[PDF] Parrot Who Wouldnt Talk Other Stories eBook

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8184750595

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‘I think everyone has at least one eccentric aunt or uncle in the family. I had more than one. My boyhood days were enlivened by their presence.’ India’s best-loved children’s writer Ruskin Bond introduces us to some of the most endearing and adorable characters he has ever written about—his grandfather, with his unusual ability to disguise himself as just about anyone; the eccentric Uncle Ken, with his knack for trouble; the stationmaster Mr. Ghosh and his amazing family; and the unforgettable Aunt Ruby and her hilarious encounter with a parrot! Heart-warming, funny and delightful, The Parrot Who Wouldn’t Talk and Other Stories features some old favourites as well as refreshingly new stories. Marked by Bond’s inimitable style and trademark humour, and embellished with lively illustrations, this book will be a firm favourite with children.

Author : W.W Jacobs
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0714549525

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W.W. Jacobs delighted in finding unlikely humour in everyday situations and observations, and these tales succeed in raising a laugh from the most mundane of scenarios. In 'The Grey Parrot', a sailor buys a parrot for his wife, whom he suspects isn't faithful in his absence, hoping that the bird will inadvertently repeat anything untoward it hears. Unfortunately for him, the parrot exceeds his expectations, and it's not only his wife who is left blushing.This volume contains a careful selection of the very best stories from Jacobs's 150-strong repertory, and includes well-known standalone pieces such as 'The Monkey's Paw', as well as accounts of raucous dockside dalliances and tightly woven tales of poacher Bob Petty's crimes against the unlikely cast of an Essex village. Showcasing a unique assortment of stories spanning his writing career, this edition hopes to shine a light on a hugely talented writer who inspired many of the literary giants we now consider masters of the genre.

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Animal stories
ISBN : 9780140360448

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A collection of animal stories, set in India. The author also wrote Flames in the Forest and Getting Grannie's Glasses.

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Eccentrics and eccentricities
ISBN : 9780143333753

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Presents short stories for children about the author's eccentric relatives.

Author : Xu Xu
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1611729394

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Xu Xu 徐訏 (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of nostalgia and melancholy offer today’s readers an unusual glimpse into China’s turbulent twentieth century. These translations--spanning a period of some thirty years, from 1937 until 1965--bring to life some of Xu Xu’s most representative short fictions from prewar Shanghai and postwar Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Afterword illustrates that Xu Xu’s idealistic tendencies in defiance of the politicization of art exemplify his affinity with European romanticism and link his work to a global literary modernity.

Author : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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The Presented here book is a collection of psychological horror stories typical of the Victorian era. The collection contains the stories: "The Wind in the Rose-Bush," "The Shadows on the Wall," "Luella Miller," "The Southwest Chamber," "The Vacant Lot," "The Lost Ghost."

Author : Blindboy Boatclub
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0717183327

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Boulevard Wren and Other Stories is the stunning follow-up to the bestselling Gospel According to Blindboy, and a warped mirror held up to the Irish psyche. Provocative and unsettling, the stories rove through the centuries, from the barren fields of Famine-struck Meath to the chaotic landscape of the near future, where social media has colonised the deepest recesses of the human subconscious. This is a world populated by characters lost and at odds with the demands of contemporary life, for whom the line separating redemption and madness has grown impossibly fine. Razor-sharp social satire, it is an era-defining work from one of Ireland's most anarchic satirists and a quietly devastating portrait of a society in disarray.

Author : Rubem Fonseca
Publisher : Open Letter Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 193482402X

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The 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.