Diamonds Of Affection And Other Stories

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DIAMONDS OF AFFECTION is a collection of short stories filled with a wild and eccentric cast of characters who are all, in some way, struggling to survive in the chaotic and disturbing world created by John David Wells. The reader will find a rock drummer, Todd Benjamin, who is schizophrenic, and thinks the images on MTV videos are originating from the Book of Revelation in the Bible; Donna Robinson, a former dancer on American Bandstand, who thinks shes a character in a song and when shes alone talks to Bob Dylan and Stevie Nicks; David Dickinson, a brilliant young man, who believes he is the real Catcher in the Rye; Byron, a wasted junkie, who would leave town if only he had some shoes to wear, and three college students who take a drug-filled, hallucinating road trip to Florida, turning their Range Rover into an Ecstasy orgy with shocking results. These are just a few of the lost beautiful losers who inhabit the pages of Dr. Wells fascinating collection of stories. In the end, readers will find surprising emotional attachments to these flawed, but likable, characters who struggle to maintain their sanity and dignity in the face of an absurd and often unforgiving world.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : John David Wells
Publisher : iUniverse
Release : 2010-11-11
File : 237 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781450266093


Love Of Long Ago And Other Stories The

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1920 Contents: the Love of Long Ago; Brown Jim's Problem; the Boy: an Episode; Claudia's Business; Lolita: a Love Episode; the Trench Comrade; the Signal; the Mystic Tune; etc.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Marie Corelli
Publisher : Health Research Books
Release : 1978
File : 288 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0787302228


A Rough Diamond And Other Stories With Plates

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Author : Rough diamond
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Release : 1884
File : 390 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:590856844


First Love And Other Stories

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Bringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in one volume, this collection includes "First Love," "Asya," "Mumu," "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," "Song of Triumphant Love," and "King Lear of the Steppes."

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release : 1999
File : 308 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0192836897


13 Carat Diamond And Other Stories

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The collection of stories and sketches giving the readers entertainment, pleasure, glimpses of the authorâs life, as well as information on Myanmar Culture which she is so proud of.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Khin Myo Chit (Daw)
Publisher : Parami Bookshop
Release : 2005
File : 136 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1933570520


The Diamond As Big As The Ritz And Other Stories

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6 of the Roaring Twenties chronicler’s most scintillating short stories, chosen from Flappers and Philosophers (1920) and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922). This inexpensive volume comprises "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Ice Palace," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "May Day," "The Jelly-Bean," and "The Offshore Pirate."

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Genre : Fiction
Author : F Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release : 2007-09-27
File : 198 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780141963853


Love And Other Stories

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Tibor Déry (1894-1977), winner of Hungary's highest artistic honor, the Kossuth Prize, in 1948, was first imprisoned in 1934 by the Horthy regime for translating André Gide's diary of his journey to Russia, and again, over twenty years later, for his writings and political activities during the Hungarian Revolt of 1956 against Soviet occupation. Around the world, Tibor Déry Committees formed: Picasso, Camus, Sartre, Bertrand Russel, E.M. Forster, and in the Indian Congress Committee were among the many involved. Today, Tibor Déry is venerated as one of the most important literary figures of Hungary and, like Chekhov, a master of the modern short story. Love and Other Stories presents some of Déry's finest work. In "Games of the Underworld," ordinary people in Budapest try to survive the winter of war in cramped cellars and encounter menacing Arrow-Cross men, a towering giant, a blind horse, a vinegar sponge; in "The Circus," a group of bored children transmogrifies into a grotesque spectacle; in "Love," a political prisoner is released after seven years and returns home to his wife and son. George Szirtes, the award-winning translator from the Hungarian and winner of the 2004 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry, gives a brilliant introduction to this visionary collection that deals passionately with questions of responsibility and conscience, of social justice and renewal.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Tibor Déry
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Release : 2005
File : 276 Pages
ISBN-13 : 081121625X


Diamond Cut Diamond

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Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
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Release : 1875
File : 344 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015063927456


Diamond Cut Diamond A Story Of Tuscan Life And Other Stories

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Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
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Release : 1875
File : 352 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015063927142


Brag Dog And Other Stories

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Genre : Fiction
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Publisher : Wilderness Adventures Press
Release : 2000
File : 260 Pages
ISBN-13 : 188510684X