Do You Hear In The Mountains And Other Stories

Author : Maïssa Bey
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813940303
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do You Hear in the Mountains... and Other Stories written by Maïssa Bey and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new translation brings together two of Algerian author Maïssa Bey’s important works for the first time in English. "Do You Hear in the Mountains..." is a compelling piece of autofiction in which three destinies meet dramatically on a train moving through France. We meet an Algerian refugee, whom we recognize as Bey herself. She has escaped the civil war and cannot forget her father’s commitment to independence nor his death under the torture of the French soldiers. Sitting near her is a retired doctor whose military service in Algeria coincidentally took him to the same area at the time of that tragedy. Their neighbor is a girl who would like to understand this past that is so painful to discuss. The eleven diverse tales that follow, presented under the title "Under the Jasmin, at Night," exemplify some of Bey’s recurring themes—the Franco-Algerian colonial legacy and the feminine condition. Together, these works provide an unforgettable picture of a turbulent history that reaches across generations and continents. CARAF: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French

Author : Osamu Dazai
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462916813
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crackling Mountain and Other Stories written by Osamu Dazai and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crackling Mountain and Other Stories features eleven outstanding works by Osama Dazai, widely regarded as one of the 20th century Japan's most gifted writers. Dazai experimented with a wide variety of short story styles and brought to each a sophisticated sense of humor, a broad empathy for the human condition, and a tremendous literary talent. The eleven stories in this collection of Japanese literature present the most fully rounded portrait available of a tragic, multifaceted genius of modern Japanese letters.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108476422
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together, for the first time, Kipling's uncollected short stories, many unknown in the West, and some previously unpublished.

Author : E. F. Shelby
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595097510
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gothic Alaskan and Other Stories written by E. F. Shelby and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seething, thrashing jungles of Alaska are the lair of many secret species. To see them is to disappear. There are life forms here so horrible the sight of them would make a Kodiak bear jump off a cliff, or send a one-ton moose up a tree, or drive a pack of wolves into a rabbit hole. Every summer unknowing tourists anchor a boat off the wrong island and become dinner. Or they drive down some unmarked dirt road and are slaughtered. Every year they trustingly stop over at some strangely-empty campground or wander down an unmarked trail and meet a horrible end. [Author bio]Eugene Shelby has lived in Alaska for twenty-two years, including Anchorage, Barrow, Prudhoe Bay, Shemya and Valdez. He has a BA in journalism from USC.

Author : Honoré De Balzac
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434421155
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman of Thirty, the Seamy Side of History, and Other Stories written by Honoré De Balzac and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was one of the premiere French novelists. This is a collection of his stories.

Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems written by Frances Fuller Victor and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems" by Frances Fuller Victor. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A woman of thirty, The seamy side of history, and other stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leonid Andreyev
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the King Loses His Head, and Other Stories written by Leonid Andreyev and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the King Loses His Head, and other stories is Leonid Andreyev's story of the French Revolution. Considered the father of Expressionism in Russian literature, Leonid Andreyev is regarded as one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period. His work was extensively translated in book form. To live through four different phases of Russian history was the fate of Andreyev. Each of these phases has contributed to the shaping of his art. Because of the cumulative portrayals of the weird and the horrible, Andreyev has been called the Russian Edgar Allan Poe. During the 1914-1929 period, America was eager for anything similar to Edgar Allan Poe. As Poe's Russian equivalent, translations of Andreyev's work found a ready audience in the English-speaking world.

Author : Skila Brown
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 0763665169
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caminar written by Skila Brown and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2014 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caminar is the story of a boy who joins a small band of guerilla fighters who must decide what being a man during a time of war really means.

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307833658
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sound of the Mountain written by Yasunari Kawabata and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel Prize-winning writer and acclaimed author of Snow Country comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age—about an elderly Tokyo businessman who must face the failures of his memory and the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate the end of a life. “A rich, complicated novel.... Of all modern Japanese fiction, Kawabata’s is the closest to poetry.” —The New York Times Book Review By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo businessman, is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby mountain with the sounds of death. In between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations of Shingo’s life: his trying wife; his philandering son; and his beautiful daughter-in-law, who inspires in him both pity and the stirrings of desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments, Kawabata has crafted a novel that is a powerful, serenely observed meditation on the relentless march of time. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker