Irish Ghost Stories (Davies David Stuart)(Pevná vazba)

Irish Ghost Stories (Davies David Stuart)(Pevná vazba)

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton - Edith Whartonová

Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies. Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena

Guestbook - Ghost Stories (Shapton Leanne)(Pevná vazba)

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Instrument of Death (Davies David Stuart)(Paperback)

A brand-new Sherlock Holmes mystery from acclaimed Sherlockian author David Stuart Davies, featuring the sinister Dr Caligari Sherlock Holmes has just uncovered the truth about the theft of a priceless ruby. The wealthy Lady Damury staged the theft and tried to frame her husband - but just as

Japanese Ghost Stories (Hearn Lafcadio)(Paperback)

Brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan, by the Irish writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn--whose life inspired bestselling writer Monique Truong's novel The Sweetest FruitsA Penguin ClassicIn this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan,

Art of the Glimpse - 100 Irish short stories(Pevná vazba)

An anthology of Irish short stories selected by writer, editor and broadcaster Sinead

New Irish Short Stories (Various)(Paperback / softback)

Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) New Irish Short Stories is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety of writers, both new and

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories (Moore Tara)(Pevná vazba)

The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or

The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories (Brockmeier Kevin)(Pevná vazba)

Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you'll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered--and met with a multitude of answers. A

Ghost Stories(Pevná vazba)

Tales about ghosts are as old as human culture itself but the ghost story as a distinguished literary form reached its apogee in the late nineteenth and early twentieth

The Ghost Stories of M.R. James (James M. R.)(Pevná vazba)

The second in a series of republished classic literature, The Ghost Stories of M. R. James collects the tales that best illustrate his quiet mastery of the ghost story

Complete Short Fiction (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

The complete short stories of the masterful Irish writer Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners--the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral

In A Glass Darkly - Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the father of the modern ghost story. In a Glass Darkly (1872), one of his most celebrated volumes, purports to be the

The Best of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle Arthur Conan)(Paperback)

Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies. The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart

The Rory's Stories Guide to Being Irish (O'Connor Rory)(Pevná vazba)

A laugh-out-loud guide to the most important things about being Irish. Based on the hugely successful Rory's Stories Facebook page: from weddings and wakes to hangovers, pre-marriage courses, working as an apprentice on a building site, Irish summers, the Irish abroad, smart-arse barmen, more

Chilling Ghost Short Stories (Townshend Dale)(Pevná vazba)

A deluxe edition with a chilling selection of original and classic short stories. The new tales, many of them published here for the first time, are written by today's top authors, and they bring a modern twist to the outstanding mix of intrigue that lurks in the furtive imagination of E.F. Benson,

Stuart Tank, Vol. 1: The M3, M3a1, and M3a3 Versions in World War II (Doyle David)(Pevná vazba)

Bernard Shaw's Irish Outlook (Clare David)(Pevná vazba)

Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the nature of

The Big Book of Favourite Irish Myths and Legends (Potter Joe)(Pevná vazba)

In this beautifully illustrated book readers are introduced to the greatest Irish stories of all time. From tales of the mighty Fianna and the great warrior C chulainn, to star-crossed lovers Diarmuid and Gr inne, and Deirdre and Naoise, these wonderful, classic stories are retold in a more modern

In Search of a Better Life: British and Irish Migration (Davis Graham)(Pevná vazba)

This book of new research will challenge the traditional narratives of Irish migration, the stories of oppression and exile that form an essential part of the existing literature. It will argue that most of the migrants were not forced by circumstances to leave their country but looked forward to a

Jimi Hendrix: The Stories Behind the Songs (Stubbs David)(Pevná vazba)

In Jimi Hendrix: The Stories Behind the Songs, music journalist and author David Stubbs provides the definitive companion to Hendrix's recorded output, from the early years, including 'Hey Joe' and 'Purple Haze' through to his posthumously released trilogy that concluded with Both Sides Of The Sky

Ghost Stories (Dickens Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Throughout his illustrious writing career, Charles Dickens often turned his hand to fashioning short pieces of ghostly fiction. Even in his first successful work, The Pickwick Papers, you will find five ghost stories, all of which are included in this collection. Dickens began the tradition of 'the

Pocket Leprechaun Stories: Over 20 Traditional Irish Tales (Biggs Fiona)(Pevná vazba)

These are stories of courage, love, betrayal, greed, stupidity, magic and miracles. Leprechaun gold has always been a great draw for people with hardly any money, but, of course, the humans are taken for fools and the leprechauns win the day - every time These stories will delight children of all

World's Worst Children 2 (Walliams David)(Pevná vazba)

The brilliant follow-up to David Walliams' bestseller The World's Worst Children! Ten more stories about a brand new gang of hilariously horrible kids from everyone's favourite children's author, illustrated in glorious full colour by Tony