Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can't really say why they're doing it, just that it needs to be done. Perhaps it's something to do with Jack's death - perhaps they'll find the reason later.

Yet while celebrating the work of others, the author has also proved himself time and again one of the modern masters of the form. He showcases his talents in a variety of stories that are short-short, short-long and every length in between.

Driven by a series of internal and external pressures, seven year-old Max leaves home, jumps in a boat and sails across the oceans to a strange island where the giant beasts reign - the 'wild things' from Maurice Sendak's visionary classic.

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college fees and finally do something great.

Německá inspirace v díle Gérarda de Nerval identifikuje intertextové zdroje vrcholných próz tohoto francouzského prozaika, básníka a překladatele druhé romantické generace. Analýza se soustřeďuje především na dvě povídky ze souboru Dcery ohně, Sylvii a Oktavii, na dva příběhy vložené do Cesty do Orientu a na Nervalovy poslední prózy, Aurelii a Pandoru. Monografie odhlíží od psychobiografického klíče a naopak se soustřeďuje na kulturní vklad německých textů, které Nerval znal - především díky knize O Německu od paní de Staël - a částečně...