Four Stories
Title | Four Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Sigrid Undset |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Norway |
ISBN | 9781950970834 |
"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."--
Four Stories
Title | Four Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Bennett |
Publisher | Profile Books |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2015-12-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1847653871 |
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.
My Beijing
Title | My Beijing PDF eBook |
Author | Nie Jun |
Publisher | Graphic Universe& 8482 |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1512445908 |
"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."--
Four Scary Stories
Title | Four Scary Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Johnston |
Publisher | Putnam Juvenile |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Fairies |
ISBN | 9780399207273 |
When imps and goblins and scalawags get together in a dark place, they like to tell the scariest kind of stories they can think of: BOY stories! But who's that sneaking around to listen to them spin their spooky yarns? Can it be the scariest thing of all? An "American Bookseller" Pick of the Lists and IRA-CBC Children's Choice Book.
The Participant
Title | The Participant PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher M. Kelty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2020-01-21 |
Genre | Participation |
ISBN | 022666676X |
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?"
Four Stories
Title | Four Stories PDF eBook |
Author | E. T. A. Hoffmann |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780486426969 |
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.
Four Stories
Title | Four Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Wayne Selznick |
Publisher | MWS Media |
Pages | 47 |
Release | 2014-06-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
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