The Mandarin(and other stories)
Title | The Mandarin(and other stories) PDF eBook |
Author | Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz |
Publisher | SCB Distributors |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2011-03-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1907650342 |
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
The Mandarin, and Other Stories
Title | The Mandarin, and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Eça de Queirós |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Portuguese fiction |
ISBN |
The Mandarin, and Other Stories
Title | The Mandarin, and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Eça de Queirós |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789060030721 |
The Falling Snow and Other Stories
Title | The Falling Snow and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | José Maria Eça de Queirós |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2022-01-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0813235049 |
"Short stories (fiction) by the great nineteenth-century Portuguese author Jose Maria Eca de Queiros; a variety of themes characterize the stories: love, greed, obsession, country life; patriotism"--
Parishioners and Other Stories
Title | Parishioners and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Dylan |
Publisher | eBookIt.com |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2012-07-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1456609823 |
Tales of the East and West.
A'Chu and Other Stories
Title | A'Chu and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Anderson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
RIVER OF FIRE AND OTHER STORIES
Title | RIVER OF FIRE AND OTHER STORIES PDF eBook |
Author | Ed Robison |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2011-06-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1462887163 |
As he demonstrated in The Fox and Other Stories, (Turtle Press - 1996) and The Man Who Saw Himself (Xlibris -2002), Ed Robison continues to watch and listen closely to the world around him. This new collection reveals fresh poignancies and acutely observed quotidian mini-dramas that can easily burn into the consciousness of those willing to pause and listen. The River of Fire, the key story, is another unforgettable look at the horror of war. “It wouldn’t be entirely out of line to characterize Ed Robison as a Damon Runyon of the resorts, retirement communities, logging towns and ... porch swings of the Northwest.” —Jim Nisbet Author of Prelude to a Scream.