Editorial: BookRix
A story about an strange encounter with an angel in a huge haunted mansion. Frank Grebnar meets this being, which not only amazes him, but warns him to not visit the mansion again. Please review this book, if you liked it!
In the novel Who's Who When Everyone Is Someone Else, the character "C. D. Rose" (not to be confused with the author C. D. Rose) searches an unnamed middle-European city for the long-lost manuscript of a little-known writer named Maxim Guyavitch. That search was fruitless, but in The Blind Accordionist, "C. D. Rose" has found the manuscript—nine sparkling, fable-like short stories—and he presents them here with an (hilarious) introduction explaining the discovery, and an afterword providing (hilarious) critical commentary on the stories, and what they might reveal about the mysterious Guyavitch. The Blind Accordionist is another masterful book of world-making by the real C. D. Rose, absorbing in its mix of intelligence and light-heartedness, and its ultimate celebration of literature itself. It is the third novel in the series about "C. D. Rose," although the reader does not need to have read the previous two books. (The first in the series was The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure; the second was Who's Who When Everyone Is Someone Else.) Like those books, The Blind Accordionist can be read both as a simple but wonderful collection of quirky stories, and as comedy—or as a beautiful and moving elegy on the nobility of writers wanting to be read.Ver libro
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The main character of the story, Thurber, a member of the Providence Art Society, narrates about his acquaintance with the eccentric painter, Richard Upton Pickman. He is the only one among his acquaintances who has not abandoned the peculiar artist. One day, Pickman invites him to his studio to show paintings that he dared not present to the rest of the society. Thurber not only becomes familiar with the paintings but also their terrifying models.Ver libro
Short spooky stories bearing one common theme; an immaterial presence that drives the tale. Ghost stories. Talented authors, many horror writers, join to bring you a spine-tingling collection.Ver libro
O, The Oprah Magazine's 20 Best Titles of the Year Time Magazine's 100 Books to Read in 2020 Financial Times' Best Books of 2020 Esquire's Best Books of 2020 New York Times Editors' Choice Lit Hub's Best Books of 2020 Bustle's Best Short Story Collections of 2020 Electric Literature's Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020 Library Journal's Best Short Stories of 2020 “Superb. . . . Krauss’s depictions of the nuances of sex and love, intimacy and dependence, call to mind the work of Natalia Ginzburg in their psychological profundity, their intellectual rigor. . . . Krauss’s stories capture characters at moments in their lives when they’re hungry for experience and open to possibilities, and that openness extends to the stories themselves: narratives too urgent and alive for neat plotlines, simplistic resolutions or easy answers.” —Molly Antopol, New York Times Book Review “From a contemporary master, an astounding collection of ten globetrotting stories, each one a powerful dissection of the thorny connections between men and women. . . . Each story is masterfully crafted and deeply contemplative, barreling toward a shimmering, inevitable conclusion, proving once again that Krauss is one of our most formidable talents in fiction.” —Esquire In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to understand what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, and the arising tensions that have existed from the very beginning of time. Set in our contemporary moment, and moving across the globe from Switzerland, Japan, and New York City to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, and South America, the stories in To Be a Man feature male characters as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers, and even a lost husband who may never have been a husband at all. The way these stories mirror one other and resonate is beautiful, with a balance so finely tuned that the book almost feels like a novel. Echoes ring through stages of life: aging parents and new-born babies; young women’s coming of age and the newfound, somewhat bewildering sexual power that accompanies it; generational gaps and unexpected deliveries of strange new leases on life; mystery and wonder at a life lived or a future waiting to unfold. To Be a Man illuminates with a fierce, unwavering light the forces driving human existence: sex, power, violence, passion, self-discovery, growing older. Profound, poignant, and brilliant, Krauss’s stories are at once startling and deeply moving, but always revealing of all-too-human weakness and strength.Ver libro
Here you will find the complete OZ Collection:1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Starts at Chapter 1 2. The Marvelous Land of Oz Starts at Chapter 253. Ozma of Oz Starts at Chapter 494. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Starts at Chapter 705. The Road to Oz Starts at Chapter 906. The Emerald City of Oz Starts at Chapter 1147. The Patchwork Girl of Oz Starts at Chapter 1448. Tik-Tok of Oz Starts at Chapter 1729. The Scarecrow of Oz Starts at Chapter 19710. Rinkitink in Oz Starts at Chapter 22111. The Lost Princess of Oz Starts at Chapter 24512. The Tin Woodman of Oz Starts at Chapter 27113. The Magic of Oz Starts at Chapter 29514. Glinda of Oz Starts at Chapter 318Ver libro
Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff was born on 12th May 1881 in Yalta, then in Russia. Despite his prolific fictional writings, verified facts about his upbringing, career and life are difficult to dissemble from his own various accounts over the years. A sample suggests he was schooled at Eton and Oxford (no evidence exists of his time at either) and that he was by Religion; Russian Orthodox, a Muslim and a Roman Catholic! His claimed military career and gift for languages would normally mark him out – if they could be corroborated as true, which is doubtful. Fact and fiction are interchangeable it seems, but his writing is full of adventures and fast paced happenings that were ripe not only for the literary age but also the nascent film industry. On or before 1912 he emigrated to the United States to enjoy a career as a writer, playwright and screenwriter, the latter for which he received an Academy Award nomination for ‘The Lives of a Bengal Lancer’ in the 1935 film. He also wrote extensively for the pulp magazines of the day including Argosy, All-Story Magazine, Munsey's Magazine and Blue Book. Abdullah also had a keen interest in translating Afghan poems and appears to have received a doctorate from the College of El-Azar, Cairo in Koranic Studies. Together with three marriages and two daughters his life was certainly colorful. Achmed Abdullah died on his birthday, 12th May 1945, of a heart attack. He was 64.Ver libro
