Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.
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Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
A collection of fifty-five important pieces of short fiction of the twentieth century features masterworks by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, and other notable writers.
A mother bear patiently rescues her mischievous cub when he gets into one difficulty after another while playing instead of learning to hunt.
Beloved author Mary Balogh spins two classic stories of Regency England. In The Famous Heroine, Cora Downes has beauty, spirit, and money, but no breeding. Thrust into high society, she is compromised into marriage. In The Plumed Bonnet, Alistair Munro, the Duke of Bridgwater, re...
Presents eight adventurous episodes that took place in British Guyana, Saudi Arabia, the Arctic, and other parts of the world.
Since 1915 the Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best t...
One of the masters of early German cinema, G. W. Pabst seemed to have an innate talent for discovering actresses. And perhaps none of his female stars shone brighter than Kansas native and onetime Ziegfeld girl Louise Brooks, whose legendary persona was defined by Pabst's lurid, ...
At the centre of Runaway are three stories connected into one marvellously rich, long narrative, about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild and passionate love match; then returns to the home of her parents, whose life and curious marriage she finally...
Jane Munro's newest collection of poetry, Active Pass, explores connections among the visual arts, yogic discipline and self-regeneration. The book opens with a suite of ghazals arising from the conflicts in mid-life, moves into poems about Mary Pratt's paintings and closes with ...
What's a mouse to do when little brother and big sister take up all mom and dad's time? Yup. Plenty of noise.