“The Elephant”

✍ Slawomir Mrozek 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 537 KB 👁 1 views

The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirising life in Poland under a totalitarian regime. The family of a wealthy lawyer keep a 'tamed progressive' as a pet; a zoo saves money for the workers by fashioning their elephant from r

The Elephant

✍ Adiga, Aravind 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 135 KB

the Elephant

✍ Aravind, Adiga 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🌐 English ⚖ 16 KB

A new short story by the author of The White Tiger is in this week’s New Yorker, and “The Elephant” continues Adiga’s exploration of the cycle of poverty the caste system of India perpetuates. The main character of this story, Chenayya, is a cart-puller for Ganesh Pai Fan and Furniture store who tor

The the Elephant

✍ Carnavas, Peter 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 University of Queensland Press 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 7 MB

An exquisite first novel from acclaimed picture book author and illustrator Peter Carnavas about Olive, Dad and his elephant. 'Your dad won't fix your bike - until you fix your dad.' Olive's father has a sadness so big that she imagines it as an enormous elephant following him around. Every day Oliv

The the Elephant

✍ Carnavas, Peter 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 University of Queensland Press 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 7 MB

An exquisite first novel from acclaimed picture book author and illustrator Peter Carnavas about Olive, Dad and his elephant. 'Your dad won't fix your bike - until you fix your dad.' Olive's father has a sadness so big that she imagines it as an enormous elephant following him around. Every day Oliv

The Elephant Man

✍ Vicary, Tim 📂 Fiction 📅 1988 🌐 English ⚖ 765 KB

He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him “The Elephant Man”. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is