The Penguin Book Of The Modern American Short Story, Paperback - John Freeman

Publisher: Penguin AdultAuthor(s): John FreemanNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 212 x 35Cover type: Paperback / softback...

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An anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever...

Takes the story from its origins with Defoe, Swift and Fielding to the 'golden age' of the fin de siecle and Edwardian period. Includes rare finds,...

A second volume celebrating the British short story, from P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith. Includes rare finds, stories from unusual sources that hav...

The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spir...

Contributor(s): Editor: Paul KeeganSpanning seven centuries, this ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologi...

Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflect...

Contributor(s): Author: VariousEditor: Barbara KorteEditor: Ann-Marie EinhausAn anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famou...

Gathers together poetry in Hebrew from "The Song of Deborah" to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the devel...

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

Includes twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years that provide a multi-faceted portrait of a...

Includes supernatural tales and legends: from a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill, from the gruesom...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 40Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Kadija S...

A new edition of the definitive collection of modern poetry from Africa "Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, " writes Gerald...

First Penguin volume Of best Japanese haiku Vivid translations Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished ...

"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guant namo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review Three...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 142 x 205 x 39Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Kaveh AkbarRedescope...

An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and I...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdNumber of pages: 288Collection: Penguin Clothbound ClassicsPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 121 x 208 x 30Cover type: ...

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories, edited by novelist and critic Malcolm Bradbury, is a collection of the finest short stories from ...

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DescriptionThis collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry--a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas...

DescriptionThe first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Wa...

"The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible. . . . He changes with the styles in fiction but he...

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKAuthor(s): Philip PullmanNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 118 x 184 x 15Cover type...

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The American Short Story Cycle' spans two centuries to tell the history of a genre that includes both major and marginal authors, from Washington I...

Conventional wisdom dates the origins of activist federal government to the New Deal. William J. Novak shows that the roots run deeper. Tracing the...

Dictionary of the Undoing is a necessary, resounding cri de coeur in defense of language, meaning, and our ability to imagine, describe, and build ...

Chosen by BusinessWeek as One of the Top Ten Business Books of the YearWith apologies to Hegel, Marx, and Lenin, the basic unit of modern society i...

From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled by crazy cycles of euphoria and...

This is the first volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Written by international experts, it seeks to overcome obstacl...

Brilliant ... brings home, with infectious learning, the many self-deceptions behind our reverence for freedom' - Paul Binding, TLS, Books of the Y...

'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous an...

Reducere. Native Americans use storytelling to get to know one another, as well as, passing history and messages on to newer generations. These stories are a...

Reducere. Native Americans did not write down or record their history, so we have to find out about their past in other ways. They used games, myths, dance, ...

Reducere. In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty...

DescriptionWhich Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song? In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie's s...

A revealing look at Wall Street, the financial media, and financial regulators by David Einhorn, the President of Greenlight Capital Could 2008's c...

Reducere. When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had i...

Reducere. Evoking Into the Wild and The Monkey Wrench Gang, Dead Run is the extraordinary true story of three desperado survivalists, a dangerous plot, a bru...

Reducere. The history of fiction has been dominated by the novel and the short story. But now there is this seemingly brave new genre around: very brief fict...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Indepe...

Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory cha...

DescriptionBuilding from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greate...

DescriptionAn essential anthology that puts contemporary geniuses Eileen Myles and Margaret Atwood in conversation with literary classics Charles B...