A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, "I often hear p eople lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that's the case, I've got o ne thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later." Patters on has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and visceral emotion of an Oscar-worthy Hollywood production. Spanning the ext remes of human behavior, The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 features ch ... View More...
This illustrated collection of essays on Cocteau's relationship to theatre, ballet, music, film, visual art, and literature provides a portrait of the man, the artist and twentieth-century French culture. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books." And write letters Edward Abbey--"the Thoreau of the American West" (Washing ton Post)--did. At once incendiary and insightful, cantankerous and profoun dly perceptive, Abbey was a singular American writer and cult hero, as famo us for books like Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang as he was inf amous for the persona of "Cactus Ed." A true iconoclast with a rich sense o f h... View More...
Selects the top short stories of the 1970s from the annual O. Henry Prize c ollections, including works by Cheever, Bellow, Oates, Malamud, Updike, Bar thelme, and Woody Allen. View More...
During the 1970s and the early 1980s Peter Ackroyd wrote countless book rev iews and articles for the Spectator, on literature, film and a number of so cial and cultural issues. The collection offers a selection of these incisi ve and entertaining pieces, which established Ackroyd's reputation as a wri ter.Since 1986, Ackroyd has been chief book reviewer for The Times, and in this capacity he has reviewed some of the most important biographies and no vels published over the last fifteen years. A selection of his Times review s are included here. These reviews, and his articles for the Sunday T... View More...
687 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. This Book Was The Brainchild Of Th e Three Authors. Meeting Up For Drinks One Night, They Talked About The Hos t Of Young Women Whose Unique Brand Of Fiction Currently Top Of The Book Ch arts, And Decided To Bring All That Talent Together In One Book For One Ter rific Cause. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "[Alarcón's] tales, set largely in the hardscrabble world of Lima, build wi th all the power of a Flannery O'Connor story: a gentle enough start, an in nocent setting, and before long the reader is adrift in a drama that defies the imagination-with characters that live long after the book is closed." - Washington Post Book World In this exquisite story collection, Daniel Alarcón moves from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide natio... View More...
An exciting new collection of over thirty short stories interspersed with i llustrations, cocktail recipes and lists of songs for a guaranteed BIG NIGH T OUT and set to repeat the phenomenal success of Girls' Night In and Girls ' Night Out/Boys' Night In.Following on from the bestselling anthologies Gi rls' Night In and Girls' Night Out/Boys' Night In comes the biggest collect ion yet in aid of the international charity War Child.The theme is literall y a BIG NIGHT OUT - any time, any place.The anthology will feature approxim ately 35 short stories and some special features to punctuate the st... View More...
"Reading Julia Alvarez's new collection of essays is like curling up with a glass of wine in one hand and the phone in the other, listening to a big-h earted, wisecracking friend share hard-earned wisdom about family, identity , and the art of writing." -People The rich and revealing essays in Something to Declare offer Julia Alvarez's dual meditations on coming to America and becoming a writer. In the first section, "Customs," Alvarez relates how she and her family fled the Dominican Republic and its oppressive dictator, Rafael Trujillo, settling in New York City in the 1960s. Here Julia begi... View More...
This Illustrated collection, beautifully translated by Pat Shaw Iversen, in cludes forty-seven of Hans Christian Andersen's immortal tales. View More...
A collection of stories, poems and salacious yarns originally published in the Victorian periodical "The Boudoir - A Magazine of Scandal, Facetiae &c" . It features three complete novellas including "The Voluptuous Confessions of a French Lady of Fashion" View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvi-xxvii) and index. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Twelve short stories with a twist in the ending from Jeffrey Archer, the author of "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", "Kane and Abel" and, most recently, the play, "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" View More...
International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer has enthralled readers with his riveting suspense, surprise denouements, and unforgettable storylines. Now Archer's three acclaimed collections of short fiction are brought toge ther in one irresistible volume. View More...
Like a postmodern Aesop, Jakob Arjouni wittily punctures pretension and sel f-deception. These tales are characterized by ironic humor with an underlyi ng note of melancholy. Among the delightful idiots collected here, the author offers a domineering mother whose rock star son fails to appreciate her efforts on his behalf; a hopeful young movie director with a bad case of writer's block; and an aging author of pulp fiction trying to write one good, serious book before he dies. They are all visited by a fairy who offers to grant one wish, with the exceptions of immortality, health, money, and l... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In may 2005 penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the companys 70th birthday the titles in the pocket penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the penguin list and will hark back to penguin founder allen lanes vision of good books for all king arthur in the east riding is a brilliant selection of essays from simon armitages acclaimed book all points north (penguin 1998). View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale presents a collection of short stories that features such protagonists as a widowed writer who is guided by her late husband's voice and a woman whose genetic abnormality causes her to be mistaken for a vampire. View More...
