This collection of multi-cultural fiction includes short stories from around the globe by authors Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chen Rong, Yukio Mishima, Isabel Allende, Nadine Gordimer, and 20 others. (June)
This beautiful childrens picture book features superb National Geographic images accompanied by a brief, poetic text on a subject of global importance. This volume provides a richly evocative and thought-provoking view of the world todays children will inherit. Full color.
Written in 1915, Gilman's "lost" classic of a femininst utopian society founded on the values of nurturing, cooperation, learning, and motherhood was never issued as a complete work until 1979. Noted anthologist Solomon has accumulated a remarkable collection of Gilman's fiction which includes the complete text of Herland and 20 other stories.
This collection explores the depth and breadth of what it means to be a child in America. Ranging from the true-life experiences of Black, White and Jewish author Rebecca Walker to the dazzling short fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, here are stories of family bonds and lessons learned throughout America, past and present. Includes authors Dorothy ...
A literary excursion that travels around the world, using as its vehicle a fascinating collection of 25 short stories from writers overlooked and often ignored by American readers. Authors include Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Yukio Mishima, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, and others.
Unmarried Lulu Bett can't question her role as chief cook and housekeeper in her married sister's home, but when a peripatetic brother-in-law comes to visit, he playfully proposes marriage. Lulu accepts, and the marriage soon reveals its underside, but not before she has tasted freedom.
This anthology includes 24 short stories and novel excerpts about modern India, from such award-winning writers as Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Original.
Here are 33 stories of the American female experience by 21 American women writers from the 19th century. Includes works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and many others.
This stunning collection of 28 stories brings readers a literary portrait of the American family from 1894 to today. A collection of works that captures the essence of American families from living together and apart to loving and letting go.
This collection of multi-cultural fiction includes short stories from around the globe by authors Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chen Rong, Yukio Mishima, Isabel Allende, Nadine Gordimer, and 20 others. (June)
This novel created a transatlantic literary sensation when it was first published in 1960 in the United States, and shortly afterward, in England. Set in Manhattan during a summer in the late 1950s, the story tells of a young woman who submits to a risky deception in order to obtain a legal abortion.
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