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"If we set H. E. Bates's best tales against the best of Chekhov's," Graham Greene declared, "I do not believe it would be possible, with any conviction, to argue that the Russian was the finer artist." The sampler of H. E. Bates stories presented here shows the merit of that praise and displays the range and aspects of Bates's work from his first published story, "The Flame," to one of his very last, "The Song of the Wren." In his long and prolific literary career, Bates (1905-1974) produced twenty-five novels, a three-volume autobiography, nine books of essays, several plays and children's books, as well as his important and perhaps most enduring achievement, twenty-three collections of short stories. A Month by the Lake & Other Stories displays Bates's extraordinary talent for concisely getting at the heart of the matter. Whether he is dealing with romance in middle age (the title story), or the almost painful clarity of a child's world ("The Cowslip Field"), or encapsulating the disintegration and tragedy of a man and a house and the era and class they represent ("The Flag")-Bates's compassion for humanity remains constant. As Anthony Burgess remarks in his introduction, Bates "achieved such sovereignty of what literary land he inherited that he deserves the homage of our uncomplicated enjoyment... Bates's affection for ordinary people is one of his shining virtues. But he himself, as I knew, and as this compilation should make clear, was, is, far from ordinary." Book jacket.
Have you ever wondered how to help your child write more stories? This book is a gentle introduction to story writing, with simple exercises that are entertaining and make creative writing fun. This book contains enough story ideas for every day of the month, plus a few extra to add to the fun! The exercises alternate between story scenarios, described in words and story starters, with plenty of images for simple, descriptive story work. The mini-stories, included as examples, also give your child reading practice. The process of reading instructions, as well as writing their own stories, is valuable experience for less confident readers.
I Hate Writing Stories! and A Month of Stories are part of the Creative Writing for Reluctant Writers series. This edition combines the two volumes, both books are also available to buy separately. This book uses a variety of methods and lots of activities to help children enjoy creative writing. There are example stories and answers throughout. All the exercises have been tried and tested in real-life situations, either one-to-one, in classrooms or with small groups.
Why are there 7 days in a week and 12 months in a year? What do stars have to do with it? This book tells you all about it. Long ago, people looked up at the night sky. They made up stories to explain the speckled dots of lights. The ancients divided up the year into weeks and days. They assigned "stars" to days and groups of stars to months. We may not know all the stories they told, but we still tell time the same way. Inside this book are the reasons why.
Traces the origin of the names of the days and months and retells the myths connected with each.
A super-human baby, a pre-historic cult and an Old Hag are the basis for these three stories. BOTTLE BABY: a scientific experiment goes awry to change the life of a young man and all who love him. THREE MONTHS WITH YETI BROWN: Midwest college friendships search for one another in the dark forests of Oregon, only to discover a pre-historic cult, thought extinct, living there. Friendships cross language barriers to form everlasting memories. THE HOOTANANNY MASSACRES!: A college post-grad journalist, assigned by his professor, the difficult task concerning the disappearance of a group of young church-goers on an excursion, results in a horrifying adventure into an isolated back woods cult of a seriously deranged family.
Jerzy Zarzycki, a Vietnam Veteran, has written and collected a number of short stories that corresponds to his memories of thirteen months he served in a combat zone. A student of Hemingway, he strives to write not only reality but fiction in a clean, concise and uncluttered manner that Ernest himself wrestled with, all the while, depicting the struggle that men endure trying to understand and prove their manhood. Sometimes humorous, sometimes horrible, the stories exhibit true human emotion, not always good, and the results it elicits from the people involved. Zarzycki makes no excuses for himself or his characters, explaining that sometimes people set events in motion, and the people they affect, have no control over what happens to them in the present, or the future.