, trueness to life. Sometimes I am warmed by their
...
Author: Junzo Shono
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 9781880656020
Category: Fiction
Page: 264
View: 685
Thirteen stories are linked by the daily life of a husband and wife and their three childrenA Parallel Life and Other Stories
HEN I BROUGHT my aunt her groceries, she was on the phone to the cemetery—
All Souls. It's an old one—though not the oldest—and the crypts of most of the
families we know are there. This is New Orleans, you understand, and because ...
Author: Robin Beeman
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9781452137063
Category: Fiction
Page: 192
View: 789
A penetrating and satisfying collection of sly but wise stories about passionate people, mostly women, who do not seem satisfied with the limits society places on them. A brilliant debut by a writer who knows her people and her territory, from rural Louisiana to the coast of California.Love of life and Other Stories by Jack London
She is white woman, she is young, very pretty, maybe she is twenty years old,
maybe twenty-five years old. She look at me. I look at her. She is very tired. She is
no dance-woman. I see that right away. She is good woman, and she is very tired
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Author: Jack London
Publisher: Editora Dracaena
ISBN: 9788582182024
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
Page: 100
View: 505
Stories of Jack London first published in the early twentieth century. Read now one of the most important names in American literature. Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. After working in the Klondike, London returned home and began publishing stories. His novels, including The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Martin Eden, placed London among the most popular American authors of his time. London, who was also a journalist and an outspoken socialist, died in 1916.