Walter Scott, Gerard Carruthers, James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Margaret Oliphant, John Buchan, Arthur Conan Doyle, Muriel Spark, Irvine Welsh, Ali Smith...
Momentous parties have long provided dramatic scenes in fiction, from Natashas first ball in War and Peace to Lizzie meeting Darcy in Pride and Prejudice to J. Edgar Hoover consorting with Truman Capote in Don DeLillos The Black and White Ball. ...Lasīt vairāk
River gods and nymphs frolic in Ovids mythic telling. The trickster Coyote reroutes a river in a Native American tale. A set of stone steps at the shore of the Ganges bears witness to heartbreak in Rabindranath Tagores River Stairs, and Mark Twain...Lasīt vairāk
A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of stories of Africa from centuries past to the present, selected by the Booker Prizewinning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri. Award-winning writer Ben Okri, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Fam...Lasīt vairāk
Variations on a musical theme by a striking range of authors, among them Flaubert, Turgenev, Proust, Nabokov, Katherine Mansfield, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Amit Chaudhuri, Bernard MacLaverty and Maya Angelou. Wesley Staces attractive medley embr...Lasīt vairāk
Walter Scott, Gerard Carruthers, James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Margaret Oliphant, John Buchan, Arthur Conan Doyle, Muriel Spark, Irvine Welsh, Ali Smith...
Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis Stevenson, Eric Linklater and Dorothy K. Haynes; side-...Lasīt vairāk
Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemis enchanting Books and Roses); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Elizabeth McCrackens eccentric library did not happen i...Lasīt vairāk
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and s...Lasīt vairāk
Spectacular gardens are viewed from the perspective of a snail in Virginia Woolfs Kew Gardens and from that of a sheltered teenage girl in Katherine Mansfields The Garden Party. The family of Doris Lessings Flavours of Exile haul succulent...Lasīt vairāk
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphnes metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards....Lasīt vairāk
Salman Rushdies dazzling novel The Enchantress of Florence takes inspiration from the citys gilded Renaissance past, while Mary McCarthys masterful travelogue captures a bustling 20th century market city....Lasīt vairāk
An anthology of short stories about physical and psychological illness, healing, and healers--featuring an array of classic and contemporary writers, from Anton Chekhov to Lorrie Moore--...Lasīt vairāk
Covering the citys venerable Jewish heritage, the glamour of the belle-epoque period, World War II, Communist rule, the Prague Spring, the Velvet Revolution, and beyond, Prague Stories weaves a remarkable selection of fiction and nonfiction into a l...Lasīt vairāk
Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, has always been a city of desperate modernity, both in terms of urban architecture - largely a creation of the progressive 19th century, laid waste by World War II, temporary home o...Lasīt vairāk
Russian Stories rounds up marvellous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Babel and Nabokov, and continuing up to contemporary writers such as Tatyana To...Lasīt vairāk
The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the worlds storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Mauriers haunting Dont Look Now, Anthony Trollopes wartime rom...Lasīt vairāk
Sakis dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Sakis elegantly mischievous young heroes sow chaos in their wake without breaking a sweat, occasionally assisted by werewolves, tigers, eavesdropping ho...Lasīt vairāk
Presents comic wedding mishaps, engagements broken and mended, honeymoon adventures, and scenes both heartwarming and heartbreaking. This book covers glamorous weddings in Paris and New York, and more eccentric ones in the Wild West and on a remote i...Lasīt vairāk
Explores the citys fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a Renaissance sculptor, 18th-century tourists, American, British and French novelists and the authors of modern Rome, each testing and unravelling the citys ageless para...Lasīt vairāk
Includes tales by Dickens, Twain, Beckett, Colette, Dorothy Parker, F Scott Fitzgerald, Doris Lessing, Frank OConnor, Penelope Lively, and many more. Whether living it up or drowning their sorrows, this book features vividly drawn characters who wi...Lasīt vairāk
In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eye-witness account of the Revolution....Lasīt vairāk
