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An anthology of the works of American expatriate author Paul Bowles (1910-1999). Includes The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950),…
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962), Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977), Midnight Mass (1981), and more. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Some strong language. 2002Sisters of tomorrow: the first women of science fiction (Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series)
By Lisa Yaszek, Patrick B. Sharp. 2016
Selection of short fiction, essays, and poems by women working in the genre in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Includes…
fiction by C. L Moore, poems by Julia Boynton Green, and journalism by L. Taylor Hansen. Also provides commentary documenting women's contributions to the pulp-magazine community. Some violence and some strong language. 2016Prose and poetry: Maggie: a girl of the streets ; The red badge of courage ; Stories, sketches, and journalism ; Poetry
By Stephen Crane, J. C. Levenson. 1996
More than one hundred works of the nineteenth-century author and reporter Stephen Crane (1871-1900). Includes five novellas; dispatches from Asbury…
Park, New Jersey, and New York state; war reports from Greece during the Greco-Turkish wars and from Cuba during the Spanish-American War; and poetry. 1984Mark Twain's San Francisco
By Mark Twain, Bernard Taper. 2003
La bataille de Forillon
By Lionel Bernier. 2001
L'auteur, qui a vecu à Cap-des-Rosiers, dans la partie du village aujourd'hui devenue le parc de Forillon, raconte cet épisode…
de l'histoire du Québec. La bataille que déclenche le gouvernement lorsque le 22 juillet 1970, il annonce à quelques milliers de villageois de la pointe de Forillon en Gaspésie qu'il les exproprie de leurs terres pour faire un parc nationalThe art of mystery: the search for questions (Art Of... Ser.)
By Maud Casey. 2018
Where does mystery reside in a work of fiction Maud Casey takes us into the Land of Un a space…
of uncertainty and unknowing to find out and looks at the variety of ways mystery is created through character, image, structure, and haunted texts, including the novels of Shirley Jackson, Paul Yoon, J. M. Coetzee, and more. Casey's wide-ranging discussion encompasses spirit photography, the radical nature of empathy, and contradictory characters, as she searches for questions rather than answers. Adult. UnratedEl laberinto de la soledad y otras obras (Penguin ediciones)
By Octavio Paz. 1997
"Octavio Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character,…
and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains Octavio Paz' most famous work, a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on Mexico's quest for identity that gives us an unequaled look at the country hidden behind the mask. Also included are Postscript, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, and Mexico and the United States, all of which develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America." -- GoodreadsDix chiens pour un rêve
By François Varigas. 1983
"L'aventure existe encore aujourd'hui . Celle qui se passe de tous les conforts, de toutes les sécurités . Parti de…
Frobisher Bay au sud de la Terre de Baffin, François Varigas arrivera un an plus tard à Dawson City à la frontière du Yukon et de l'Alaska, en ayant mis à son actif cinq "premières" : la traversée intégrale de la Terre de Baffin, la traversée hivernale de l'Arctique, la première expédition réalisée avec un seul équipage de chiens, le parcours couvert en une seule année et, pour finir, la première expédition mixte arctique forêt boréale."