Books with title Strangers from the South and other stories

The Anting-Anting is both talisman and fetich: it is the Filipino version of good medicine.The characters and situations in these eleven stories are from an earlier, less progressive era. These stories contain adventure, mystical elements, pirates, pearls, man-apes, towering volcanoes, strange animals and birds, and even stranger men, pythons, bejuco ropes stained with human blood, feathering palm trees at one moment fanned by soft tropical breezes and the next uprooted and hurled aside by tornadoes.Mr. Kayme tells the eleven stories, and tells them cleverly, from the point of a non-Filipino looking in on Filipino life and makes no attempt to imitate Kipling. Kayme’s “Anting-Anting" stories give the native Filipino of unmixed blood a place in western fiction. In the late 19th C. he was favourably compared to the North American Indian of the same era. But that was over 100 years ago and perceptions and attitudes have changed a lot since 1901.So download this interesting volume, settle into a comfy chair and enter into the colourful world of Filipino life, folk beliefs and superstitions of a hundred years ago. And if you should ever visit the Philippines, don’t be surprised to find that these superstitions are as prevalent today as they were a century ago.

MR. GEORGE TUTTLE, reclining at ease in his limousine, opened one eye just enough to perceive that daylight had reached his part of the world, then closed that eye, and murmured languidly. What he said, however, was not, “Home, Parker,” or “To the club, Eugene;” this murmur of his was not only languid but plaintive. A tear appeared upon the lower lid of the eye that had opened, for it was a weak and drowsy eye, and after hours of solid darkness the light fretted it. Moreover, the tear, as a greeting to the new day, harmonized perfectly with Mr. Tuttle’s murmur, which was so little more than a husky breathing that only an acute ear close by could have caught it: “Oh, Gosh!” Then he turned partly over, shifting his body so as to lie upon his left side among the shavings that made his limousine such a comfortable bedroom. After thousands of years of wrangling, economists still murder one another to emphasize varying ideas of what constitutes the ownership of anything; and some people (the most emphatic of all) maintain that everybody owns everything, which is obviously the same as saying that nobody owns anything, especially his own right hand. So it may be a little hasty to speak of this limousine, in which Mr. Tuttle lay finishing his night’s sleep, as belonging to him in particular; but he was certainly the only person who had the use of it, and no other person in the world believed himself to be its owner. A doubt better founded may rest upon a definition of the word “limousine;” for Mr. Tuttle’s limousine was not an automobile; it had no engine, no wheels, no steering-gear; neither had it cushions nor glass; yet Mr. Tuttle thought of it and spoke of it as his limousine, and took some pleasure in such thinking and speaking.

Review: "The Fascinating Stranger" is an exceptionally good short story, a bit of real writing vividly and whimsically presented. Very different, but no less entertaining, is "Jeannette," an extravaganza of the Jazz Age as seen through the eyes of a man who had involuntarily retired from the world at a time when well-bred girls of nineteen or did not carry pocket-flasks or disport themselves in dances the kind that "tourists used to see in Paris at the Bal Bullier”. All things considered, it is scarcely possible to be surprised at the effect the sight — and sounds! — of a modern dancing party held upon Uncle Charles."Of the thirteen stories in the book five are about children, and: two of these, "The Party" and "Willamilla," are among the best in the volume. There are few grown people who have not suffered from a sudden, apparently inexplicable outburst of rioting at a children's party, and all who have will read with sympathy this account of the doings of Laurence Coy and Daisy Mears. Daisy had always seemed such a nice, quiet little girl but nice, quiet little girls seldom attract much attention, and Daisy was used to standing in the background. This afternoon however, she took sudden and violent possession of the center of the stage — and found it a highly agreeable position. No wonder that "she went out of the house with a character that had changed permanently during the brief course of a children party." Laurence, Daisy, and pretty Elsie Threamer appear again ("Willamilla") assisted this time by a colored baby with "a voice like the tinnier tones of a light saxophone" and a dog of determined nature and indeterminate breed, named Hossifer. Laurence found himself quite unable to cope with Willamilla and Hossifer, though he tried hard, with results extremely unpleasant to him, though highly amusing to the reader.… Most of the tales are amusing, and the author's style is always delight.” - (Literary Digest International Book Review, Volume 1, 1923) About the Author: "Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike. Although he is little read now, in the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author. His The Two Vanrevels and Mary's Neck appeared on the annual best-seller lists a total of nine times.Tarkington was an unabashed Midwestern regionalist and set much of his fiction in his native Indiana. In 1902, he served one term in the Indiana House of Representatives as a Republican. Tarkington saw such public service as a responsibility of gentlemen in his socio-economic class, and consistent with his family's extensive record of public service. This experience provided the foundation for his book In the Arena: Stories of Political Life. While his service as an Indiana legislator was his only official public service position, he remained politically conservative his entire life. He supported Prohibition, opposed FDR, and worked against FDR's New Deal."This book has the following stories: The Fascinating Stranger; The Party; The One-Hundred-Dollar Bill; Jeannette; The Spring Concert; Willamilla; The Only Child; Ladies’ Ways; Maytime in Marlow; “You”; “Us”; The Tiger; Mary Smith

Straight from the Heart and Other Stories is connected to part 3 of the Catechism, "Life in Christ." These ten stories parallel the Ten Commandments. The characters in this collection of stories experience wonder and struggle, hurt and forgiveness, failure and success, and tears and laughter. You will enjoy them as wonderful stories about the joys and struggles of growing. And if you wish, they can serve as a starting point for searching out your own answers about life, God, and faith.

This volume was published in 1844.From the book's Preface:A difficulty is often felt by Christian parents and teachers,in finding such oppupation for children during the Sunday,as shall make that sacred day, both profitable and pleasantto them.It was to meet in some measure this difficulty, that thefollowing stories were written for a class of young persons,who were led by familiar conversation to discover themeaning of the allegories and to draw practical inferencesfrom them. For each subject they were required to bringproofs, and in this manner a Scripture lesson was given,calculated to awake attentin and interest.Teachers are particularly recommended to adopt the sameplan, and for their use the subjoined texts have been selectedand annexed to each subject. The general want of a connected knowledge of the Scriptures, induced the writer to throw together the leading facts containedin them, and to continue the history down to the present timein the form of a narrative. Those unaccustomed to teaching,could hardly credit the extreme ignorance that exists even amongst well-educated persons, on subjects connected withthe Scriptures, and this partly from not realising the facts there recorded, as the narratives of actual events which have occurred, and partly from reading the Bible, not as a whole, but in detached portions, which are thereby isolated and separated from each other in the mind. It will be seen that the Scripture references, are not merelygiven as parallels to the passages cited in the stories, hutalso as illustrations of the meaning they are intended toconvey. Children will he much more interested, if allowed tobring their own references, than if merely required to look out those supplied for them. The writer's end will he fully answered if the perusal of these stories, should lead any young persons to feel " the sabbath a delight," instead of looking upon it as a weariness, andlonging that it should be over, as is too often the case, whenthe child, unable to keep its attention continually directed tohigh and holy things, is yet expected to be occupied with such employments as are suited to the sacredness of the day.

The stories included in this collection are classics of children's literature and have been cherished by generations of Portuguese children. This is the first time these stories have been translated into English.The author is one of Portugal's greatest poets and, like her poetry, these stories are filled with her delight and pleasure in nature, gardens and the sea, as well as her keen sense of the magical. Among other things, we encounter dwarves, diminutive little girls who live on the sea bed, plants that come alive at night, a tree that lives on long after it has been felled, and a pilgrim who discovers much more than the Holy Land. Her themes are, above all, loyalty and friendship.

Excerpt from The Man From Rome: And Other StoriesThey came slowly down the gangplank together, father, mother, daughter, and big sulky son.Once on the pier they were assailed by the voices of the Old World, new in tone and phrase to their Western ears. From among the crowd a tall young man pushed himself forward and addressed Mr. Porson.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.