Contemporary Fiction, Paperback - Robert Eaglestone

Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a...

Doing English presents the ideas and debates that shape how we ¿do¿ English today, explaining arguments about the value of literature, the canon, S...

Description'Facts alone are wanted in life, ' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens' Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, a...

Publisher: Ohio State University PressAuthor(s): Gary JohnsonNumber of pages: 252Collection: Theory Interpretation NarrativPublication date: 2020Di...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the movies, it seems as if it is hard work pushing the plow. The horse pulls the plow, all the plow-hand has to do is keep the plow u...

This book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary British writing and provides an illuminating picture of often co...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain, comes a powerful novel about how the Vietnam War divided families, ...

Reducere. Roberta Gately's lyrical and authentic debut novel--inspired by her own experiences as a nurse in third world war zones--is one woman's moving stor...

Zen and the Art of the Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig's worldwide bestseller, holds a unique and unforgettable place in modern Western li...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. "Unputdownable." (Guardian). "Gripping." (Sunday Times). The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, ...

A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Ope...

Reducere. DescriptionPrincess Camilla Fitzcharles is willing to risk everything to escape her gilded cage of her life. She's secured an invitation to partici...

DescriptionThe Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, an...

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Robert YeatesIllustration(s): 28 Illustrations, colorCollection: Modern AmericasPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 15...

3 of the 38 stories here are drawn from the collection Selected Stories of Robert Walser, set in Berlin from 1905 onwards.

Reducere. A Collection of Robert Sheckley Science Fiction includes 14 short stories that appeared in magazines of the 1950's. Included are: Beside Still Wate...

Reducere. Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and...

Language and Symbols in Contemporary Fiction - Alexandra Marginean

Reducere. Lord of the World is a 1907 dystopian science fiction novel by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson that centers upon the reign of the Anti-Christ and the ...

Reducere. DescriptionMany grapple today with what the 'proper' style of music for church should be and sadly it becomes a worship war. Like the movie Star Wa...

DescriptionThe revised and updated edition of Goodin and Pettit's highly-acclaimed contemporary political philosophy anthology, bringing together t...

Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres.

9th edition. Includes an updated collection of 20+ case studies.

Reducere. Natalya Bekhta's We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction analyzes a storytelling form shaped by the pronoun "we, " probing t...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Marco CaraccioloIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 232Collection: Environmental ...

Reducere. Edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, CONTEMPORARY FICTION BY FILIPINOS IN AMERICA collects 26 short stories by Filipino and Philippine American wr...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Carey MickalitesNumber of pages: 248Collection: New Horizons in Contemporary WritingPublication date...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Robert A. HarrisIllustration(s): 30 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2017Dime...

Reducere. A contemporary twist on the well-loved classic, Little Women, readers will fall in love with the Martin family-Maggie, Josie, Lizzie, Bronson, Amie...

Reducere. 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 ...

Reducere. The Great Old Ones Return... In the early twentieth-century, in the pages of Weird Tales and other pulp magazines, H.P. Lovecraft created the Cthul...

Reducere. DescriptionCynthia "Cyn" Robinson has only ever wanted three things: the approval of her stepmother, to save lives as a firefighter, and the attent...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Robert MendelsohnIllustration(s): 5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white; 5 Halft...

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 ...

Reducere. From the First Golden Age of SF master Robert A. Heinlein, this is the so-called juvenile (written, Heinlein always claims, just as much for adults...

Reducere. Whether discussing the transformative power of art or music, the lasting trauma of residential schools, growing up poor, or achieving success, the ...

Reducere. In Robert A. Heinlein's controversial bestseller, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe--and into battle agai...

Reducere. Description"The most thrilling and tingling kind of science fiction story."─ Kirkus Reviews"Heinlein found his true direction.... The Martian setti...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom Science Fiction Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein, the New York Times bestselling author of Starship Troopers, comes Variable Star, a...

Reducere. I thought he was a player...how could I have possibly known what he really was? - Rosa With those searing whiskey eyes, chiseled face, and cocky at...

The science fiction masterpiece - and basis for Paul Verhoeven's 1997 cult classic film.

Reducere. THE NEW COLE AND HITCH NOVEL Newly appointed as Territorial Marshals, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are traveling by train on a mission to escort M...

Reducere. NEW INTRODUCTION BY TIM POWERS Compelling SF and fantasy adventure from legendary science fiction master and multiple New York Times best selling a...

Reducere. A CAEZIK Notable book. CAEZIK Notables is a series of speculative-fiction books marking important milestones in science fiction or fantasy. Each bo...

Reducere. Sherlyn Coyle is betrothed to the man of her dreams when she discovers he's an infamous serial killer. He leaves her alive, but barely. Facing nigh...