Island: The Complete Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Island: The Complete Stories write by Alistair MacLeod. This book was released on 2011-11-28. Island: The Complete Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award: “The genius of his stories is to render his fictional world as timeless.”—Colm Tóibín The sixteen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair MacLeod to be a master. Quietly, precisely, he has created a body of work that is among the greatest to appear in English in the last fifty years. A book-besotted patriarch releases his only son from the obligations of the sea. A father provokes his young son to violence when he reluctantly sells the family horse. A passionate girl who grows up on a nearly deserted island turns into an ever-wistful woman when her one true love is felled by a logging accident. A dying young man listens to his grandmother play the old Gaelic songs on her ancient violin as they both fend off the inevitable. The events that propel MacLeod's stories convince us of the importance of tradition, the beauty of the landscape, and the necessity of memory.
No Great Mischief
No Great Mischief - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Great Mischief write by Alistair MacLeod. This book was released on 2014-10-23. No Great Mischief available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees', and eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan: red-haired and black-eyed, with its own identity, its own history. It is the 1980s by the time our narrator, Alexander MacDonald, tells the story of his family, a thrilling and passionate story that intersects with history: with Culloden, where the clans died, and with the 1759 battle at Quebec that was won when General Wolfe sent in the fierce Highlanders because it was 'no great mischief if they fall'.
Our Island Story
Our Island Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Island Story write by H. E. Marshall. This book was released on 2013-02-20. Our Island Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.
Island Life, Island Toil
Island Life, Island Toil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Island Life, Island Toil write by Ramon Nelson. This book was released on 1990. Island Life, Island Toil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories write by Alistair MacLeod. This book was released on 2010-12-10. As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the unquiet spirits of a Highland past, invoking memory and myth to celebrate the continuity of the generations even in the midst of unremitting change. His second collection, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories confirms MacLeod’s international reputation as a storyteller of rare talent and inspiration.
