Do You Hear in the Mountains... and Other Stories

Do You Hear in the Mountains... and Other Stories
Author: Maïssa Bey
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2018-09-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0813940303

This new translation brings together two of Algerian author Maïssa Bey’s important works for the first time in English. "Do You Hear in the Mountains..." is a compelling piece of autofiction in which three destinies meet dramatically on a train moving through France. We meet an Algerian refugee, whom we recognize as Bey herself. She has escaped the civil war and cannot forget her father’s commitment to independence nor his death under the torture of the French soldiers. Sitting near her is a retired doctor whose military service in Algeria coincidentally took him to the same area at the time of that tragedy. Their neighbor is a girl who would like to understand this past that is so painful to discuss. The eleven diverse tales that follow, presented under the title "Under the Jasmin, at Night," exemplify some of Bey’s recurring themes—the Franco-Algerian colonial legacy and the feminine condition. Together, these works provide an unforgettable picture of a turbulent history that reaches across generations and continents. CARAF: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French

Dorie

Dorie
Author: Florence Cope Bush
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1992
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780870497261

Dorie's story begins with her childhood on an isolated mountain farm, where we see first-hand how her parents combined back-breaking labor with intense personal pride to produce everything their family needed--from food and clothing to tools and toys--from the land. Lumber companies began to invade the mountains, and Dorie's family took advantage of the financial opportunities offered by the lumber industry, not realizing that in giving up their lands they were also letting go of a way of life. Along with their machinery, the lumber companies brought in many young men, one of whom, Fred Cope, became Dorie's husband. After the lumber companies stripped the mountains of their timber, outsiders set the area aside as a national park, requiring Dorie, now married with a family of her own, to move outside of her beloved mountains.

The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories

The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2019
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108476422

Brings together, for the first time, Kipling's uncollected short stories, many unknown in the West, and some previously unpublished.

Gothic Alaskan and Other Stories

Gothic Alaskan and Other Stories
Author: E.F. Shelby
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2000-07-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1469761157

The seething, thrashing jungles of Alaska are the lair of many secret species. To see them is to disappear. There are life forms here so horrible the sight of them would make a Kodiak bear jump off a cliff, or send a one-ton moose up a tree, or drive a pack of wolves into a rabbit hole. Every summer unknowing tourists anchor a boat off the wrong island and become dinner. Or they drive down some unmarked dirt road and are slaughtered. Every year they trustingly stop over at some strangely-empty campground or wander down an unmarked trail and meet a horrible end. [Author bio]Eugene Shelby has lived in Alaska for twenty-two years, including Anchorage, Barrow, Prudhoe Bay, Shemya and Valdez. He has a BA in journalism from USC.

The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems

The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems
Author: Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2022-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems" by Frances Fuller Victor. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

When the King Loses His Head, and Other Stories

When the King Loses His Head, and Other Stories
Author: Leonid Andreyev
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2021-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When the King Loses His Head, and other stories is Leonid Andreyev's story of the French Revolution. Considered the father of Expressionism in Russian literature, Leonid Andreyev is regarded as one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period. His work was extensively translated in book form. To live through four different phases of Russian history was the fate of Andreyev. Each of these phases has contributed to the shaping of his art. Because of the cumulative portrayals of the weird and the horrible, Andreyev has been called the Russian Edgar Allan Poe. During the 1914-1929 period, America was eager for anything similar to Edgar Allan Poe. As Poe's Russian equivalent, translations of Andreyev's work found a ready audience in the English-speaking world.