The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce, Paperback - Various

"The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible. . . . He changes with the styles in fiction but he...

Reducere. DescriptionBierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for it...

Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflect...

Contributor(s): Author: VariousEditor: Barbara KorteEditor: Ann-Marie EinhausAn anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famou...

American journalist and satirist Ambrose Bierce is probably best known for his short stories about the American Civil War. The author's craft for s...

DescriptionThis collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry--a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdNumber of pages: 288Collection: Penguin Clothbound ClassicsPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 121 x 208 x 30Cover type: ...

Reducere. Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the ...

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The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spir...

Contributor(s): Editor: Paul KeeganSpanning seven centuries, this ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologi...

Reducere. Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious...

Gathers together poetry in Hebrew from "The Song of Deborah" to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the devel...

Reducere. Newspaperman, short-story writer, poet, and satirist, Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) is one of the most striking and unusual literary figures America h...

Reducere. In The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce defined "war" as "a by-product of the arts of peace." A Civil War veteran, Bierce had absolutely no illusi...

Includes supernatural tales and legends: from a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill, from the gruesom...

Publisher: Penguin AdultAuthor(s): John FreemanNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 212 x 35Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 40Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Kadija S...

Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a f...

Reducere. These six classic tales of ghosts and hauntings, culled from Fantasmagoriana (1818), a German book that reputedly helped inspire Mary Shelley to pe...

A new edition of the definitive collection of modern poetry from Africa "Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, " writes Gerald...

First Penguin volume Of best Japanese haiku Vivid translations Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished ...

"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guant namo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review Three...

Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl.'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should giv...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 142 x 205 x 39Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Kaveh AkbarRedescope...

An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and I...

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DescriptionAmbrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the San Franc...

Reducere. Journalist, short story writer, a poet, and critic Ambrose Bierce has been called one of America's greatest wits and an uncompromising satirist. He...

Reducere. "This collection of ghost stories is fresh, varied, and entertaining. Perfect company for long a winter's night." - Owen King, co-author with Steph...

In Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories, humor and horror paint a bleak picture of war, marked by violence, isolation and looming madn...

From the reign of the Tsars in the early nineteenth century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a cen...

Set in 1790 in Monkshaven, where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service in the Napoleonic wars. One of their victims is Charley K...

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centres on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by...

DescriptionThe first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Wa...