"Good deal of fog this morning. I do not go out in the fog myself," notes Adam in his diary, adding, «The new creature does. It goes out in all weathers. And talks. It used to be so pleasant and quiet here.»Adam has a lot to learn about Eve, and even more from her, as she names the animals, discovers fire, and introduces all manner of innovations to their garden home. Mark Twain's «translation» of the diaries of the first man and woman ...
Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature's greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson — as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. Originally published in 1892, this is the first and best collection of stories about the legendary sleuth. It's also the least expensive edition available. Featured tales include several of the author' ...
Walter Serner’s first story collection, published in German in 1921, brought to narrative form the philosophy of his earlier Dada manifesto/handbook, Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Who Wish to Be One —life is a con job and demands the skills of a swindler. With its depiction of a world of appearances in which nothing can be trusted, At the Blue Monkey helped establish the ex-doctor and renounced Dadaist as a literar ...
An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an imperial game of baseball. A young woman tries to imagine a future unsullied by her family’s history of untimely death.First issued in 1991, Pangs of Love introduced David Wong Louie’s bold storytelling. The son of Chinese immigrants, he centered his ...
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book AwardThis collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's writings have been published in the Philippines, Scent of Apples is his only book published in the United States.Replaces ISBN 9780295956954 ...
Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s.Replaces ISBN 9780295961675 ...
Simple Wine News – издание, посвященное новостям виноделия, виноторговли и ресторанного бизнеса, культуры потребления вина, винным путешествиям и другим аспектам мира вина и гастрономии. Simple Wine News регулярно проводит собственные дегустации, в которых принимают участие известные винные эксперты, критики и сомелье. Издание предназначено для широкой аудитории ценителей и знатоков вина, а также профессионалов винного рынка. Читайте в выпуск ...
Газета The Art Newspaper Russia – российская версия авторитетного международного издания об изобразительном искусстве. Мировые новости искусства, мнения экспертов, музейные события, новые книги и обзоры арт-рынка, а также календарь самых интересных выставок и аукционов в России и мире. В номере: Музеи мира вынуждены играть по новым правилам Основой музея Альбертина Модерн стал дар коллекционера Наследие Рокотова пополнилось в ходе рестав ...
Joseph Dylan offers a splendid collection of short stories in his new collection "My Crescent Ring". Words that sparkle, themes that reverberate and shine a focused light into the human heart. The stories range across a spectrum of unique worlds. His unerring eye for detail and a range of knowledge that moves from the intricate world of medicine to love and the neon lights of Beijing. It is always delightful, surprising, dark o ...
