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Women of Algiers in Their Apartment French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur Appartement is a 1980 novel by the Algerian writer Assia Djebar. [1] It is a collection of short stories celebrating the strength and dignity of Algerian women of the past and the present. It interweaves the stories of the lives of three Muslim Algerian women.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2001. In 2006 , the story "The Bear Came over the Mountain" was adapted into a film, Away from Her , directed by Sarah Polley and produced by Atom Egoyan .
The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998.. The eight stories of this collection (one of which was originally published in Saturday Night; five others were originally published in The New Yorker) deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary lives.
The Snow Goose is a simple, short written parable on the regenerative power of friendship and love, set against a backdrop of the horror of war. It documents the growth of a friendship between Philip Rhayader, an artist living a solitary life in an abandoned lighthouse in the marshlands of Essex because of his disabilities, and a young local girl, Fritha.
The Conjure Woman is a collection of short stories by African-American fiction writer, essayist, and activist Charles W. Chesnutt.First published in 1899, The Conjure Woman is considered a seminal work of African-American literature composed of seven short stories, set in Patesville, North Carolina.
Both have an identical frame story, although the Hitopadesha differs by having only four divisions to the ancient text's five. According to Ludwik Sternbach's critical edition of the text, the Panchatantra is the primary source of some 75% of the Hitopadesha' s content, while a third of its verses can be traced to the Panchatantra .
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The Snow Queen Author Eileen Kernaghan Cover artist Charles Robinson Publisher Thistledown Press Publication date May 2000 ISBN 978-1-894345-14-9 OCLC 1162809041 The Snow Queen is a 2000 speculative fiction novel by Canadian writer Eileen Kernaghan. It follows Gerda, a young Danish woman who sets out to the north to rescue her childhood friend Kai from Madame Aurore, a magician known as the ...