Babylon And Other Stories
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Author | : Alix Ohlin |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375415254 |
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An anthology of short fiction captures characters in the midst of coping with life's uncertainties, from a child who practices the piano on paper keys, to an expectant mother who discovers the tragic story of her new home's previous inhabitants.
Author | : F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2024-01-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald's Greatest Short Stories) Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This carefully crafted ebook: "Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald's Greatest Short Stories)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Babylon Revisited and Other Stories is a collection of Fitzgerald's ten best-known short stories written between 1920 and 1937. The Stories are set in the year after the stock market crash of 1929, just after what Fitzgerald called the "Jazz Age". Brief flashbacks take place in the Jazz age itself. Also it shows several references to the depression, and how the character had to adapt his life to it. Much of it is based on the author's own experiences. The story Babylon Revisited is based on a true incident regarding Fitzgerald, his daughter "Scottie", his sister-in-law Rosalind and her husband Newman Smith, on whom Marion and Lincoln Peters are based. Rosalind and Newman had not been able financially to live as well as Scott and Zelda had lived during the 1920s, and they had always regarded Scott as an irresponsible drunkard whose obsession with high living was responsible for Zelda's mental problems. When Zelda suffered a breakdown and was committed to a sanitarium in Switzerland, Rosalind felt that Scott was unfit to raise their daughter and that Rosalind and Newman should adopt her. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 -1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. Table of Contents: The Ice Palace May Day The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Winter Dreams Absolution The Rich Boy The Freshest Boy Babylon Revisited Crazy Sunday The Long Way Out
Author | : Alix Ohlin |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2008-12-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307481859 |
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In their various locales--from Montreal (where a prosthetic leg casts a furious spell on its beholders) to New Mexico (where a Soviet-era exchange student redefines home for his hosts)--the characters in Babylon are coming to terms with life's epiphanies, for good or ill. They range from the very young who, confronted with their parents' limitations, discover their own resolve, to those facing middle age and its particular indignities, no less determined to assert themselves and shape their destinies. Babylon and Other Stories showcases the wit, humor, and insight that have made Alix Ohlin one of the most admired young writers working today.
Author | : George S. Clason |
Publisher | : Waking Lion Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781434104458 |
Download The Richest Man in Babylon and Other Stories, Edited for Modern Readers: Timeless Wisdom for Acquiring and Managing Wealth Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Richest Man in Babylon gives timeless financial advice through parables set in ancient Babylon. Let them guide you away from the stringencies of a lean purse to that fuller, happier life a full purse makes possible.
Author | : F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2008-06-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743247388 |
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Written between 1920 and 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at the height of his creative powers, these ten lyric tales represent some of the author's finest fiction. In them, Fitzgerald creates vivid, timeless characters -- a dissatisfied southern belle seeking adventure in the north; the tragic hero of the title story who lost more than money in the stock market; giddy and dissipated young men and women of the interwar period. From the lazy town of Tarleton, Georgia, to the glittering cosmopolitan centers of New York and Paris, Fitzgerald brings the society of the "Lost Generation" to life in these masterfully crafted gems, showcasing the many gifts of one of our most popular writers.
Author | : Jorge de Sena |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download By the Rivers of Babylon, and Other Stories Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume of eleven short stories is the first collection of fiction by Jorge de Sena (1919-1978) to be published in English. Sena's stories reveal his broad thematic and technical range. The title story, By The Rivers Of Babylon, is a lyrical piece about the great sixteenth-century Portuguese poet Luis de Camoes. This story, which draws on Sena's own struggles as a poet as well as on his political exile from Portugal in 1959, reflects strong autobiographical themes, as do many of the stories.
Author | : Ted Chiang |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2016-05-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101974427 |
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Together with a crew of other miners and cart-pullers, Hillalum is recruited to climb the Tower of Babylon and unearth what lies beyond the vault of heaven. During his journey, Hillalum discovers entire civilizations of tower-dwellers on the tower—there are those who live inside the mists of clouds, those who raise their vegetables above the sun, and those who have spent their lives under the oppressive weight of an endless, white stratum at the top of the universe. “Tower of Babylon” is a rare gem—a winner of the prestigious Nebula award, the first story Ted Chiang ever published, and the brilliant opening piece to Chiang’s much-lauded first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, which is soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams. An ebook short.
Author | : Marlow Anderson |
Publisher | : American Mathematical Society |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2022-04-26 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1470470039 |
Download Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and Other Tales of Mathematical History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Covering a span of almost 4000 years, from the ancient Babylonians to the eighteenth century, this collection chronicles the enormous changes in mathematical thinking over this time as viewed by distinguished historians of mathematics from the past and the present. Each of the four sections of the book (Ancient Mathematics, Medieval and Renaissance Mathematics, The Seventeenth Century, The Eighteenth Century) is preceded by a Foreword, in which the articles are put into historical context, and followed by an Afterword, in which they are reviewed in the light of current historical scholarship. In more than one case, two articles on the same topic are included to show how knowledge and views about the topic changed over the years. This book will be enjoyed by anyone interested in mathematics and its history - and, in particular, by mathematics teachers at secondary, college, and university levels.
Author | : Yasmina Reza |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2018-08-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1609808339 |
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Winner of the Prix Renaudot Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt Elisabeth is a woman whose curiosity and passion far exceed the borders of her quiet middle-class life. She befriends a neighbor, organizes a small dinner party. And then, quite suddenly, finds herself embarked with him on an adventure that is one part vaudeville and one part high tragedy. A quiet novel of manners turns into a police procedural thriller. Her motivations for risking everything she has are never transparent. In a world where matters of life and death are nearly always transported to a clinical setting, whether it be a hospital or a courtroom, here each character must confront them unassisted. A truly original and masterful novel from one of the world’s most inventive and daring artists.
Author | : Clifford Meth |
Publisher | : Aardwolf Publishing |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2013-11-30 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1888669209 |
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Digital version of Clifford Meth's ComicBook Babylon