Chateau d'If and Other Stories, Paperback - Jack Vance

Reducere. Jack Vance mastered his craft over more than sixty years, garnering awards including the Nebula, Edgar, two Hugos, and the 1997 SFWA Grandmaster. T...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jack VanceForeword by: Terry DowlingHere in one unforgettable volume are three of Jack Vance's best novellas-rich adventure...

Reducere. Eight of these nine stories were published between 1951 and 1955, years when Jack Vance wrote for the pulp magazines. Even in this early work, the ...

Reducere. Jack Vance's early work contains the same elements of originality, wit and style which would become hallmarks of his oeuvre. This collection center...

In The Call of the Wild, Buck, a domesticated dog, is stolen from his home in California and sold into sled dog slavery during the 1890s Klondike g...

Reducere. In these classic stories acclaimed author Jack Schaefer yet again captures the spirit and adventure of the Old West. First Blood, Schaefer's follow...

Some of the Sneetches have bellies with stars, but the plain-bellied ones have none upon thars! But an unexpected visitor soon leads them to discov...

A whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story, and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they unfold f...

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...

The first collection of short stories from the author of }Accidents In The Home{ and }Everything Will Be All Right{, examining the extraordinary an...

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In this hilarious book, featuring three timeless fables, Dr. Seuss explores the pitfalls of growing too big for your boots!

First published in 1888, The Happy Prince and Other Stories brings together beloved children's stories by Oscar Wilde, including The Happy Prince, ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Francois KiefferFollow the action-filled stories of the young Italian orphan friend of St. Francis of Assisi in the da...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark HelprinWinner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these ten stories and the title novella, "Ellis ...

Thirteen of Roald Dahl's most unexpected tales to appeal to older readers. Ages: 12+

Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold anthology--written by the best children's authors--...

'There's not a recipe here I don't want to eat immediately.' - Nigella LawsonRoast Chicken and Other Stories provides an insight into Simon Hopkins...

Reducere. The nineteen stories contained herein, all beautifully translated for the first time into English by Sue Boswell, combine work published by Marcel ...

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Reducere. Irrevocably tied to the Carolinas, these stories tell tales of the woebegone, their obsessions with decay, and the haunting ache of the region itse...

Everyone's favourite family cat is back in this fabulous collection of 3 Mog stories: Mog & Bunny, Mog & The V.E.T, and Mog & The Granny.

Reducere. Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in...

A collection of stories about love from the author of Every Day - newly published in the UK for the first time. They explore the many aspects of an...

Share in fifty years of a really remarkable cat... Mog is everyone's favourite family cat! Come play with her in this collection of funny and warm-...

Reducere. The Mexican American author Gary Soto draws on his own experience of growing up in California's Central Valley in this finely crafted collection of...

Reducere. DescriptionGabriel-Albert Aurier, though primarily remembered nowadays as an art critic, especially as a vociferous early advocate of the work of V...

A bull gets loose in Tennessee. a black sergeant stops the murder of a Trump supporter in North Carolina. The third husband of a nurse in Pawtucket...

Reducere. A superb collection of short fiction--her first in thirty years and spanning many geographies--from the critically acclaimed author of Monkeys, Eve...

Reducere. Monsieur de Bougrelon, which originally appeared in serial form in Le Journal between 20 January and 10 May 1897, is here presented in English in a...

The Soviet Union is collapsing. Secret archives open. A young American historian flies to Moscow. Here he meets a girl. They find unknown documents...

DescriptionThe Vance Integral Edition made extensive use of the personal papers of Jack Vance, in particular his final manuscripts, as these contai...

Adapted for younger readers by the voice of William, Martin Jarvis, this bumper third edition features eight }Meet Just William{ stories, with illu...

The breathtaking short story collection from the Costa-shortlisted Irish writerThree gunshots on the Irish border define the course of a young man'...

A magnificent new translation of one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late fiction, and the first major fictional work to be published by the autho...

The perfect introduction to the bestselling CHERUB series, this includes exclusive bonus stories as well as Dark Sun, which is a short novel aimed ...

The debut short story collection from an exciting talent to watch: Dima Alzayat is an award-winning young Syrian-American writer who captures the m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tennessee WilliamsHere are the eleven remarkable stories of Tennessee Williams's first volume of short fiction, originally ...

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 ...

Not Dead Yet studies the uncertainties of loss, turning a gaze toward the often-silenced voices of the infirm, elderly, and adolescent. Rich in hum...

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With affectionate, irreverent and playful prose, the inability to communicate exactly what we mean dominates this bold new collection from one of B...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Turin born Guido Gozzano was the first and finest representative of the Crepuscolari, the poets of the twilight. Before his tragical...

Reducere. The excitement continues in this second volume of The Adventures of Loupio. In Volume 1, we meet the orphaned Loupio living in the days of knights ...

The stories in this collection nearly all take place in and around the mountain hollows of West Virginia: a world of cock-fighting, coal-mining, de...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a dilapidated and isolated old house, something peculiar seems to happen whenever the town's bestial exterminator visits. On a seemin...