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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.

A selection of Classic texts that have inspired Paulo Coelho, carefully chosen and beautifully presented 'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers....

In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left...

In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses \"camera eye\" and \"newsreel\" sections to create a fragmented atmosphere. Through the testimony of numerous characters, both fictional and historical figures, he buids...

The book titled My Life as Author and Editor by the author H. L. Mencken. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The book titled Best of Friends: Letters by the author Gerald Brenan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The book titled Lord's and Commons: Cricket in Novels and Stories by the author John Bright-Holmes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

"While a single sentence can turn a novel, a single word can turn a short story," writes guest editor Don Winslow. The pieces featured in this collection hinge on those...

Plunging straight into the grayish, faintly understood area of the art world that involves oddly drawn objects coupled with uncertainly spelled text, McSweeney's Issue 27 brings together a previously uncategorized...

This collection, in a series of value-for-mo ney classic short story anthologies, contains over 80 storie s by writers like Homer and Jules Verne. They cover every as pect of...

100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying...

Long before the terms 'mindfulness' and 'well-being' were coined, the Celtic tradition offered pathways to peace of mind and calm. For centuries it has created hope, unity and a community...

Gilmore Girls hit our screens in 2000 and has been our autumn obsession ever since. There's a reason that Vogue calls it ' the quintessential autumn girl show' and that,...

The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. This is not a...

This December, Meanjin turns seventy. As Australia s second oldest literary journal, it has helped our nation develop a cultural identity, critiqued that identity and, more recently, saw globalisation threaten...

The story-teller has always been an important figure in Welsh society, and this collection draws on a rich and varied literature to present twenty-five of the finest Welsh short stories...

Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H.P. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a...

'Here is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty, utterly free of pretence. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart' Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Fires is the...

The book titled England: An Anthology by the author Richard Ingrams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled In Celebration of Women by the author Helen Exley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The last words of politicians, kings, queens, actors, philosophers, scientists and writers are sometimes profound, sometimes prescient, often strange, funny and usually poignant. The most interesting, controversial and insightful of...

A landmark anthology, staking a new claim for Bengali literature in English The prose short story arrived in Bengal in the wake of British colonizers, and Bengali writers quickly made...

All great cities inspire great literature but no other city has so consistently stimulated the literary imagination as London. Over the centuries writer, poets, historians, artists, and simple observers have...

As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of...

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in...

Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance features essays, reportage, memoir, fiction and poetry that examine our relationship with resources both tangible and intangible, physical and personal. What we grow, eat,...

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh's birth, four of the master's most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume. "Black...

The meaning of consciousness, the mechanics of the mind and otherworldly transition or disrupted states - such as trance, sleep-walking, amnesia and locked-in syndrome - are perennially fascinating issues. The...

Over the last 20 years, the author of this book had been sending out Christmas crackers - a commonplace selection of prose and poetry - to his friends instead of...

"These stories remind us that food is not just fuel, nor is travel just movement," writes Bryant Terry in his introduction. "They are acts of remembrance, resistance, and connection." The...

In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors-including Alice Walker,...

"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,...

Of science fiction and fantasy, guest editor Nnedi Okorafor writes, "There are times when it feels like a box, but within it, technically, you can expect anything." The twenty stories...

'Our Songlines continue through our lived experiences. The strength, resilience, hope and love is heard and felt deeply within each of these stories. Our Elders share their culture and wisdom...

[untitled] is a short story anthology that promotes new and emerging talent from all over the world, and primarily Australia. Featuring Rhiannon Raphael, Fran Collings, Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Pamela Baker,...

Travel writing matters Explore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the...

'Captures moments in time like nothing else.' RICHARD E. GRANT 'Intimate . . . and rarely predictable.' MICHAEL PALIN 'Completely fascinating and inspiring. Completely addictive.' STEPHEN FRY 'A volume to...

Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle delighted readers with the fictional genius detective, Sherlock Holmes, crime fiction has been plumbed by mystery writers everywhere. This volume of 12 stories spans...

The book titled Campbell's Kingdom/White South Duo by the author Hammond Innes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Anthology of Crime Stories by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Volume 66. No. 1 of Meanjin features Robert Dessaix, Leigh Redhead, Christina Stead, Henry Handel Richardson, and Matthew Flinders, among others.

Novelist, critic, lecturer, reviewer, man-about-conferences, David Lodge, as both analyst and practitioner, is one of our foremost experts in the forms of fiction. He is also an uncommonly sympathetic and...

From seven masters of historical fiction-including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn-comes a richly imagined anthology of stories which bring the epic tale of the Trojan War to life. Troy:...

The book titled The Royal Beasts and Other Works by the author William Empson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"School", wrote Henry Green, "is no odder than the world outside, only more concentrated." It is also an experience that everyone has to undergo, and many people have left accounts...