The Grey Woman
Title | The Grey Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1871 |
Genre | |
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The Gray Woman and Other Stories
Title | The Gray Woman and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2017-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780998570419 |
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's classic book of 8 short stories. This Inwood Commons Modern Edition is lightly edited for modern readers, including translations from French and standardized spelling. The bones of the stories are just as she told them with no changes to plot or settings. The book includes the original unedited versions in appendices.
The Loom and Other Stories
Title | The Loom and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth A. Sasaki |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1991-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
The nine short stories in this collection reveal a portrait of three generations of Japanese-Americans trying to fit themselves into the fabric of American society. The author writes: "I wandered ghostlike amidst the mainstream of America, treading unaware of the cultural amnesia inflicted on my parents' generation by the internment and the atomic bomb." These tales chronicle the pains and hopes of family members reaching out in individual ways to understand themselves, their families, and their community. "Ruth Sasaki writes with great self-knowledge, with a sensitivity born of examined experience, and with a wonderfully humorous insight of the American ethnic experience."--Gus Lee, author of "China Boy"
The Woman Novelist and Other Stories
Title | The Woman Novelist and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Gardner |
Publisher | Persephone Books |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781903155547 |
Falling Women and Other Stories
Title | Falling Women and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Herbert |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781619720008 |
Award-winning short stories about families in turmoil and children in peril, from a homeless mother forced to put her son in foster care to a suburban mother afraid of passing her water phobia to her son. Braxton, North Carolina is the where in these stories, an imaginary coastal town adjacent to Camp Corregidor, a stopover for recruits on their way to Vietnam and later to Iraq. Braxton is the home front, where citizens battle alcoholism, marital breakups, and scandal. In Braxton, when a sister or father does wrong, the whole family shares the blame. Even Braxton's babysitters are dangerous, snooping, stealing secrets - and husbands. But love abounds. Sisters driven apart by scandal reunite when their father remarries. The babysitter who ran off with the mayor is welcomed back into her family when she returns to Braxton pregnant. A woman on the verge of being committed to an asylum for alcoholism is pulled back from the brink by a devoted friend. "The World As I Know It" won a PEN Syndicate Fiction Prize; "The Yellow Sneakers" won a Dexter Review Short Story Prize; "Jazzland" won the Lip Service Prose Prize; and an earlier version of "Falling Women" won a Virginia Fiction Fellowship for Ms. Herbert.
Pitch Woman and Other Stories
Title | Pitch Woman and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Coquelle Thompson |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0803206224 |
Despite the political instability characterizing twentieth-century Taiwan, the value of baseball in the lives of Taiwanese has been a constant since the game was introduced in 1895. The game first gained popularity on the island under the Japanese occupation, and that popularity continued after World War II despite the withdrawal of the Japanese and an official lack of support from the new state power, the Chinese Nationalist Party.
The Island of the Women and Other Stories
Title | The Island of the Women and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | George Mackay Brown |
Publisher | John Murray |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2014-03-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1848549466 |
In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming.