The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
9 best books like The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (Malcolm Bradbury): Brokeback Mountain, Dr. Faustus, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The Mermaids Singing, The Secret Commonwealth, Betrayal, The Penguin Book of English Short Stories, The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor, Swallowtail Summer
| Author | Annie Proulx |
| ISBN | 0743271327 |
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender...
| Author | Christopher Marlowe |
| ISBN | 0486282082 |
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| ISBN | 0141439777 |
No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and...
| Author | Val McDermid |
| ISBN | 0312983603 |
Val McDermid stunned readers and critics alike with the publication of her brilliant thriller, A PLACE OF EXECUTION, which was a finalist for the prestigious Edgar Award. Now, in THE MERMAIDS SINGING, she continues her trademark ingenuity for suspense, and introduces criminal profiler Tony Hill,...
| Author | Philip Pullman |
| ISBN | 1448194512 |
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.
It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end...
| Author | Harold Pinter |
| ISBN | 0571160824 |
Betrayal is Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play begins in 1977, with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended. During the nine scenes of the play, we move back in time, through the states of their affair,...
The last hundred years or so have proved fertile ground for the short story. Writers of genius from Dickens and Hardy to Angus Wilson annd Graham Greene have received exceptional praise fro their skilful handling of this art form.
This volume contains sixteen examples of the short story at...
The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
| Author | Mark Schatzker |
| ISBN | 1476724210 |
A lively and important argument from an award-winning journalist proving that the key to reversing America's health crisis lies in the overlooked link between nutrition and flavor.
In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number one public health crisis...
It was the summer it all ended . . . It was the summer a new story began.
Linston End has been the summer home to three families for several decades. The memories of their time there are ingrained in their hearts: picnics on the river, gin and tonics in the pavilion at dusk, hours spent seeking out the local...
