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"In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches...
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"I have told you nothing about man that is not true." You must pardon me if I repeat that remark now and then in these letters; I want you to take seriously the things I am telling you, and I feel that if I were in your place and you in mine, I should need that reminder from time to time, to keep my credulity from flagging. In Letters from the Earth, Twain presents himself as the Father of History -- reviewing and interpreting events from the Garden...
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In his first collection of short stories The Familiar Stranger and Other Stories, Frederick Mordi tells the compelling stories of ordinary folks trying to make ends meet and the not so ordinary people engaged in power play. The stories are spiced with a generous dose of humour that will hold the reader's attention all through to the end. A versatile writer, he won the Commonwealth Award for Short Stories in 2004. His award-winning entry is published...
5) Leyendas
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Las cinco leyendas que escribió Stefan Zweig-«Raquel discute con Dios», «Los ojos del hermano eterno», «El candelabro enterrado», «La leyenda de la tercera paloma» y «Las hermanas iguales y diferentes»-, reunidas por primera vez en español.
Stefan Zweig fue un escritor asombrosamente prolífico que cultivó, con gran éxito, todo un abanico de géneros literarios que incluía desde la novela y el teatro hasta el cuento y la traducción,...
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A través de la mirada de un joven que quiere ser escritor -a caballo entre la crónica, el cuento, la epístola, el diario, la autobiografía y las memorias-, en este libro se narran las vicisitudes cotidianas; las tradiciones y costumbres; los movimientos estudiantiles; las catástrofes naturales y sociales; las tragedias familiares; la apropiación y la decadencia, ecológica y social, de los espacios citadinos; la violencia contra las mujeres...
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When a Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry with six or seven books to his credit and a writer whose translations of an Urdu poet have been nominated for a Nobel who also has six or seven books to her credit get together and bring out a compilation of their essays on India in a post-modern, minimalist, aporia-ridden effort what will the result be? A delectable potpourri, a Cortazarian hopscotch, a collage, a montage, a bricolage, an assemblage of fragments...
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In this book, Lt. Philbrick has detailed true stories that happened during his police career. The stories are educational and entertaining. You will learn what a police officer thinks and reacts under extreme life threatening events.
The Author talks about life on duty and off duty and how being a police officer affects your life at home.
Across America, every day, a police officer kisses his wife and kids goodbye, knowing that he or she might not...
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Las narraciones breves han existido siempre. En las composiciones de los sumerios, en los escritos bíblicos, en la tradición árabe y en la narrativa oral de África y de otros continentes aparecen formas literarias de extensión reducida pero significados perdurables. El microrrelato, ya como un género literario, adquirió vitalidad durante los siglos XX y XXI; no obstante comenzó a insinuarse en el romanticismo del siglo XIX, pervivió subterráneamente...
10) Flying High
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The Ian St James Awards enabled new writers from every walk of life to break into print. 1993's collection introduced more new writers than ever before, with six short stories and ten longer pieces.
Entertaining, thought provoking, original, each of these stories is a winner, selected from thousands of entries from all over the world.
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La luna sobre el agua pertenece ante todo a mis relaciones con el mar, a quien amo y a veces temo desde que tengo memoria, a playas e islas reales, a playas e islas imaginarias, a la sensación de volar sobre las olas y al espejismo, que a veces me azota o me corteja cuando escribo. Se trata de un tercer libro de relatos, situado en San Gregorio y Fortuna, archipiélago mítico que ha surgido de espacios asomados a la inmensidad del oleaje, al bullicio...
12) Espirales
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¿La realidad supera a la ficción o la inspira? Hay fotografías que inspiran una historia e historias que piden a gritos una fotografía. Treinta y una historias, treinta y una fotografías.
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Los catorce cuentos que componen Caprichos del clima se mueven, en muchas ocasiones, entre el pensamiento pausado que describe entornos cotidianos y el recuerdo no siempre feliz de sus personajes. No están exentos, además, de humor e ironía.
Seres humanos que se desnudan frente al lector, quien terminará entendiendo que aquello no es una exhibición, sino el comportamiento, a veces duro y adverso, de la vida. En las descripciones detalladas de...
14) Odio Barcelona
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Yo no odio Barcelona, pero Londres sí. La odio de todo corazón; de hecho, cuando voy a Londres tengo que beber el triple de lo que normalmente bebo, sólo para mantener la calma, de tanto odio que siento por aquella maldita mierda de ciudad. Pero si contribuyera con un texto para un libro titulado I Hate London y luego descubriera que el ilustrador había puesto imágenes de la Blitzkrieg nazi junto al título, habría tomado el libro hipotético...
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The country has been routed of any good paying jobs with a world ready to accommodate at very low cost. Every product distributed nationwide is made in other countries primary China and even the high quality customer experience received is provided from a foreign country at a faction of the cost. The future of the economy looks grim in a very fast escalating world population looking to help themselves to everything America has to offer through the...
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The author of a story book has the compulsions of dealing with the vagaries provided by life and the dichotomy that is life. The stories of the book are in a way reflections of life itself. Each story therefore is cast with different mould, as the genre remains the same the take off and landing is on perpetual stagger. The gripping point of each story in the book comes from its uniqueness, the unparrelleled themes, the changing facades, and unblinking...
17) Just so stories
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A collection of the well-known stories, including "How the Whale Got His Throat," "The Elephant's Child," and "The Butterfly that Stamped."
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Toxic friendships and social media, synaesthesia, and midnight sandwiches. Bite-sized delights in our first Slinkies anthology.
Ch'aska Cuba de Reed is a 21-year-old creative writing student at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her writing has been published in UTS' Vertigo magazine and Baby Teeth. When she isn't writing, she's partial to an indoor climb or an outdoor boog.
Sky Carrall studies Creative Writing and English at the University...
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Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior, Carol Shields and Guy Vanderhaeghe. With the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature going to Alice Munro, the "master of the contemporary short story," this art form is receiving the recognition that has been its due and-as...
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John Metcalf has been the leading student, scholar, writer and champion of the Canadian short story for more than five decades. As an editor, he has worked with several generations of Canada's best short fiction writers, from Alice Munro and Norman Levine to Caroline Adderson, Rebecca Rosenblum and Annabel Lyon. In his new critical book, The Canadian Short Story, he sifts and sorts through a lifetime of reading, writing and thinking about the short...
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