A collection of psychological studies. Some of the studies in this book are based upon the author's own life, and others explore both male and female viewpoints. The text also includes a range of short stories, short plays, and a ballet scenario.
These stories, chosen from ten separately published collections of James T. Farrell's short fiction, offer remarkable insights into the lives of Irish Americans and other Chicagoans from 1910 to 1940. They are gems of the short fiction genre, unique, pioneering, and accomplished.Farrell's stories offer a wonderful diversity of characters and ......
Features stories focusing on the development and existence of the male, the trials and tribulations of adolescence, maturity, and old age. This book takes complicated emotional experiences and presents them clarity allowing readers to vicariously share the experience.
Presents a collection of short stories written in the defense of atheism. This book contains works of science fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy. It's cast of characters includes: A detective-priest, an android professor, a fideistic Harvard student, and the familiar: con men, a sadistic Marine Corps drill instructor, and Satan.
These brief and telling stories of rustic life and love are set in the remote and barren Tras-os-Montes - "over the mountains" - region of North East Portugal. The author speaks of the men and women living there, complex in emotion and thought, and elusive and thrifty with words.
Contains examples of the author's finest work written between 1882 and 1903, including twelve stories that appear in English. This collection focuses on the plight of women - privileged and peasant.
A collection of short stories that evoke the reality of the South Pacific: the story of a do-it-yourself murder mystery; an assassination attempt on the Queen; and a futuristic tale set in 1999. Several of these pieces were first collected as "The New Land", which won the 1990 Buckland Award.
Indentation and Other Stories is a collection of nine stories ranging from the wildly funny and idiosyncratic to the downright bizarre. The title story features a pathological dentist who seeks a quirky catharsis by decorating his apartment in hygienic dental paraphernalia. Other tales frolic through the lives of characters who border on the ......
These seven stories discover something of what lies beneath the ordinary surfaces of decent people," says George P. Elliott in his introduction to this volume. "Mr. Cassill's characters are for the most part," he continues, "white respectable Middle-Western Protestants, and their way of life is lethal enough. But his heresy is to treat them as ......
