Kafka and the Doll

Kafka and the Doll
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 48
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ISBN-10 : 9780593116333
ISBN-13 : 059311633X
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Kafka and the Doll by : Larissa Theule

Based on a true story about Franz Kafka Inspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the world's most bewildering and iconic writers. In the fall of 1923, Franz Kafka encountered a distraught little girl on a walk in the park. She'd lost her doll and was inconsolable. Kafka told her the doll wasn't lost, but instead, traveling the world and having grand adventures! And to reassure her, Kafka began delivering letters from the doll to the girl for weeks. The legend of Kafka and the doll has captivated imaginations for decades as it reveals the playful and compassionate side of a man known for his dark and brooding tales. Kafka and the Doll is a testament to living life to the fullest and to the life-changing power of storytelling.

The Doll

The Doll
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 167
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780062080363
ISBN-13 : 0062080369
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Doll by : Daphne Du Maurier

“Du Maurier is in a class by herself.” —New York Times Perhaps best known for her immortal gothic masterwork Rebecca—the basis for the Academy Award-winning motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock—Daphne de Maurier began her illustrious writing career penning short stories. In The Doll, thirteen of du Maurier’s early shorter fictional works have been collected—each story written before the author’s twenty-third birthday and some in print for the first time since the 1930s. Compelling tales of human foibles and tragic romance, the stories in The Doll represent the emergence of a remarkable literary talent who later went on to create Jamaica Inn, The Birds, and other classic works. This breathtaking collection of short fiction belongs on the bookshelf of every Daphne du Maurier fan.

William's Doll

William's Doll
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 36
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780064430678
ISBN-13 : 0064430677
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis William's Doll by : Charlotte Zolotow

More than anything, William wants a doll. "Don't be a creep," says his brother. "Sissy, sissy," chants the boy next door. Then one day someone really understands William's wish, and makes it easy for others to understand, too.

The Paper Dolls

The Paper Dolls
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 30
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781509805464
ISBN-13 : 150980546X
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Paper Dolls by : Julia Donaldson

The breathtakingly beautiful story of one little girl and her five paper dolls.

The Doll's Alphabet

The Doll's Alphabet
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Publisher : Coffee House Press
Total Pages : 106
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781566894999
ISBN-13 : 1566894999
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis The Doll's Alphabet by : Camilla Grudova

"This doll's eye view is a total delight and surveys a world awash with shadowy wit and exquisite collisions of beauty and the grotesque." —Helen Oyeyemi, author of Boy, Snow, Bird "Down to its most particular details, The Doll's Alphabet creates an individual world—a landscape I have never encountered before, which now feels like it was been waiting to be captured, and waiting to captivate, all along." —Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be "Marvellous. Grudova understands that the best writing has to pull off the hardest aesthetic trick—it has to be both memorable and fleeting." —Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies—by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in The Doll's Alphabet are by turns child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark: the marriage of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter. Camilla Grudova lives in Toronto. She holds a degree in Art History and German from McGill University, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in The White Review and Granta.

THE LITTLE DOLL'S DRESSMAKER - A Children's Story by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens

THE LITTLE DOLL'S DRESSMAKER - A Children's Story by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens
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Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 54
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9788829564453
ISBN-13 : 8829564451
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis THE LITTLE DOLL'S DRESSMAKER - A Children's Story by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens by : Charles Dickens

Jenny Wren, The Doll’s Dressmaker, is a welcome contrast to stereotypes of disabled individuals as "permanent children" always in need of protection, "defined by their perceived dependence on the nondisabled" (Klages 2). Far from slinking through life as an object of pity, Jenny proclaims herself "the person of the house". It is a frequent complaint that Dickens's ideal heroine is the angel of the house and that his "stereotypical presentations of angels, fallen sisters, and eccentric women regrettably leave today's readers in search of a viable heroine". While several Dickens’ characters fit binary stereotypes of the disabled as pitiful and helpless, sometimes even monstrous and villainous, Jenny Wren, the dolls' dressmaker, creates a unique and constructive life with regards to her infirmities. She has successfully adaptated her life and in several respects she reverses and challenges and limits usually imposed on disabled women in Victorian fiction. To this end Jenny has built a successful business making dolls clothes for the wealthier members of society. The little dressmaker is so strong and courageous that she physically assaults a vile businessman, Fascination Fledgeby, who has hounded Jenny's friends and ruined many other lives through his extortionate lending practices. Jenny's weapon of choice is pepper, the Victorian girl's counterpart of mace. In a complete reversal of the usual paradigm, the able-bodied man finds himself writhing helplessly, temporarily disabled, humiliated and in pain. Jenny Wren anticipates today's view that the disabled and the able-bodied can work together in interdependent relationships, subverting the expectation that the disabled are inevitably dependent. While typically the disabled woman in the Victorian novel is denied a reproductive future, Jenny is an exception. Dickens was ahead of his time in providing a suitor for Jenny, and envisioning that a disabled woman can be beautiful. With thanks to Sara D. Schotland of Georgetown University and the Disability Studies Quarterly for publishing this summary of Jenny Wren in “The Doll’s Dressmaker.” 10% of the publisher’s profit will be donated to Charities. ------- KEYWORDS/TAGS: YA, Young Adult, story, Victorian, young person, young people, alone, back, bad, beautiful, bench, best, chair, Charles, child, children, children’s story, chin, city, clothes, creature, cry, crutch, dark, dead, Dickens, disabled, disability, , doll, dressmaker, fairy Godmother, Fledgeby, flowers, Jenny Wren, Lizzie, Lizzie-Mizzie-Wizzie, London, looking, master, miss, money, old, person, pin cushion, pleasant, poor, pretty, queer, quick, Riah, roof, sharp, shook, shop, Sloppy, small, smell, strange, tea, throw, toy, turn, Victorian, voice, Well, white, window, working, yellow, young

Ghost Stories of British Columbia

Ghost Stories of British Columbia
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Publisher : Dundurn
Total Pages : 196
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0888821913
ISBN-13 : 9780888821911
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Ghost Stories of British Columbia by : Jo-Anne Christensen

A comprehensive collection of supernatural tales drawn from the provinces history, its archives, and its people.

More Mittens; with The Doll's Wedding and Other Stories

More Mittens; with The Doll's Wedding and Other Stories
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 100
Release :
ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547314448
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis More Mittens; with The Doll's Wedding and Other Stories by : Aunt Fanny

This is a captivating collection of short stories by Frances Elizabeth Barrow, a 19th-century American children's writer who wrote under the pen name Aunt Fanny. Contents include: A Letter From Aunt Fanny The Doll's Wedding What Came of Gipsying The Child Heroine Aunt Mary Little Peter The Story Told to Willie

SELF-HELP TO ISC ECHOES (A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES)

SELF-HELP TO ISC ECHOES (A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES)
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Publisher : Ravinder Singh and sons
Total Pages : 350
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789385140600
ISBN-13 : 9385140604
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis SELF-HELP TO ISC ECHOES (A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES) by : Dr. J. Randhawa

Study Material for Echoes (A Collection of ISC Short Stories)