Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories

Author	William Faulkner
ISBN	0679732268

Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, a lonely outcast haunted...

Author	Peter Handke
ISBN	1590170199

Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the war, and the postwar consumer economy, she struggled to maintain appearances, only to arrive at a terrible recognition: "I'm not human any more." Not long after, she killed herself with an overdose of...

Author	Alan Garner
ISBN	0007127863

A disturbing exploration of the inevitability of life. Under Orion's stars, bluesilver visions torment Tom, Macey and Thomas as they struggle with age-old forces. Distanced from each other in time, and isolated from those they live among, they are yet inextricably bound together by the sacred power...

Author	Lia Purpura
ISBN	1932511393

“Purpura is the real deal, and so is every successive sentence in this collection. A cornucopiac vocabulary is married to a strict economy of expression; an offbeat curiosity is married to the courage of difficult witnessing. . . .”—Albert Goldbarth “Purpura's prose is a system of delicate...

Author	Oscar Wilde
ISBN	0192833766

For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost;" such well-known fairy tales as "The Happy Prince," "The Young King," and "The Fisherman...

Author	Ferdinand von Schirach
ISBN	3630875386

Was ist Wahrheit? Was ist Wirklichkeit? Wie wurden wir, wer wir sind?

Ferdinand von Schirach beschreibt in seinem neuen Buch "Strafe" zwölf Schicksale. Wie schon in den beiden Bänden "Verbrechen" und "Schuld" zeigt er, wie schwer es ist, einem Menschen gerecht zu werden und wie voreilig...