[PDF] A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings eBook

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher :
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 9780241969588

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Strange, wondrous things happen in these two short stories, which are both the perfect introduction to Gabriel García Márquez, and a wonderful read for anyone who loves the magic and marvels of his novels.After days of rain, a couple find an old man with huge wings in their courtyard in 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' - but is he an angel? Accompanying 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' is the short story 'The Sea of Lost Time', in which a seaside town is brought back to life by a curious smell of roses.

Author : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006075155X

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Contains Leaf Storm, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo, Nabo

Author : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060906995

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A collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968.

Author : David Almond
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2001-11-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 038572988X

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David Almond’s Printz Honor–winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary! Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever. . . .

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

Author : Piotr Cap
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027271550

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This book proposes a new theory (“proximization theory”) in the area of political/public legitimization discourse. Located at the intersection of Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics and critical approaches, the theory holds that legitimization of broadly consequential political/public policies, such as pre-emptive interventionist campaigns, is best accomplished by forced construals of virtual external threats encroaching upon the speaker and her audience’s home territory. The construals, which proceed along spatial, temporal and axiological lines, are forced by strategic deployment of lexico-grammatical choices drawn from the three domains. This proposal is illustrated primarily in the in-depth analysis of the 2001-2010 US discourse of the War-on-Terror, and secondarily in a number of pilot studies pointing to a wide range of further applications (environmental discourse, health communication, cyber-threat discourse, political party-representation). The theory and the empirical focus of the book will appeal to researchers working on interdisciplinary projects in Pragmatics, Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics, Critical Discourse Studies, as well as Journalism and Media Studies.

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101911093

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AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. Translated by Randolf Hogan.

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0230104800

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This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life and works of the Nobel Laureate, father of magical realism, and bestselling author in the history of the Spanish language. As García Márquez's impact endures on well into his ninth decade, Stavans's keen insights constitute the definitive re-appraisal of the literary giant's life and corpus. The later part of his life will be covered in a second book.

Author : A S Byatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448128366

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Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two little girls, extracted from their homes in wartime London, encounter something terrifying in a forest. Later when they meet as grown women, they realise the experience has coloured their lives. A dark tale about the nature of stories themselves. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Little Black Book of Stories.

Author : Dana Gioia
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780321363633

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"52 great authors, their best short fiction, and their insights on writing"--Cover.