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Patricia Highsmith, author of such classics as The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, was a writer who defied simple categorization. Gore Vidal called her: "One of the greatest modernist writers." The Cleveland Plain Dealer rightly commented: "Patricia Highsmith is often called a mystery or crime writer, which is a bit like calling Picasso a draftsman." To young novelist Marijane Mea...
Роман-сказка "Три толстяка" написан Юрием Олешей в 1924 году. Это повествование, романтическое и героическое, едва ли можно назвать сказкой, сообразуясь лишь с законами привычного жанра. Здесь нет чудес, каких не случалось бы в жизни, не действуют
9" x 6?", 416pp, dark-green buckram, spine and front-board blocked with an elaborate design in gold (incorporationg the usual lettering), hardback. Illustrated with monochrome drawings within the text by Charles Stewart.
Rock ’n’ Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge graduate student, returns to his homeland of Czechoslovakia just as Soviet tanks roll into Prague. When security forces tighten their gr...
The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalised and official theology of the "founding fathers" of the church, the Desert Fathers were ordinary Christians who chose to renounce the world and live lives of celibacy, fasting, vigil, prayer and poverty in direct and simple response to the gospel. Their...
On the vast canvas that is the Transylvanian Trilogy, Count Miklos Banffy paints the picture of an age: pre-Great War Hungary, where a priveledged social elite dance, dream, desire, debate, and duel away their days, only dimly aware that their opulent world - and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire - is on the brink of collapse. In the foreground are two young aristocratic cousins. Balint Abady ente...
Buddhism is a vast and complex religious and philosophical tradition with a history that stretches over 2,500 years, and which is now followed by around 115 million people. In this introduction to the foundations of Buddhism, Rupert Gethin concentrates on the ideas and practices which constitute the common heritage of the different traditions of Buddhism (Thervada, Tibetan, and Eastern) which exis...
In clear language, full of wit and rich in examples, Kurzban explains the roots and implications of our inconsistent minds, and why it is perfectly natural to believe that everyone else is a hypocrite.
In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic.
This is a comic book with pictures.
Of the very first rank of prose stylists, Robert Musil captures a scene's every telling detail and symbolic aspect with a precise and remarkable beauty. In these nine stories and essays, he considers holidaymakers and stone monuments, tales of war and blackbirds, and the great pathos of a tiny death: a fly's impossible fight against the grip of flypaper. Includes such stories as: ...
...and their unique charm resonates throughout this high-spirited gathering of first-rate short fiction! So cozy up with some of today's best Irish women writers -- many favorites from the first Irish Girls collection and some lively newcomers -- as they spin nineteen all-new tales ranging from poignant and heartwarming to provocative and outright hilarious.
The Mani, at the tip of Greece's-and Europe's-southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past is still very much a part of its people's daily lives. Patrick Leigh Fermor, who has been described as "a cross be...
A collection of 16 original stories from today's foremost fiction writers--including Ed McBain, Jonathan Kellerman, Sara Paretsky, Mary Higgins Clark, Elmore Leonard, James Crumley, John Gardner, Anne Perry, Donna Tartt, Shel Silverstein, Bobbie Ann Mason, Carol Higgins Clark, William J. Caunitz, Michael Malone, and Faye Kellerman--each a brilliant mystery exploring that peculiar area that li...
Ingram sets out concisely the difference between concentration-based and insight (vipassana) meditation; he provides example practices; and most importantly he presents detailed maps of the states of mind we are likely to encounter, and the stages we must negotiate as we move through clearly-defined cycles of insight. It’s easy to feel overawed, at first, by Ingram’s assurance and ease in the high...
First published in 1811, this collection of jokes, comic anecdotes, sensational murder stories, moral tales, and mysteries celebrates the ingenuity and cunning of the common man.
For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been...
The Sainte Chapelle is one of the most celebrated of medieval buildings. No visitor can resist the splendour of its stained glass windows in the upper chapel. Founded by Saint Louis in the heart of his royal palace on the Ile de la Cite to house the greatest relics of the Passion of Christ, this site is recognized as a realm of memory, a high place of the royal Capetian dynasty and the apogee of G...
The pressure is on for Josie as the conflict increases between her cozy suburban home life and her work as a paid killer! No one said it'd be easy to be a wife and mother, but now she faces her toughest job yet-one where she'll find out how cold-blooded she really is.
Josie is a happily dedicated housewife and mother in 1960s suburban Seattle-but she's keeping a secret from her family: she's also a contract killer with nerves of steel! But when the tables turn and she finds herself with a target on her own back, she looks for answers from another mysterious, deadly woman!
Josie closes in on the truth behind who really wants to end her life as a cheerful housewife, mother, and ruthlessly skilled assassin! Who is really behind the hit? And are they closer to home than she'd like?
?A landmark work of lesbian fiction.? ?The New York Times
From the seventeenth century to the early years of the twentieth, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of profound hereditary deafness. In stark contrast to the experience of most deaf people in our own society, the Vineyarders who were born deaf were so thoroughly integrated into the daily life of the community that they were not seen - and did not see themselves...
