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Batsford Ltd Bedside Companion for Gardeners: An anthology of
Book SynopsisAn eclectic collection of prose, poetry and practical advice for every day of the year. A mix of fact and fiction, fantasy and experience, the Bedside Companion for Gardeners is a treasure trove of green-fingered inspiration where practical advice blends seamlessly with poetry and prose from intrepid gardeners past and present. Dip in and out of this collection with an entry for every night of the year that draws on writing through the ages and from across the globe. The Bedside Companion for Gardeners incorporates practical advice from the 17th-century gardening diarist John Evelyn; inspiring prose from Elizabeth von Arnim and John Milton; astute commentary from Horace Walpole on William Kent and Nancy Mitford on the vulgarity of a Surrey garden. Kipling offers practical advice, while Tennyson waxes lyrical on an Arabian night garden. The perfect gift for any gardener, this magical book is an invaluable source of inspiration and guidance to revisit throughout the year. Trade Review‘A delightful read to escape into last thing at night’ – Paula McWaters -- Country Living‘The green-fingered will love this anthology’ -- Daily Express/Daily Mirror‘This thoughtful and inspiring selection offers a fresh perspective on our outdoor space’ * Sunday Express *
£21.25
Elliott & Thompson Limited The Language of Trees
Book SynopsisInspired by forests, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees is a gorgeously illustrated collection, a love letter to the wonder of trees and how they make our world, stretch our minds and rewild our landscapes and lives.
£11.69
British Library Publishing Spectral Sounds
Book SynopsisDivided into four sections exploring noises from invisible presences, ghostly voices, possessed technology and the power of extreme levels of sound or silence, this collection pulses with pioneering pieces from B. M. Croker, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Wharton and M. P. Shiel alongside haunting obscurities from the British Library collections.
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Library of America The American Short Story The Nineteenth Century Volume 1 LOA 394
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Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories
Book SynopsisThe ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible. . . . He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really permanent citizen of the earth, for mortals, at best, are but transients.—Dorothy Scarborough This new selection of ghost stories, by Michael Newton, brings together the best of the genre. From Elizabeth Gaskell''s The Old Nurse''s Story through to Edith Wharton''s Afterword, this collection covers all of the most terrifying tales of the genre. With a thoughtful introduction, and helpful notes, Newton places the stories contextually within the genre and elucidates the changing nature of the ghost story and how we interpret it.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Penguin Books Ltd A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Book SynopsisA collection of stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas. Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, has been adapted into countless film and stage versions since it was first published. Dickens's other Christmas writings collected here include 'The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton', the short story from The Pickwick Papers on which A Christmas Carol was based; The Haunted Man, a tale of a man tormented by painful memories; along with shorter pieces, some drawn from the 'Christmas Stories' that Dickens wrote annually for his weekly journals. In all of them Dickens celebrates the season as one of geniality, charity and remembraTable of ContentsA Christmas Carol and Other Christmas WritingsA Dickens ChronologyIntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the TextsChristmas FestivitiesThe Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A SextonA Christmas Episode From Master Humphrey's ClockA Christmas CarolThe Haunted Man And The Ghost's BargainA Christmas TreeWhat Christmas Is, As We Grow OlderThe Seven Poor TravellersAppendix I: Dickens's Prefaces to Collected Editions of The Christmas BooksAppendix II: Dickens's Descriptive Headlines for A Christmas Carol and The Haunted ManAppendix III: Dickens and The Arabian NightsNotes
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Profile Books Ltd The Moth - All These Wonders: 49 new true stories
Book SynopsisFrom storytelling phenomenon The Moth: a collection about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best stories ever told on their stages. All These Wonders features The Moth's customary variety of voices. Storytellers range from Suzi Ronson (who styled David Bowie's hair into Ziggy Stardust) to author Jung Chang, by way of a hip hop 'one hit wonder', an astronomer gazing at the surface of Pluto for the first time and a young female spy-tester in World War II. They share their ventures into uncharted territory - and how their lives were changed forever by what they found there. These true stories have been carefully selected and adapted to the page by the creative minds at The Moth, and encompass the very best of the 17,000+ stories performed in live Moth shows around the world. Filled with a variety of humourous, moving, and gripping tales from all walks of life, it is timed to celebrate the Moth's 20th anniversary year.Trade ReviewPraise for The Moth: 'Brilliant and quietly addictive * Guardian *Beautifully simple, authentic, a little bit therapeutic and utterly addictive. It is a joyful reminder of the power of the story and the need for story-telling. * Sunday Times *The stories remain very much in the voices of those who spoke them and thus retain the vulnerability and rawness inherent in the situation of one person, alone at the mic, telling a room full of strangers something personal. * Observer *The stories not only maintain their oral integrity but take on new dimensions, allowing you to ponder a turn of events or swirl the language around in your head without missing the next part of the story. * New York Times *While these tales transport us into the lives of others, they also invoke recognition with our own; there are connecting wires with even the most disparate experiences and existences, the 'I's are turned into 'we's. They fulfil our fundamental human need to communicate, learn and grow through others. * The List *One of the hottest events in town ... enthralling, funny and moving * The Times *New York's hottest and hippest literary ticket * Wall Street Journal *A wonderful new book ... Some [stories] are heartbreakingly sad; some laugh-out-loud funny; some momentous and tragic; almost all of them resonant or surprising. They are stories that attest to the startling varieties and travails of human experience, and the shared threads of love, loss, fear and kindness that connect us ... The stories here...have translated seamlessly to the page. Though they are all relatively short ... most possess a remarkable emotional depth and sincerity ... They are...closely focused, finely tuned narratives that have the force of an epiphany, while opening out to disclose the panoramic vistas of one person's life or the shockingly disparate worlds they have inhabited or traversed -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *All These Wonders is replete with wondrous true stories of loves, losses, rerouted dreams, and existential crises of nearly every unsugarcoated flavor -- Maria Popova * Brain Pickings *All These Wonders is divided into seven expertly curated chapters. The effect is an anthology of seven Mainstage shows, averaging six stories per show. Each juxtaposes sensational stories by famous names (Ishmael Beah, John Turturro, Tig Notaro, Louis C.K.) with those by relatively unknown storytellers, whose narratives, quite often, deliver the biggest emotional punches -- Megan Labrise * Kirkus Reviews *
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Chronicle Books Tales of the Fae
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Pan Macmillan Classic Locked Room Mysteries
Book SynopsisClassic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?'Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.Locked-room mysteries reached their height of popularity in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; this collection, edited and introduced by David Stuart Davies, brings together stories from such masters of the genre as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton. In each story the reader is invited to play detective and is presented with a challenge: can you solve the mystery before the solution is revealed?
£10.79
Prakash Books Best of Russian Literature HB
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British Library Publishing From the Depths
Book SynopsisThe supernatural is set alongside the grim affairs of sailors scorned in the salt-soaked tales of this anthology, recovered from obscurity for the 21st century.Table of ContentsFrom the Depths - F. Britten Austin The Ship of Silence - Albert R. Wetjen From the Darkness and the Depths - Morgan Robertson Sargasso - Ward Muir Held by the Sargasso Sea - Frank H. Shaw The Floating Forest - Herman Scheffauer Tracked: A Mystery of the Sea - C. N. Barham The Mystery of the Water-Logged Ship - William Hope Hodgson The Murdered Ships - James Francis Dwyer The Ship that Died - John Gilbert Devereux's Last Smoke - Izola Forrester The Black Bell Buoy - Rupert Chesterton The High Seas - Elinor Mordaunt The Soul-Saver - Morgan Burke No Ships Pass - Lady Eleanor Smith
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Princeton University Press The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 One of The Independent's Best Books of 2014 One of South China Morning Post's Best Books of 2014 One of The Globe and Mail 75 Book Ideas for Christmas 2014 "This collection contains many of the most-loved fairy tales in the history of the form ... The book is a classic, formed like a mosaic of precious small pieces, each one glinting with its own color and character, glass and crystalline, but somehow hard, unyielding."--Marina Warner, New York Review of Books "[A] faithful translation--accompanied by striking black-and-white illustrations, evocative of shadow theatre, by Andrea Dezso... [T]he Grimms are spare, spinning the tales into beautifully wrought short stories."--Francesca Wade, Times Literary Supplement "This new translation ... allows those without German expertise a chance to re-experience familiar stories in all their original Hemingwayesque terseness."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "[T]he new Zipes translation of the first edition, with all its notes and annotations, is a must, a treasure for anyone with a serious interest in fairy tales, the motifs of which linger perpetually in the collective mind."--Carmel Bird, Sydney Morning Herald "Thoroughly engaging, Zipes' translations into colloquial American English breathe life into these stories. Award-winning artist Andrea Dezso's cut-paper black and white illustrations capture the essence of this strange and enchanting world that will entice fans of mystical realms and those interested in better understanding the Grimms' enduring influence on literature."--Barbara Basbanes Richter, Fine Books & Collections "[M]agnificent ... what makes this newly released original volume especially enchanting are the breathtaking illustrations by Romanian-born artist Andrea Dezso."--Maria Popova, Brain Pickings "Zipes, who edited and translated the new collection, has done splendid work, first in arguing for the early tales' significance... Zipes' most important achievement, though, is simply putting the complete, uncensored tales before readers to judge for themselves... The Original Folk and Fairy Tales--beautifully illustrated by Andrea Dezso, by the way--isn't the Disneyfied version of the Brothers Grimm that we all grew up with. But for readers whose tastes lean more to, say, Tim Burton, wading into the collection might feel like stumbling into an agreeably dark and Gothic forest."--Doug Childers, Richmond Times-Dispatch "Never before published in English, the first edition of the Brothers Grimms' tales reveals an unsanitised version of the stories that have been told at bedtime for more than 200 years... His version of the original 156 stories ... shows a very different side to the well-known tales, as well as including some gruesome new additions."--Alison Flood, The Guardian "[R]emarkable... Zipes's introduction ... is illuminating... This is the uncut Brothers Grimm: shocking, funny, and at times downright weird."--Rebecca K. Morrison, Independent "[B]eguiling collections that are both a showcase of the enduring fascination with tales of the marvelous and strange and a celebration of those scholars who continue to research the realm of folklore. They unearth gems, and further our understanding of the stories and storytellers' place in the cultural history of their respective countries and, more broadly, in the universal human need to tell and listen to stories... The rewards of these collections are irresistible."--Rebecca K. Morrison, Independent "The new book, published by Princeton University Press, offers a fascinating insight into how the collection has changed with the times."--Nick Enoch, Mail Online "Think you know fairy tales? Be prepared for a nasty shock."--Andrew Donaldson, Rand Daily Mail "Zipes has produced the inaugural English translation of the two original volumes in a gutsy, robust style--warts-and-all."--Marguerite Johnson, The Conversation "A far more unsettling, exhilarating, oral and adult encounter than you might expect of 'fairy stories.'"--Arifa Akbar, Independent "Who wouldn't want to read a story called The Singing Bone? 156 fables--their collected works--newly translated but easily just as creepy and weird."--Globe and Mail "Zipes's translation of the first edition of the collection by the Brothers Grimm is a wonderful addition to the material available in English."--Rowan Williams, New Statesman "As nature, admittedly sharp in tooth, claw and thorn, intended."--James Kidd, South China Morning Post "With Disney's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's fairy tale mash-up musical Into the Woods finding a wide, wide-smiling reception at the box office, it's the perfect time to consider the source: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's dark and stormy tales... Andrea Dezso's illustrations--black-and-white, woodcut-like silhouettes--add the right note of eerie timelessness to these wondrous, wondrously strange yarns."--Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer "[T]hese unexpurgated Grimms' stories are really for older readers who want to delve into the strange stuff that is German folk tales. Deszo's black and white cut-paper illustrations convey a world in which boundaries between the practical and improbable are as fluid and shifting as a dream. 'The miraculous makes self-evident what is wrong with the real world,' writes Zipes in his learned, accessible introduction, and that's as good a key as any by which to enter this extraordinary territory."--Deirdre Baker, Toronto Star "The venerable Jack Zipes, one of the shiniest scholars in fairy tale studies, has brought us a lovely treat, which is a new translation of the first edition of the Grimm Fairy Tales, decorated with wonderfully creepy illustrations by Andrea Dezso... It's an excellent little book. If not a replacement for whatever illustrated fairy tale collection you had as a child, it's certainly a valuable addition to the library of a fairytale-loving child or adult."--Reading the End "The U.S.'s most prolific and deeply insightful fairy tales scholar, Zipes offers a keen and sophisticated, fresh and colloquia, first-time translation--complete with discerning introduction--of the Grimm's original two-volume opus of 156 stories, first published in 1812 and 1815."--Choice "Jack Zipes's new translation of the original two volumes of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales is a revelation... I know I'll be going back to this book, time and again in the years to come."--Benjamin Read, Books To Look For "[A]ccepted as probably the world's greatest authority on the Grimms and fairy tales in general, Zipes is well qualified to redress the common perception of the brothers' published works."--Kevin Murphy, Magonia "Zipes puts forth expert and readable analysis and thoughts on the Grimms, and provides an excellent critical starting point to foster interest in the brothers' history and continuing legacy."--Sam Harby, Nudge Books "[The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition] tempts like the devil to read the tales again, gasp at their brazen heroes, and wander their forest paths."--Willis Goth Regier, World Literature Today "What a treat these stories are, presented to readers now with [Jack Zipes'] masterful translations. The tales are, in turn, moving, brutal, and always unequivocally plainspoken, a refreshing thing to read after so many edited versions. The book also includes exquisite black-and-white cut-paper illustrations from visual artist Andrea Dezso."--Julie Danielson, Kirkus "It's one thing to read Zipes's erudite commentary on the tales, and quite another to discover these differences for oneself in the reading experience, and thus I encourage folklorists, fairy-tale scholars, and lay readers alike to peruse the pages of the first edition of the Grimms' tales. The illustrations by Andrea Dezso--stark, simple, and beautiful--are an additional treat."--Jeana Jorgensen, Journal of Folklore ResearchTable of ContentsList of Figures xv Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Rediscovering the Original Tales of the Brothers Grimm xix Note on the Text and Translation xlv VOLUME I PREFACE TO VOLUME I 3 1. The Frog King, or Iron Henry (Der Froschkonig oder der eiserne Heinrich) 13 2. The Companionship of the Cat and Mouse (Katz und Maus in Gesellschaft) 16 3. The Virgin Mary's Child (Marienkind) 17 4. Good Bowling and Card Playing (Gut Kegel-und Kartenspiel) 21 5. The Wolf and the Seven Kids (Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geisslein) 23 6. The Nightingale and the Blindworm (Von der Nachtigall und der Blindschleiche) 25 7. The Stolen Pennies (Von dem gestohlenen Heller) 26 8. The Hand with the Knife (Die Hand mit dem Messer) 26 9. The Twelve Brothers (Die zwolf Bruder) 27 10. Riffraff (Das Lumpengesindel) 32 11. Little Brother and Little Sister (Bruderchen und Schwesterchen) 34 12. Rapunzel (Rapunzel) 37 13. The Three Little Men in the Forest (Die drei Mannlein im Walde) 40 14. Nasty Flax Spinning (Von dem bosen Flachsspinnen) 42 15. Hansel and Gretel (Hansel und Gretel) 43 16. Herr Fix-It-Up (Herr Fix und Fertig) 49 17. The White Snake (Die weisse Schlange) 53 18. The Journey of the Straw, the Coal, and the Bean (Strohhalm, Kohle und Bohne auf der Reise) 55 19. The Fisherman and His Wife (Von den Fischer und siine Fru) 56 20. A Story about a Brave Tailor (Von einem tapfern Schneider) 62 21. Cinderella (Aschenputtel) 69 22. How Some Children Played at Slaughtering (Wie Kinder Schlachtens mit einander gespielt haben) 77 23. The Little Mouse, the Little Bird, and the Sausage (Von dem Mauschen, Vogelchen und der Bratwurst) 79 24. Mother Holle (Frau Holle) 81 25. The Three Ravens (Die drei Raben) 83 26. Little Red Cap (Rothkappchen) 85 27. Death and the Goose Boy (Der Tod und der Ganshirt) 88 28. The Singing Bone (Der singende Knochen) 89 29. The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs (Von dem Teufel mit drei goldenen Haaren) 92 30. Little Louse and Little Flea (Lauschen und Flohchen) 97 31. Maiden without Hands (Madchen ohne Hande) 99 32. Clever Hans (Der gescheidte Hans) 103 33. Puss in Boots (Der gestiefelte Kater) 110 34. Hans's Trina (Hansens Trine) 115 35. The Sparrow and His Four Children (Der Sperling und seine vier Kinder) 116 36. The Little Magic Table, the Golden Donkey, and the Club in the Sack (Von dem Tischgen deck dich, dem Goldesel und dem Knuppel in dem Sack) 119 37. The Tablecloth, the Knapsack, the Cannon Hat, and the Horn (Von der Serviette, dem Tornister, dem Kanonenhutlein und dem Horn) 126 38. Mrs. Fox (Von der Frau Fuchsin) 129 39. The Elves (Von den Wichtelmannern) 132 About the Shoemaker for Whom They Did the Work (Von dem Schuster, dem sie die Arbeit gemacht) 132 About a Servant Girl Who Acted as Godmother (Von einem Dienstmadchen, das Gevatter bei ihnen gestanden) 133 About a Woman Whose Child They Had Exchanged (Von einer Frau, der sie das Kind vertauscht haben) 133 40. The Robber Bridegroom (Der Rauberbrautigam) 135 41. Herr Korbes (Herr Korbes) 137 42. The Godfather (Der Herr Gevatter) 138 43. The Strange Feast (Die wunderliche Gasterei) 141 44. Godfather Death (Der Gevatter Tod) 142 45. The Wandering of Thumbling, the Tailor's Son (Des Schneiders Daumerling Wanderschaft) 143 46. Fitcher's Bird (Fitchers Vogel) 146 47. The Juniper Tree (Van den Machandel-Boom) 148 48. Old Sultan (Der alte Sultan) 158 49. The Six Swans (Die sechs Schwane) 159 50. Briar Rose (Dornroschen) 162 51. The Foundling (Vom Fundevogel) 165 52. King Thrushbeard (Konig Drosselbart) 167 53. Little Snow White (Sneewittchen [Schneeweisschen]) 170 54. Simple Hans (Hans Dumm) 178 55. Rumpelstiltskin (Rumpelstilzchen) 181 56. Sweetheart Roland (Der liebste Roland) 182 57. The Golden Bird (Vom goldenen Vogel) 185 58. Loyal Godfather Sparrow (Vom treuen Gevatter Sperling) 191 59. Prince Swan (Prinz Schwan) 194 60. The Golden Egg (Das Goldei) 197 61. The Tailor Who Soon Became Rich (Von dem Schneider, der bald reich wurde) 199 62. Bluebeard (Blaubart) 202 63. The Golden Children (Goldkinder) 205 64. The Simpleton (Von dem Dummling) 207 The White Dove (Die weisse Taube) 207 The Queen Bee (Die Bienenkonigin) 208 The Three Feathers (Die drei Federn) 210 The Golden Goose (Die goldene Gans) 212 65. All Fur (Allerleirauh) 216 66. Hurleburlebutz (Hurleburlebutz) 220 67. The King with the Lion (Der Konig mit dem Lowen) 223 68. The Summer and the Winter Garden (Von dem Sommer-und Wintergarten) 225 69. Jorinda and Joringel ( Jorinde und Joringel) 227 70. Okerlo (Der Okerlo) 230 71. Princess Mouseskin (Prinzessin Mausehaut) 233 72. The Pear Refused to Fall (Das Birnli will nit fallen) 234 73. The Castle of Murder (Das Mordschloss) 236 74. Johannes Waterspring and Caspar Waterspring (Von Johannes-Wassersprung und Caspar-Wassersprung) 238 75. The Bird Phoenix (Vogel Phonix) 241 76. The Carnation (Die Nelke) 242 77. The Carpenter and the Turner (Vom Schreiner und Drechsler) 244 78. The Old Grandfather and the Grandson (Der alte Grossvater und der Enkel) 245 79. The Water Nixie (Die Wassernix) 246 80. The Death of Little Hen (Von dem Tod des Huhnchens) 246 81. The Blacksmith and the Devil (Der Schmidt und der Teufel) 248 82. The Three Sisters (Die drei Schwestem) 251 83. The Poor Maiden (Das arme Madchen) 262 84. The Mother-in-Law (Die Schwiegermutter) 263 85. Fragments (Fragmente) 264 Snowflower (Schneeblume) 264 The Princess with the Louse (Prinzessin mit der Laus) 264 Prince Johannes (Vom Prinz Johannes) 265 The Good Cloth (Der gute Lappen) 265 86. The Fox and the Geese (Der Fuchs und die Ganse) 265 VOLUME II PREFACE TO VOLUME II 269 1. The Poor Man and the Rich Man (Der Arme und der Reiche) 274 2. The Singing, Springing Lark (Das singende, springende Loweneckerchen) 277 3. The Goose Girl (Die Gansemagd) 283 4. The Young Giant (Von einem jungen Riesen) 289 5. The Gnome (Dat Erdmanneken) 297 6. The King of the Golden Mountain (Der Konig vom goldenen Berg) 301 7. The Raven (Die Rabe) 307 8. The Clever Farmer's Daughter (Die kluge Bauemtochter) 313 9. The Genie in the Glass (Der Geist im Glas) 316 10. The Three Little Birds (De drei Vugelkens) 319 11. The Water of Life (Das Wasser des Lebens) 324 12. Doctor Know-It-All (Doctor Allwissend) 329 13. The Frog Prince (Der Froschprinz) 331 14. The Devil's Sooty Brother (Des Teufels russiger Bruder) 333 15. The Devil in the Green Coat (Der Teufel Grunrock) 337 16. The Wren and the Bear (Der Zaunkonig und der Bar) 340 17. The Sweet Porridge (Vom sussen Brei) 343 18. The Faithful Animals (Die treuen Thiere) 343 19. Tales about Toads (Mahrchen von der Unke) 347 20. The Poor Miller's Apprentice and the Cat (Der arme Mullerbursch und das Katzchen) 348 21. The Crows (Die Krahen) 351 22. Hans My Hedgehog (Hans mein Igel) 354 23. The Little Shroud (Das Todtenhemdchen) 360 24. The Jew in the Thornbush (Der Jud' im Dorn) 360 25. The Expert Huntsman (Der gelernte Jager) 363 26. The Fleshing Flail from Heaven (Der Dresschpflegel vom Himmel) 368 27. The Children of the Two Kings (De beiden Kunnigeskinner) 369 28. The Clever Little Tailor (Vom klugen Schneiderlein) 377 29. The Bright Sun Will Bring It to Light (Die klare Sonne bringt's an den Tag) 380 30. The Blue Light (Das blaue Licht) 383 31. The Stubborn Child (Von einem eigensinnigen Kinde) 386 32. The Three Army Surgeons (Die drei Feldscherer) 386 33. The Lazy One and the Industrious One (Der Faule und der Fleissige) 389 34. The Three Journeymen (Die drei Handwerksburschen) 390 35. The Heavenly Wedding (Die himmlische Hochzeit) 394 36. The Long Nose (Die lange Nase) 395 37. The Old Woman in the Forest (Die Alte im Wald) 401 38. The Three Brothers (Die drei Bruder) 403 39. The Devil and His Grandmother (Der Teufel und seine Grossmutter) 405 40. Faithful Ferdinand and Unfaithful Ferdinand (Ferenand getru und Ferenand ungetru) 408 41. The Iron Stove (Der Eisen-Ofen) 413 42. The Lazy Spinner (Die faule Spinnerin) 418 43. The Lion and the Frog (Der Lowe und der Frosch) 420 44. The Soldier and the Carpenter (Der Soldat und der Schreiner) 422 45. Pretty Katrinelya and Pif-Paf-Poltree (Die schone Katrinelje und Pif, Paf, Poltrie) 428 46. The Fox and the Horse (Der Fuchs und das Pferd) 430 47. The Worn-out Dancing Shoes (Die zertanzten Schuhe) 431 48. The Six Servants (Die sechs Diener) 435 49. The White Bride and the Black Bride (Die weisse und schwarze Braut) 440 50. The Wild Man (De wilde Mann) 444 51. The Three Black Princesses (De drei schwatten Princessinnen) 448 52. Knoist and His Three Sons (Knoist un sine dre Suhne) 450 53. The Maiden from Brakel (Dat Maken von Brakel) 450 54. The Domestic Servants (Das Hausgesinde) 451 55. Little Lamb and Little Fish (Das Lammchen und Fischchen) 452 56. Sesame Mountain (Simeliberg) 454 57. The Children of Famine (Die Kinder in Hungersnoth) 456 58. The Little Donkey (Das Eselein) 456 59. The Ungrateful Son (Der undankbare Sohn) 461 60. The Turnip (Die Rube) 461 61. The Rejuvenated Little Old Man (Das junggegluhte Mannlein) 464 62. The Animals of the Lord and the Devil (Des Herrn und des Teufels Gethier) 466 63. The Beam (Der Hahnenbalken) 467 64. The Old Beggar Woman (Die alte Bettelfrau) 467 65. The Three Lazy Sons (Die drei Faulen) 468 66. Saint Solicitous (Die heilige Frau Kummerniss) 469 67. The Tale about the Land of Cockaigne (Das Marchen vom Schlauaffenland) 469 68. The Tall Tale from Ditmarsh (Das Dietmarsische Lugen-Marchen) 470 69. A Tale with a Riddle (Rathsel-Marchen) 471 70. The Golden Key (Der goldene Schlussel) 471 List of Contributors and Informants 475 Notes to Volumes I and II 479 Index of Tales 517
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British Library Publishing Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
Book SynopsisThe Women Writers Christmas Collection of Short Stories explores the joys and disappointments, pressures and preparations of this time of year from a female perspective.
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Everyman I Write to Find Out What I am Thinking
Book SynopsisThis hardcover omnibus edition of Didion''s collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work, The Year of Magical Thinking In her essay Why I Write (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained what lies behind her iconic nonfiction writing: I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. Across her long and prolific career, readers have been blessed time and again by her brilliance as a prose stylist and a social commentator. Form her unforgettable reckonings with grief (for her husband in The Year of Magical Thinking and for her daughter in Blue Nights), to her exploration of two iconic regions of America in South and West, through the indelible pieces of reporting collected from across her career in Let Me Tell You What I Mean, the books collected here show Didion at her best: bearing witness to our history, illuminating our culture, and shedding light on the human condition.
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Everyman Christmas Stories
Book SynopsisAs a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging collection. Goblins frolic in the graveyard of an early Dickens tale; a love-struck ghost disrupts a country estate in Elizabeth Bowen's 'Green Holly'; devils, witches, Cossacks and peasants cavort in Gogol's 'The Night Before Christmas'. The plight of the less fortunate haunts Chekhov's 'Vanka' and Willa Cather's 'The Burglar's Christmas', but takes a boisterously comic turn in Damon Runyon's 'Dancing Dan's Christmas' and John Cheever's 'Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor'. From Nabokov's intensely moving story of a father's grief in 'Christmas' to Truman Capote's hilarious yet heartbreaking 'A Christmas Memory', from Grace Paley's Jewish girl in the Christmas pageant in 'The Loudest Voice' to the dysfunctional family ski holiday in Richard Ford's 'Creche' - each of the stories is imbued with Christmas spirit of one kind or another, and all are richly and indelibly entertaining.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
Book SynopsisThe Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allan Poe''s mastery of both Gothic horror and the short story form. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by David Galloway.This selection of Poe''s critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates his intense interest in aesthetic issues, and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. ''The Fall of the House of Usher'' is a slow-burning Gothic horror, describing the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', a murderer''s insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as ''The Pit and the Pendulum'', ''The Raven'' and ''The Cask of Amontillado'' explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate.In his introduction, David Galloway re-examines the myths surrounding Poe''s life and reputation. This edition includes a new chronology and suggestions for further reading.As well as his remarkable literary output, Boston-born Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) had a variety of occupations - he served in the US army and was a magazine editor. Towards the end of his life, he was plagued by mental instability. If you enjoyed The Fall of the House of Usher, you might like Horace Walpole''s The Castle of Otranto, also available in Penguin Classics.''The most original genius that America has produced''Alfred, Lord Tennyson''Poe has entered our popular consciousness as no other American writer''The New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsThe Fall of the House of Usher and Other WritingsChronologyIntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the TextPoemsStanzasSonnet - To ScienceAl AaraafRomanceTo HelenIsrafelThe City and the SeaThe SleeperLenoreThe Valley of UnrestThe RavenUlalumeFor AnnieA ValentineAnnabel LeeThe BellsTalesMS. Found in a BottleLigeiaThe Man that was Used UpThe Fall of the House of UsherWilliam WilsonThe Man of the CrowdThe Murders in the Rue MorgueA Decent into the MaelströmEleonoraThe Oval PortraitThe Masque of the Red DeathThe Pit and the PendulumThe Tell-Tale HeartThe Gold BugThe Black CatThe Purloined LetterThe Facts in the Case of M. ValdemarThe Cask of AmontilladoHop-FrogEssays and ReviewsLetter to B--Georgia ScenesThe Drake-Halleck Review (excerpts)Watkins TottleThe Philosophy of FurnitureWyandottéMusicTime and SpaceTwice-Told TalesThe American Drama (excerpts)HazlittThe Philosophy of CompositionSong-WritingOn ImaginationThe Veil of the SoulThe Poetic Principle (excerpts)Notes
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Union Square & Co. The Art of War
Book SynopsisMore than 2,000 years old, this classic of Chinese philosophy lays out a systematic, rational approach to tactics and strategy that leaders worldwide have applied not only to the military, but also to business, law, martial arts, and sports.
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Pan Macmillan Irish Ghost Stories
Book SynopsisBlend the wild and fevered Irish imagination with a wonderful facility for recounting a dark, compelling tale, add a dash of the supernatural, and you have a potent brew of spine-tingling tales. This anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers includes contributions from such masters as Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and Rosa Mulholland. Within these pages you will find strange accounts of haunted houses, death warnings from beyond the grave, and revengeful spirits, all guaranteed to stir the imagination and chill the blood.The haunting tales featured in this beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Irish Ghost Stories have been selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
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Image Comics This Ends Tonight
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Vintage Publishing An Italian Christmas: Festive Tales for La Dolce
Book SynopsisBuon Natale -- A Merry Christmas -- made all the more joyful with these literary treats filled with ancient churches, plates piled high with pasta, flowing wine, shimmering gifts and plenty of style.In this collection, classic works by Boccaccio to Pirandello intertwine with more recent stories from writers like Anna Maria Ortese, Natalia Ginzburg and Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda to bring together the greatest festive tales from the land of enchantment: Italy.An Italian Christmas showcases stories that put the passionate, fiery side of the festive period back into Christmas.
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Comma Press The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction
Book SynopsisUnder the Israeli occupation of the '70s and '80s, writers in Gaza had to go to considerable lengths to ever have a chance of seeing their work in print. Manuscripts were written out longhand, invariably under pseudonyms, and smuggled out of the Strip to Jerusalem, Cairo or Beirut, where they then had to be typed up. Consequently, fiction grew shorter, novels became novellas, and short stories flourished as the city's form of choice. Indeed, to Palestinians elsewhere, Gaza became known as 'the exporter of oranges and short stories'. This anthology brings together some of the pioneers of the Gazan short story from that era, as well as younger exponents of the form, with ten stories that offer glimpses of life in the Strip that go beyond the global media headlines; stories of anxiety, oppression, and violence, but also of resilience and hope, of what it means to be a Palestinian, and how that identity is continually being reforged; stories of ordinary characters struggling to live with dignity in what many have called 'the largest prison in the world'.Trade ReviewA welcome reminder of the universality of human relations' - The Guardian; 'Tales that reflect that depth and the variety and universality of the Gazan experience' - The Irish Times
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Arthur Rimbaud Complete Works
Book Synopsis“The hallucinatory prose-poems of Arthur Rimbaud rank among the glories of 19th-century French literature.” — New York TimesOne of the world''s most influential poets, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, almost all of which he produced before the age of twenty. Paul Schmidt''s acclaimed collection brings together his complete poetry, prose, and letters, including The Drunken Boat, The Orphans'' New Year, After the Flood, and A Season in Hell. Complete Works is divided into eight seasons—Childhood, the Open Road, War, the Tormented Heart, the Visionary, the Damned Soul, a Few Belated Cowardices, and the Man with the Wind at His Heels—that reflect the facets of Rimbaud''s life. Insightful commentary by Schmidt reveals the courage, vision, and imagination of Rimbaud''s poetry and sheds light on one of the most enigmatic figures in letters.Trade Review“Rimbaud was pure dynamite . . . he restored literature to life.” — Henry Miller “The best edition in English” — Montreal Gazette “Visionary . . . Wicked . . . A Genius.” — The New Yorker “The hallucinatory prose-poems of Arthur Rimbaud rank among the glories of 19th-century French literature.” — New York Times “Paul Schmidt has wavered--no, has hovered--between solicitude and critique, and the result of such suspension is his beautiful, daring, careful work . . . serves us the Rimbaud that matters in its fine mesh.” — Richard Howard, Pulitzer Prize-winner poet and translator; professor, Columbia University “This collection is interesting for the light it casts on the background to the writing of ‘A Season in Hell’ and the poems later referred to (by Paul Verlaine) as ‘The Illuminations’. As well as the poems themselves, Schmidt includes transcriptions of letters (to Verlaine and others) and biographical details from the life of this most nihilistic genius.” — The Guardian “A mystic in the wild state.” — Paul Claudel
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Pan Macmillan Best Fairy Tales
Book SynopsisUniquely inventive and vivacious in style and with deep insight into children's points of view, Hans Christian Andersen established a new genre in literature.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of Best Fairy Tales uses the classic translation by Jean Hersholt and is illustrated by various artists, with an afterword by Ned Halley.Hans Christian Andersen was a profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales - with an anarchic twist - but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination. The thirty stories here range from exuberant early works such as 'The Tinderbox' and 'The Emperor's New Clothes' through poignant masterpieces such as 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Little Match Girl' and 'The Ugly Duckling', to more subversive later tales such as 'The Ice Maiden' and 'The Dryad'.Trade ReviewHans Christian Andersen's fairytales . . . have captivated generations with their blend of plain language, unbridled imagination and haunting strangeness * Guardian *Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are not fairy tales at all; they're too bittersweet, too knowledgeable about the way of the world for that. What they've done is provide us with many of the archetypes that sustain our Western collective unconscious * Independent *
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Prototype Publishing Ltd. PROTOTYPE 3
Book SynopsisThe 3rd issue of Prototype’s annual anthology: a space for new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or restrictions. Poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in between.With contributions from Rachael Allen, Campbell Andersen, Edwina Attlee, Rowland Bagnall, Tom Betteridge, Sam Buchan-Watts, Pavel Büchler, Paul Buck, Theodoros Chiotis, Natalie Crick, Raluca de Soleil, Roisin Dunnett, Maia Elsner, Yuri Felsen trans. Bryan Karetnyk, SJ Fowler, Ella Frears, Sam Fuller, James Gaywood, Chris Gutkind, J L Hall, Ziddy Ibn Sharam, Daniel Kramb, Dal Kular, Eric Langley, Neha Maqsood, Helen Marten, Lila Matsumoto, Otis Mensah, Calliope Michail, Lauren de Sá Naylor, Astra Papachristodoulou, James Conor Patterson, Oliver Sedano-Jones, Marcus Slease, Maria Sledmere, Andrew Spragg, Nick Thurston, Olly Todd, Nadia de Vries, Stephen Watts, Karen Whiteson, Frances Whorrall-Campbell, Alice Willitts, Frannie Wise and Antosh Wojcik.
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Prakash Books Anton ChekhovHB
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MIT Press A Decadent Bestiary
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Comma Press The Book of Bratislava
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Pan Macmillan Love Letters of Great Men
Book SynopsisFrom the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most romantic letters in history.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by publisher Ursula Doyle.For some of these great men, love is a ‘delicious poison’ (William Congreve); for others, love can scorch like the heat of the sun (Henry VIII), or penetrate the depths of one’s heart like a cooling rain (Flaubert). Every shade of love is here, from the exquisite eloquence of Oscar Wilde and the simple devotion of Robert Browning, to the wonderfully modern misery of the Roman Pliny the Younger. Taken together, these Love Letters of Great Men show that perhaps men haven’t changed so very much over the last 2,000 years; passion, jealousy, hope and longing are all represented described here – as is the simple pleasure of sending a letter to, and receiving one from, the person you love most.Trade ReviewThe most romantic book ever * Daily Mail *Pan has pioneered the art of product placement in reverse * Observer *Love Letters will sell boatloads of books * Entertainment Weekly *Inspired by the Sex and the City movie . . . Famous men caught with pen in hand and heart in mouth * The Times *Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction Chapter - 1: Pliny the Younger to his wife, Calpurnia Chapter - 2: King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn Chapter - 3: William Congreve to Mrs Arabella Hunt Chapter - 4: Richard Steele to Miss Mary Scurlock Chapter - 5: George Farquhar to Anne Oldfield Chapter - 6: Alexander Pope to Martha Blount Chapter - 7: Alexander Pope to Teresa Blount Chapter - 8: Alexander Pope to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Chapter - 9: David Hume to Madame de Boufflers Chapter - 10: Laurence Sterne to Catherine Fourmantel Chapter - 11: Laurence Sterne to Lady Percy Chapter - 12: Denis Diderot to Sophie Volland Chapter - 13: Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, to Lady Grosvenor Chapter - 14: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his wife, Constanze Chapter - 15: Lord Nelson to Lady Emma Hamilton Chapter - 16: Robert Burns to Mrs Agnes Maclehose Chapter - 17: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller to Charlotte von Lengefeld Chapter - 18: Napoleon Bonaparte to his wife, Josephine Chapter - 19: Daniel Webster to Josephine Seaton Chapter - 20: Ludwig van Beethoven to his ‘Immortal Beloved’ Chapter - 21: William Hazlitt to Sarah Walker Chapter - 22: Lord Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb Chapter - 23: Lord Byron to the Countess Guiccioli Chapter - 24: John Keats to Fanny Brawne Chapter - 25: Honorè de Balzac to the Countess Ewelina Hanska Chapter - 26: Victor Hugo to Adèle Foucher Chapter - 27: Nathaniel Hawthorne to his wife, Sophia Chapter - 28: Benjamin Disraeli to Mary Ann Wyndham Lewis Chapter - 29: Charles Darwin to Emma Wedgwood Chapter - 30: Alfred de Musset to George Sand Chapter - 31: Robert Schumann to Clara Wieck Chapter - 32: Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett Chapter - 33: Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet Chapter - 34: Gustave Flaubert to George Sand Chapter - 35: Walter Bagehot to Elizabeth Wilson Chapter - 36: Mark Twain to Olivia Langdon Chapter - 37: William F. Testerman to Miss Jane Davis Chapter - 38: Charles Stewart Parnell to Katherine O’Shea Chapter - 39: Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas Chapter - 40: Pierre Curie to Marie Sklodovska (Marie Curie) Chapter - 41: G. K. Chesterton to Frances Blogg Chapter - 42: Captain Alfred Bland to his wife, Violet Chapter - 43: Regimental Sergeant-Major James Milne to his wife, Meg Chapter - 44: Second Lieutenant John Lindsay Rapoport to his fiancée Acknowledgements - ii: Acknowledgements
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Vintage Publishing Hyperbole and a Half
Book SynopsisHilarious stories about life's mishaps from the creator of the immensely popular blog 'Hyperbole and a Half'. Fully illustrated with over 50% new material. Hyperbole and A Half is a blog and webcomic written by a 20-something American girl called Allie Brosh.Trade ReviewA hilarious collection * Mashable *Will certainly help you, should you perhaps decide to indulge in a spot of “self-gifting” in this instance, survive Christmas with your more crazed relatives -- Rachel Cooke * Observer *Fantastic, hilarious, emotional * Mayaland *You may have to push this book away for fear you'll hurt yourself laughing, but its wisdom and humanity – no hyperbole here – are too magnetic to keep at bay for long -- Mary Pols * People Magazine *Honest, poignant and ridiculously silly in all the best ways and I'm better for having read it. Plus, doggies! * Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Wild Isles
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Dzanc Books Be Gay Do Crime
Book Synopsis“Chaotic, sexy, and binge-worthy as hell, Be Gay, Do Crime is an EVENT.”—Ruth Madievsky, author of All Night PharmacyA follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca EkwuyasiA trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she''s had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers’ homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail.In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime-unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.
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Random House USA Inc The Best Short Stories 2024
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Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing
Book Synopsis''A joyous multiplicity of writings incorporating collective manifestos, poetry, fiction, and autobiography... endlessly fascinating'' Catherine Taylor, Financial Times''A tour de force of feminist thinking, spanning seven centuries and multiple continents'' Jennifer Thomson, Review 31''The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing rounds up the voices of women from across history to discuss the meaning and practice of feminism. This is a book that every person should read: the multiplicity of voices from various times and spaces allows women of the past alongside women of the present to be noisy about why feminism matters. It is a collective masterpiece'' Helen Carr, BBC History, Books of the Year''Bulging with brilliant and exciting writing. Its vast sweep takes us from the 15th century, when Christine de Pizan, a court writer in medieval France, imagined a City of Ladies where women would be safe from harassment, through to the present day, with work by Maggie Nelson, Eileen Myles, Rachel Cusk, Deborah Levy and Lola Olufemi'' Rachel Cooke, ObserverEdited with an Introduction by Hannah DawsonTrade ReviewA vast global project ... a joyous multiplicity of writings incorporating collective manifestos, poetry, fiction, and autobiography ... Readers will find both old acquaintances and new discoveries ... admirably and intentionally reaching beyond received western ideas ... an endlessly fascinating anthology -- Catherine Taylor * Financial Times *Bulging with brilliant and exciting writing. Its vast sweep takes us from the 15th century, when Christine de Pizan, a court writer in medieval France, imagined a City of Ladies where women would be safe from harassment, through to the present day, with work by Maggie Nelson, Eileen Myles, Rachel Cusk, Deborah Levy and Lola Olufemi -- Rachel Cooke * Observer *The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing rounds up the voices of women from across history to discuss the meaning and practice of feminism. This is a book that every person should read: the multiplicity of voices from various times and spaces allows women of the past alongside women of the present to be noisy about why feminism matters. It is a collective masterpiece -- Helen Carr * BBC History BOOKS OF THE YEAR *A glorious history of women's struggle for liberation from 1405 to 2020, featuring rebellious feminists of all stripes -- Megan Clement * Australian Book Review *Dawson has curated a tour de force of feminist thinking, spanning seven centuries and multiple continents, and drawing impressively across genre. Playwrights sit alongside political theorists, followed by poetry or fiction. Feminism appears as a vibrant, multi-faceted thing, changing and evolving but ever-present across the centuries ... This collection is not only interested in feminism as a political ideology, but feminism as a creative and artistic force ... what strikes the reader most is the palpable anger that rings across so many of these selections ... This anger was refreshing, a reminder that through the centuries women have had, and continue to have, so much to be angry about ... This book is an important reminder that feminism doesn't need tote bags or novelty jumpers. It doesn't need to be happy and sparkly all the time. Instead, it needs the imaginative, powerful, collective scream into the void that a collection like this provides -- Jennifer Thomson * Review 31 *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Forsyte Saga
Book SynopsisIn this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. Galsworthy's portrayal of the effect of political change on individuals show him as a great social novelist as well as the author of one of the most gripping family sagas ever written.
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Pan Macmillan Sleepily Ever After: Bedtime Stories for Grown
Book SynopsisSleepily Ever After: Bedtime Stories for Grown Ups is a gorgeous little anthology of upbeat, touching, funny and inspiring stories that will help you relax and drift off to sleep. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by Zachary Seager. It’s hard to relax, to keep still and to stop our brains from whirring. We live in a world where lack of sleep is a common problem for many adults. This collection of stories will help to banish anxiety and to soothe stressed minds as they welcome you into a world of happy endings, gentle humour and good choices. Each classic story from authors including Oscar Wilde, Kate Chopin, Guy de Maupassant and H G Wells, has been carefully chosen for the quality of its writing, for great storytelling and to gently help you into the land of nod.
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Library of America The American Short Story The Nineteenth Century Volume 2 LOA 395
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Valley Press Permanent Emotion
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Dead Ink Books Unquiet Guests
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Idea & Design Works Godzilla Vs. America Boston
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Sensory: Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comics
Book SynopsisA colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagnosis journeys to finding community—from contributors with autism.From artist and curator Bex Ollerton comes an anthology featuring comics from thirty autistic creators about their experiences of living in a world that doesn’t always understand or accept them. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum contains illustrated explorations of everything from life pre-diagnosis to tips on how to explain autism to someone who doesn’t have it, to suggestions for how to soothe yourself when you’re feeling overstimulated. With unique, vibrant comic-style illustrations and the emotional depth and vulnerability of memoir, this book depicts these varied experiences with the kind of insight that only those who have lived them can have.Trade Review“The world needs more literature by autistic writers. There is a dearth of literature by and for autistic people, and this fills a gap in a refreshing and much needed manner. ” “There are many different art styles and representations throughout the anthology, and they all capture neurodivergence clearly.” (VLA 2022 Graphic Novel Diversity Awards)
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Penguin Books Ltd Claimed
Book SynopsisPenguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. Woken from his sleep by an urgent request to attend to a new patient, Dr. John Vanaman is soon at the home of Jesse J. Robinson, a wealthy industrialist, struck gravely ill after a struggle with a burglar. The thief was after Robinson's most prized possession, an item he obsessively guards: a mysterious green box, etched with a single line from an unknown language. Soon, Vanaman and Robinson's courageous neice, Leilah, are drawn into an odyssey, a voyage toward the box's ancient, terrifying originThe greatest novel by one of the pioneering female voices in horror writing, Gertrude Barrows Bennett's Claimed! is a masterful intertwining fantasy, philosophy, and terror. The most important female writer of speculative fiction that you've probably never heard of' Worlds Without End
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Ebury Publishing Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song
Book Synopsis‘Hello, sweetie!’Melody Pond, Melody Malone, River Song…She has had many names. Whoever she really is, this archaeologist and time traveller has had more adventures (and got into more trouble) than most people in the universe.And she’s written a lot of it down. Well, when you’re married to a Time Lord (or possibly not), you have to keep track of what you did and when. Especially as it may not actually have happened to both of you yet.These are just a few of River Song’s exploits, extracted from her journals. Sometimes, she is with the Doctor. Sometimes she’s on her own. But wherever and whenever she may be, she is never far from danger and excitement.This is just a tiny portion of her impossible life. But it will reveal more than you’ve ever known about the legend that is River Song.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Old and Middle English c.890c.1450
Book SynopsisSpanning almost seven centuries, this anthology encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English, culminating in some of the finest works produced in the Middle Ages. Building on the success of the first two editions, Old and Middle English c. 890-c.Table of ContentsAlphabetical List of Authors and Works x List of Illustrations xii Preface and Acknowledgements to the First Edition xii Preface and Acknowledgements to the Second Edition xiv Preface and Acknowledgements to the Third Edition xv Chronology of Events and Literary Landmarks xvi Introduction xix Bede’s Ecclesiastical History 1 Cædmon’s Hymn 1 The Settlement of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes; The Life of Cædmon 2 Alfred 13 Preface to the Translation of Gregory’s Pastoral Care 13 Translation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy 16 The Accounts of the Journeys of Ohthere and Wulfstan 24 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 33 Annal 755: Cynewulf and Cynheard; Annal 855–78: The Death of Edmund; Alfred’s Battles with the Vikings 33 The Reign of Æbelstan and The Battle of Brunanburh 42 The Exeter Book 48 Advent Lyrics vii and viii 49 The Wanderer 54 The Seafarer 60 The Whale 66 Deor 70 Wulf and Eadwacer 74 Exeter Book Riddles 5, 7, 12, 26, 29, 30, 43–6, 55 76 The Wife’s Lament 86 The Husband’s Message 90 The Ruin 94 The Vercelli Book 100 The Fates of the Apostles 101 Vercelli Homily x 108 The Dream of the Rood 118 Ælfric 129 Old English Preface to his First Series of Catholic Homilies 129 Homily on the Nativity of the Innocents 134 Old English Preface to his Lives of Saints 142 Passion of Saint Edmund 144 The Battle of Maldon 155 The Beowulf-Manuscript 171 The Wonders of the East 173 Beowulf 182 Judith 224 The Junius Manuscript 243 Exodus 243 Wulfstan’s Sermo Lupi ad Anglos 259 King Cnut’s Letter to the English of 1020 269 Apollonius of Tyre 275 The Peterborough Chronicle 301 The Life of Saint Margaret 308 The Hymns of Saint Godric 324 The Orrmulum 326 Cambridge, Trinity College B. 14. 52 335 Poema Morale, edited by Carla M. Thomas 336 Trinity Homily 33 354 Worcester Cathedral Library, F. 174 363 The First Worcester Fragment 363 Hali MeiKhad 366 Ancrene Wisse 382 Sumer is Icumen In 409 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 86 412 Ubi Sount Qui Ante Nos Fuerount? 413 Stond Wel, Moder, Ounder Rode 415 The Fox and the Wolf 417 Dame SiriF 423 Love is Sofft 434 Arundel 292: The Bestiary 435 Oxford, Jesus College 29 437 The Love-Ron of Friar Thomas Hales 437 The Proverbs of Alfred 443 London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A. ix 456 La3amon’s Brut 456 The Owl and the Nightingale 468 Lyrics from Cambridge, Trinity College B. 14. 39 506 Of One That Is So Fair and Bright 507 When I Think on Domesday 508 When the Turf is Thy Tower 509 A Saying of Saint Bernard 509 I Sing of One That Is Matchless 509 An Orison to Our Lady 510 The South English Legendary 512 The Life of Saint Wulfstan 513 Cursor Mundi 519 Robert Mannyng of Brunne 525 The Chronicle 525 Handlyng Synne 534 The Land of Cockayne 545 The Auchinleck Manuscript 550 Sir Orfeo 550 The Four Foes of Mankind 563 London, British Library, Harley 2253 567 Earth upon Earth 567 Alysoun 568 Spring 569 Advice to Women 570 An Old Man’s Prayer 571 Blow, Northerne Wynd 574 The Death of King Edward I 576 I Syke when Y Singe 578 An Autumn Song 580 King Horn 582 The Ayenbite of Inwit 615 Richard Rolle 619 Ego Dormio 620 Ghostly Gladness 626 Kyng Alisaunder 627 Ywain and Gawain 642 Athelston 656 Wynnere and Wastoure 675 William Langland 688 Piers Plowman 688 Geoffrey Chaucer 728 The Canterbury Tales 728 The General Prologue 729 The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale 748 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 776 Julian of Norwich 801 A Vision 801 The Book of Margery Kempe 809 Select Bibliography 826 Glossary of Common Hard Words 845 Index of Manuscripts 848 General Index 850
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Profile Books Ltd Murder On Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for
Book SynopsisChristmas Eve. While the world sleeps, snow falls gently from the sky, presents lie under the tree ... and murder is afoot. In this collection of ten classic murder mysteries by the best crime writers from the 1920s to today, death and mayhem take many festive forms, from the inventive to the unexpected. From a Santa Claus with a grudge to a cat who knows who killed its owner on Christmas Eve, these are stories to enjoy - and be mystified by - in front of a roaring fire, mince pie in hand.Trade ReviewEach of [the] top-notch writers ... brings a distinctive and imaginative edge to Christmas crime ... a satisfying respite from the forthcoming festivities. -- Barry Turner * Daily Mail *An excellent collection of short stories by ten top-class writers. -- Marcel Berlins * Times Books of the Year *Offers excellent value as the roll call of authors included is really very impressive indeed. * ShotsMag *Looking forward to Christmas? This anthology is a fine way to start it. It's a cracker. -- Amy MyersPraise for Murder under the Christmas Tree: 'This killer selection is the icing on the (Christmas) cake ... this is all your Christmases come at once for fans of the genre. * The Lady *
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Little, Brown Book Group The Virago Book of Friendship
Book SynopsisA fond, fascinated look at women''s friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends''A highly entertaining, often instructive anthology bursting with every kind of amicable - or inimical - anecdote . . . Cooke has dug deep and uncovered nuggets of pure gold in every form of writing . . . a delicious book about the great power and strength of real friendship'' TABLET Friendship, a timeless subject, has never been more debated, something that has to do both with the internet - the perils of WhatsApp groups, the agony of ghosting - as well as with a growing awareness that loneliness is increasing in our society. Friendship has become a matter of urgent inquiry to therapists, scientists and sociologists. We understand its importance more and more, not only as a comfort and a privilege, but as vital to our health. But it''s hard to get inside friendship: its particular intensity and its miraculous ease; its tendency to wax and wane; its ability to inspire both delight and despair. This is the territory of novels and poems, diaries and letters, comics and graphic novels - and it is where the innovative and wide ranging Virago Book of Friendship steps in, bringing together work by more than 100 writers. From Jane Austen to Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf, from Dolly Alderton to Sarah Waters and Meg Wolitzer and, it celebrates and investigates friendship between women from first encounters to final goodbyes, from falling out to making up again.
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