Wit and intelligence are the hallmarks of this probing portrait of the English character. And in this story of extreme contrasts--in values, social class, and cultural perspectives--an unconventional romantic relationship leads to conventional happiness in a delightful social comedy. While touring Italy with her overbearing cousin, well-bred Lucy Honeychurch falls in love with the handsome but entirely unsuitable George Emerson, only to become engaged to the haughty Cecil Vyse. But Lucy is lured away from the conventions of upper-middle-class Edwardian society by her yearnings for the...
Wit and intelligence are the hallmarks of this probing portrait of the English character. And in this story of extreme contrasts--in values, social cl...
In David Leavitt's chilling science fiction epic, Future History: The Coming Past, three very different lives converge with shocking results. As a deadly creature is unleashed on the world and a mass murderer is at large, three people must somehow come together to lead the planet.
In David Leavitt's chilling science fiction epic, Future History: The Coming Past, three very different lives converge with shocking results. As a dea...
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe To Build a Fire by Jack London The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry The South by Jorge Luis Borges Good Country People by Flannery O Connor The Blind Dog by R. K. Narayan and Fifteen Other Classic Tales in One Volume
Masterpieces by some of the finest writers ever to make words come alive on paper, the stories in this volume have been selected to represent the full spectrum of the storyteller s art. Here are works of...
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe To Build a Fire by Jack London The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant The Man Who Would B...
The diversity - and unity - of gay love and experience in the 20th century is celebrated in this acclaimed anthology, which includes 21 stories from the first edition, together with 15 additional tales.
The diversity - and unity - of gay love and experience in the 20th century is celebrated in this acclaimed anthology, which includes 21 stories from t...