Rander Belmorn is far from home. He searches tirelessly for the one man who might be able to cure his dying son, but time is running out. The road has led to a frozen waste at the very edge of t...więcej »
First published in 1933, Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein contains three prose pieces written in the stream-of-consciousness style that Stein was famous for.
A modernist ...więcej »
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts...więcej »
Men's Wives (1852) is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. Divided into three sections--"The Ravenswing"; "Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berry"; and "Dennis Haggarty's Wife"--Men's Wives s...więcej »
Aboard the ship Scylla, there is no future or past. Jaq, her fickle lover Lily, and their all-female crew exist in an endless present. It's better this way. At least it ...więcej »
One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.'
Thus begins The Metamorphosis, cited as one of the sem...więcej »
Peace has been reached, but just how long will it last?Paige Whiskey has a lot on her plate. Her twins are following in their father's footsteps and tearing up...więcej »
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Espanola). Escalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Military officers stage a coup agai...więcej »
Making a living is hard. In a lawless city where gods are real, dragons are traffic hazards, and buildings move around on their own, it can feel downright impossible.Good thing freelance ...więcej »
A sailor called Ishmael narrates the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on the white whale Moby Dick, which on a previous voyage destroyed his ship and severed hi...więcej »
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an epic sea-story of Captain Ahab's voyage in pursuit of Moby Dick, a great white whale and is considered one of the Great American Novels and a leading work of American...więcej »
Moon Wrasse is a voyage through transformation and disenfranchised grief: parenthood ambivalence, queer infertility, gender transition from the perspective of a life partner; a navigati...więcej »
On a trip to reignite the spark in her marriage, Alaina Grace's upgraded first-class ticket places her far from her husband and next to the notorious Jack Volmer, a former teen actor who'd previ...więcej »
J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, said that his writing was inspired and influenced by the books of William Morris. This book contains two of Morris's best loved books: The House o...więcej »
"A multi-generational family drama in small-town America with vivid descriptions and a focus on strong female protagonists, love, and courage." -Sublime Book Reviewwięcej »
Lee Cataldi, born 1942, lives near Adelaide and has published three books of poetry. Invitation to a Marxist Lesbian Party, which won the Ann Elder memorial Prize, The Women who Liv...więcej »
IntroductionThat the present edition of "My Japanese Wife" has been called for is a source of satisfaction to the writer. Of previous editions some 60,000 copies have been sold...więcej »