Battles in the Desert and Other Stories

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jose Emilio PachecoSeven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence be...

Reducere. This landmark novella--one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times--offers a child's-eye view of a...

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Description"You may rely upon one thing - I'll never engage in creating kings again; it's too great a strain."Gertrude Bell - traveller, scholar, a...

Reducere. Death in a Texas Desert is a fast-paced collection of 17 compelling true crime stories from the pages of the award-winning The Dallas Observer. Fro...

Reducere. This classic work on medicinal herbs of the Western uplands is an authoritative presentation of more than 100 species. Unsurpassed as a field guide...

Reducere. Runaway. Castaway. Prostitute. Hermit. Desert dweller. Saint. Boundary breaker. Archetypal wild woman. In the corner of a library, in a dusty stack...

Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in t...

Reducere. The Desert and Its Seed opens with a taxi ride to the hospital: Eligia's face is disintegrating from acid thrown by her ex-husband while they signe...

Level 2. The Room in the Tower and Other Stories - Rudyard Kipling

Ed Tracy was the perfect candidate for cancer. Intensely motivated and a tireless innovator, the non-stop pace led to high anxiety, erratic sleep p...

A selection of stories which highlights the breadth of Chekhov's talent for short-story writing, selected and introduced by novelist Paul Bailey.

Level 2. The Room in the Tower and Other Stories Book and MP3 Pack - Rudyard Kipling

Reducere. Seventeen BEST OF THE WEST short stories by Charlie Steel, Tale-Weaver ExtraordinaireNo matter the challenge or adversity, Charlie Steel's characte...

A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house across the street from her family's home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She ima...

Reducere. In sixteen apparently simple stories, John Young's memorable characters ask (or refuse to ask) what shapes us. Education? Talent? Impulse? Family? ...

More Muslims in Iran have come to faith in Christ in the last thirty years than in the thirteen hundred years that Islam has been in the country. I...

The four selections in this volume span his entire writing career and are among his best-known stories. They include: The Notorious Jumping Frog of...

Reducere. This collection of heroic soldier's stories relays sobering accounts of combat on the Western Front during the First World War. Evocative and vivid...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Considered one of the most accomplished examples of the horror genre, 'The Rats in the Walls' is presented here along with other quintessentially L...

Nebula Award-winning author 27 tales of science fiction and fantasy, ranging from hard SF to fairy tales, from humor to horror-including one never ...

Classic / British English Three stories, three ghosts. A young woman marries an older man. His first wife is dead. Or is she ...? Why does a dead m...

Reducere. Renowned energy pundit and bestselling author Peter Tertzakian brings our energy history to life in this collection of 10 short stories that tell o...

This selection of 21 stories represents the best of James's work, and includes three stories which are not in the Collected Edition

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes ...

Along with ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle’ there are more than 30 other essays and stories, marked by the gothic style and eleme...

Reducere. What is it like to be a young person in the Arab world today? This lively collection of eight short stories about Arab teenagers living in Iraq, Tu...

Reducere. Still fresh and strikingly contemporary, the stark realism of these stories carefully explores the dreams and emotions of Sherwood Anderson's unfor...

DescriptionA timeless collection of stories told with a focus on children's perspectives. Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows is an enduring ...

Reducere. Phantom limbs, porous realities, and strange reflections shifting in black glass. The thirteen stories included in David Peak's decade-spanning col...

Publisher: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Author(s): Rummana ChowdhuryNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 208 x 9Cov...

Reducere. A collection of Penn Warren's best short fiction: two novelettes and twelve stories that skillfully handle a variety of themes and styles."Worth re...

Of all Jack London's fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog...

Reducere. A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcend...

Publisher: Prince ClassicsAuthor(s): Leo TolstoyNumber of pages: 358Collection: Prince ClassicsPublication date: 2019Dimensions: 146 x 222 x 30Cove...

Reducere. In his New York Times bestselling chronicle of military life, Anthony Swofford weaves his experiences in war with vivid accounts of boot camp, refl...

From Mrs Hauksbee's Simla drawing-room to Mulvaney's cot in barracks, to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling re-creates the India he knew in stor...

Reducere. "My God, where did you learn to handle cows like that, Doc?" Jack gasped as I hauled my OB bag and bucket over the fence."It just comes from growin...

Reducere. These are the stories of four women with Latin roots and their different journeys. Their true stories, secrets, and struggles are single and unique...

Reducere. Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acc...

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of tales rooted in Chinese folk traditions and contemporary issues includes the stories of a family's victimization by host...