Word: woode
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...omnibus brings together 65 tales and sketches. Most have appeared at least once in previous collections. Many are translations of originals written during the 1920s and '30s for Russian emigre publications in Berlin and Paris. Eleven have recently been translated into English for the first time, among them The Wood-Sprite, written in 1921 and listed as the author's first published story...
...collection's stunning opener, The Wood-Sprite is a tale in whose mere three pages Nabokov concentrates the essence of heartache and playfulness that distinguishes the best of his work. A Russian writer who has fled the terrors of his revolutionary homeland imagines a visit from a forest elf ("hunched, gray, powdered with pollen") who explains why he too had to leave the new Soviet state: "Once, toward evening, I skipped out into a glade, and what do I see? People lying around, some on their backs, some on their bellies. Well, I think, I'll wake them...
Even cut down it may continue in this role, as part of Harvard's annual capital campaign. A potential plan is to create discs from the saved wood of the removed portions of the tree, which might be presented to financial donors to the Arboretum as an expression of gratitude, Del Tredici said...
...There are so many cancellations, so many people leaving for a year, and plus we have overflow housing in. Apley Court," said Jennifer Wood, assistant to the housing officer. "So no mobile homes here...
...Wood added that in the remote possibility that a housing crunch occurred, a decision on a remedy would not be made at the housing office, but by Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman...