Author : Samuel Page Widnall
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 1871
Category :
ISBN :
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The Miller's Daughter, a Legend of the Granta. Illustrated
Author : Samuel Page WIDNALL
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 37,88 MB
Release : 1871
Category :
ISBN :
Kingston Noir
Author : Colin Channer
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1617751170
“Subverts the simplistic sunshine/reggae/spliff-smoking image of Jamaica at almost every turn . . . with a rich interplay of geographies and themes.” —Los Angeles Times From Trench Town to Half Way Tree to Norbrook to Portmore and beyond, the stories of Kingston Noir shine light into the darkest corners of this fabled city. Joining award-winning Jamaican authors such as Marlon James, Leone Ross, and Thomas Glave are two “special guest” writers with no Jamaican lineage: Nigerian-born Chris Abani and British writer Ian Thomson. The menacing tone that runs through some of these stories is counterbalanced by the clever humor in others, such as Kei Miller’s “White Gyal with a Camera,” who softens even the hardest of August Town’s gangsters; and Mr. Brown, the private investigator in Kwame Dawes’s story, who explains why his girth works to his advantage: “In Jamaica a woman like a big man. She can see he is prosperous, and that he can be in charge.” Together—with more contributions from Patricia Powell, Colin Channer, Marcia Douglas, and Christopher John Farley—the outstanding tales in Kingston Noir comprise the best volume of short fiction ever to arise from the literary wellspring that is Jamaica. “Thoroughly well-written stories . . . fans of noir will enjoy this batch of sordid tales set in the sweltering heat of the tropics.” —Publishers Weekly “An eclectic and gritty mélange of tales that sears the imagination . . . Kingston Noir proves its worth as a quintessential piece of West Indian literature—rich, artistic, timeless, and above all, draped in unmistakable realism.” —The Gleaner (Jamaica)
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
Author : A. S. Byatt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307483878
The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable. The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy; they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations; and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor. "A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous." --Boston Globe "Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely." --Chicago Tribune "Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative.... These [are] perfectly formed tales." --Washington Post Book World
The History of "Punch"
Author : Marion Harry Spielmann
Publisher : London, Cassell, 1895- .
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
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Boy, Snow, Bird
Author : Helen Oyeyemi
Publisher : Picador
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1743519591
BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn't exactly a welcoming town, but it does have the virtue of being the last stop on the bus route she took from New York. Flax Hill is also the hometown of Arturo Whitman - craftsman, widower, and father of Snow. SNOW is mild-mannered, radiant and deeply cherished - exactly the sort of little girl Boy never was, and Boy is utterly beguiled by her. If Snow displays a certain inscrutability at times, that's simply a characteristic she shares with her father, harmless until Boy gives birth to Snow's sister, Bird. When BIRD is born Boy is forced to re-evaluate the image Arturo's family have presented to her, and Boy, Snow and Bird are broken apart.
From a Cornish Window
Author : Arthur Quiller-Couch
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 1906
Category : English literature
ISBN :
How to Teach Grammar
Author : Scott Thornbury
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2008
Category : English language
ISBN :
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
Author : E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734093228
Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
White Noise
Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440674477
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • An “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (The New York Times) modern classic about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology. “Tremendously funny . . . A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists.”—The New Republic The inspiration for the award-winning major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in “American magic and dread.” Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the usual rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives, an “airborne toxic event” unleashed by an industrial accident. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the “white noise” engulfing the Gladney family—radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings—pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.