Showing results for "Oscar" in Contemporary Fiction

Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J R R Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse that has haunted his family for generations.

Draga Doamne-Doamne, Pe mine ma cheama Oscar, am zece ani, am dat foc pisicii, câinelui si casei (cred ca am pârlit si pestisorii din acvariu), si-abia acum îti scriu prima data pentru ca am tot fost ocupat cu lectiile. Da' sa stii: nu pot sa sufar sa scriu. Numai daca ma obliga cineva. Scrisul înseamna brizbizuri, floricele, zâmbete etc., o minciuna frumoasa si nimic mai mult. O chestie pentru oameni mari. Dovada? Uite, sa luam începutul scrisorii asteia.

Un grupo de jóvenes que se «educan» en una disciplina militar implacable y violenta, aprenden a sobrevivir en un ambiente que lleva muy arraigados los prejuicios raciales y las diferencias entre clases sociales y económicas; donde todos se muestran como no son en realidad y la transgresión de las normas parece ser la única salida.

Pantaleón Pantoja, un capitán del Ejército recientemente ascendido, recibe la misión de establecer un servicio de prostitución para las Fuerzas Armadas del Perú en el más absoluto secreto militar. Estricto cumplidor del deber, se traslada a Iquitos, en plena selva, para llevar a cabo su cometido, al que se entrega con tal obcecación que termina por poner en peligro el engranaje que él mismo ha puesto en movimiento.

In "The Fisherman and his Soul", a young Fisherman finds a Mermaid and wants nothing more than to marry her, but he cannot, for one cannot live underwater if one has a soul. He goes to his priest, but the priest tells him his soul is his most precious possession, and the soulless mermen are lost. He tries to sell it to merchants, who tell him it is not worth anything. He goes to a witch, who tells him his soul is his shadow, and says how it can be cut away with a viper-skin knife after he dances with her.

The Canterville Ghost is a novella by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court and Society Review, 23 February and 2 March 1887. The story is about an American family who move to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers. It has been adapted for the stage and screen several times.

Es sind harte Zeiten für eine oberbayerische Bauernfamilie wie jene, in der Oskar Maria Graf aufwächst...

Eine Familie zwischen den Welten und zwischen den Zeiten: Junot Díaz erzählt von dem liebenswürdigen Nerd Oscar und seiner toughen Schwester Lola...

The classic Oscar Wilde story brought to life. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" begins on a beautiful summer day in Victorian era England, where Lord Henry Wotton, an opinionated man, is observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward painting the portrait of Dorian Gray, a handsome young man who is Basil's ultimate muse.

"The Soul of Man" is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity. The writing of "The Soul of Man" followed Wilde's conversion to anarchist philosophy, following his reading of the works of Peter Kropotkin.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding public morality.

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public." The stories included in this collection are as follows: The Young King / The Birthday of the Infanta / The Fisherman and his Soul / The Star-Child.

"The Star-Child" is the story of an infant boy found abandoned in the woods by a poor woodcutter, who pities him and takes him in. He grows up to be exceedingly beautiful, but vain, cruel, and arrogant, believing himself to be the divine child of the stars. He lords over the other children, who follow him devotedly, and takes pleasure in torturing the forest animals and village beggars alike.

Geld ist der Treibstoff, der die Welt in Gang hält. Es begleitet uns täglich, von der Wiege bis zur Bahre und oft darüber hinaus...

Strawdog stories follows the character Strawdog along his journey into himself. In search of enlightenment after running off into the forest of his homeland away from society in order to discover it, the Strawdog finds himself slowly losing his mind, encountering mysterious creatures, beings, and hallucination, all projecting from his own mind.

Tuva är 23, har svart hår och diggar Kurt Cobain. Efter några turbulenta år bestämmer hon sig för att ge sig ut i världen för att hitta sig själv. Resan tar henne till jordklotets alla möjliga (och omöjliga) hörn. Här träffar hon på märkliga karaktärer, och kanske även kärleken. Men framför allt träffar hon på något inom sig som liknar den hon känner sig som. "Schimpansen från Munkfors" är en livsbejakande berättelse om kärlek, punk och om att hitta sig själv. Ina Ekegård är en svensk författare.

En ganska brokig grupp människor är på väg genom landet i en ovanligt gammal bil. Var och en bär på sina egna drömmar och erfarenheter och ett äventyr växer fram kring en mörk hemlighet, borttappade manuskript och en längtan till Grekland. Livsregler för en medelstor get är en varm roman om att köra vilse som kan sluta lite hur som helst. Ina Ekegård är en svensk romanförfattare som är bosatt i Stockholm. Ina har utbildats i litterär gestaltning vid Skrivarakademin och arbetar, utöver sitt skrivande, som socialarbetare. Hennes böcker vänder sig både till vuxna och unga vuxna.

Mónaco, Gran Premio de Fórmula 1, mayo de 1968. El Príncipe de Mónaco, la jet set y la prensa mundial esperan la llegada de Deedee, estrella del cine francés, el sueño de todos los hombres y también de un joven mecánico del equipo Lotus: Jack Preston. Pero justo cuando la actriz hace su entrada a la pista, un coche explota y Jack, envuelto en llamas e invisible para el público, salva la vida de la joven actriz mientras que él sufre terribles quemaduras. De vuelta a casa con su esposa, Jack ansía una señal de gratitud de Deedee que será a la vez un reconocimiento de su acto heroico.