More Favorite Stories Old and New for Boys and Girls - 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 More Favorite Stories Old and New for Boys and Girls write by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg. This book was released on 1960. More Favorite Stories Old and New for Boys and Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Short stories and stories excerpted from longer works, arranged in sections: Boys and girls here and there, Of courage and adventure, Folk tales: animals around the world, When America was younger, Enchantment and wonder, Humor and tall tales, Of man's best friends: horses and dogs, From myths and fables to legend and history.
Stories from a Ming Collection
Stories from a Ming Collection - 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 Stories from a Ming Collection write by Menglong Feng. This book was released on 1958. Stories from a Ming Collection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A UNESCO collection of 17th century Chinese short stories.
Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans
Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans - 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 Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans write by Jeanne deLavigne. This book was released on 2013-10-07. Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “He struck a match to look at his watch. In the flare of the light they saw a young woman just at Pitot’s elbow—a young woman dressed all in black, with pale gold hair, and a baby sleeping on her shoulder. She glided to the edge of the bridge and stepped noiselessly off into the black waters.”—from Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans Ghosts are said to wander along the rooftops above New Orleans’ Royal Street, the dead allegedly sing sacred songs in St. Louis Cathedral, and the graveyard tomb of a wealthy madam reportedly glows bright red at night. Local lore about such supernatural sightings, as curated by Jeanne deLavigne in her classic Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans, finds the phantoms of bitter lovers, vengeful slaves, and menacing gypsies haunting nearly every corner of the city, from the streets of the French Quarter to Garden District mansions. Originally printed in 1944, all forty ghost stories and the macabre etchings of New Orleans artist Charles Richards appear in this new edition. Drawing largely on popular legend dating back to the 1800s, deLavigne provides vivid details of old New Orleans with a cast of spirits that represent the ethnic mélange of the city set amid period homes, historic neighborhoods, and forgotten taverns. Combining folklore, newspaper accounts, and deLavigne’s own voice, these phantasmal tales range from the tragic—brothers, lost at sea as children, haunt a chapel on Thomas Street in search of their mother—to graphic depictions of torture, mutilation, and death. Folklorist and foreword contributor Frank A. de Caro places the writer and her work in context for modern readers. He uncovers new information about deLavigne’s life and describes her book’s pervasive lingering influence on the Crescent City’s culture today.
Old Demons, New Deities
Old Demons, New Deities - 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 Old Demons, New Deities write by Tenzin Dickie. This book was released on 2017. Old Demons, New Deities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first English-language anthology of contemporary Tibetan fiction available in the West, Old Demons, New Deities brings together the best Tibetan writers from both Tibet and the diaspora, who write in Tibetan, English and Chinese. Modern Tibetan literature is just under forty years old: its birth dates to 1980, when the first Tibetan language journal was published in Lhasa. Since then, short stories have become one of the primary modern Tibetan art forms. Through these sometimes absurd, sometimes strange, and always moving stories, the English-reading audience gets an authentic look at the lives of ordinary, secular, modern Tibetans navigating the space between tradition and modernity, occupation and exile, the personal and the national. The setting may be the Himalayas, an Indian railway, or a New York City brothel, but the insights into an ancient culture and the lives and concerns of a modern people are real, and powerful. For this anthology, editor and translator Tenzin Dickie has collected 21 short stories by 16 of the most respected and well known Tibetan writers working today, including Pema Bhum, Pema Tseden, Tsering Dondrup, Woeser, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Kyabchen Dedrol, and Jamyang Norbu.
Old Stories, New Ways
Old Stories, New Ways - 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 Old Stories, New Ways write by Vivian Manasc. This book was released on 2020-12-04. Old Stories, New Ways available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vivian Manasc, one of the founders of Manasc Isaac Architects, has pioneered sustainable architecture in Canada. Her work in partnership with Indigenous communities has been her greatest inspiration, and it has transformed the very nature of her practice. Through the profound lessons of the seven Grandfather Teachings, Vivian came to understand that the process of planning and designing a building should be a circle, with the beginning and end of the story linked together. The stories Vivian tells in Old Stories, New Ways are also framed by these teachings of Courage, Love, Wisdom, Respect, Truth, Humility and Honesty, with each teaching illuminating an aspect of how working with Dene, Cree, Saulteaux, Métis, Inuit and Inuvialuit communities has influenced her design practice.
