One Arm and Other Stories
Title | One Arm and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780811202237 |
Here are the eleven remarkable stories of Tennessee Williams's first volume of short fiction, originally published in 1948 and reissued as a paperbook in response to an increasingly insistent public demand. It was this book which established Williams as a short story writer of the same stature and interest he had shown as a dramatist. Each story has qualities that make it memorable. In "One Arm" we live through his last hours and memories with a 'rough trade" ex-prizefighter who is awaiting execution for murder. "The Field of Blue Children" explores some of the strange ways of the human heart in love, "Portrait of a Girl in Glass" is a luminous and nostalgic recollection of characters who figure in "The Glass Menagerie," while "Desire and the Black Masseur" is an excursion into the logic of the macabre. "The Yellow Bird," well known through the author's recorded reading of it, which tells of a minister's daughter who found a particularly violent but satisfactory way of expiating a load of inherited puritan guilt, may well become part of American mythology.
One Arm, and Other Stories
Title | One Arm, and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | Short stories |
ISBN |
The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888
Title | The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hardy |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2006-08-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0141938110 |
"See if she is dark or fair, and if you can, notice if her hands be white; if not, see if they look as though she had ever done housework, or are milker's hands like mine." 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.
One-Arm Boy in a Two-Arm World
Title | One-Arm Boy in a Two-Arm World PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Bone Goff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Mendocino and Other Stories
Title | Mendocino and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Packer |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2008-11-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307488152 |
With humor, wisdom and tenderness, Ann Packer offers ten short stories about women and men--wives and husbands, sisters and brothers, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, friends, and lovers--who discover that life's greatest surprises may be found in that which is most familiar. In the title story, on the anniversary of their father's suicide a young woman discovers that her brother may have found a "reason for living" in the love of a good woman. In "Nerves," a young man realizes that the wife he is separated from no longer loves him but that it is his own life he misses, not her. The narrator of "My Mother's Yellow Dress" is a gay man remembering his deceased mother and their vital and troubling intimacy. In "Babies"--which was included in the prestigious O. Henry anthology series --a single woman in her mid-thirties finds that everyone, including her best friend at work, is pregnant, and that their joy can only be observed, not shared. In these and six other stories, Ann Packer exhibits an unerring eye for the small ways in which people reveal themselves and for the moments in which lives may be transformed.
I Can Still Do Everything with One Arm
Title | I Can Still Do Everything with One Arm PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Laurel Wells |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2018-06-13 |
Genre | People with disabilities |
ISBN | 9781721144815 |
This is a true story about overcoming obstacles and life with one arm. This book is dedicated to all those with disabilities who have constantly been told they can't, only to realize they can.
Paris for One and Other Stories
Title | Paris for One and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Jojo Moyes |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2016-10-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0735221197 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, Paris for One and Other Stories is an irresistibly romantic collection filled with humor and heart. “A vicarious jolt of Parisian romance. . . Delightful.” –People Magazine "An old-fashioned, feel-good love story. . . It’s as if Moyes has booked a vacation and is taking us along. To Paris. Amour!” –USA Today “Dreamy escapism, a book you can curl up with and easily finish over a weekend, with or without a glass of wine.” –Miami Herald Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's never even been on a romantic weekend away—to anywhere—before. Traveling abroad isn't really her thing. But when Nell's boyfriend fails to show up for their mini-vacation, she has the opportunity to prove everyone—including herself—wrong. Alone in Paris, Nell finds a version of herself she never knew existed: independent and intrepid. Could this turn out to be the most adventurous weekend of her life? Funny, charming, and irresistible, "Paris for One" is quintessential Jojo Moyes—as are the other stories that round out the collection.