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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of Essays
Book SynopsisThe essay is one of the richest, most imaginative, and most eloquent literary form. This anthology contains some 140 essays by all the leading exponents of the genre.Trade ReviewA vast, wonderful company. * Michael Foot,The Observer, *From the thousands of essays and pieces available nobody would choose the same...but I doubt if anyone would have chosen better * Frank Kermode,Independent on Sunday *The selection has nothing in it that is not of the top class...John Gross has the shrewdest possible eye for what practitioners in the genre can do best with a sense of form and culture, of humour and balance...Every essay here is a pleasure to read. * John Bayley, Times Literary Supplement *John Gross's achievement is to see the essay as an essentially modern medium which addresses us as directly and potently as the newspaper. * Barbara Everett, The Independent *
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Dover Publications Inc. Tao Te Ching Dover Thrift Editions
Book SynopsisAn integral part of Chinese thought for more than 2,000 years, the Tao Te Ching teaches individual peace and harmony through meditation. One of the most influential books in history.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
Book SynopsisNot just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him ''unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living''. Clark Ashton Smith - autodidact, prolific poet, amateur philosopher, bizarre sculptor, and unmatched storyteller - simply wrote like no one else, before or since. This new collection of his very best tales and poems is selected and introduced by supernatural literature scholar S. T. Joshi and allows readers to encounter Smith''s visionary brand of fantastical, phantasmagorical worlds, each one filled with invention, terror and a superlative sense of metaphysical wonder.Trade Review“[Smith] is a fantasist with a much subtler graph of what gives the genre known as ‘weird fiction’ its own peculiar delights...Smith’s vision echoes through popular culture...‘The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis’ [is] the template for later science fiction horrors such as Alien and The Thing—just as ‘The Dark Eidolon’ itself looks ahead to every evil sorcerer in fantasy novels and films.”—Peter Bebergal, Times Literary Supplement"In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, he is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living. Who else has seen such gorgeous, luxurious, and feverishly distorted visions of infinite spheres and lived to tell the tale?" —H. P. Lovecraft "Smith is sui generis, one of the most uninfluenced and original writers I know of. A germ from Poe, a little fire from George Sterling, perhaps an acid drop from Bierce, the color and cruelty of Eastern Legends." —Fritz Leiber "Incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures. . . Take one step across the threshold of his stories and you plunge into colour, sound, taste, smell and texture: into language." —Ray Bradbury "It is often impossible to say where man's inspirations come from . . . my impetus remains as bright and compelling as it was the day I removed it from a library shelf . . . and passed—incredibly!—out of that building through a portal to the City where the Singing Flame lived." —Harlan Ellison
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Faber & Faber To the Ends of the Earth
Book SynopsisA new one-volume edition of this classic sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia.Rites of Passage (Winner of the Booker Prize)''The work of a master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom.'' The TimesClose Quarters''A feat of imaginative reconstruction, as vivid as a dream.'' Daily MailFire Down Below''Laden to the waterline with a rich cargo of practicalities and poetry, pain and hilarity, drama and exaltation.'' Sunday TimesTrade Review"'[Rites of Passage] is the work of a master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom.' The Times; 'Laden to the waterline with a rich cargo of practicalities and poetry, pain and hilarity, drama and exaltation.' Sunday Times"
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British Library Publishing Resorting to Murder
Book SynopsisA collection of 14 vintage mysteries from the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton, Anthony Berkeley, Phyllis Bentley among others.
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Octopus Publishing Group A Year in Story and Song
Book SynopsisDrawn from Lia Leendertz''s bestsellingThe Almanaccomes a compilation of stories and songs that celebrate the activities and festivities of the seasons. Featuring mischievous boggarts, saints and sailors, leprechauns and dragons, pilgrimages and charms, add a little magic to your journey through each year. A Year in Story and Songis a captivating collection of stories and songs that celebrates the seasons. We humans love stories. We love to hear them and to tell them,around fires and by bedsides, and we love to use them to makesense of the world around us. The seasons, in all their ever-changingvariety, give us many opportunities for storytelling: the full moons andtheir names, Epiphany in January, St Patrick''s Day in March,May Day, Midsummer, Halloween and more. They featuremischievous boggarts and fairies, saints and sailors, leprechaunsand dragons, pilgrimages and charms, milk maids and rosequeens, Robin Hood and the green man. The songs range fromshanties and love songs, to bawdy ballads and wassails, to carolsand rounds, and have been sung for hundreds of years, oftenat particular moments in the calendar. A beautiful gift for old and young, as well as anindispensible month by month guide to songs and stories, this is a book to treasure all year, every year.
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HarperCollins Publishers The Times Lives Less Ordinary
Book SynopsisDiscover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 85 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. Be they dons, pop stars, vicars, MPs, rugby players or aristocrats, each has marched to the beat of their own drum and led a life far from ordinary.The Times obituaries have given readers throughout the world an instant picture of a life for more than 150 years. Meet the mavericks, rogues and eccentrics from recent history, including:Baroness Trumpington, the codebreaking, chainsmoking, two-finger-flicking grande dame of British politicsMagic Alex' Mardas, inventor who was the Beatles' scientific guru'Zsa Zsa Gábor, Hungarian socialite and actress who made a success out of celebrity and was best known for having married nine timesJohn Lucas, influential philosopher who argued against determinism and had a reputation for being the most eccentric don in OxfordBrigadier Jack Thomas, military police commander who survived a landmine,
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Penguin Adult The Penguin Book Of The Modern American Short
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Storm for the Living and the Dead
Book SynopsisA timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski’s best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known since they appeared in small magazines but were never collected, and a large number of them have yet to be published. In Storm for the Living and the Dead, Abel Debritto has curated a collection of rare and never- before-seen material—poems from obscure, hard-to-find magazines, as well as from libraries and private collections all over the country. In doing so, Debritto has captured the essence of Bukowski’s inimitable poetic style—tough and hilarious but ringing with humanity. Storm for the Living and the Dead is a gift for any devotee of the Dirty Old Man of American letters.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc On Quality
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Day of Fire
Book SynopsisFrom six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagined novel following the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupts.Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Thurber Carnival
Book SynopsisThe hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of ''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'', collected in this classic anthology.This collection brings together the best of James Thurber''s brilliantly funny, eccentric and anarchic writings. It includes his most famous work, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in which an ordinary man''s fantasies have a more powerful hold on him than reality, as well as essays, poetry and cartoons gathered from all of Thurber''s collections. Making fun of his own weaknesses and those of other people (and dogs) - the English teacher who looked only at figures of speech, the Airedale who refused to include him in the family, the botany lecturer who despaired of him totally - James Thurber is a true original, whose off-beat imagination shows us everyday life from a different angle.James Thurber was born in 1894 at Columbus, Ohio, where, as he once said, so many awful things happened to him. After university (Ohio State) he worked Trade ReviewOne of the absolutely essential books of our time * Saturday Review of Literature *One of the great humorists * Sunday Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Complete Short Fiction Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisThe complete short stories of the masterful Irish writerFairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners—the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral justice is comically inverted in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and The Canterville Ghost, and society's materialism comes under sharp, humorous criticism in The Model Millionaire, while The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose are hauntingly melancholic in their magical evocations of selfless love. These small masterpieces convey the brilliance of Wilde's vision, exploring complex moral issues through an elegant juxtaposition of wit and sentiment.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 work
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Oxford University Press Selected Poetry
Book SynopsisThis selection of the Byron's poetical works includes such masterpieces as Childe Harold, The Corsair, Manfred, Bebbo, and Don Juan. There are many other less familiar works and shorter lyrics, and Jerome J. McGann's introduction and notes give fascinating insight into Byron's world.
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
Book SynopsisPresents the full range of classic English ghost fiction, including some of the very best and most frightening ghost stories ever written.Trade ReviewAn excellent anthology, full of uncanny pleasures and unsettling tales. Guaranteed to make your flesh crawl. * Waterstones Books Quarterly *
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HarperCollins Publishers A Snowkissed Winter
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HarperCollins Publishers Under The Mediterranean Sun
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Dover Publications Inc. How to Write
Book SynopsisAn excellent introduction to the unique voice of Gertrude Stein and a treat for her fans, this 1931 book presents the modernist author's thoughts on the art and craft of writing.
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Faber & Faber The Faber Book of Utopias
Book SynopsisEvery age has its utopias, from Plato''s Republic to contemporary sci-fi visions. In this spellbinding anthology John Carey charts the course of every conceivable dream world - whether communist, fascist, anarchist, green, golden age, techno-fantastic or hermaphroditic - combining a broad historical sweep with lively variety. An experienced and imaginative anthologist, editor of The Faber Book of Reportage and The Faber Book of Science, Carey has gathered together a vast range of texts from Ancient Egypt to modern California, the authors of which, in different ways, attempt to describe a better world than our own.
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Faber & Faber Train Songs Poetry of the Railway
Book Synopsis''This is the night mail crossing the border,Bringing the cheque and the postal order...'' -- W.H. AudenWordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and against the consequent opening up of the Lakes to holiday hordes (''On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway''). His dismay was echoed down the decades by disturbed ruralists, and yet the train has become part of our psychic landscape: some of the best-loved English poems - Edward Thomas''s ''Adlestrop'', or Philip Larkin''s ''Whitsun Weddings'' - have celebrated carriages, platforms and waiting rooms, while locomotion has inspired some of the most characteristic poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Stevenson, Hardy and MacNeice, Betjeman and Auden (whose ''Night Mail'' was written to accompany a 1930s GPO documentary about the postal express from Euston to Glasgow).Co-edited by two of our most distinguished poets, Train Songs offers a round tour -
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British Library Publishing A Literary Christmas
Book SynopsisA Literary Christmas is a seasonal anthology collecting poems, short stories and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. With a new cover by Sinem Erkas.Trade Review"It's as if the selection has come from the St Pancras behemoth itself and is all the better for it . . . a timeless and authoritative collection of festive writing." --New European
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British Library Publishing The Measure of Malice
Book SynopsisThe detectives in this collection are masters of scientific deduction, whether they are identifying the perpetrator from a single scrap of fabric, or picking out the poison from a sinister line-up. The Measure of Malice collects tales of rational thinking to prove the power of the human brain over villainous deeds.
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British Library Publishing Final Acts
Book SynopsisThis expertly curated thespian anthology features fourteen stories from giants of the classic crime genre such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Julian Symons and Ngaio Marsh, as well as firm favourites from the British Library Crime Classics series: Anthony Wynne, Christianna Brand, Bernard J. Farmer and many more.
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Mira Books SPRINGTIME SUNSHINE
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Swan Isle Press The Azure Cloister ThirtyFive Poems
Book SynopsisNew translations of poems by prominent Peruvian poet Carlos Germán Belli. This selection of poems by internationally renowned Peruvian poet Carlos Germán Belli tempers a dark, ironic vision of worldly injustice with the red midnight sun of hope. Belli's contemplative verses express faith in language, in bodily joy, and in artistic form. These thirty-five poems explore public and domestic spaces of confinement and freedom, from paralysis to the ease of a bird in its azure cloister. Translations by Karl Maurer retain Belli's original meter, follow his complex syntax, and meet the challenges of his poetic language, which ranges from colloquial Peruvian slang to the ironic use of seventeenth-century Spanish. This bilingual edition also includes notes and reflections on Belli and on the art of translation. Beyond introducing American readers to a major presence in world poetry, The Azure Cloisteroffers a fresh approach to the translation of contemporary verse in Spanish. Trade Review"Belli’s work seeks the limits of human experience in forms that summon 'the bodies in which we dwell,' sometimes with what Maurer calls the 'tortuous Gongoresque syntax' of the Spanish Baroque, and in evocations of the timeless, abject, and ineffable." * Harriet (Poetry Foundation) *“Belli has proven time and again that poetry can be both a renewal and enrichment of the language and a protest against inequalities.” * Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas *"I began reading Belli when he published his first poems, back in the fifties, in a magazine called Mercurio Peruano, and I needed only to read those half dozen texts to feel that this was a new voice, of powerful lyrical worth and great imaginative audacity, capable—as only great poets are —of transforming ugliness into beauty, sadness into stimulation, and turning to gold—that is to poetry— whatever he touches. All that Belli has written since then has only confirmed and enriched his extraordinary gift of poetry." -- Mario Vargas Llosa, Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature"Carlos Germán Belli is an indispensable poet, and his poetry--intimate, pure, inimitable--is waiting for us in the future. Reader, you are that future." -- Raúl Zurita, Chilean National Prize for Literature and Reina Sofia Prize for Ibero-American Poetry"Belli attends to the emotional hues and ironies of contemporary life with the refined textures of the Spanish Baroque. His poems create dreams and landscapes of past and present where language and experience bear the traces of technological change. In this remarkable translation, as in Belli's originals, a range of linguistic registers, times and places are woven into a seamless tapestry, and every rhythm and accent matters. Maurer has managed to invent an English idiom that captures the subtleties of a poet who—along with César Vallejo and Blanca Varela—is one of Peru's very greatest." -- Efraín Kristal, distinguished professor of Spanish, Latin American, and Comparative Literature, UCLA
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Pan Macmillan The Colour of Madness
Book SynopsisDr Samara Linton is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary content producer, and co-author of Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography. A University of Cambridge and UCL graduate, she has worked as a medical doctor and written for gal-dem, Metro and the Royal College of Psychiatrists.Dr Rianna Walcott is an academic, activist, writer and musician. She is a PhD candidate at Kings College London researching Black women's identity in digital spaces, and a graduate twice over from the University of Edinburgh. Rianna has written for the Guardian, Metro, Vice, Dazed and The Wellcome Collection.
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Cambridge University Press Stories of Ourselves Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis series contains poetry and prose anthologies composed of writers from across the English-speaking world. Stories of Ourselves Volume 2 is a set text for Cambridge IGCSE, O Level and International AS & A Level Literature in English courses. The anthology contains short stories written in English by authors from many different countries and cultures, including Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Christina Rossetti, Janet Frame, Jhumpa Lahiri, Romesh Gunesekera, Segun Afolabi, Margaret Atwood and many others. Classic writers appear alongside new voices from around the world in a stimulating collection with broad appeal.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Acknowledgements; 1. Death of the Laird's Jock - Walter Scott; 2. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment - Nathanial Hawthorne; 3. Nick - Christina Rossetti; 4. George Silverman's Explanation - Charles Dickens; 5. The Nightingale and the Rose - Oscar Wilde; 6. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Ambrose Bierce; 7. The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion - Thomas Hardy; 8. The Copper Beeches - Arthur Conan Doyle; 9. A Story of a Wedding Tour - Margaret Oliphant; 10. The Shrinking Shoe - Walter Besant; 11. The Middle Years - Henry James; 12. Going Blind - Henry Lawson; 13. The Little Regiment - Stephen Crane; 14. The Woman's Rose - Olive Schreiner; 15. The Lady's Maid's Bell - Edith Wharton; 16. The Furnished Room - O. Henry; 17. Gabriel-Ernest - Saki (Hector Hugh Munro); 18. The Widow's Might - Charlotte Perkins Gilman; 19. Eveline - James Joyce; 20. Them Others - Stacy Aumonier; 21. The Doll's House - Katherine Mansfield; 22. A Warning to the Curious - M.R. James; 23. Death in the Woods - Sherwood Anderson; 24. Indian Summer of an Uncle - P.G. Wodehouse; 25. 'And Women Must Weep' - Henry Handel Richardson; 26. The Black Ball - Ralph Emerson; 27. Lappin and Lapinova - Virginia Woolf; 28. Stability - Philip K. Dick; 29. The Tower - Marghanita Laski; 30. The Gold Watch - Mlk Raj Anand; 31. The Reservoir - Janet Frame; 32. Thank You M'am - Langston Hughes; 33. A Visit - Anna Kavan; 34. The Axe - Penelope Fitzgerald; 35. When It Happens - Margaret Atwood; 36. Words - Carol Shields; 37. The Man Who Walked on the Moon - J.G. Ballard; 38. A Walk to the Jetty - Jamaica Kincaid; 39. In the Mountains - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; 40. Showing the Flag - Jane Gardam; 41. Sharmaji - Anjana Appachana; 42. Mrs. Sen's - Jumpa Lahiri; 43. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers - Yiyun Li; 44. Mrs Mahmood - Segun Afolabi; 45. Promenade - Henrietta Rose-Innes; 46. The Plantation - Ovo Adagha; 47. Haywards Heath - Aminatta Forna; 48. The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu; 49. Fluke - Romesh Gunesekera.
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Hodder Education Level 1Level 2 Cambridge National in Engineering
Book SynopsisTrust highly experienced teachers and authors Jonathan Adams, Alex Reynolds and Peter Valentine, to guide your students through the redeveloped Cambridge National in Engineering Design (J822 for first teaching from September 2022). This revised and updated version of the bestselling first edition will strengthen your students' understanding of the core content and boost the skills required to tackle the NEA with confidence. Brought to you by the No.1 Engineering textbook publisher, this extensively revised and updated Student Textbook is:- Comprehensive - gain in-depth knowledge of the examined units with clear explanations of every concept and topic, plus improve understanding of all the non-examined units with in-depth and easy-to-follow chapters. - Accessible, reliable and trusted - structured to match the specification and provide the information required to build knowledge, understanding and skills. - Designed to support you - boost confidence when tackling the internal and
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Dialogue Lifes Short Talk Fast
Book SynopsisA vibrant and page-turning anthology of essays on what Gilmore Girls means to writers from different walks of life.
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Gibbs Smith What I Know about Gratitude
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Dark Horse Comics,U.S. 10000 Ink Stains A Memoir
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Cathy 50th Anniversary Collection
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Soft Skull Press That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting
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Library of America The American Short Story The Nineteenth Century
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The New York Review of Books, Inc I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
Book SynopsisPreviously uncollected nonfiction pieces by Hollywood''s ultimate It Girl about everything from fashion to tango to Jim Morrison and Nicholas Cage. With Eve’s Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books that followed, among them Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex and Rage, have seduced generations of readers with their unfailing wit and impossible glamour. What is less well known is that Babitz was a working journalist for the better part of three decades, writing for the likes of Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Esquire, as well as for off-the-beaten-path periodicals like Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Francis Ford Coppola’s short-lived City. Whether profiling Hollywood darlings, getting to the bottom of health crazes like yoga and acupuncture, remembering friends and lovers from her days hobnobbing with rock stars at the Troubadour and art stars at the Ferus Gallery, or writing about her beloved, misunderstood hometown, Los Angeles, Babitz approaches every assignment with an energy and verve that is all her own. I Used to Be Charming gathers nearly fifty pieces written between 1975 and 1997, including the full text of Babitz’s wry book-length investigation into the pioneering lifestyle brand Fiorucci. The title essay, published here for the first time, recounts the accident that came close to killing her in 1996; it reveals an uncharacteristically vulnerable yet never less than utterly charming Babitz.
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Flame Tree Publishing Elemental Forces
Book SynopsisThe fifth volume in the ABC of Horror, a non-themed series of original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris.
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Reaktion Books Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing about
Book SynopsisThe follow-up to the bestselling Wanderers, Kerri Andrews' Way Makers is the first anthology of women's writing about walking. Moving from the eighteenth century to the present day, and across poetry, letters, diaries, novels and more, this anthology traces a long tradition of women's walking literature. Walking is, for the women included in this anthology, a source of creativity and comfort; it is a means of expressing grief, longing and desire. It is also a complicated activity: it represents freedom but is also sometimes tinged with danger and fear. What cannot be denied any longer is that walking was, and continues to be, an activity full of physical and emotional significance for women: this anthology is testament to the rich literary heritage created by generations of women walker-writers over the centuries.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION by Kerri Andrews Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 1746 Frances Burney, Evelina; or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World (1778) Ann Yearsley, 'Clifton Hill', from Selected Poems (1785) Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790 (1790) Charlotte Smith, Rural Walks: In Dialogues: Intended for the Use of Young Persons (1795) Mary Wollstonecraft to William Godwin, 10 September 1796 Dorothy Wordsworth, The Alfoxden Journal (1798) Sarah Murray, Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland (1799) Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal (1800) Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mary Shelley, History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland (1817) Jane Austen, Persuasion (1817) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) Dorothy Wordsworth to William Johnson, 21 October 1818 Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, The Journal of Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, 16 May 1822 Ellen Weeton, Miss Weeton's Journal of a Governess (1825) Dorothy Wordsworth, 'Thoughts on My Sick-Bed' (1832) Charlotte Bronte to Emily Jane Bronte, 2 September 1843 Harriet Martineau, A Year at Ambleside (1845) Emily Bronte, 'Loud Without the Wind was Roaring', from Poems, by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846) Christina Rossetti, 'The Trees' Counselling' (1847) Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847) Harriet Martineau to Mr H. G. Atkinson, 7 November 1847, from Autobiography 'Often Rebuked, yet Always Back Returning', from Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, ed. Charlotte Bronte (1850) Harriet Martineau, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes (1855) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856) Charlotte Bronte, The Professor (1857) Eliza Keary, 'Through the Wood', from Little Seal-Skin (1874) Kate Chopin, 'Beyond the Bayou' (1893) Gwen John to Ursula Tyrwhitt, 3 September 1903, La Reole Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield, Sunday, 16 May 1915 Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925 Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting: A London Adventure (1927) Nan Shepherd, 'Summit of Coire Etchachan', from In the Cairngorms (1934) Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Tuesday, 2 October 1934 Frieda Lawrence, 'Not I, But the Wind . . .' (1935) Sylvia Townsend Warner, Summer Will Show (1936) Nan Shepherd to Neil Gunn, 14 May 1940 Flora Thompson, Heatherley (1944) Jessie Kesson, 'Blaeberry Wood' (1945) Jessie Kesson, 'To Nan Shepherd' (1945) Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (1945) Janet Adam Smith, Mountain Holidays (1946) Anais Nin, 'The Labyrinth', from Under a Glass Bell (1948) C. C. Vyvyan, Down the Rhone on Foot (1955) Eleanor Farjeon, Walking with Edward Thomas (1958) Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life, trans. Peter Green (1960) Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain (1977) Jenny Nimmo, The Snow Spider (1986) Alexandra Stewart, Daughters of the Glen (1986) Muriel Gray, The First Fifty: Munro-Bagging Without A Beard (1991) Kathleen Jamie, 'At Point of Ness', from The Queen of Sheba (1994) Alice Oswald, 'Another Westminster Bridge', from Woods, etc (2005) Gwyneth Lewis, 'Imaginary Walks in Istanbul', from Sparrow Tree (2011) Cheryl Strayed, Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found (2012) Linda Cracknell, Doubling Back: Ten Paths Trodden in Memory (2014) Linda Cracknell, 'Assynt's Rare Animals?' (2015) Lauren Elkin, Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London (2016) Melissa Harrison, Rain: Four Walks in English Weather (2016) Helen Mort, 'Kinder Scout', from No Map Could Show Them (2016) Camille T. Dungy, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (2017) Kate Davis, 'She teaches herself to walk across a limestone landscape', from The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk (2018) Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing (2018) Raynor Winn, The Salt Path (2018) Nancy Gaffield, Meridian (2019) Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing (2019) Anita Sethi, I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain (2021) Sasha Dugdale, 'The Fall of the Rebel Angels', from Deformations (2020) Sarah Moss, The Fell (2021) Polly Atkin, 'Unwalking', from Much With Body (2021) Sonia Overall, Heavy Time (2021) Merryn Glover, Of Stone and Sky (2021) WORKS INCLUDED PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Funny Ha, Ha: 80 of the Funniest Stories Ever
Book SynopsisThe Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology series of the funniest stories ever written, selected by comedian Paul Merton. From Anton Chekhov to Ali Smith, from P.G. Wodehouse to Nora Ephron, the greatest writers are those who know how to laugh. Here, award-winning comedian and broadcaster Paul Merton brings together his favourite funny stories of all time. Whether it's the silly, surreal, slap-stick or satirical that makes you smile, there's a story here to tickle every funny bone. From prize-winners and literary giants, to stand-up comedians and the rising stars of funny literature, this brilliant anthology is guaranteed to cheer your day.Trade ReviewAnybody who dips into Funny Ha, Ha [...] will emerge many hours later filled not only with pleasure and delight, but also with a sense of gratitude to Merton for choosing so well * The Times *Comprehensively joyful * Sunday Times *As you might expect from as singular a comic talent as Paul Merton, this compilation of his favourite funny stories offers material both hilarious and unusual * Guardian *A mixture of old favourites [...] and new discoveries... You're bound to find stories that put a smile on your face' * Daily Mirror *Poignant as well as funny... There are plenty of belly laughs... Whatever your taste in humour, the book is so vast you are bound to find stories to put a smile on your face' * Sunday Express *Extremely funny... [An] eclectic, wide-ranging anthology' * Sunday Times *Easy to dip in and out of * Scotsman *Such gems that they are well worth another outing... The book does indeed have its charms' -- HeraldWhether it's the silly, surreal, slapstick or satirical that tickles your funny bone, there's a tale here to suit in this chunky collection of 80 funny short stories * This England. *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC We, Robots: Artificial Intelligence in 100
Book SynopsisArtificial intelligence in 100 stories. To ready us for the inevitable, here are 100 of the best short stories ever written – most of them by humans – about artificial intelligence. Simon Ings has assembled anthropomorphic cyborgs and invertebrate AIs, thuggish metal lumps and wisps of manufactured intelligence so delicate that if you blink you might miss them in the new overlord of all robot literary compendiums. It's Alive! is about inventors and their creations. Following the Money drops robots into the day-to-day business of living. Owners and Servants considers the human potentials and pitfalls of owning and maintaining robots. Changing Places looks at what happens at the blurred interface between human and machine minds. All Hail the New Flesh waves goodbye to the physical boundaries that once separated machines from their human creators. Succession considers the future of human and machine consciousnesses – in so far as we might have one. With 100 stories spanning an order of magnitude more pages, Simon Ings's We, Robots is the new overlord of all robot literary compendiums. Welcome it.Trade ReviewWe, Robots is the new cyborg overlord of literary compendiums... The scope and variety of this short story collection is impressive' * Independent *A glorious delve into the many guises of robots and artificial intelligences. This book is a joy and a triumph. Recommended most highly, and definitely one of my books of the year * SFF World *Simon Ings goes into orbit as a science fiction master * Daily Mail *
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MX Publishing A Study In Statecraft: The Memoirs of Mycroft
Book SynopsisUnearthed after being lost for nearly a century, at last the memoirs of Mycroft Holmes are available to the general public.Students and followers of his brother, the Great Baker Street detective, Sherlock Holmes, have to date only been offered two stories in which Mycroft Holmes appears and two in which he is mentioned. This publication of the memoirs of Mycroft Holmes after their sensational discovery in the summer of 2023 transforms our understanding of Sherlock Holmes''s more intelligent elder brother.In this volume we see what it is when one extraordinarily talented person is the British Government as Mycroft Holmes applies his skills in statecraft to tax evasion, royal honours, Partygate, the 1918 Armistice, and the Abdication crisis of 1936.Mycroft Holmes was at his apogee in the time covered by these memoirs.Is it just chance that this time
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MX Publishing Further Undiscovered Archives of Sherlock Holmes
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Canongate Books The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
Book SynopsisShakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the bookshop to remain a place of meaningful and transformative conversation, owner Sylvia Whitman and novelist and literary director Adam Biles have hosted several hundred interviews with writers, ranging from prize-winning novelists to visionary non-fiction writers. The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews is a selection of the best of these interviews from the last decade. Packed with warmth, sensitivity and humour, it's a celebration of the greatest writers of our age and an insight into the lives and thoughts behind some of today's most talked-about books.Trade ReviewThis handsome hardback comprises a series of interviews with authors that took place on the shopfloor over the past decade or so * * Times Literary Supplement * *A tantalising glimpse into the thoughts of some of our most vital writers . . . This is a refreshing approach to a text that, in other hands, could have felt stuffy and inaccessible * * Arts Desk * *A collection of talks with an impressive range of writers that celebrates its heritage as a focus of cultural conversation . . . Thanks to this collection, you can settle into a corner of Shakespeare and Company even if you can't make it to Paris * * Harper's Bazaar * *Biles is a skilled interviewer, soliciting reflections that shed light on how successful authors approach their craft and think about the world. The result is an illuminating glimpse inside the minds of writers * * Publisher's Weekly * *
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The History Press Ltd The Anthology of English Folk Tales
Book SynopsisThis spellbinding collection of stories once again gathers together tales from across the whole of England in one special volume. Drawn from The History Press' Folk Tales series, this second selection features further tales from a wealth of authentic English storytellers, honouring the unmistakable character of England's customs, beliefs and dialects.
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Everyman Selected Writings
Book SynopsisHumboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, swimming with crocodiles, racing through anthrax-infected Siberia, or publishing groundbreaking bestsellers. Ahead of his time, he recognized nature as an interdependent whole and he saw before anyone else that humankind was on a path to destroy it. He was one of the first European to study the Inca, Aztec and Mayan cultures and his epic five-year expedition to Latin America (1799–1804) prompted him to denounce slavery as 'the greatest evil ever to have afflicted humanity'. To Humboldt, the melody of his prose was as important as its content, and this selection from his most famous works - the Personal Narrative of his travels to Latin America, Cosmos, Views of Nature, Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, The Geography of Plants and his anti-slavery essay in Political Essay of the Island of Cuba - allows us the pleasure of reading his own accounts of his daring explorations and new concept of nature. Humboldt’s writings profoundly influenced naturalists and poets including Darwin, Thoreau, Muir, Goethe, Wordsworth, and Whitman. The Selected Writings is not only a tribute to Humboldt’s important role in environmental history and science, but also to his ability to fashion powerfully poetic narratives out of scientific observations.
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Everyman In a Yellow Wood
Book SynopsisSelected by Cynthia Ozick from a dozen books written across more than fifty years, the essays and short stories gathered here constitute a summing-up of her remarkable literary career. In such classic essays as Who Owns Anne Frank?, What Helen Keller Saw, Dostoevsky's Unabomber, and Transcending the Kafkaesque, Ozick examines some of the world''s most illustrious writers and their work, tackles compelling contemporary literary and moral issues, and looks into the wellsprings of her own lifelong engagement with literature. In her short stories, including A Hebrew Sibyl, What Happened to the Baby?, Dictation, The Biographer's Hat, and The Conversion of the Jews, Ozick demonstrates again and again her stylistic brilliance and the originality of her distinctive interweaving of the strands of history and myth.
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Everyman Stories of Fatherhood
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging anthology pays tribute to fathers young and old. At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer tells of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first child’s birth, and from Frank O’Connor’s comes a hilarious tale of a small boy’s war against his paternal rival in ‘My Oedipus Complex’. At the other, John Updike’s ‘My Father’s Tears’ and Jim Shepard’s ‘The Mortality of Parents’ bring us face to face with a loss that is like no other. Maupassant, Kakfa, Nabokov, Edith Wharton, Raymond Carver, Graham Swift, Julian Barnes, Helen Simpson …all these and more offer a wonderful assortment of fictional takes on the paternal bond.
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd The Unheard Voices
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays celebrates 10 years of the SI Leeds Literary prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women writers. These are important words spoken by important women about the lives they have lived, their experiences, and all the things they’ve really wanted to write about but have had trouble getting commissioned, due to narrow expectations of the publishing industry. Essays include: Why I Write, Discouragement and Courage, The Versions of Me You Do Not See, Three Wise Women, Writing, Race and Sex. Contributing writers include Suad Kamardeen, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Gail Boland, Irenosen Okojie, Wenyan Lu, Amita Murray, Mahsuda Snaith, Shereen Tadros, Winnie M Li, Fiona Goh, Saima Mir, Huma Qureshi.
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Granta Books The Essential Tales Of Chekhov
Book SynopsisIn this extraordinary collection of twenty tales, Richard Ford, a master short-story writer in his own right, has selected his personal favourites from among more than two hundred of Chekhov's tales and novellas. Included are the familiar masterpieces 'The Kiss', 'The Darling' and 'The Lady with the Dog' as well as several brilliant lesser-known tales such as 'A Blunder', 'Hush!' and 'Champagne'. These stories, written between 1886 and 1899, are drawn from Chekhov's most prolific years as a short-story writer. Introduced by Richard Ford's perceptive observations on 'Why We Like Chekhov', The Essential Tales of Chekhov is an indespensable anthology.
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