The Collected Stories of MarÕa Cristina Mena - 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 The Collected Stories of MarÕa Cristina Mena write by MarÕa Cristina Mena. This book was released on 1997-01-01. The Collected Stories of MarÕa Cristina Mena available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book gathers for the first time the English-language fiction of the first Mexican-American woman to appear in major U.S. magazines, MarÕa Cristina Mena. Written between 1913 and 1931 and published in such periodicals as Century, Cosmopolitan and T.S. EliotÍs Criterion, the short stories collected here include her best known work, ñThe Vine-Leaf.î Mena portrays life in Mexico both before and during the revolution of 1910 in stories that depict tradition and upheaval, class hierarchy and social customs under Porfirio DÕaz, the changing roles of women, the influences of Spain and the United States, and the effects of capitalism and modernization. These intriguing narratives open a window onto MexicoÍs past, and their underlying themes remain relevant to readers today. Amy DohertyÍs critical introduction features newly recovered biographical information about the author, and includes excerpts of MenaÍs correspondences with her magazine editors and with her friend D.H. Lawrence.
The Collected Stories of María Cristina Mena
The Collected Stories of María Cristina Mena - 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 The Collected Stories of María Cristina Mena write by María Cristina Mena. This book was released on 1997. The Collected Stories of María Cristina Mena available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Who Would Have Thought It?
Who Would Have Thought It? - 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 Who Would Have Thought It? write by María Ruiz de Burton. This book was released on 2021-02-04. Who Would Have Thought It? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Who Would Have Thought It?" details the struggles of a Mexican-American girl born in Indian captivity, Lola, in an American society obsessed with class, religion, race and gender. The first part of the book follows the central family in the years leading up to the start of the American Civil War and the attack on Fort Sumter (1857–1861), and flashbacks are meant to take the readers back further than that time line, such as the kidnapping of Lola's mother in 1846. The second part chronicles the events that took place during the Civil War (1861–1864). Each chapter focuses on a particular character and is told from an omniscient point of view. Who Would Have Thought It? is a semi-autobiographical novel written by María Ruiz de Burton and it reflects the author's ambiguous position between the small in number Californio elite and the Anglo-American populace, which form the majority of the United States population.
L.A. Noire
L.A. Noire - 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 L.A. Noire write by Rockstar Games. This book was released on 2011-06-06. L.A. Noire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of short fiction expands on the world of a groundbreaking achievement in storytelling: Rockstar Games' interactive crime thriller L.A. Noire. 1940s Hollywood, murder, deception and mystery take center stage as readers reintroduce themselves to characters seen in L.A. Noire. Explore the lives of actresses desperate for the Hollywood spotlight; heroes turned defeated men; and classic Noir villains. Readers will come across not only familiar faces, but familiar cases from the game that take on a new spin to tell the tales of emotionally torn protagonists, depraved schemers and their ill-fated victims. With original short fiction by Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, Joe Lansdale, Joyce Carol Oates, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer, Duane Swierczynski and Andrew Vachss, L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories breathes new life into a time-honored American tradition, in an exciting anthology that will appeal to fans of suspense and gamers everywhere.
The Man Who Loved Children
The Man Who Loved Children - 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 The Man Who Loved Children write by Christina Stead. This book was released on 2012-10-23. The Man Who Loved Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “This crazy, gorgeous family novel” written at the end of the Great Depression “is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century” (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times). First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell’s eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life. In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much—too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and chilling charisma, Sam torments and manipulates his children in an esoteric world of his own imagining. Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at the root of her husband’s behavior. And Louie, the damaged, precocious adolescent girl at the center of their clashes, is the “ugly duckling” whose struggle will transfix contemporary readers. Named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by Newsweek, Stead’s semiautobiographical work reads like a Depression-era The Glass Castle. In the New York Times, Jonathan Franzen wrote of this classic, “I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn’t read the book so much as live it.”
