Virgin and Other Stories, Paperback

Reducere. Virginia Woolf's intention to publish her short stories is carried out in this volume, posthumously collected by her husband, Leonard Woolf. Contai...

Essential to Virginia Woolf's development as a novelist, these short stories are among the most interesting and accomplished fictions she wrote.Pub...

Reducere. DescriptionSet largely in Richmond, Virginia, these 27 interlinked stories follow Levy Bahm as he navigates education, love, race, work, drink and ...

Reducere. Short stories, a couple of novellas, and even a hint of poetry. Historically true and some fiction, you decide where the embellishment exists. A go...

The stories in this collection nearly all take place in and around the mountain hollows of West Virginia: a world of cock-fighting, coal-mining, de...

Reducere. Still Life with Plums is a vibrant collection of short stories that weaves together the outwardly distant lives of several strangers.About author(s...

Reducere. These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the Old Natchez Trace region, the storie...

"One of her greatest achievements, a book whose afterlife continues to inspire new generations of writers and readers." -- The Guardian This modern...

Together for the first time in one volume... Three dazzling stories of magic, fantasy, and romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. T...

Negro students, as they were called in the era of interest, were locked out of the Prince Edward County, Virginia, public schools from September 19...

Reducere. Did you know West Virginia was the first state to seat an African American woman in its state legislature? Which presidential candidate was billed ...

Reducere. Ring Lardner first burst upon the literary scene with his greatest popular success, "You Know Me Al." A sportswriter by trade, Lardner had a superb...

Reducere. The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories (1922) is a collection of short stories by Russian author and Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin. Publish...

Reducere. Mysterious vanishing hitchhikers, travelers beset by headless dogs, and long-dead moonshiners come alive in this collection of ninety-six Appalachi...

Reducere. The story of Sooner football from those who lived it The most outstanding voices of the University of Oklahoma football tradition come together in ...

Reducere. Brien Stewart is a musician and artist who has been active in the Washington DC/Virginia music scene for the past 35 years. Currently the lead sing...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ruth Ann Musick" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hund...

Reducere. Asali Solomon's characters are vivid misfits--a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-danci...

DescriptionFrom giant creatures to ghostly specters and from heroic superheroes to hard-boiled detectives, beach towns are in for a shock. A collec...

Reducere. The reprint of In the Forest of Forgetting by award-winning author Theodora Goss, first published in 2006 by Prime Books, with an introduction by T...

Reducere. Everyone knows that America is 50 states and...some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states--American ...

Reducere. This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text, introduced and annotated by Anne Fernald. A map of Mrs. Dalloway's Lon...

The alternate self is a persistent theme of modern culture. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, poets and novelists-and...

Reducere. "An incisive look at immigration, assimilation, and national identity" (Kirkus Reviews) and the landmark immigration law that transformed the face ...

Reducere. Introduction by Colm ToibinIn fifteen funny, colorful, poignant and mysterious stories, the irreverent modernist Katherine Mansfield, a friend and ...

Reducere. Alexander Theroux has taught at Harvard, MIT, Yale, and the University of Virginia, where he took his doctorate in 1968. He is the author of four h...

Reducere. During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, ...

Reducere. Free to Believe (Or Not) is about what may be America's greatest political innovation: freedom of religion. This book tells how that profound liber...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this kids' biography, discover the inspiring story of Katherine Johnson, famed NASA mathematician and one of the subjects of the best...

Reducere. In one of the first collections of scholarship at the intersection of LGBTQ studies and Appalachian studies, voices from the region's valleys, holl...

Reducere. If two girls are two halves of a deep, lifelong friendship, what does one girl wholly become when the other is gone? Amy Woolard's debut collection...

Reducere. Greek religion is filled with strange sexual artifacts - stories of mortal women's couplings with gods; rituals like the basilinna's "marriage" to ...

Reducere. Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bul...

Reducere. Other Girls to Burn is a collection of essays that explores the relationship between women and violence within such contexts as the 2014 Isla Vista...

Reducere. British Literature, the fourth volume of the Excellence in Literature curriculum, is designed to cultivate not only a love for great literature, bu...

This anthology -- the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors -- is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner. A gathering ...

A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house across the street from her family's home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She ima...

Reducere. Set in a small coal-mining town, a debut novel full of secrets, love, betrayal, and suspicious accidents, where Catholicism casts a long shadow and...

Reducere. In The Harmony Tree, an old grandmother oak tree is spared when loggers come through and clear-cut a forest. Grandmother Oak finds herself alone un...

Reducere. Compelled to seek something more than what modern society has to offer, Robert Sibley turned to an ancient setting for help in recovering what has ...