Collected Fables
Download Collected Fables full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Collected Fables ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : James Thurber |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2019-06-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062909185 |
"James Thurber was a comedic genius. His fables are not simply parodies of Aesop. They are wry, accurate, and powerful reflections of ourselves, our foibles, our follies, and, above all, our self-importance. And they are very, very funny." --Neil Gaiman James Thurber has been called “one of the world’s greatest humorists” by Alistair Cooke (TheAtlantic), and “one of our great American institutions” (Stanley Walker)—and few works reveal Thurber’s genius as powerfully as his fables. Perennially entertaining and astutely satirical, Thurber pinpricks the idiosyncrasies of life with verbal frivolity, hilarious insights, political shrewdness, and, of course, quirky, quotable morals. Now, readers can savor 85 fables by the twentieth century’s preeminent humorist collected for the first time in a single anthology. Here, Fables for Our Time, Further Fables for Our Time, and ten previously uncollected fables—illustrated by ten contemporary artists including Seymour Chwast, Mark Ulriksen, Laurie Rosenwald, and R. O. Blechman—are presented in Collected Fables, a must-have for readers of all ages.
Author | : Ambrose Bierce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Aesop |
Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781853261282 |
A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
Author | : Shirley Hazzard |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2020-11-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374720487 |
Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Award–winning author Shirley Hazzard’s short-story collections—Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses—alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment. Taken together, these twenty-eight short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical send-ups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. Hazzard's heroes are high-minded romantics who attempt to fit their feelings into the twentieth-century world of office jobs and dreary marriages. After all, as she writes in "The Picnic," "It was tempting to confine oneself to what one could cope with. And one couldn't cope with love." And yet it is the comedy, the tragedy, and the splendor of love, the pursuit and the absence of it, that animates Hazzard's stories and provides the truth and beauty that her protagonists seek. Hazzard once said, "The idea that somebody has expressed something, in a supreme way, that it can be expressed; this is, I think, an enormous feature of literature." Her stories themselves are a supreme evocation of writing at its very best: probing, uncompromising, and deeply felt.
Author | : adrienne maree brown |
Publisher | : AK Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2022-11-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1849354510 |
Fables and Spells is a vibrant selection of visionary works, both previously published and brand new. Included here is brown’s most beloved story, “The River,” as well as the two sequel tales of her Water Trio. The remaining sixty-seven pieces explore moments of beauty, conflict, and transformation that also weave deep, radical lessons. With narrative “fables” of speculative fiction and “spells” that play with the lines between poetry, instruction, song, and chant, Fables and Spells demonstrates how good writing can engage the present while providing expansive visions of the possible worlds humans can build. adrienne maree brown’s previous work includes Octavia’s Brood, Emergent Strategy, the New York Times best-selling Pleasure Activism, We Will Not Cancel Us, Holding Change, and Grievers. brown grows transformative ideas in public through her writing and art; she is a poet changing the world. She is the writer-in-residence at Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.
Author | : IglooBooks |
Publisher | : Igloo Books |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015-09-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781785570926 |
Meet a jealous donkey, a tortoise who wants to fly, a very special goose, and many other animals in this collection of tales retold especially for children. Aesop's fables are the perfect way to learn important lessons about life through the adventures of some unforgettable animal friends.
Author | : Scott Gustafson |
Publisher | : Artisan Books |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1579657044 |
Children and adults alike will delight in reading aloud these enduring and enchantingly told stories, richly illustrated and fabulously reimagined by award-winning artist Scott Gustafson. Stories include “The Little Red Hen,” “The Princess and the Pea,” “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “The Ugly Duckling,” and “Beauty and the Beast.”
Author | : Deborah Eisenberg |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 997 |
Release | : 2010-08-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429987227 |
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg contains twenty-seven short stories by "a contemporary master" (New York Times). Since 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing "exquisitely distilled stories" which "present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life" to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings together Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997) and Twilight of the Superheroes (2006). "One of America's finest writers."—San Francisco Chronicle "Concentrated bursts of perfection."—The Times (London)
Author | : Rudyard Kipling |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 970 |
Release | : 1994-10-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Contains a selection of Kipling's short stories.
Author | : Sylvia Plath |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Children's poetry, American |
ISBN | : 9780571207565 |
Three classic children's stories, Mrs Cherry's Kitchen, The Bed Book and The It Doesn't Matter Suit, collected together in one volume for the first time.