The Decapitated Chicken
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The Decapitated Chicken And Other Stories
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Author : Horacio Quiroga
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2013-05-15
The Decapitated Chicken And Other Stories written by Horacio Quiroga and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-15 with Fiction categories.
Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Author of some 200 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack London, Quiroga experienced a life that surpassed in morbidity and horror many of the inventions of his fevered mind. As a young man, he suffered his father's accidental death and the suicide of his beloved stepfather. As a teenager, he shot and accidentally killed one of his closest friends. Seemingly cursed in love, he lost his first wife to suicide by poison. In the end, Quiroga himself downed cyanide to end his own life when he learned he was suffering from an incurable cancer. In life Quiroga was obsessed with death, a legacy of the violence he had experienced. His stories are infused with death, too, but they span a wide range of short fiction genres: jungle tale, Gothic horror story, morality tale, psychological study. Many of his stories are set in the steaming jungle of the Misiones district of northern Argentina, where he spent much of his life, but his tales possess a universality that elevates them far above the work of a regional writer. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories provides a valuable overview of the scope of Quiroga's fiction and the versatility and skill that have made him a classic Latin American writer.
The Decapitated Chicken
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Author : Horacio Quiroga
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Decapitated Chicken written by Horacio Quiroga and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
The Decapitated Chicken And Other Stories
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Author : Horacio Quiroga
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Decapitated Chicken And Other Stories written by Horacio Quiroga and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with FICTION categories.
The Feather Pillow
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Author : Horacio Quiroga
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-09-09
The Feather Pillow written by Horacio Quiroga and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-09 with Literary Collections categories.
The Exiles And Other Stories
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Author : Horacio Quiroga
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2013-05-15
The Exiles And Other Stories written by Horacio Quiroga and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-15 with Fiction categories.
Tales of risk and danger, suffering, disease, horror, and death. Tales, also, of courage and dignity, hard work, and human endurance in the face of hostile nature and the frequent brutality of men. And tales flavored with piquant touches of humor and bemused irony. These are the stories of the Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga, here presented in an important compilation of thirteen of his most compelling tales, sensitively selected and translated by J. David Danielson. Author of some two hundred pieces of fiction, often compared to the works of Kipling, Jack London, and Edgar Allan Poe, Quiroga set many of his stories in the territory of Misiones in northeastern Argentina, the subtropical jungle region where he spent much of his life. Included here are stories from Los desterrados (1926) often said to be his best book, as well as others from Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte (1917), Anaconda (1921), and El Desierto (1924). The publication of this selection marks the first appearance in English of all but two of the thirteen stories. Quiroga here presents a wide range of characters: parents and children, servant girls and prostitutes, landowners and lumber barons, foremen and laborers, natives and immigrants, in stories pervaded by a vision of life that is elemental, incisive, and essentially tragic. The Exiles and Other Stories shows the versatility and skill that have made him a classic Spanish American writer. It complements and illumines The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories, selected and translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, also published by the University of Texas Press.
Severance
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Author : Robert Olen Butler
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2006-08-10
Severance written by Robert Olen Butler and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-10 with Fiction categories.
Pulitzer-winning Butler presents 62 stories, each exactly 240 words long, capturing the flow of thoughts and feelings that go through a person's mind after their head has been severed. The characters are both real and imagined, including Medusa and Anne Boleyn.
The Feather Pillow And The Permanent Stiletto
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Author : Horacio Quiroga
language : en
Publisher: Oxford City Press
Release Date : 2011-01
The Feather Pillow And The Permanent Stiletto written by Horacio Quiroga and has been published by Oxford City Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01 with Fiction categories.
A combined volume of the two short stories, The Feather Pillow and The Permanent Stiletto.
Chicken Feathers Garlic Skin
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Author : Walt F.J. Goodridge
language : en
Publisher: a company called W
Release Date : 2021-06-09
Chicken Feathers Garlic Skin written by Walt F.J. Goodridge and has been published by a company called W this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It took a lot of courage for a 25-year-old girl from Wu Xi City in Jiang Shu province, China, who had never flown on a plane, and who had never left home before, to travel 2,000 miles to a foreign country in search of work. It took even more courage to stay once she discovered what life was really like for a factory girl on the island of Saipan in the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). This is the only first-hand account of work and life in the garment factories of Saipan. (196 pages; 5.5" x 8.5"; ISBN: 978-0974531342) Read more at www.saipanfactorygirl.com
Art Science And The Body In Early Romanticism
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Author : Stephanie O'Rourke
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-04
Art Science And The Body In Early Romanticism written by Stephanie O'Rourke and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-04 with Art categories.
Innovative, alternative account of romanticism, exploring how art and science together contested the evidentiary authority of the human body.
Bloody Bones
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Author : Laurell K. Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-02-04
Bloody Bones written by Laurell K. Hamilton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-04 with Fiction categories.
'When the monsters are involved, it's never just one dead body. One way or another the dead multiply.' First, there were the dead in the graveyard, two hundred years dead. I'd been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried in. Then there were the three dead teenagers in the woods, slaughtered in a way I'd never seen before. And then they found the dead girl, drained of blood and left in her bed. I knew what that meant of course. It didn't take a degree in preternatural studies to figure out that something was wrong. And I was right in the middle of it. My name is Anita Blake. Welcome to my life ...