Author: Horacio Quiroga
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781438794938
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Author: Horacio Quiroga
Publisher: Oxford City Press
ISBN: 9781849025423
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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A combined volume of the two short stories, The Feather Pillow and The Permanent Stiletto.

Author: Horacio Quiroga
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292753519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Author of some 200 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack London, Quiroga experienced a life that surpassed in morbidity and horror many of the inventions of his fevered mind. As a young man, he suffered his father's accidental death and the suicide of his beloved stepfather. As a teenager, he shot and accidentally killed one of his closest friends. Seemingly cursed in love, he lost his first wife to suicide by poison. In the end, Quiroga himself downed cyanide to end his own life when he learned he was suffering from an incurable cancer. In life Quiroga was obsessed with death, a legacy of the violence he had experienced. His stories are infused with death, too, but they span a wide range of short fiction genres: jungle tale, Gothic horror story, morality tale, psychological study. Many of his stories are set in the steaming jungle of the Misiones district of northern Argentina, where he spent much of his life, but his tales possess a universality that elevates them far above the work of a regional writer. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories provides a valuable overview of the scope of Quiroga's fiction and the versatility and skill that have made him a classic Latin American writer.

Author: Debby Waldman
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 155143332X
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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In this retelling of a Jewish folktale, a boy named Yankel, who loves to tell stories, learns an important lesson.

Author: Joaquin de la Sierra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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The Feather Pillow and Other Stories, contains ten short stories by Latin American author Horacio Quiroga. Quiroga handles himself with absolute mastery in the field of horror narration (he is often compared to Poe and Maupassant, as can be seen when reading such shocking stories as "The Slaughtered Hen").Horacio's short stories marked several generations with fantastic stories narrated with great mastery. The stories you will find in this book are: The Rubber Gloves, The Feather Pillow, Insolation, The Slaughtered Hen, Wild Honey, The Dead Man, The Specter, The White Syncope, The Son, and The Beyond

Author: Laurie Berkner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481464671
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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In this picture book interpretation of Laurie Berkner's "Pillowland" song, three siblings embark on a bedtime adventure, visiting a land where everything is made of pillows.

Author: Paula Kurzband Feder
Publisher: Albert Whitman
ISBN: 9780807523308
Category : Grandmothers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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As she tries to repair a torn feather pillow, Grandma tells about her childhood in Poland, about the Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II, and about the origin of this special pillow.

Author: Melissa Stewart
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN: 1684446945
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :

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Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Young naturalists meet sixteen birds in this elegant introduction to the many uses of feathers. A concise main text highlights how feathers are not just for flying. More curious readers are invited to explore informative sidebars, which underscore specific ways each bird uses its feathers for a variety of practical purposes. A scrapbook design showcases life-size feather illustrations.

Author: Suzanne Buffam
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996982702
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Sponsored by The Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan."

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410345793
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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A Study Guide for Horacio Quiroga's "The Feather Pillow," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.