The Blue Lantern And Other Stories

Download or read book The Blue Lantern and Other Stories written by Victor Pelevin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic stories by a Russian writer. In Hermit and Six Toes, chickens debate the nature of the world, which is ruled by bloodthirsty gods in white coats, while in Mid-Game, young Communist activists change sex to become hard-currency prostitutes.

Download or read book The Blue Lantern written by Viktor Pelevin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short stories of Victor Pelevin are as individual, reality-warping and endlessly inventive as his novels, moving effortlessly between different genres and moods, bursting with absurd wit and existential satire. In The Blue Lantern he brings together sex-change prostitutes, melancholy animals and a cabinful of young boys obsessed by death. Sidestepping the world we take for granted, these stories show in miniature the fantastical talent for which the Observer acclaimed Pelevin's work as 'the real thing, fiction of world class'.

Download or read book 4 by Pelevin written by Viktor Pelevin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The literary voice of the post-Soviet generation." --The New York Times

Download or read book A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories written by Victor Pelevin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satirical stories by a Russian writer. The story, Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream, is on the transition from communism to capitalism as experienced by the cleaner of a public toilet, Bulldozer Driver's Day is on a hydrogen bomb assembly line, while The Ontology of Childhood compares childhood to prison. By the author of The Blue Lantern.

Download or read book Omon Ra written by Viktor Pelevin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satire about the Soviet space program finds Omon, who has dreamed of space flight all of his life, enrolled as a cosmonaut only to learn that his task will be piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar vehicle to the Moon and remaining there to die.

Download or read book Jane of Lantern Hill written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane of Lantern HillLucy Maud Montgomery Jane of Lantern Hill is a novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery. The book was adapted into a 1990 telefilm, Lantern Hill, by Sullivan Films, the producer of the highly popular Anne of Green Gables television miniseries and the television series Road to Avonlea.Montgomery began formulating an idea on May 11, 1936, began writing on August 21, and wrote the last chapter on February 3, 1937. She finished typing up the manuscript on February 25, as she could not hire a typist to do it for her. This novel was dedicated to "JL", her companion cat.The novel was written at Montgomery's house, "Journey's End"; the environment influenced Montgomery's writing to create a

Download or read book Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns written by Hena Khan and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In simple rhyming text a young Muslim girl and her family guide the reader through the traditions and colors of Islam. Full color.