The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother: Two Novellas, Paperback - Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Reducere. With a precision and brilliance unmatched perhaps by any other novelist of the twentieth century, Junichiro Tanizaki interweaves a sense of his cou...

Reducere. Un eseu melancolic si provocator despre cultura japoneza. In acest eseu publicat inaintea celui de-al Doilea Razboi Mondial, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki pr...

A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy and deceit, and a Japanese classic Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady in an unin...

This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically ap...

Reducere. The Tattooer is the first publish work by Junichiro Tanizaki, one of the major authors in the modern Japanese tradition. In the story, a tattoo art...

Reducere. In acest eseu publicat inaintea celui de-al Doilea Razboi Mondial, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki prevestea disparitia unei lumi a traditiilor si disolutia ve...

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In acest eseu publicat inaintea celui de-al Doilea Razboi Mondial, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki prevestea disparitia unei lumi a traditiilor si disolutia ve...

Reducere. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, ...

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century. This book presents three powerful stories of family fro...

While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his growing ...

Reducere. A compelling duet of novellas, in exquisite prose, that capture the nuances of time and place, each one featuring a protagonist who is at heart a d...

Reducere. The volume brings together two previously published novellas by Richard Wagamese, Him Standing and The Next Sure Thing, with a foreword from author...

Publisher: BiblioasisAuthor(s): Elise LevineNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 204 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softbackRed...

The Vacuum Chamber recounts the intriguing encounter between investigative journalist, Fondo and mysterious scientist, Dr Tanda Matanda, who heads ...

Two novellas by the Corfiot Author Konstantinos Theotokis (1872-1923), translated by the renowned translator form German and Greek J. M. Q. Davies,...

Reducere. White Man/Yellow Man, by one of Japan's most celebrated writers, gathers into one volume two novellas set during World War II one in France, one in...

From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological soph...

In the House of M universe, Carol Danvers glimpsed the full potential of her life. Now she embarks with renewed focus in a bid to become the best s...

DescriptionWhen a mass suicide by a branch of the Church of Hala claims the lives of twenty families, Carol Danvers investigates the tragedy perfor...

Reducere. Two novellas set in the season of mistletoe...Lady Mistletoe's Holiday Helper (from Yuletide Wishes)Lord Marcus Bannerfield is former military and ...

A poignant, nostalgic novella of coming of age in a Yorkshire village in the sixties paired with another short novel set in Manchester at the outbr...

Reducere. For years, Gioia Timpanelli has held audiences rapt with her retellings of ancient tales, often appearing with Robert Bly, James Hillman, Joseph Ca...

Reducere. Eleven essential classics in one volumeThis volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 196...

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. Two PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED Regency novellas. A is for Amorous (originally published in Love by the Letters) and Architect of My Dreams (originally pu...

Reducere. Named by Kirkus Reviews as one of the "Best Indie Books of 2021" "Fascinating ... In the style of the science fiction greats such as Asimov and Cla...

Reducere. Raised in a world of drugs, pain, and having to become a man before time. Two and a Quarter is going to take you on a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, stree...

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 author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, the masterly novellas that estab...

Travel writer and architectural historian Martin Andrew sets out with a lifelong friend to recreate Horatio Hornblower's escape from Napoleon in a ...

Reducere. Rafael Sabatini was born in 1875 at Iesi, Italy, to an English mother and an Italian father. As a child he travelled widely in Europe and by 17 he ...

Reducere. When grouse hunters stumble upon a body in the backwoods, Sheriff John Cabrelli works to untangle the complex case, while stressed relationships, p...

Reducere. "This masterful heart-filling book is deeply moving and wise." --Betsy Graziani Fasbinder, therapist and author of Filling Her Shoes and Fire and W...

Reducere. Aparut initial in foileton, Jurnalul unui batran nebun este una dintre scrierile tarzii ale lui Junichiro Tanizaki. Conceput sub forma unui caiet d...

Our heroes defeated the Bionic Booger Boy but they totally forgot about those rascally Robo-Boogers, plus George and Harold's time travelling Purpl...

Reducere. DescriptionCaptain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. Born in North Yorkshire in 1728, when Cook entered the world of the peoples of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tina DirmannAN ABUSIVE MOTHERRaised in the suburb of Riverside, California, twenty-year-old college student Jason Bautista ...

Reducere. She is enveloped in a storming sea of light and sound. Navigating a world where she can hear everything yet nothing, and where faces are no more th...

Reducere. It's time to put yourself first. Your life depends on it.You do not need to be diagnosed with cancer, like Heather Chauvin did, to realize motherho...

The Maids, Tanizaki's final novel, sparkles like a jewel. Over the years--before, during, and after WWII--many women work in the pampered, elegant ...

Reducere. Brian Dunn accidentally shot his wife while he was cleaning his deer rifle. He remarried, moved from Petoskey to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and start...

Reducere. From the acclaimed author of The Troop--a book that is ``utterly terrifying`` (Clive Barker). ``Fans of unflinching bleakness and all-out horror wi...

Reducere. DescriptionChristy Huddleston's dream was to teach the poor mountain children. In Cutter Gap, she meets the doctor who needs her help to save a lif...

TWO CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS ADVENTURES NOW IN FULL COLOUR! George and Harold have created the greatest superhero in the history of their school - and no...