The Hanged Mans Rope And Other Stories

Author : René Goscinny
Publisher : Cinebook
ISBN 13 : 180044902X
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucky Luke - Volume 81 - The Hanged Man’s Rope and Other Stories written by René Goscinny and published by Cinebook. This book was released on 2022-09-22T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old West was full of itchy trigger fingers, but also had its share of hemp necktie enthusiasts. Lucky Luke is not a fan of such summary justice, and when he interrupts an improvised hanging with no less than three ropes for a single man, he runs afoul of an unpleasant individual with a knack for manipulating bored and drunk crowds ... Seven short stories by Goscinny and his friends and illustrated by Morris himself – pure Lucky Luke concentrate!

Author : René Goscinny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781800440678
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hanged Man's Rope and Other Stories written by René Goscinny and published by . This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cowboy who shoots faster than his own shadow, his sarcastic horse, a quartet of incredibly stupid bandits - this is the Old West at its funniest. The 81st adventure of Lucky Luke, the Lonesome Cowboy!

Author : Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1907650342
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mandarin(and other stories) written by Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900) is considered to be Portugal�s greatest novelist and one of its finest prose writers. In The Mandarin he turns his satirical eye on the sin of avarice and asks the following question: ‘In the depths of China there lives a mandarin who is richer than any king spoken of in fable or in history. You know nothing about him, not his name, his face or the silks that he wears. In order for you to inherit his limitless wealth, all you have to do is to ring the bell placed on a book by your side. In that remote corner of Mongolia, he will utter a single sigh. He will then be a corpse, and at your feet you will see gold beyond the dreams of avarice. Mortal reader, will you ring the bell?� When Teodoro, our timid, lowly narrator, says ‘Yes�, he finds that fabulous wealth brings with it unexpected problems. The three very different stories that complete the collection � ‘The Idiosyncrasies of a Young Blonde Woman�, ‘The Hanged Man� and ‘José Matías� � are all tales of obsessive love, each told with Eça�s irrepressible wit and originality. �A brilliant mischievous essay in fantasy chinoiserie, irreverently subverting the trope, created half a century earlier by Balzac in La Peau de chagrin, of the Oriental curse masquerading as a blessing. In the same Dedalus collection of Eca's short fiction lies a late gem,'Jose Matias', a love story told at a funeral by a Hegelian philosopher, in which the issue of the narrator's own relationship with reality adds a comically ambiguous layer to the tale." Jonathan Keates in The Times Literary Supplement

Author : Ilse Aichinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bound Man, and Other Stories written by Ilse Aichinger and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. E. Coppard
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Dog, and Other Stories written by A. E. Coppard and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of short stories or folklore-style tales recognised as a sophisticated blend of modern fairy stories, folk narratives and ballads. The book include The Black Dog, Alas, poor Bollington!, The ballet girl, Simple Simon, The tiger, Mordecai and Cocking, The man from Kilsheelan, Tribute, The handsome Lady, The fancy dress ball, The cat, the dog, and the Bad Old Dame, The wife of Ted Wickham, Tanil, The devil in the churchyard, Huxley Rustem, Big game, The poor man, Luxury.

Author : Amanda Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781742576923
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rope written by Amanda Howard and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amanda Howard has compiled a brief history of hanging that is enlightening, disturbing, and always interesting."--Back cover.

Author : Iḥsān ʻAbd al-Qaddūs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am Free, and Other Stories written by Iḥsān ʻAbd al-Qaddūs and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101221682
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Withered Arm and Other Stories written by Thomas Hardy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The Withered Arm', the title story in this selection of Hardy's finest short stories. Hardy's first story, 'Destiny and a Blue Cloak' was written fresh from the success of Far From the Madding Crowd. Beautiful in their own right, these stories are also testing-grounds for the novels in their controversial sexual politics, their refusal of romance structures, and their elegiac pursuit of past, lost loves. Several of the stories in The Withered Arm were collected to form the famous volume, Wessex Tales (1888), the first time Hardy denoted 'Wessex' to describe his fictional world. The Withered Arm is the first of a new two-volume selection of Hardy's short stories, edited with an introduction and notes by Kristin Brady.

Author : Shimmer Chinodya
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1779223161
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can We Talk and Other Stories written by Shimmer Chinodya and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shimmer Chinodya, winner of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region) is one of Zimbabwe's foremost fiction writers. This collection of short stories reveals his development as a writer of passionate questioning integrity. The first stories, 'Hoffman Street' and 'The Man who Hanged Himself' capture the bewildered innocence of a child's view of the adult world, where behaviour is often puzzling and contradictory; stories such as 'Going to See Mr B.V.' provide the transition between the world of the adult and that of the child where the latter is required to act for himself in a situation where illusions founder on a narrow reality. 'Among the Dead' and 'Brothers and Sisters' look wryly at the self-conscious, self-centred, desperately serious world of young adulthood while 'Playing your Cards', 'The Waterfall', 'Strays' and 'Bramson' introduce characters for whom ambition, disillusion, and disappointment jostle for attention in a world where differences of class, culture, race and morality come to the fore. Finally, in 'Can we Talk' we conclude with an abrasive, lucid, sinewy voice which explores the nature of estrangement. The charge is desolation. Can we Talk and Other Stories speaks of the unspoken and unsaid. The child who watches but does not understand, the young man who observes but cannot participate, the man who stands outside not sure where his desires and ambitions lead, the older man, estranged by his own choices. 'Can we Talk' is not a question but a statement that insists on being heard, and demands a reassessment of our dreams.

Author : W. T.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The wandering mason and other stories. By W.T. written by W. T. and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: