Collected Stories. World's End; Sinning with Annie; Jungle Bells; the Consul's File; the London Embassy;, Paperback - Paul Theroux

A collection short stories, each of which brimming with astute observations and sharp wit that can captivate readers the world over. It explores th...

DescriptionCorrymeela - a Christian community committed to reconciliation, is bounded by bells. Twice a day - morning and evening - a large bell so...

Reducere. The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thoughts, reading, and emotions of the writer...

"Suave and accomplished . . . The stories] are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic." -- Washington Post "Beneath the ...

Publisher: Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonAuthor(s): Charlie GereNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 235 x 17Cover type: Pa...

'A wise and vivid memoir of a disintegrating marriage and a study of the role of the spouse in the life of a literary giant.' - i PaperPublisher: I...

Reducere. Considered as one of the most sensitive and creative writers of his times, Rabindranath Tagore elevated the genre of short stories to an art-form. ...

Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and tak...

Reducere. "A book to be plundered and raided." -- New York Times Book Review "A portal into a world of timeless travel literature curated by one of the great...

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

Reducere. After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great B...

Reducere. Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in thi...

Reducere. First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of ...

Reducere. "Theroux's work is like no one else's." -Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel f...

After eleven years living as an American in London, the author set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the Britis...

Edward Morgan Forster (1879 - 1970) is best known for his beautiful novels - ironic with delicious plots, highlighting the hypocrisy and discrimina...

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Reducere. DescriptionA master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India. This startling,...

Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world's most acclaimed travel writer re-creates hi...

'This memoir is based on the diary I kept during 1990, the year that my first marriage came to an end.'Illustrations: 16 Plates, color

Reducere. Pushkin's prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilli...

Reducere. "Theroux is at his best when he tellspeople's] stories, happy and sad . . . Theroux's great mission had always been to transport us beyond that rea...

Reducere. In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to bui...

At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to th...

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**THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE UPLIFTING FACTORY GIRLS SERIES** Perfect for fans of Nancy Revell's Shipyard Girls series and Ellie Dean.

"Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril." --David Sedaris, author of Naked, Me Talk Pret...

DescriptionLegendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back r...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Paul TherouxNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 240 x 37Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

A compendium of wit, wisdom and travel trips gathered together by Theroux after 50 years on the road. Features his own work, and that of other auth...

Reducere. "Never a dull moment . . . Vivid and deft." -- New York Review of Books Maude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniq...