Seven Tales

Author : Shelley Moore Thomas
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374367442
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Tales of Trinket written by Shelley Moore Thomas and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guided by a tattered map, accompanied by Thomas the Pig Boy, and inspired by the storyteller's blood that thrums through her veins, eleven-year-old Trinket searches for the seven stories she needs to become a bard like her father, who disappeared years before. She befriends a fortune-telling gypsy girl; returns a child stolen by the selkies to his true mother; confronts a banshee and receives a message from a ghost; helps a village girl outwit—and out-dance—the Faerie Queen; travels beyond the grave to battle a dastardly undead Highwayman; and meets a hound so loyal he fights a wolf to the death to protect the baby prince left in his charge. All fine material for six tales, but it is the seventh tale, in which Trinket learns her father's true fate, that changes her life forever. The Seven Tales of Trinket is a Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2012

Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1444931148
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enid Blyton's Christmas Tales written by Enid Blyton and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate Christmas with one of the world's best-loved children's authors in this sparkly collection of stories. This hugely popular short story collection, first published in 2016, is back with a shiny new cover... Nobody captures the spirit of Christmas like Enid Blyton, and in these stories, she describes the excitement of anticipating gifts, the pleasures of making special food, of singing carols, and coming together to share good times with friends and families. As ever with Blyton, there is mischief and mayhem but good always prevails in the end. These traditional tales are perfect for younger children being read to and for newly confident readers to read alone. All stories previously appeared in magazines and anthologies from the 40s and 60s. This collection contains the original texts and is unillustrated. Enid Blyton remains one of Britain's favourite children's authors and her bumper short story collections are perfect for introducing her to the latest generation of readers. Read all of Enid Blyton's bumper short story collections. New in 2021: Rainy Day Stories Pet Stories Stories of Spells and Enchantments Christmas Tales *** Enid Blyton® and Enid Blyton's signature are registered trade marks of Hodder & Stoughton Limited. No trade mark or copyrighted material may be reproduced without the express written permission of the trade mark and copyright owner.

Author : Somadeva
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538184273
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Kathasaritsagara written by Somadeva and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literally translated as "ocean of the sea of stories, " the Kathasaritasagara is a collection of stories of the ancient Hindu world. It was written by Somadeva in the 11th century. Unlike those more familiar classics, this work contains no hidden moral lessons. Instead, it is an uninhibited and beautiful celebration of earthly life.

Author : St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the St. Louis Mercantile Library written by St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rob Parkinson
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1843109743
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Tales written by Rob Parkinson and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the true impact of stories on our lives and how stories can create feelings of hope, take away psychological distress and even stimulate the immune system. It contains over 90 short stories, and allows readers to understand the patterns storytellers use to captivate attention and how truths are often encapsulated in stories.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of the grotesque and arabesque. IV: Extravaganza and caprice written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338282616X
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairy Tales written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027201772
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (Illustrated) written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection of "THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (Illustrated)” has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpts: "I am afraid this ghost story will bear a very faded aspect when transferred to paper. Whatever effect it had on you, or whatever charm it retains in your memory, is, perhaps, to be attributed to the favorable circumstances under which it was originally told.” (The Ghost of Doctor Harris) American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828; he later tried to suppress it, feeling it was not equal to the standard of his later work. He published several short stories in various periodicals, which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. Much of Hawthorne's writing centres on New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered to be part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism. His themes often centre on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. Table of Contents: Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne Collections of Short Stories: Twice-Told Tales (1837) Grandfather's Chair (1840) Biographical Stories Mosses from an Old Manse (1846) Wonder Book For Girls and Boys (1851) The Snow Image and Other Twice Told Tales (1852) Tanglewood Tales For Girls and Boys (1853) The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces, Tales and Sketches (1864) The Story Teller Sketches in Magazines

Author : Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822313878
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in The Conjure Woman were Charles W. Chesnutt's first great literary success, and since their initial publication in 1899 they have come to be seen as some of the most remarkable works of African American literature from the Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance. Lesser known, though, is that the The Conjure Woman, as first published by Houghton Mifflin, was not wholly Chesnutt's creation but a work shaped and selected by his editors. This edition reassembles for the first time all of Chesnutt's work in the conjure tale genre, the entire imaginative feat of which the published Conjure Woman forms a part. It allows the reader to see how the original volume was created, how an African American author negotiated with the tastes of the dominant literary culture of the late nineteenth century, and how that culture both promoted and delimited his work. In the tradition of Uncle Remus, the conjure tale listens in on a poor black southerner, speaking strong dialect, as he recounts a local incident to a transplanted northerner for the northerner's enlightenment and edification. But in Chesnutt's hands the tradition is transformed. No longer a reactionary flight of nostalgia for the antebellum South, the stories in this book celebrate and at the same time question the folk culture they so pungently portray, and ultimately convey the pleasures and anxieties of a world in transition. Written in the late nineteenth century, a time of enormous growth and change for a country only recently reunited in peace, these stories act as the uneasy meeting ground for the culture of northern capitalism, professionalism, and Christianity and the underdeveloped southern economy, a kind of colonial Third World whose power is manifest in life charms, magic spells, and ha'nts, all embodied by the ruling figure of the conjure woman. Humorous, heart-breaking, lyrical, and wise, these stories make clear why the fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt has continued to captivate audiences for a century.

Author : Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alphabetical List (by Title) of the Class of Prose Fiction written by Mercantile Library of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: