River in Egypt. Faber Stories, Paperback - David Means

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. Readers familiar with David Means' electrifying work in the Los Angeles Times Book Prize -- winning Assorted Fire Eventswill recognize his extraord...

Paperback edition of the debut novel set in an alternative late 1960s, in which President Kennedy has survived. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize...

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

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...

'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 ...

Reducere. Upon its publication, Assorted Fire Events won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and received...

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...

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...

With an introduction by Sebastian BarryIn Parenthesis is loved by many as one of the great verse works of the Great War: but it is unique in being ...

They destroyed the West's ruling myth.'So John Gray begins this short, powerful book on the belief that has dominated our minds for a century and a...

DescriptionEvery aspect of ancient Egyptian society-from education and law to medicine, birth, and death-was permeated by religion and magic, and d...

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 ...

Through a selection of letters to friends and literary peers, the author presents insight into the life and work of David Jones. He covers the last...

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 ...

Reducere. Drinking from a Different Well: How Women's Stories Change What Power Means in Action is dedicated to young activist Greta Thunberg - and encourage...

Burma is ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. Drawing on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on po...

Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): VariousNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 215 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softbackEdito...

Reducere. How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a ...

For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. In Walls, David Frye uncovers a story that is m...

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

Contributor(s): Author: Joyce A. TyldesleyAuthor: Julian HeathSome of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from Ancient Egypt ar...

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...

CNBC's David Faber takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the recent financial collapse And Then the Roof Caved In lays bare the ...