A sweet children's story that depicts the circumstances of homelessness in a way that young children can understand, encouraging philanthropy, compassion, and spiritual connection. Follow Filbert and his family as they become homeless and as the community where they live rallies together to find a new home for Filbert.
A sweet children's story that depicts the circumstances of homelessness in a way that young children can understand, encouraging philanthropy, compass...
A Parisian civil servant turned protege of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant is considered not only one of the greatest short story writers in all of French literature but also a pioneer of psychological realism and modernism who helped define the form. Credited with influencing the likes of Chekhov, Maugham, Babel, and O. Henry, Maupassant had, at the time of his death at the age of forty-two, written six novels and some three hundred short stories. Yet in English, Maupassant has, curiously, remained unappreciated by modern readers due to outdated translations that render his prose in an...
A Parisian civil servant turned protege of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant is considered not only one of the greatest short story writers in all of Fre...
- Thirty of Maupassant's best short stories centering on war, the supernatural, and French life, translated by Sandra Smith - An introduction and explanatory footnotes by Robert Lethbridge - Essays, letters, and newspaper articles on the subjects that influenced Maupassant's writing, including politics, war, love despair, and the supernatural - Sixteen critical assessments from Maupassant's time to our own, including those by Joseph Conrad, David Coward, Mar Donaldson-Evans, Rachel Killick, Roger L. Williams, Ruth A. Hottell, and Katherine C. Kurk - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
- Thirty of Maupassant's best short stories centering on war, the supernatural, and French life, translated by Sandra Smith - An introduction and expl...
Marceline Loridan-Ivens Sandra, Dr Smith Judith Perrignon
"You might come back, because you're young, but I will not come back."--Marceline Loridan-Ivens' father, speaking to her at the Drancy internment camp, April 1944 A runaway international bestseller, But You Did Not Come Back garnered rave reviews and features on hardcover publication, including a New York Times profile on the author. Hailed as an important new addition to the library of books dealing with the Holocaust, it is the profoundly moving and poetic memoir by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, who at the age of fifteen was arrested by the Vichy government's militia,...
"You might come back, because you're young, but I will not come back."--Marceline Loridan-Ivens' father, speaking to her at the Drancy internment c...
