Four Stories

Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950970834
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Stories written by Sigrid Undset and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Four Stories offers honest, uncontrived portrayals of everyday life in early twentieth-century Norway. In Selma Brøter, as a spinster becomes involved in the love affair of her two coworkers, Undset draws a powerful, heartrending contrast between her delusion and their bliss. In Simonsen, an aged clerk gains support from his son and daughter-in-law, but learns it could come at a steep price. A housekeeper finds happiness (and love), in Miss Smith-Tellefesen, until a sudden change results in the loss of everything she has found. In Thodolf, a childless sailor’s wife adopts a baby boy. The sudden appearance of the boy’s birth mother sets off a series of events with an affecting conclusion. Marked with Undset’s distinctive compassionate insight into her characters, Four Stories profoundly captures the oscillation between contentment and sadness which is part and parcel of every human life."--

Author : Tony Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Scary Stories written by Tony Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imp, a goblin, a scalawag, and a boy tell each other scary stories.

Author : Christopher M. Kelty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 022666676X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Participant written by Christopher M. Kelty and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make participation easier, but new technologies have had the opposite effect. We find ourselves suspicious of how participation extracts our data or monetizes our emotions, and the more procedural participation becomes, the more it seems to recede from our grasp. In this book, Christopher M. Kelty traces four stories of participation across the twentieth century, showing how they are part of a much longer-term problem in relation to the individual and collective experience of representative democracy. Kelty argues that in the last century or so, the power of participation has dwindled; over time, it has been formatted in ways that cramp and dwarf it, even as the drive to participate has spread to nearly every kind of human endeavor, all around the world. The Participant is a historical ethnography of the concept of participation, investigating how the concept has evolved into the form it takes today. It is a book that asks, "Why do we participate?" And sometimes, "Why do we refuse?"

Author : Nie Jun
Publisher : Graphic Universe& 8482
ISBN 13 : 1512445908
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Beijing written by Nie Jun and published by Graphic Universe& 8482. This book was released on 2018 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Four short stories set in a hutong, or residential alleyway, of Beijing, China. Yu'er, her grandfather, and their eccentric neighbors experience the magic of everyday life."--

Author : Ryan Napier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781495178801
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Stories about the Human Face written by Ryan Napier and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. A man in search of a rare pink dolphin, a social media assistant for a pasta sauce company, a newlywed couple on their honeymoon, and too-proud parents of a new baby all have one thing in common: social media and modern technology have them questioning their reality. Ryan Napier makes us consider the repercussions and anxieties that result from a world that revolves around image.

Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847653871
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Stories written by Alan Bennett and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like everything Bennett does, these stories are playful, witty and painfully observant of ordinary people's foibles. They all have brilliant twists, are immensely entertaining and highly moral. And all are modern classics. The Laying on of Hands The painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous. The Clothes They Stood Up In The comic tale of an elderly couple's trials after their flat is stripped completely bare. Father! Father! Burning Bright The savage satire on the family of a dying man who rules over them from his hospital bed. The Lady in the Van The true story of the eccentric old woman who is invited to live in a homeowner's front garden. She stays there, in her van, for fifteen years. The home is Alan Bennett's. It became a West End hit and a major film, starring Maggie Smith.

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140390766
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Stories by American Women written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-12-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing four prominent American women writers who flourished in the period following the Civil War, this collection includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Country of the Pointed Firs" by Sarah Orne Jewett, and "Souls Belated" by Edith Wharton. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Bridgewater Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Ancestors written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Bridgewater Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of traditional Native American tales celebrating the wonder and mystery of the natural world, arranged under the categories "Fire," "Earth," "Water," and "Air."

Author : Niki Burnham
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780439903004
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fireworks written by Niki Burnham and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four of today's bestselling, most beloved authors for teens come together to deliver a sassy, sexy collection of summertime love stories! Hot sun. Soft white sand. Bejewled flip-flops. Crashing surf. That shirtless blond lifeguard...Summertime is the essence of sexiness, sass, and fun. In this juicy collection, four fabulous, bestselling teen authors each show us a different side of summer romance, from the first flush of a seaside crush to the sting of a breakup on a traveling teen tour. Get out your sunscreen, slip on your shades, and prepare to be dazzled by these sizzling stories.

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486426969
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Stories written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4 tales of this collection embody their author's skills as a humorist and a master of irony as well as his visions of supernatural elements amid ordinary settings. Contents include "Rat Krespel," "Die Bergwerke zu Falun," "Das Fräulein von Scuderi" and "Des Vetters Eckfenster," Hoffmann's last work and the pinnacle of his literary achievements.