London Bone and Other Stories

London Bone and Other Stories PDF Author: Michael Moorcock
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473213304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267

Book Description
Mysterious fossils found deep under London's streets create a whole new 'heritage' industry - but what does selling London's history mean for the city? In these remarkable stories Moorcock explores the parts of London most of us will never see, and creates a patchwork of tales which build up to a portrait of the whole city. Contains the stories: Lost London A Winter Admiral The Third Jungle Book London Blood A Portrait in Ivory Doves in the Circle A Twist in the Lines The Clapham Antichrist Cake London Bone Stories London Flesh The Cairene Purse Furniture Through the Shaving Mirror

Mother London

Mother London PDF Author: Michael Moorcock
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 9781473213258
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 544

Book Description
Shortlisted for the Whitbread prize, MOTHER LONDON is a dazzling journey through the heart of a city that the author loved. Spanning generations of characters across a variety of boroughs from the Blitz to the mid-eighties, this is a book about the real London that tourists will never find, a London which is being erased by the spread of high-rise flats and shining skyscrapers. Following a group of released mental patients across the years and streets of London, Moorcock creates a vivid impressionistic portrait of the city, from its downtrodden pubs to its green parks. All of the lead characters hear voices - but are they the murmurings of their damaged minds, or the true voice of the city?

London Bone

London Bone PDF Author: Michael Moorcock
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Collection of tales about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances.

LOVE OF LIFE AND OTHER STORIES

LOVE OF LIFE AND OTHER STORIES PDF Author: JACK LONDON
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
Near the horizon the sun was smouldering dimly, almost obscured by formless mists and vapors, which gave an impression of mass and density without outline or tangibility. The man pulled out his watch, the while resting his weight on one leg. It was four o’clock, and as the season was near the last of July or first of August, — he did not know the precise date within a week or two, — he knew that the sun roughly marked the northwest. He looked to the south and knew that somewhere beyond those bleak hills lay the Great Bear Lake; also, he knew that in that direction the Arctic Circle cut its forbidding way across the Canadian Barrens. This stream in which he stood was a feeder to the Coppermine River, which in turn flowed north and emptied into Coronation Gulf and the Arctic Ocean. He had never been there, but he had seen it, once, on a Hudson Bay Company chart...FROM THE BOOK.

Encyclopedia of the British Short Story

Encyclopedia of the British Short Story PDF Author: Andrew Maunder
Publisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438140703
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 2069

Book Description
Provides a comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth, featuring some of the most popular writers and works.

The Faith of Men & Other Stories

The Faith of Men & Other Stories PDF Author: Jack London
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387152319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Tales from the Klondike. ""The Faith of Men"" is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London's adventure tales, all of them set in London's favorite milieu -- the Yukon Territory. ""A Relic of the Pliocene"" concerns a ""homely, blue-eyed, freckle-faced"" hunter named Thomas Stevens and his tracking and eventual killing of a prehistoric mammoth. ""A Hyperborean Brew"" also concerns Thomas Stevens and his schemes. ""In Batard,"" an evil master makes a monster of an evil dog. Other stories included are ""The Faith of Men,"" ""Too Much Gold,"" ""The One Thousand Dozen,"" ""The Marriage of Lit-Lit,"" ""Batard,"" and ""The Story of Jees Uck."" . About Jack London: Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books.

What's Bred in the Bone

What's Bred in the Bone PDF Author: Robertson Davies
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771027877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Called “an altogether remarkable creation, his most accomplished novel to date” (The New York Times), What's Bred in the Bone is the second brilliant novel in Robertson Davies’ The Cornish Trilogy. Available as an eBook for the first time. Francis Cornish was always good at keeping secrets. From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer, a master art restorer, a Bavarian countess, and various masters of espionage, the events in Francis’s life were not always what they seemed. In this wonderfully ingenious portrait of an art expert and collector of international renown, Robertson Davies has created a spellbinding tale of artistic triumph and heroic deceit. It is a tale told in stylish, elegant prose, endowed with lavish portions of Davies’ wit and wisdom. “Davies’s make-believe universe has the appeal of a mystic’s vision… What’s Bred in the Bone is vintage Davies.” The Globe and Mail

The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story

The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story PDF Author: Andrew Maunder
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816074968
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 545

Book Description
A comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth. With approximately 450 entries, this A-to-Z guide explores the literary contributions of such writers as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Amis, and others.

The Closed Doors and Other Stories

The Closed Doors and Other Stories PDF Author: Dorothy Whipple
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155646
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
Dorothy Whipple's key theme is `Live and Let Live'. And what she describes throughout her short stories are people, and particularly parents, who defy this maxim. For this reason her work is timeless, like all great writing. It is irrelevant that Dorothy Whipple's novels were set in an era when middle-class women expected to have a maid; when fish knives were used for eating fish; when children did what they were told. The moral universe she creates has not changed: there are bullies in every part of society; people try their best but often fail; they would like to be unselfish but sometimes are greedy. Like George Eliot, like Mrs Gaskell, like EM Forster, Dorothy Whipple describes men and women in their social milieu, which in her case is the inter-war period, and shows them being all- too human. But her books are not nostalgia reads either, any more than reading George Eliot or Forster is a nostalgia read, nor are they old-fashioned or simplistic. Her prose, it is true, is pure, uncluttered, straightforward, pared down to the bone and never labours the point; her subtlety is the reason why so many people - generally those who have not read her - overlook her excellence.
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