The Complete Stories
8 best books like The Complete Stories (Zora Neale Hurston): A Mercy, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield, Алмазная колесница, Pooh and the Philosophers: In Which It Is Shown That All of Western Philosophy Is Merely a Preamble to Winnie-the-Pooh, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One, Beneath The Planet of The Apes, Corregidora, Le Mariage de Figaro
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0307264238 |
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
| Author | Katherine Mansfield |
| ISBN | 1840222654 |
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University.
Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned...
| Author | Boris Akunin |
| ISBN | 5815906972 |
Книга издана в двух томах. Первый том начинается в 1905 году, со встречи со штабс-капитаном Рыбниковым, знакомым нам по повести Куприна. Русско-японская...
| Author | John Tyerman Williams |
| ISBN | 0525455205 |
In this splendidly preposterous volume, John Tyerman Williams sets out to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the whole of Western philosophy--from the ancient Greeks to the existentialists of this century--may be found in the works of A. A. Milne. Williams shows how Pooh--referred to here as...
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
| ISBN | 1417936142 |
1903. Part One contains Volumes I-IV of X. French author of the naturalistic school, Maupassant is generally considered to be the greatest French short story writer of his day. The Complete Short Stories contains the 300 short stories Maupassant wrote during the 1880s, including his horror fiction,...
Beneath The Planet of The Apes
| Author | Michael Avallone |
| ISBN | 0553080334 |
Since I am a huge science fiction fan I had to read Beneath the Planet of the Apes. It’s the last book of the series, which were movies before. I was sucked into this book very quickly and finished it in two days between reading other books. Packed with heroic action and cheesy romance, the story delivered...
| Author | Gayl Jones |
| ISBN | 0807063150 |
Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.
From the back cover: "History and fiction have yielded little about those black slave women who were mistress and...
| Author | Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais |
Forcé de parcourir la route où je suis entré sans le savoir, comme j'en sortirai sans le vouloir, je l'ai jonchée d'autant de fleurs que ma gaieté me l'a permis ; encore je dis ma gaieté, sans savoir si elle est à moi plus que le reste, ni même quel est ce Moi dont je m'occupe : un assemblage informe...
