Lydia Steptoe Stories. Faber Stories, Paperback - Djuna Barnes

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

Yet when Linda gets engaged, Madge starts to feel an intangible peril gathering around the girl. ____In each of these short, sharp stories, the lon...

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DescriptionThe self-described "most famous unknown author in the world, " Djuna Barnes (1892 - 1982) is increasingly regarded as an important voice...

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In this illuminating and lucid study, Deborah Parsons examines the range of Djuna Barnes's oeuvre; her early journalism, short stories and one act ...

A collection of short fiction that is written by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.

Reducere. Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called -an American virtuoso of the short story form- (Salon) and -on...

Paperback of the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home. This book contains significant unpublished work, including a poignant m...

it is only a matter of time before she snaps. Edna O'Brien crafts a quietly horrifying scene of eroticism and insecurity, and makes one woman's nea...

Through stories within stories Chandra tells a spiralling tale of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new. Borrowing a structure fro...

Between his second and third tours of duty, a soldier returns home. To his former home, that is, using an old key while the new tenant is at work.

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

Features two classic tales about Tamworth, the kind-hearted and very wise pig with a flair for publicity, and his human friends, Thomas and Blossom...

Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goe...

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

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

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

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

Either way, this fragmented evocation of unrequited desire is, in the words of Joyce's biographer Richard Ellmann, a work of 'small, fragile, endur...

Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with.

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

Her story was this: she had been an orphan, her mother probably a whore. That's true of what brought her here too: was she IRA, or did she just tak...

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put the...

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Reducere. Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis's inventive collection of short ficti...

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 ...

Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) New Irish Short Stories is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety o...

Deals with the complexities of relationships as well as the joys of children. This title contains the author's controversial story "Weddings and Be...

'I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house.'When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he'...

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

'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpecte...

Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel ...

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

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Ch...

Courageous dogs, cats, birds, horses, and even a bear have shown courage and devotion, and this book tells you their extraordinary stories. Include...

All Over Ireland, edited by Deirdre Madden (Molly Fox's Birthday, Time Present and Time Past), continues the tradition of featuring the work of bot...

Sylvia Plath's timeless children's stories in a delightful new edition set in a clear font for younger readers, with wickedly captivating illustrat...

Sarah Silverman's father taught her to curse-at the age of three. With her signature taboo-breaking humour, Silverman writes on everything from her...

Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the t...

A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. . Flannery O'Connor's famous fifties story evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God an...

This collection features Chopin's pioneering novel plus a selection of her short stories.

Reducere. Celebrate the unheralded people and stories that helped shape the game of baseball Meet unsung pioneers, like John "Bud" Fowler, William Edward Whi...

DescriptionBeautifully crafted, and so finely balanced that she holds the reader right up against the tender humanity of her characters. - Eimear M...

Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the sixth volume of Faber's long running series of new Iri...

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

This anthology gathers over 20 of Poe's groundbreaking tales of the macabre and also includes his trilogy of stories featuring detective C. Auguste...

Features stories of families, feuds, enchantment, disenchantment and the manifold bonds of love. These stories are about the tension between countr...

A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman who escaped him 15 years earlier. trapped between her dead husband and a ...