Burning Your Boats. Collected Short Stories, Paperback - Angela Carter

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIEAs well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her l...

A collection of classic short stories from the author of }Wide Sargasso Sea{. Includes an introduction by Rhys's editor, Diana Athill.

Reducere. The Collected Short Stories, Paperback

Reducere. The stories in this collection represent about six decades of writing. Over time some of them have grown the "claws and wings" of novels as Vladimi...

Reducere. The stories from A Quiver Full of Arrows take us on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of ...

Reducere. Aldous Huxley's stature as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time is confirmed in this gathering of his dis...

The stories of Louis L'Amour are built around the dramatic moments when men and women cast their fears, doubts, and pasts behind them and plunge in...

There is no story more distinctly American than the western and no writer as great a master of the form as Louis L Amour. In this final paperback v...

Reducere. Traversing a vivid landscape, from sunblasted hills and canyons to the nighttime streets of America s greatest cities, some of Louis L Amour s most...

Publisher: Greenwich Exchange LtdAuthor(s): Angela ToppingNumber of pages: 48Collection: Focus onPublication date: 2009Dimensions: 210 x 137 x 5Cov...

Reducere. Louis L'Amour's world is built on those dramatic moments when men and women cast their fears, doubts, and pasts behind them and plunge into the unk...

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 ...

"Tanith's work is lush and rich with beauty, darkness, and sensuality. More than almost anyone else whom I have ever read, Tanith's work sounds lik...

Never before available to readers in the UK, these brilliant and idiosyncratic short stories stand alongside the fictions of Borges, Beckett and Na...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHA richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter...

Full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the te...

In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explo...

* In this, her first novel, Angela Carter tells a disturbing and delicious tale of shattered beauty and male camaraderie which shows one of the 20t...

Reducere. The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues a...

"Sexuality is power, " wrote the Marquis de Sade. His virtuous Justine kept to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Jul...

One of America's most beloved storytellers, Louis L'Amour's vibrant tales of adventure bring the American West to life. Now, in this sixth volume o...

THE PASSION OF NEW EVE is an extraordinary journey into the apocalyptic vision of the author Lorna Sage called 'The boldest of English writers'.

Reducere. DescriptionEdith Wharton was an American novelist, poet and short story writer whose works display her mastery over the realistic fiction genre. Al...

Reducere. My eyes, perversely shaken open, gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature could even imagine without panic, fear and physical exha...

Reducere. In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora--unacknowledged daughters of Sir Mel...

Reducere. After the apocalypse, society is divided into three endlessly warring factions. The Professors and Soldiers maintain what is left of civilization w...

The stories of Louis L'Amour are built around the dramatic moments when men and women cast their fears, doubts, and pasts behind them and plunge in...

Reducere. With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in hi...

Reducere. Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf worked and reworked short story ideas, trying to enacapsulate her thoughts perfectly in a concise form, but rar...

Reducere. Maxim Gorky continues to be regarded as the greatest literary representative of revolutionary Russia. Born of the people, and having experienced in...

The Guyanese poet Martin Carter (1927-97) was one of the greatest Caribbean writers of the 20th century. This collection of his selected poems and ...

Reducere. Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf worked and reworked short story ideas, trying to enacapsulate her thoughts perfectly in a concise form, but rar...

With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University. Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who h...

'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's'. Saki (H.H. Munro) stands along...

Angela Carter's absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories, exclusive to }Vintage Classics{.

Reducere. Have you ever wanted to learn Spanish and have fun at the same time?Most of the time, teaching books are boring. They always have the same kind of ...

The sheltered Laura Sheridan gains a sense of class consciousness and injustice as she mixes with the staff preparing her family's garden party. Pu...

Reducere. For fans of teatime, nothing is more relaxing than a nice cup of tea enjoyed in solitude or in the company of others. Author Angela McRae's 52 tea-...

* This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners - reissued in a HB edition ...

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

Publisher: Beacon Books and Media LtdAuthor(s): Julia Juwairiah Simpson-UrrutiaIllustration(s): 25 IllustrationsNumber of pages: 60Publication date...

Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz ...

New edition of Carter's wonderful translation of Perrault's most famous fairy tales.

Reducere. DescriptionDo you know what's the biggest obstacle preventing many from learning Italian to fluency? It's a lack of vocabulary Reading in Italian i...

David and Robert decided to work for the police. They have to deal with crimes now. But all those crimes have something in common. They are, as wel...

What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it? Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civi...

Reducere. DescriptionHave you ever wanted to learn Spanish and have fun at the same time? Most of the time, teaching books are boring. They always have the s...

The arrangement of the material, indicated by the chapter headings, draws attention to a variety of areas not normally associated with dominant per...

Reducere. DescriptionDo you know what the hardest thing for a German learner is?Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle...which is precisely the...

A collection of stories such as: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hac...