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| Author | : Italo Calvino |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Release Date | : 2014 |
| ISBN | : 0544146425 |
| Pages | : 288 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (441 download) |
Download or read book Numbers in the Dark written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A posthumously published collection of short stories that span the breadth of Italo Calvino's career.
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| Release Date | : 1999 |
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| Rating | : 4.4/5 (91 download) |
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Robin Healey |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Release Date | : 2019-03-07 |
| ISBN | : 1487502923 |
| Pages | : 1104 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (875 download) |
Download or read book Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016 written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey's Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.
| Author | : Italo Calvino |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Release Date | : 2014-09-16 |
| ISBN | : 0544231937 |
| Pages | : 444 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (442 download) |
Download or read book The Complete Cosmicomics written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete collection of “nimble and often hilarious” short stories exploring the cosmos by the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities (Colin Dwyer, NPR). Italo Calvino’s beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of a “cosmic know-it-all” with the unpronounceable name of Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Relating complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world, they are an indelible and delightful literary achievement. Originally published in Italian in three separate volumes—including the Asti d’Appello Prize-winning first volume, Cosmicomics—these thirty-four dazzling stories are collected here in one definitive English-language anthology. “Trying to describe such a diverse and entertaining mix, I have to admit, just as Calvino does so often, that my words fail here, too. There’s no way I—or anyone, really—can muster enough of them to quite capture the magic of these stories . . . Read this book, please.” —Colin Dwyer, NPR
| Author | : Robin Healey |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Release Date | : 1998-01-01 |
| ISBN | : 9780802008008 |
| Pages | : 648 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (8 download) |
Download or read book Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.
| Author | : Sarah Sloane |
| Publisher | : Greenwood Publishing Group |
| Release Date | : 2000 |
| ISBN | : 9781567504835 |
| Pages | : 268 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (48 download) |
Download or read book Digital Fictions written by Sarah Sloane and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When researchers in computer-mediated communications discuss digital textuality, they rarely venture beyond the now commonplace notion that computer textuality embodies contemporary post-structuralist theories. In addition, latterday Luddites do not discriminate among particular forms of computer texts and the different practices of reading and writing each form engenders. Written for students and faculty of contemporary literature and composition theories, this book is the first to move from general to specific considerations. Advancing from general consideration of how computers are changing literacy, Digital Fictions moves on to a specific consideration of how computers are altering one particular set of literature practices: reading and writing fiction.
| Author | : Italo Calvino |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Release Date | : 2011-02-15 |
| ISBN | : 0141971134 |
| Pages | : 64 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (419 download) |
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Italo Calvino and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The inspector ordered that the bird be searched.One of the agents stalled saying it made him feel sick, and after some fierce pecking another withdrew sucking a bleeding finger.' In these two stories from an inventive, comic master of the form, old friends and friendly rivals Pietro and Tommasso discover a treasure lost by the side of the road, and become suspected of a using a blameless chicken for devious ends. Italo Calvino's writing explores the fringes of these small, unusual scenes and finds incalculable wisdom and humour there. This book contains The Queen's Necklace and The Workshop Hen.
| Author | : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov |
| Publisher | : 1st World Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2006-07 |
| ISBN | : 1421821680 |
| Pages | : 270 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (218 download) |
Download or read book The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GRISHA, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. In the kitchen something extraordinary, and in his opinion never seen before, was taking place. A big, thick-set, red-haired peasant, with a beard, and a drop of perspiration on his nose, wearing a cabman's full coat, was sitting at the kitchen table on which they chopped the meat and sliced the onions. He was balancing a saucer on the five fingers of his right hand and drinking tea out of it, and crunching sugar so loudly that it sent a shiver down Grisha's back. Aksinya Stepanovna, the old nurse, was sitting on the dirty stool facing him, and she, too, was drinking tea. Her face was grave, though at the same time it beamed with a kind of triumph. Pelageya, the cook, was busy at the stove, and was apparently trying to hide her face.
| Author | : Bernard MacLaverty |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Release Date | : 2021-08-05 |
| ISBN | : 1473589754 |
| Pages | : 200 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (735 download) |
Download or read book Blank Pages and Other Stories written by Bernard MacLaverty and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter Break. Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted short-story writer and novelist whose work - like that of John McGahern, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien or Colm Tóibín - is deceptively simple on the surface, but carries a turbulent undertow. Everywhere, the dark currents of violence, persecution and regret pull at his subject matter: family love, the making of art, Catholicism, the Troubles and, latterly, ageing. Blank Pages is a collection of twelve extraordinary new stories that show the emotional range of a master. 'Blackthorns', for instance, tells of a poor out-of-work Catholic man who falls gravely ill in the sectarian Northern Ireland of 1942 but is brought back from the brink by an unlikely saviour. The most recently written story here is the harrowing but transcendent 'The End of Days', which imagines the last moments in the life of painter Egon Schiele, watching his wife dying of Spanish flu - the world's worst pandemic, until now. Much of what MacLaverty writes is an amalgam of sadness and joy, of circumlocution and directness. He never wastes words but neither does he ever forget to make them sing. Each story he writes creates a universe.
| Author | : Jessica K. Sklar |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Release Date | : 2014-01-10 |
| ISBN | : 0786489944 |
| Pages | : 353 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (864 download) |
Download or read book Mathematics in Popular Culture written by Jessica K. Sklar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics has maintained a surprising presence in popular media for over a century. In recent years, the movies Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, and Stand and Deliver, the stage plays Breaking the Code and Proof, the novella Flatland and the hugely successful television crime series NUMB3RS all weave mathematics prominently into their storylines. Less obvious but pivotal references to the subject appear in the blockbuster TV show Lost, the cult movie The Princess Bride, and even Tolstoy’s War and Peace. In this collection of new essays, contributors consider the role of math in everything from films, baseball, crossword puzzles, fantasy role-playing games, and television shows to science fiction tales, award-winning plays and classic works of literature. Revealing the broad range of intersections between mathematics and mainstream culture, this collection demonstrates that even “mass entertainment” can have a hidden depth.
| Author | : The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories |
| Publisher | : BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
| Release Date | : 2021-01-01 |
| ISBN | : 2021062716 |
| Pages | : 215 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (21 download) |
Download or read book The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories written by The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume 12 of The Tales Of Chekhov and includes 25 stories including A Classical Student, Vanka, Grisha, The Dependents, A Chameleon, A Day In The Country, In Passion Week, The Bird Market, and The Old House.
| Author | : Ali Smith |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Release Date | : 2015-08-18 |
| ISBN | : 0349007969 |
| Pages | : 160 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (49 download) |
Download or read book Free Love And Other Stories written by Ali Smith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, love in unexpected places. Ali Smith shows how things come together and how they break apart. She disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch, to make us love and live differently.
| Author | : Hugh Cook |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Release Date | : 2006-06-02 |
| ISBN | : 1411614240 |
| Pages | : 630 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (116 download) |
Download or read book The Succubus and Other Stories written by Hugh Cook and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories of varying lengths. Over 600 pages. SF, fantasy, horror, aberration and weirdness. Time travel, virtual reality, cloning. Murder in various modes of brutality. Sex, rape, necrophilia. SANTA CLAUS SEX CRIMINAL: a look at the pedophile. Torture. Vomit. The transcosmic environment of the moid. Life after death. Complications involving a demon. A story including a serial killer. Murdered by a ghost. High quality literary fiction to mainline to your mind.
| Author | : Florentin Smarandache |
| Publisher | : Infinite Study |
| Release Date | : 2009 |
| ISBN | : 973760931X |
| Pages | : pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (376 download) |
Download or read book Neutrosophic Logic, Wave Mechanics, and Other Stories (Selected Works 2005-2008) written by Florentin Smarandache and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is beginning for anything; we used to hear that phrase.The same wisdom word applies to us too. What began in 2005 asa short email on some ideas related to interpretation of the WaveMechanics results in a number of papers and books up to now.Some of these papers can be found in Progress in Physics orelsewhere.Our purpose here is to present a selection of those papers in acompilation which enable the readers to find some coherentideas which appeared in those articles. For this reason, theordering of the papers here is based on categories of ideas.
| Author | : Антон Чехов |
| Publisher | : Litres |
| Release Date | : 2021-03-16 |
| ISBN | : 5040756402 |
| Pages | : 268 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (47 download) |
Download or read book The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories written by Антон Чехов and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Donald F. Averill |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Release Date | : 2013-03-26 |
| ISBN | : 1475980493 |
| Pages | : 242 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (759 download) |
Download or read book Missing Notes, Hidden Talents, and Other Stories written by Donald F. Averill and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and mystery have a way of intertwining in unexpected ways in life. In Donald Averills short story collection, he traces a journey through the lives of vibrant characters driven by love who suddenly find themselves in the midst of intriguing situations. In Missing Notes, a music department graduate student finds an intriguing composition in an old notebook and begins a search for the author. When she and another student look for a missing notebook, they find themselves implicated in a murder investigation. The Canoe sees retired mathematician and widower Samuel Kelly recalling past experiences involving his family canoe after seeing a canoe for sale. Following the sale of the canoe, Sam and a former girlfriend rekindle an old relationship and get involved in a holdup. In Hidden Talents, Clay Coleman, a young physician, misses a turn and arrives at a secluded farm house where he is attacked. Suffering from amnesia, he works his way along Interstate 84 helping people with medical problemswhile his wife searches desperately for him. A seven-year-old boy who thinks he is just living a normal life in 1949 soon realizes that the only way to find out any answers about his grandpas past is to ask good questions in The Pumpkin Tree. Missing Notes, Hidden Talents, and Other Stories shares four charming stories with important messages about perseverance, courage, and, most importantly, love.
| Author | : Ali Smith |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Release Date | : 2015-11-05 |
| ISBN | : 0241974585 |
| Pages | : 240 pages |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (419 download) |
Download or read book Public library and other stories written by Ali Smith and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make. Public libraries are places of joy, freedom, community and discovery - and right now they are under threat from funding cuts and widespread closures across the UK and further afield. With this brilliantly inventive collection, Ali Smith joins the campaign to save our public libraries and celebrate their true place in our culture and history.
