Collected Stories. Main, Paperback - John McGahern

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has long been recognized...

This is the story of John McGahern's childhood, his mother's death, his father's anger and violence, and how, through his discovery of books, his d...

Very modern ghost stories from the Booker-nominated author of The Wall.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): John LanchesterNumber of pages: 240Public...

The collected letters of John McGahern, 'arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett.' (Guardian)Publisher: Faber & FaberNumber...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofictionPublisher: Canongate BooksAuthor(s): Co...

Their very titles - from 'The Duckling Brothers and their Disobedient Sister' to 'Don't Pay Bad for Bad' - are evocative of a unique blend of tradi...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer prize-winning novelist John Cheever show the power and range of one o...

Features twenty classic tales of Horace Rumpole in which he battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent Sou...

A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where h...

Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. her husband is straining to ...

In them his canon of great writers - Tolstoy, Chekhov, James, Proust and Joyce - is cited many times, with deep and subtle appreciation. His interv...

Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age...

Reducere. When John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Barth's writing was not a response to the realist...

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 ...

John McGahern is widely considered to be one of Ireland's greatest writers, with fans including John Updike, Hilary Mantel, Colm Toibin and John Ba...

Surveys the life and work of the successful Irish novelist and short story writer whose career was launched with the 1963 publication of ""The Barr...

That They May Face the Rising Sun was the last novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland's greatest novelists. In passages of beauty and truth, the ...

Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): W.H. AudenNumber of pages: 960Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 215 x 137 x 50Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

A new paperback edition of Hanif Kureishi's wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Hanif KureishiNumber of pa...

Reducere. John McDonald has been making people laugh for decades with his humorous yarns poking fun at people from away, people from Maine, and life in gener...

It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. The Collected P...

DescriptionThis collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assu...

Marianne Moore scholar Heather Cass White has prepared an edition of poems that, for the first time, presents the full range of Moore's work in its...

Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): Lori RogersNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 12Cover type: Paperba...

Reducere. This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection--a finalist for the National Book Award--demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extr...

Honey Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer's coming of age through disorienting, ...

Reducere. John Main (1926-1982), an English Benedictine monk, pioneered the practice of Christian meditation. His genius was to recover a way into the contem...

these stories help amplify Williams's tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the hum...

Reducere. Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, Paperback

Features seventy-nine stories such as: love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties...

'Characters all but leap off the page with believability in these marvellous stories of life (and death) in Belfast' Sunday TimesMelding his native...

Included are classics of short-form fiction such as 'A Bear Hunt', 'A Rose for Emily', 'Two Soldiers' and 'The Brooch'. Faulkner's ability to compr...

Includes a lively introduction that explores James's conservative, donnish background and the character traits that contributed to the extraordinar...

Reducere. In 1940, when John Wheelwright was killed by a speeding car, Boston lost one of its most colorful personalities and American poetry one of its most...

Masterly collection of short stories by an American novelist at the height of her powers

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly ...

Presents stories of abandonment and vengeance, in which extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions. A missionary is sent to a place so dista...