[PDF] The King Of The Hummingbirds And Other Tales eBook

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1453203346

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The classic children’s collection: four fantastical stories filled with wit and wisdom, humor and heart In this wonderful collection of fairy tales, John Gardner turns a timeless tradition into a topsy-turvy whirlwind. In the title story, a kindly simpleton unwittingly becomes sovereign of an avian race. A wicked witch seeks a new profession—and, thus, identity—in “The Witch’s Wish.” In “The Pear Tree,” a sweet young boy is rewarded for his good deeds. And “The Gnome and the Dragon” presents a realm so mixed-up not even the reader can distinguish reality from illusion. With tongue-in-cheek wit and laugh-out-loud humor, Gardner has created a world that will delight readers of all ages.

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :

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Four fairy tales featuring a stupid coppersmith's son, a witch unhappy in her profession, a gnome with power to change things, and a fat, bespectacled Jewish boy who hopes to marry a princess.

Author : Ml Binelli
Publisher : Babelcube Inc.
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1071546716

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A series of short stories in which the fantastic joins comedy and horror. Themes such as aliens, cannibals, psychopaths, vampires, ghosts, zombies, dealing with the devil, buried people alive and eternal beings, are developed in a very peculiar way, demonstrating that already known stories can be retold endlessly in very different ways, without losing originality.

Author : John Clute
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780312198695

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Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.

Author : Jenny Stringer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0192122711

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Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1136789545

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First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Neil Barron
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : 0893706094

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"Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review" was founded in 1979 to provide comprehensive coverage of all the major and minor books being released in the genre at that time. This was the golden era of SF publishing, with a thousand titles (old and new) hitting the stands and the bookshelves each and every year. From the older classics to the newest speculative fiction, this was the period when the best and the brightest shined forth their talents. SF&FBR included reviews by writers in the field, by amateur critics, and by litterateurs and University professors. Over a thousand books were covered during the single year of publication, many of them having been reviewed no where else, before or since. The January 1980 issue includes a comprehensive index of all the works featured during the preceding year. This reprint will be a welcome addition to the literature of science fiction and fantasy criticism. Neil Barron is a retired bibliographer and literary critic, editor of the acclaimed "Anatomy of Wonder" series. Robert Reginald was the publisher for twenty-five years of Borgo Press, and has authored over 110 books of his own."

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780878054237

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This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists. These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews. After the publication of such popular and critical successes as Grendel (1971) and The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), this philosophical writer with an enviable talent for storytelling was regarded as ""a major contemporary writer."" After Gardner had demonstrated that he was one of America's most prolific, versatile, and imaginative authors, he became one of its most controversial when he attacked the literary establishment in his book On Moral Fiction and in his interviews. These candid conversations reveal a man of contrasts and contradictions, a writer who, as one of his interviewers remarks, ""brought to everything he did a passion that at times bordered on madness.

Author : John Michael Howell
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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"So now," writes John Gardner in his Afterword to the first annotated bibliog­raphy of works by and about him, "read­ing John Howell's list of 'Separate pub­lications'--XXXI in all (however many that is)--I feel pleasure and then alarm, rolling my eyes toward the ceiling, ask­ing God, 'Is it enough?'" The book includes a biographical sketch; a collation of the first American edition; printing histories of first Amer­ican and British editions and of sub­sequent editions; annotated checklists of fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and letters; an annotated checklist of inter­views: "I'm astonished, reading these summaries of interviews, at how often and how deeply I contradict myself"; a checklist of manuscripts and contribu­tions to other media; secondary checklists of articles, essays, and reviews about Gardner and his works; plus photo­graphs of assorted pages, dust jackets, and Gardner memorabilia.