To The Stars And Other Stories

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553404
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Stars and Other Stories written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in “becoming” a dog and howling at the moon. A club of young girls masquerade as the grieving fiancées of strange men. This book brings together these and other remarkable short stories by the Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane. Renowned as one of late imperial Russia’s finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-siècle avant-garde. He stands out for his masterful command of both realist and fantastic storytelling; his play with language evinces a belief in its capacity to access other worlds and other levels of meaning. Many of Sologub’s stories are set among children whose alienation from the adult world has lent them imagination and curiosity, enabling them to create an alternative reality. At the same time, he bluntly examines the sordid realities of late imperial Russian society and frankly presents sometimes unconventional sexuality. The book also features a selection of Sologub’s “little fairy tales,” ambiguous parables couched in childlike language whose ingenuity anticipates the miniatures and “incidents” of Daniil Kharms. Susanne Fusso’s elegant translation offers these artful tales to an English-speaking audience.

Author : David Levithan
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375849424
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How They Met and Other Stories written by David Levithan and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.

Author : Susan Midalia
Publisher : Apollo Books
ISBN 13 : 9781742587547
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feet to the Stars written by Susan Midalia and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtly rendered and emotionally engaging, these stories speak of the transformative capacities of the heart and mind, and of the ways we affect each other, sometimes unwittingly and often profoundly. They offer us the pleasure of listening to different voices, and the satisfaction of careful crafting and evocative prose.

Author : Samantha Mae Coyiuto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789712724602
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight to the Stars written by Samantha Mae Coyiuto and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Minot
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453202986
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lust written by Susan Minot and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV DIVDIVTwelve stories of women caught in the emotional turbulence of romance in Manhattan/divDIV /div/divDIVFor the twelve narrators of Susan Minot’s breathtaking collection—artists and lawyers, teenagers and thirty-somethings—love in New York doesn’t come easy. And as they struggle to reconcile their yearnings for romance with their needs for independence, they face resistance to emotional commitment at every turn. /divDIV /divDIVIn intense snapshots of these women’s most intimate moments, Minot brings to life their dreams and disappointments, hopes and heartbreaks, and highlights the emotional fissures that divide women and men./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a new illustrated biography of Susan Minot, including artwork by the author and rare documents and photos from her personal collection./div /div

Author : Sarah Hines Stephens
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780439446051
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beauty and the Beast and Other Stories written by Sarah Hines Stephens and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three classic fairy tales are retold in this collection that provides an ideal introduction to these legendary stories. Includes "Beauty and the Beast, " "The Lady and the Lion, " and "The Frog Prince."

Author : 宮沢賢治
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784061860315
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Train to the Stars and Other Stories written by 宮沢賢治 and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This translation of one of Miyazawa Kenji's children's tales explores the relationship between the infinite and everyday life in Northern Japan through a galactic journey undertaken by the two young protagonists."--Publisher description.

Author : Stacey Levine
Publisher : Sun & Moon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Horse and Other Stories written by Stacey Levine and published by Sun & Moon. This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Liam Callanan
Publisher : Four Way Books
ISBN 13 : 1935536826
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Listen & Other Stories written by Liam Callanan and published by Four Way Books . This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen is a book where characters ask readers to do just that: listen to their stories, especially because many aren't the type of people who often get listened to - even though they should. These characters' trials, missed connections, and sundry challenges are full of surprises - some good, some bad, some funny, some wise, and some all this at once. Perhaps most surprising of all, there's tenderness here and a lot of heart - which often gets the collection's characters into a lot of trouble.

Author : Olga Zilberbourg
Publisher : Wtaw Press
ISBN 13 : 9780998801490
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Like Water and Other Stories written by Olga Zilberbourg and published by Wtaw Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. California Interest. Short Stories. With settings that range from the Cuban Missile Crisis and Soviet-era Perestroika to present-day San Francisco, LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES, the first English-language collection from Leningrad-born author Olga Zilberbourg, looks at family and childrearing in ways both unsettling and tender, and characters who grapple with complicated legacies--of state, parentage, displacement, and identity. LIKE WATER is a unique portrayal of motherhood, of immigration and adaptation, and an inside account of life in the Soviet Union and its dissolution. Zilberbourg's stories investigate how motherhood reshapes the sense of self--and in ways that are often bewildering--against an uncharted landscape of American culture. In "Dandelion," a child turns into a novel and is shipped off to an agent in New York. In "Doctor Sveta," a young Soviet woman finds herself on a ship bound for Cuba at the onset of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In "Companionship," a young boy decides to return to his mother's uterus. Anthony Marra calls LIKE WATER "A book of succinct abundance, dazzling in its particulars, expansive in its scope," and of these stories, Karen E. Bender says, they "cast a clear, illuminating light on topics ranging from motherhood, the workplace, birth, death, ambition, and immigration, all explored through exquisitely wrought characters in Russia and the United States. Olga Zilberbourg is a writer to read right now."