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Love Stories by Diana Secker (EDT) Tesdell
Category: Architecture | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms- first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited love, marriage, adultery, jealousy, and the complicated bonds of those who have spent their lives together.An array of writers evoke ...Show more
Olinger Stories by John Updike
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
The first one-volume hardcover edition of the eleven autobiographical stories that were closest to Updike's heart. With full-cloth binding and a silk ribbon marker. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS. In an interview, Updike once said, "If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Storie ...Show more
Rome Stories by Jonathan Keates (Editor); TBC Staff
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
From Plutarch to Pasolini, from Henry James to Alberto Moravia, this collection of classic tales of the Eternal City draws on a wide range of brilliant writers from ancient times to the present. A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS. During its three-thousand-year his ...Show more
STORIES OF THE SEA by EVERYMAN
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
A gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the deep, of voyages that test human limits on the wild and limitless waters. Classic adventures stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Steve ...Show more
Selected Stories by Saki
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
A beautifully jacketed hardcover selection of 53 darkly witty, whimsical, and macabre short stories by an acknowledged master of the form. Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and featuring well-contrived plots and ...Show more
Shaken & Stirred: Intoxicating Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell (Ed)
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis; Charles Jackson and Jean Rhys chronicle li ...Show more
Stories from the Kitchen by Diana Secker Tesdell
Category: Accessories | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics
Stories from the Kitchen is a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, by a rich variety of authors from Dickens, Chekhov and Saki to Isak Dinesen, Jim Crace and Amy Tan. The menu includes choice titbits from famous novels: the triumphant boeuf en daube served in Virginia Wo ...Show more
Stories of Fatherhood by Diana Secker Tesdell (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
Stories of Fatherhood gathers more than a century of classic short stories about having, becoming, loving, and losing fathers. Frank O'Connor's hilarious tale of a tiny boy's war against his paternal rival in "My Oedipus Complex" sits beside Ann Packer's touching portrait of a man preparing for the won ...Show more
Stories of Motherhood by Diana Secker Tesdell
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
Now joining Everyman's Library--the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world's greatest works--is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure. _________________________ Stories of Motherhood gathers more than a cen ...Show more
Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from Ovid to Austen and from Robin Hood's Sherwood For ...Show more
Stories of the Sea by Diana Secker Tesdell (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
A gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the deep, of voyages that test human limits on the wild and limitless waters. Classic adventures stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis S ...Show more
The Best Medicine - Stories of Healing by Theodore Dalrymple
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
An inspired anthology about physical and psychological illness, healing, and healers--featuring a brilliant array of classic and contemporary writers, from Anton Chekhov to Lorrie Moore.This unique anthology gathers fictional tales of sickness and of healing, both physical and psychological, from a wide ...Show more