Iubiri si intrigi la Palat, Volumul VII - Viata amoroasa a lui Gheorghiu-Dej si a familiei lui politice

Comediennes

It wasn't until the 10th century that women were allowed to perform, and then only in rare incidences. Like many art forms, female comedy got

New Ghosts

These poems live and move among images: beach, forest, fire, dark - and then among the images of images: hunger, shadow, regret. What is it

Finding a Girl in America

Set in Dubus's largely coastal New England world, these short works focus on the residual anguish and momentary elation of deep emotional attachments--between lovers, bet...

Samuel Beckett (Overlook Illustrated Lives)

Plin de imagini nepublicate până acum și detalii surprinzătoare, acest portret revelator al celui mai enigmatic dramaturg al secolului al XX-lea se concentrează pe drama...

All That Follows

From the masterful author of Being Dead and Quarantine, a hypnotic novel about what it means to be a hero Leonard Lessing once cast a

Heroes: Vengeance

Titan Comics, in association with Universal Pictures and NBC announces the launch of all-new Heroes graphic novels, to coincide with the upcoming series Heroes: Reborn

Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England

These narratives of violence, theft, disruptive sexuality, and rebellion compelled their readers to sort through fragmentary or contested evidence, anticipating the openn...

The Engagements

1947: Mary Frances Gerety, a young copywriter in an eminent advertising agency, has to convince the world of two things - that marriage means a

Things You Should Know

In this stunningly original collection, A. M. Homes writes with terrifying compassion about the things that matter most. Homes's distinctive narrative illuminates our dre...

Writers between the covers

What happened off the page was often a lot spicier than what was written on it... Why did Norman Mailer stab his second wife at

Between the Psyche and the Polis

Incorporating studies of Freudian and Marxist approaches to questions of history and memory, this timely collection illuminates how history is being refigured in contempo...

The Medieval French Alexander

Overall, the collection offers a provocative rethinking of the monumental medieval French tradition of Alexander the Great, as well as valuable insight into the emergence...

Herbert Read

During his lifetime, Herbert Read (1893–1968) acquired a considerable international reputation. Poet and anarchist novelist and biographer critic of art, literature, an...

The Reception of Grimms' 'Fairy Tales'

'The essays address the reception of the Grimms' texts by their readers the dynamics between Grimms' collection and its earliest audiences and aspects of the

Being a Boy Again

Marcia Jacobson's Being a Boy Again identifies a literary genre that flourished between the Civil War and World War I - the American boy book.

The Lair

Norman Manea, cel mai faimos autor contemporan român în străinătate, a fost supraviețuitor a două regimurilor totalitare în România, urmând să plece în exil în

Will Sparrow's road

In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling 'oddities' ex...

Mr Murder Is Dead

Foreward by Jeph Loeb There's been a murder… Mr. Murder is found dead! Old Gould Kane, long into his retirement as a top cop, looks

Contemporary Solitude

Explores how solitude is handled in various cultural contexts, and how solitude can alternatively help or thwart personal growth. Many case examples reveal the role

Screamin' Jay Hawkins' all-time greatest hits

'The R & B wildman Screamin' Jay Hawkins only had a single hit, the classic 'I Put a Spell On You,' and was often written

Torchwood, Volume 1

Collection of the first 5 issues in a brand new series based on the TV show Torchwood. The members of the Torchwood Institute, a secret

Fridays At Enricos

Taken from a recently discovered manuscript published posthumously, this story provides a snapshot of San Francisco and Portland in the early 1950s and 1960s as

A Brief Guide to Oz (Going Over the Rainbow)

Presents a guide to the many versions and incarnations of Oz on screen, on stage, and in literature, while looking at the novels by Baum

Last Day I Saw Her

Janey's instincts tell her that she must finally find out what happened to Hattie, but life is already complicated enough: she's struggling with motherhood, a

Torchwood: Vol. 2

The members of the Torchwood Institute, a secret organization founded by the British Crown, fight to protect the Earth from extraterrestrial and supernatural threats. To...

The Great Leader

Retired Detective Sunderson must get past his troubles with alcohol if he and an unlikely 16-year-old sidekick are ever going to expose an elusive cult

Beautiful Twisted Night

Marc Almond's writing -- verse and prose -- concentrates on the city, the night, red light and low life, the same scenes which appear in

Devotion

Ella is flat broke: wasting away on bodega coffee, barely making rent, seducing the occasional strange man who might buy her dinner. Unexpectedly, an Upper

Treason by Words

Lemon investigates the remarkable phrase, treason by words, both as a legal charge and as a cultural event under the Tudor monarchy.

Satellite

Satellite samples texts written by many different writers, from Ulf Poschardt to Mae West. The book is organised around current interests pursued by Angela Bulloch,

Openwork

'André du Bouchet, a great innovator of twentieth-century letters, has yet to be fully recognized by a wide circle of international readers. This inviting volume

For Two Thousand Years

Disponibil pentru prima dată în limba engleză, romanul clasic al lui Mihail Sebastian din 1934 pătrunde în mintea unui student evreu din România în anii

Across the Mystic Shore (Macmillan New Writing)

The arrival of a young boy in an upper-middleclass Bengali household triggers a gripping story of love, desire, and renunciation. Set in two cities, New

The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era

This collection of essays traces Calvinism's presence in twentieth-century literature and demonstrates its impact as psychological construct, cultural institution, and so...

The Body and Eucharistic Devotion in Catharina Regina Von Greiffenberg's 'Meditations'

New study of the writings of Catharina von Greiffenberg, the German Baroque religious author. This book presents a fresh view of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg,

Mae Volume 1

When she was just a girl, Abbie discovered a portal to fantasy world and for the last couple of years has been having great adventures

The lawyer's secret

Orphan Ellinor Arden is called from her secluded Paris home to London for the hearing of her estranged uncle’s will. To her surprise, she is

Mimi Lee Gets a Clue

Nominated for a Lefty Award! Mimi Lee is in over her head. There's her new Los Angeles pet grooming shop to run, her matchmaking mother

Sarah's Psalm

While visiting Senegal, Sarah Stewart, who is married and on a rising career track, falls in love with her literary mentor, Ibrahim Mangane, and with

LOVE INSURANCE

Take a risk on love in this zany romantic comedy that will charm you from the very first page! P.G. Wodehouse meets Oscar Wilde meets

Boys of Summer

Get swept away in this breezy beach read about love, family, and the true meaning of friendship. Meet the Boys of Winlock Harbor... Grayson Cartwright:

The Unpossessed City: A Novel

A gripping novel about the dangers and draws of contemporary Russia, from the author of The Geographer's Library With The Geographer's Library, Jon Fasman made

A Single Journey

With a failed relationship behind her, a business on the rocks and a flat that’s falling apart around her ears, she could really use some

The Rivals (Les Corrivaus) - Jean de la Taille

Jean de La Taille's play Les Corrivaus is the comical story of the rivalry between Filadelfe and Euverte for the lovely Fleurdelys. Difficulties are resolved

Narrative and Culture

This collection draws together 14 essays in which the writers discuss narrative texts and practices, drawn from a variety of media and genres. The essays

Talk Back: The Bubble Project

Blank Bubbles transform the corporate monologue into a true public dialogue.

No Ordinary Wedding Planner

This is the inspiring story of Naomi Thomas, a secondary breast cancer sufferer who has decided to devote the remainder of her life to spreading

Real Lolita

„Real Lolita” este un tur de forță al muncii de detectiv literare. Nu numai că aruncă o lumină nouă asupra terifiantei povești care a influențat

The Dead Republic

The triumphant conclusion to the trilogy that began with A Star Called Henry. Henry Smart is back. It is 1946, and Henry has crawled into

All the time in the world

From a master of modern American letters comes an enthralling collection of brilliant short fiction about people who, as E. L. Doctorow notes in his

Faulkner and His Critics

Drawn from the pages of Modern Fiction Studies—with its distinguished tradition of publishing scholarship on William Faulkner—this landmark volume collects nineteen semin...

Voices of Italian America

Voices of Italian America presents the first authoritative study and anthology of the largely Italian-language literature written and published in the U.S. from the heyda...

My Wyl and My Wrytyng

The essays examine Audelay's biography, his self-representation as the maker of his book, and the specific parts of that book, from the poems and colophons

Virginia Woolf

Many of the accompanying illustrations showing Woolf and intimates from the famed Bloomsbury Circle-which included economist John Maynard Keynes and biographer Lytton St...

Reading Hemingway's Men without women

A close reading of one of Hemingway's short story collections. It guides readers towards understanding how Hemingway tested old ideas of family, gender, race, ethnicity

Retete de suflet - Cele mai gustoase bucate gatite in manastirile romanesti

Autor: Dan-Silviu Boerescu

LICHTENBERG & THE LITTLE FLOWER GIRL

From dross to gold, an enchanting tale of love is spun. Goethe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, Einstein--all praised the writings of Georg...

Crown of Smoke

The exciting conclusion to the Shadowscent duology! Rakel travels outside the borders of the empire, seeking answers to new questions about the past. Meanwhile, Ash

A Tale Told By Moonlight

An after-dinner walk in the moonlight leads to a series of confessions of first loves, each one sentimental and romantic. That is until Jessop takes

Poetry of Haitian independence

'This collection of deeply felt and powerfully moving Haitian poetry dating back to the first decades of the Caribbean island's independence from French colonial rule