622円 American Notes is the fascinating travel journal of one of nineteenth-century America's most celebrated visitors: Charles Dickens. A lively chronicle of his five-month trip around the United States in 1842, the book records the author's adventures journeying by steamboat and stagecoach, as well a...

1,408円 'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.' Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War - the English enfant ...

6,633円 Essays by Susan V. Donaldson, Lael Gold, Adam Gussow, Martin Kreiswirth, Jay Parini, Noel Polk, Judith L. Sensibar, Jon Smith, and Priscilla Wald William Faulkner once said that the writer "collects his material all his life from everything he reads, from everything he listens to, everything he s...

150円 Tragic Ends: Sinful Tales with a Twist is a collection of two short stories based on the theme of the seven deadly sins.

2,818円 John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the accomplishment of his craft ensured that he also became known as a writer's writer. He set his novels in places he knew intimately-Dublin, London...

500円 Set in Hobart in the mid 1870s 21 year old Meg Hamilton arrives from England to discover why she has not heard from her grandmother for two years. After learning from cousins, Rissa and Angus MacGregor that her beloved Grandma Kate is serving a prison sentence for a murder committed twenty-eight ...

450円 Contemporary American Poetry, Narrative, Original Work, Canine Behavior, Single Author

0円 Eleven stories make up this collection. A number, like 'The Guiding Hand' and 'Unspecified Matters' are biting satire while others, like 'A Day Oot', 'Window Boxes' and 'Martyrs' are gentler in tone. Covering roughly the period from the early nineteen seventies until the millennium, around half c...

164円 This file includes: Celtic Twilight, Four Years, Rosa Alchemica, The Secret Rose, Stories of Red Hanrahan, and Synge and the Ireland of His Time. According to Wikipedia: "William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th ce...

794円 P. J. ORourke said, “Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words Write what you know is confined to a labor camp… The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?” Like ORourke, William Faulk...

1,088円 Nothing would have given Will Percy greater delightーhe died in January 1942ーthan this Collected Poems, for although he was lawyer, soldier, cosmopolitan, plantation-owner, and patriot, it was as a poet that he chose to think himself. And indeed this is a volume to be treasured by those whose me...

200円 We have all experienced loneliness at some stage in our life. Whether it is sitting alone in a doctor's office or witnessing some poor soul sleeping on a flattened carton, loneliness is there in different degrees. Why not read this collection of eleven short stories and see how loneliness appears...