Plays, Prose, Literary Theory

Author: Fiona McFarlane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize "THERE IS IN THESE TALES A RECURRENT 'FEELING OF QUEASY ANTICIPATION, ' AS ONE...

Author: Garrison Keillor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Stories, monologues, and essays by Garrison Keillor, founder and host of A Prairie Home Companion The first retrospective from...

Author: William H Gass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the...

Author: William Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Long neglected as the first American novel, Mr. Penrose narrates the adventures of a British youth who flees an...

Author: Dr. Andrew Bomback (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the...

Author: Claudia Baracchi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work...

Author: David Means Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Following the publication of his widely acclaimed, Man Booker-nominated novel Hystopia, David Means returns to his signature form: the short story....

Author: Russell Banks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A collection of short stories from the contemporary American master whom the New York Times declared "the most compassionate...

Author: Deb Olin Unferth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 200 "Deb Olin Unferth's stories are so smart, fast, full of heart, and distinctive in voice--each an intense little thought-system going...

Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'When I write I think deeply about my friends, I pray for them, I tell them my emotions and...

Author: Daniel Swift Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In 1945, the American poet Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during...

Author: 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 478 The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria...

Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 465 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...

Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...

Author: Harry Hill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A TIMES BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2021 'The funniest man in the world has written the funniest book in the world.'...

Author: William Cook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Auberon Waugh has been compared to Jonathan Swift. He was an outrageous satirist who slaughtered whole herds of sacred cows and...

Author: J D Daniels Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The first collection from a Whiting Writers' Award winner whose work has become a fixture of The Paris Review and...

Author: Nikolai Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Fresh, stylish new translations of Gogol's greatest short stories collected in a beautiful edition 'One of the most profound,...

Author: Yu Hua Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the celebrated author of To Live, one of China's most famous contemporary writers--a stunning collection of stories, selected from the...

Author: Nickolas Butler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with...