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The book titled The Great Novels of the Brontes by the author Charlotte Bronte. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this fascinating collection, Jenny Erpenbeck meditates on the disappearance and impermanence of things. Whether recalling the demolition of familiar places, the loss of a friendship, or a change in...

These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired...

THE COPPER BEECH By the school house at Shancarrig stands a copper beech, its bark scarred with the names and dreams of the pupils who have grown up under its...

The book titled Australian Poetry Journal 2.2 Art by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Vive: An Anthology by the author R. P. T. Davenport-Hines. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This anthology is intended to answer the need for a large-scale anthology of early Scottish Literature, which is felt particularly acutely in the academic field. It has been designed as...

Signs and Wonders offers an account of some of the most original and powerful writers of our age and of earlier times. The book is intended for the general reader,...

DOOMED TO DIE...Perdita, a solitary and beautiful artist, is found murdered in the home of a prominent local barrister. Finding release only in her art, she has been deeply unhappy...

This varied, unusual selection of short stories presents Victorian love in all its moods, from triumphant to tragic. Covering a period that embraces both Elizabeth Gaskell and Somerset Maugham, these...

Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in...

The action of the saga takes place at the end of the tenth century, at about the time Scandinavia was converting from worship of Norse gods to Christianity. A masterpiece...

Since its invention in 1903, the airplane has become the dominant mode of transport, travel, and combat. It has brought the entire planet closer together and changed almost every aspect...

The book titled A Literary Companion to Venice by the author Ian Littlewood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Fourteen subtle and beautifully written stories of varying theme and setting are brought together in this brilliant collection: haunting studies of lonely childhoods, shrewdly perceptive portraits of adult relationships and...

"Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde/Have mercy on my soul, Lord God, As I would do/ If I were God/ And ye were Martin Elginbroddeis" is one of the most famous...

From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges to the mighty Mississippi-the rivers of the world wind through this glorious anthology from the world's great writers. Rivers and streams play...

The best introduction I know of America's liveliest post-war literary movement." -Edmund White Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat...

A fascinating celebration of our love for all things horticultural, with a selection of garden-related entries from diaries, letters and articles for every day of the year. Garden Voices captures...

A semi-autobiographical novel that attacks Victorian era hypocrisy as it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published,...

The book titled Fall out of Heaven: An Autobiographical Journey across Russia by the author Alan Cheuse. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Following the success of The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes, a new group of unpublished tales of real-life crime is presented by Dr Watson from the documents in the famous...

From the critically acclaimed author of Dead Girls ("stylish and inspired"- New York Times Book Review ), a sharp, engrossing collection of essays that explore the strange career of popular...

"Short stories can act like little tuning forks, helping us to clarify our own values," writes guest editor Celeste Ng. "In a time when our values are being tested daily,...

*** Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay**** ****Semi-Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor**** ****Finalist for the New England Book Award**** ****Longlisted for the...

'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies... Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enriquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart,...

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads...

The Best American Series(R) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects...

Best-selling novelist Jeffery Deaver edits this latest collection of the genre's finest from the past year. Featuring "gritty tales told with panache," this is a "must-read for anybody who cares...

The book titled Visions of Poe by the author Sir Simon Marsden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Noel Coward said, "The only thing that really saddens me over my demise is that I shall not be here to read the nonsense that will be written about me...

A collection of works by some of Ireland's greatest writers includes Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, J. M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World, and George Bernard Shaw's...

Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer Travel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and...

Christmas is the storytelling time, the beginning of things expected but not yet seen, of tales suspenseful and mysterious, and full of a comfort of sorts. Internationally acclaimed anthologist Alberto...

John Updike considers it one of the less elevated impulses, Norman Mailer sees it as an inevitable conflict, Wallace Stevens saw it as one of the greatest aspects of literature....

A contemporary trilogy of unerring brilliance and power that tells the whole story of Freddie Montgomery, murderer. The Book Of Evidence: Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a...

A Penguin Classic The Portable Kipling contains selections from The Jungle Books and Soldiers Three ; more than twenty stories, including " The Man Who Would Be King ," "...

There are few things a bibliophile loves more than an epigraph. Those intriguing quotations, sayings, snippets of songs and poems that appear just before Chapter One do more than just...

From the Battle of Bull Run to current-day Iraq, war has fascinated some of the finest writers of the past two centuries, and now over a hundred of their vivid...

In this collection, acclaimed writer Mandy Sayer brings together nine of the best Australian examples of the long story - tales that combine the intensity of the short story with...

This selection of travel writing from "The Spectator" covers diversity of experience and is arranged in geographical sections (Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Far East and Australia, North...

The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen...

The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to...

A dazzling collection of short stories by Eileen Chang, for the first time in Penguin Modern Classics Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she...

This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but...

This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments...

The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red's Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries...

The book titled Great Aussie Insults by the author Bill Wannan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.