Tales We Tell Ourselves: A Selection from the Decameron, Paperback - Carlo Gebler

men are cocooning from the epidemic, alarmed by daily reports of death nearing their doorstep. Seeking escape from their precarious condition, they...

Reducere. Lie #1: I'm not afraid Lie #2: I'm sure I'm doing the right thing

Reducere. "I found her." One phone call and three whispered words is all it takes for Paige Fischer to risk everything - including her own life.One missing s...

Within these pages are nineteen stories of a life. Stories of events such as a first dance, reluctantly, between friends. Of Elliott, a good friend...

Includes tales as 'Isabella and the Pot of Basil' (famously adapted by Keats) and 'Patient Griselda' alongside many boisterous and daring stories f...

DescriptionWhy is belief in an afterlife so persistent across times and cultures? And how can it coexist with disbelief in an afterlife? Most moder...

An examination of how we make sense of the world, from the Sunday Times bestselling author

A thought-provoking and playful examination of how we make sense of the world, from the Sunday Times bestselling author

DescriptionHow new biomedical technologies--from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques--require us to imagine who counts as human and what it...

Reducere. Humans are excellent liars. We don't like to think of ourselves as capable of lying; it hurts us too much to admit. So we lie to ourselves about th...

Reducere. Schumann's genius as a composer is well known; perhaps less well known is the fact that he was also a gifted music critic who wrote hundreds of per...

Reducere. "Why do the words we use to express ourselves and interpret the world around us matter? Matt captures the answer to this question in a thought prov...

Reducere. "Why do the words we use to express ourselves and interpret the world around us matter? Matt captures the answer to this question in a thought prov...

Anthology of specially commissioned short stories exploring the weird, surreal, and dream-like. Bringing together some of the best of Northern Irel...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron. - Introductory...

The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial soci...

The ten stories in this new edition progress through the four aspects of turn-of-the-century Dublin life intended by Joyce - childhood, adolescence...

Reducere. DescriptionPlease visit www.ManorWodehouse.com to see the complete selection of P. G Wodehouse books available in the Manor Wodehouse Collection.

The greatest collection of fables ever written, updated for our turbulent times.

DescriptionThe critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up returns with an existential look at life in low-income black communities,...

These stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners take you inside the tragedies and comedies of Irish life in the early twentieth century. Meet unforgetta...

Reducere. Please visit www.ManorWodehouse.com to see the complete selection of P. G Wodehouse books available in the Manor Wodehouse Collection.

The greatest collection of fables ever written, updated for our turbulent times.

Publisher: New Island BooksAuthor(s): Carlo GeblerNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 145 x 222 x 30Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Kumi KonnoIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 198Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 232 x 154 x 21Cov...

Discover how the stories we tell reveal our deepest desires, and point to the meaning of the reality we live in.Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressAutho...

Reducere. A masterpiece of world literature, most likely written between 1349 and 1351, The Decameron alternates between tragedy and comedy in its sweeping v...

The entire world has been transformed due to a pandemic. The scope of sadness and destruction is far-reaching and wide. However, focus the world's ...

The Stories We Tell celebrates the work of twenty women who have made major contributions to the canon of American magazine writing.While each has ...

Reducere. It's December 1942 and Betty Ahern is enjoying her fledgling career as a private detective, investigating everything from missing jewelry to wander...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): GrimmPublication date: 2017Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farme...

Reducere. While the Black Death rages through 14th-century Florence, a group of young people retreat to the healthful air of the countryside and amuse themse...

DescriptionUpon his 1829 arrival in Granada, Spain, American author Washington Irving was immediately charmed by the city's beauty and picturesque ...

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 ...