Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.Between his second and third tours of duty, a soldier returns h
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.'You have to marry outside your clan,' she said. 'That's law. A
南方哥德文學經典《好人難遇》，看歐康納筆下的小人物，如何掙扎著構築出想望的一切，再輕輕巧巧地摧毀與被摧毀。那些苦心撐起的、視之至重的，轉瞬間皆歸於虛無。炎夏將至，人性中不怎麼美好的那一面也許能讓你自心底竄起一絲涼意。A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture they recognise from the paper . . .Flannery O'Connor's famous fifties story evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God and grace - and is utterly uncompromising in its brutality.
Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett's first book, More Pricks Than Kicks. Publish
An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich. 'How long would she last? It would be uppermost in all their minds.' Each day, while the
'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh voice: "He married your wife, didn't he? Took
Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to
Features a collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival. This title includes poems, such as: 'The Jaguar', 'The Thought-Fox' and 'Wind'.
Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian
George was born into a world of village cricket matches and fox-hunting, but his failing income and the onset of war threatens his way of life. A touching depiction of pre-First World War Britain, Mem
A play that tells the story of a love triangle between Jimmy, an intelligent and educated man of working class background, his upper-middle-class wife Alison, and her superior and disdainful best-frie
'I could get in,' Marianne thought, 'if there was a person inside the house. There has got to be a person. I can't get in unless there is somebody there.' A powerful and haunting classic about a girl
Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve Your Sight-Reading! Flute, Grades 6--8 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful si
David Guetta: The Songbook is a collection of 42 hit songs from the world's biggest DJ, arranged for piano, voice, and guitar for the first time in one book. This artist-approved songbook features a 4
"A highly promising work full of good scenes, strong characters and sharp dialogue." - GuardianThree couples struggle to meet their basic needs for food, love and survival. As they try to make sense o
