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Toward the radical center: a Karel C̈apek reader (Garrigue Book Ser.)
By Peter Kussi, Karel Capek, Karel C̈apek. 1990
English translations of three plays and several short stories, essays, and assorted sketches on gardening and travel provide a sampling…
of the work of this prolific Czechoslovakian writer. The word "robot" from his 1922 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), included here, has entered everday languageA cat, a man, and two women: stories
By Jun'Ichiro Tanizaki, Paul McCarthy, Junʾichirō Tanizaki. 1990
Three stories first published in Japanese between 1918 and 1936. In the title story, Shozo strives to assert himself in…
a world dominated by females--his ex-wife, his new wife, his mother, and his cat--the subject of a custody battle. In "The Little Kingdom," another power struggle takes place, between a schoolteacher and a bossy pupil. And in "Professor Rado," a journalist finds a noted academic has an unknown sideFirst published in 1930, this collection includes "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a novel about a beautiful youth whose portrait…
has supernatural qualities; "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comic, satirical play about a rakish nobleman; "Lady Windermere's Fan," a comedy of manners; "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," an autobiographical account of Wilde's imprisonment; and other short works of drama, prose, and poetryThe Dick Francis treasury of great racing stories
By Dick Francis, John Welcome. 1990
Many people, from peers and prime ministers to rich entrepreneurs and the average person on the street, have sought out…
the delights of the racecourse. For those who love the sport, this collection of fourteen stories includes selections by such American and British authors as Dick Francis, A. Conan Doyle, John Galsworthy, Molly Keane, Edgar Wallace, and Beryl MarkhamThe suitcase
By Antonina W. Bouis, Sergei Dovlatov, Sergeĭ Dovlatov. 1990
It is an old suitcase made of plywood, covered with fabric that is torn in several places, and its lock…
doesn't work. But it contains everything he brought with him when he emigrated from Russia to the United States. Now, four years later, he opens the suitcase for the first time and reflects on each of the items he brought with him--a suit, socks, boots, belt, shirt, jacket, hat, and gloves. Some strong languageThe portable Emerson: New Edition (The Viking portable library)
By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm Cowley, Carl Bode. 1981
Selections from the works of essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Includes his first published work, "Nature," which contains…
the essence of his transcendentalist philosophy; his address to the Phi Beta Kappa society at Harvard, "The American Scholar;" and his controversial address to the graduating class of the Cambridge Divinity School in 1839. Also includes other essays and twenty-two poemsNot under forty
By Willa Cather. 1988
The portable Chekhov (The Viking Portable library #No. 35)
By Anton Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Avrahm Yarmolinsky. 1978
A collection of twenty-eight short stories including "The Man in a Shell," "Gooseberries," and "The Darling;" two plays, "The Boor,"…
and "The Cherry Orchard;" and selected letters of Chekhov. Includes a chronology of his life and a selected bibliography of his worksCivil to strangers and other writings: And Other Writings
By Barbara Pym. 1988
Collection of early novels, stories, and an autobiographical essay, written from the late 1930s to the 1970s. As she has…
always done in her work, Pym pokes gentle fun at English village life, spinsters, and handsome, artistic men with feet of pleasantly middle-class clayThe portable Faulkner (The viking Portable Library)
By William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley. 1978
The Langston Hughes reader: The Selected Writings of Langston Hughes
By Langston Hughes, Langston Huges. 1958
Tiny nightmares: very short tales of horror
By Lincoln Michel, Nadxieli Nieto. 2020
This collection features forty-two short stories of 1,500 words or less by a mix of literary and horror writers, including…
Brian Evenson, Samantha Hunt, Stephen Graham Jones, Hilary Leichter, Kevin Brockmeier, and more. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2020The Best of the West 4: new stories from the wide side of the Missouri
By James Thomas, Denise Thomas. 1991
Sixteen short stories that take place in the Western United States and have a Western "attitude". The imaginary West, the…
Real West, the New West, and the Old West converge in this celebration of that fascinating landscape. The stories are modern with present day themes and are for the most part serious in nature. Descriptions of sex, violence and strong languageTexas bound: 22 Texas stories / Book III (Southwest life and letters)
By Kay Cattarulla. 2001
This anthology of short fiction by Texas writers originated from the "Texas Bound" readings that are offered each spring as…
part of the Dallas Museum of Art's literary series Arts & Letters Live. Writers include Larry L. King, Sarah Bird, Annette Sanford, and Sam Shepard as well as many other writers. Contains strong languageNews from the volcano: stories
By Gladys Swan. 2000
Irrelevance of Space and Other Stories, The
By Ashis Gupta, Swapna Gupta. 2017
The Irrelevance of Space, 'Trains', 'Remembrance', 'Fal-e-Hafez', 'Guantanamoo', and 'The Cyberdeath Files' - stories thatrange in settings from Scandinavia to…
Canada, Eastern Europe, Iran, Cuba, and USA. And a story bridging Poland and India through a strange historical coincidence.Great short stories by American women (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)
By Candace Ward. 1996
A Collection of 13 short stories including "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat",…
plus superb fiction by great American authors including Kate Chopin, WIlla Cather, Edith Wharton, and others. AdultThe north country reader: classic stories by Minnesota writers
By Jean Ervin. 2000
The North Country Reader is filled with an array of classic and contemporary voices--native Minnesotans and immigrants, farmers and city…
folks, the sweet and the bittersweet. These timeless selections from novels, short stories, essays, and memoirs convey the diversity of the Minnesota experience. Adult. UnratedQue signifie prendre racine, habiter un espace, le faire nôtre, le transformer à notre image et, en retour, devenir autre…
sous son influence?? En somme, que signifie devenir «?habitant?»?? Le terme a longtemps été péjoratif chez nous. À tort. Il n’y a pas de plus beau destin que celui d’habiter pleinement un lieu. Ce petit livre en témoigne.Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick: stories from the Harlem Renaissance
By Zora Neale Hurston. 2020