The unique boundaries of the short story have attracted a majority of the prominent writers in the German language since the genre attained its modern form and became wide...
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Book Description This collection includes plays by the most important ensemble theater companies working today: Roadside Theater (Whitesburg, Kentucky), Pregones Theater (...
Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the postslavery era, exploring their resist...
Here are sixteen of the best stories by one of America's most popular storytellers. For nearly a century, the work of O.Henry has delighted readers with its humor, irony a...
First published in 1930, the author provides a tour of the novel from its birth to his own time, including the works of Flaubert and Conrad.
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Set in the rural French town in Burgundy that would also form the backdrop to the bestselling "Suite Francaise, Fire in the Blood" is the story f Silvio, his cousin's wife...
`there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours . . . So many odd women - no making a pair with them.'
The idea of the superfluity of unma...
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Uncle Fred believes he can achieve anything in the springtime. However, disguised as a loony-doctor and trying to prevent prize pig, the Empress of Blandings, from falling...
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The Library of America presents an exclusive e-book edition of the astonishing 1930 collection that introduced a major new voice in American literature. “If Katherine Anne...
The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world li...
Enjoying the comforts of his well-kept home, country doctor William Harrison is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a bachelor, to dispense some advice on the «...
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in Ameri...
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in Ameri...
