A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Title | A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 25 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Short stories |
ISBN | 9780241969588 |
Strange, wondrous things happen in these two short stories, which are both the perfect introduction to Gabriel García Márquez, and a wonderful read for anyone who loves the magic and marvels of his novels.After days of rain, a couple find an old man with huge wings in their courtyard in 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' - but is he an angel? Accompanying 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' is the short story 'The Sea of Lost Time', in which a seaside town is brought back to life by a curious smell of roses.
Leaf Storm
Title | Leaf Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780060906993 |
A collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Title | One Hundred Years of Solitude PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2022-10-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
Skellig
Title | Skellig PDF eBook |
Author | David Almond |
Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Total Pages | 194 |
Release | 2001-11-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 038572988X |
David Almond’s Printz Honor–winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary! Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever. . . .
Proximization
Title | Proximization PDF eBook |
Author | Piotr Cap |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2013-06-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027271550 |
This book proposes a new theory (“proximization theory”) in the area of political/public legitimization discourse. Located at the intersection of Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics and critical approaches, the theory holds that legitimization of broadly consequential political/public policies, such as pre-emptive interventionist campaigns, is best accomplished by forced construals of virtual external threats encroaching upon the speaker and her audience’s home territory. The construals, which proceed along spatial, temporal and axiological lines, are forced by strategic deployment of lexico-grammatical choices drawn from the three domains. This proposal is illustrated primarily in the in-depth analysis of the 2001-2010 US discourse of the War-on-Terror, and secondarily in a number of pilot studies pointing to a wide range of further applications (environmental discourse, health communication, cyber-threat discourse, political party-representation). The theory and the empirical focus of the book will appeal to researchers working on interdisciplinary projects in Pragmatics, Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics, Critical Discourse Studies, as well as Journalism and Media Studies.
Study Guide
Title | Study Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Supersummary |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 28 |
Release | 2019-09-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781693258008 |
SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 27-page guide for the short story "Death Constant Beyond Love" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez includes detailed a summary and analysis, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 15 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like The Inevitability of Death and The Intertwining of Illusion and Reality.
A Feast of Snakes
Title | A Feast of Snakes PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Crews |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 195 |
Release | 1998-01-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0684842483 |
From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations".--"Washington Post Book World".