Free Love And Other Stories

Free Love And Other Stories
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2015-08-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0349007969

A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, love in unexpected places. Ali Smith shows how things come together and how they break apart. She disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch, to make us love and live differently.

Free Love And Other Stories

Free Love And Other Stories
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Virago
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2015-08-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0349007969

A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, love in unexpected places. Ali Smith shows how things come together and how they break apart. She disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch, to make us love and live differently.

Love and Other Stories

Love and Other Stories
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2024
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9360461024

"Love and Other Stories" is a collection of brief stories written by way of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, one of the most celebrated Russian writers of the past due nineteenth and early 20th centuries. The stories show off Chekhov's mastery of the fast tale form and his eager perception into the human circumstance. The series encompasses quite a number topic, delving into the complexities of love, relationships, and the everyday lives of regular human beings. Chekhov's tales are characterized via a profound know-how of human nature, capturing moments of joy, sorrow, and introspection with superb sensitivity. In "Love and Other Stories," Chekhov explores the nuances of romantic relationships, regularly highlighting the subtleties and intricacies of human feelings. The character's grapple with the challenges of affection, navigating the delicate balance between ardour and practicality. Chekhov's narrative style is marked by using a mix of realism and irony, reflecting the social and cultural milieu of past due 19th-century Russia. The tales are poignant and thought-provoking, providing readers a glimpse into the complexities of the human psyche. "Love and Other Stories" stands as a undying collection that maintains to resonate with readers, showcasing Chekhov's potential to seize the depth of human experience in concise and evocative narratives. The tales continue to be a testament to Chekhov's enduring legacy as a grasp storyteller.

How They Met and Other Stories

How They Met and Other Stories
Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2008-01-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0375849424

Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.

The Wheel of Love

The Wheel of Love
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: CNIB, 197
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1970
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Collection of short stories concerning the nature of love: love in its differing forms and vision; in its differing participants and their differing approaches.

Other Stories and Other Stories

Other Stories and Other Stories
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141912804

A vitally alive and ever-surprising collection of stories from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Bold and sensitive. Smith's prose is a joy' Independent Individually lucid and luminous, these tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, expertly inching us closer to the bone, Ali Smith's storytelling has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous. ***** 'Captures quiet epiphanies of the extraordinary in the mundane' Sunday Times 'These stories fizz with life' The Times Literary Supplement

Love and Other Stories

Love and Other Stories
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1513265458

Love and Other Stories (1922) is a collection of twenty-three stories by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. Recognized today as foundational for the development of the modern short story, Anton Chekhov has transcended Russian literature to become one of the most popular and acclaimed authors in history, in any language. This collection showcases the author’s unique talent for illuminating the intricacies of love and critiquing the values of social and political circles. In “Love,” an aging bachelor meets a beautiful young woman named Sasha, sending passionate letters and soon proposing to her. Despite signs of irreconcilable differences—namely, Sasha’s youthful innocence and childish disposition—he marries her and soon longs for the freedom of single life. “A Country Cottage” follows a young couple on a moonlit stroll in the vicinity of their humble home. Passing the local train station, they playfully discuss their plans for dinner while remarking on the beauty of the landscape. When a train passes through bearing a group of unexpected visitors, however, they find themselves torn between a longing for solitude and their tedious social obligations. In “The Death of a Government Clerk,” a low-level official accidentally sneezes on the person sitting in front of him during a theater performance, only to realize the man is a prominent General. Horrified, the clerk spends the next day attempting to atone for his mistake, only to enrage the man further. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Anton Chekhov’s Love and Other Stories is a classic of Russian literature reimagined for modern readers.

Love and Other Stories

Love and Other Stories
Author: Tibor Déry
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811216258

Tibor Déry (1894-1977), winner of Hungary's highest artistic honor, the Kossuth Prize, in 1948, was first imprisoned in 1934 by the Horthy regime for translating André Gide's diary of his journey to Russia, and again, over twenty years later, for his writings and political activities during the Hungarian Revolt of 1956 against Soviet occupation. Around the world, Tibor Déry Committees formed: Picasso, Camus, Sartre, Bertrand Russel, E.M. Forster, and in the Indian Congress Committee were among the many involved. Today, Tibor Déry is venerated as one of the most important literary figures of Hungary and, like Chekhov, a master of the modern short story. Love and Other Stories presents some of Déry's finest work. In "Games of the Underworld," ordinary people in Budapest try to survive the winter of war in cramped cellars and encounter menacing Arrow-Cross men, a towering giant, a blind horse, a vinegar sponge; in "The Circus," a group of bored children transmogrifies into a grotesque spectacle; in "Love," a political prisoner is released after seven years and returns home to his wife and son. George Szirtes, the award-winning translator from the Hungarian and winner of the 2004 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry, gives a brilliant introduction to this visionary collection that deals passionately with questions of responsibility and conscience, of social justice and renewal.

The Price of Love and Other Stories

The Price of Love and Other Stories
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0771075464

A dozen of the very best mystery stories from crime-fiction’s maestro, including one brand new Inspector Banks story. Best known — and much admired — for his long-running and bestselling Inspector Banks series, Peter Robinson is also widely and highly praised by mystery mavens for his riveting short stories. Robinson’s versatile talent is on full display in the twelve stories that comprise his latest short story collection, The Price of Love and Other Stories. Spellbinding plots, suspense that grips and won’t let go, utterly unpredictable twists, psychological truths both sweet and scary, characters you’d like to meet (and some you’d hope never to encounter), all set in places that are characters themselves — these are the fundamentals of story and mystery that Robinson plays like the virtuoso he is.

Tough Love and Other Stories

Tough Love and Other Stories
Author: Ranjit Kulkarni
Publisher: Ranjit Kulkarni
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2021-11-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Who said love was simple and uncomplicated? Here are fourteen stories about people who have loved. These are stories about complex human beings driven in myriad directions by their emotion of love. In this book, you will find stories like these: What does a young man do when The End of the World is declared? A young woman finds that memories of past love haunt her in The Evening Train. A middle-aged man in a seemingly happy marriage thinks about Possibilities. When a woman is lost in turmoil, she takes a Train to Nowhere. A mother and son talk in Wake-Up Alarm and battle in A Bad Bargain What if a man fell in love with a droid? Or a robot found love in a human? Read about these.. and many more. You will find engrossing stories of love, emotion, and relationships in this quick read collection. Give it a shot!