Machado de Assis: 26 Stories (De Assis Joaquim Maria Machado)(Paperback)

Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas (De Assis Joaquim Maria Machado)(Paperback)

Now considered a progenitor of South American fiction, Machado de Assis's highly experimental novel is finally rendered as a stunningly contemporary work. Narrating from beyond the grave, Br s Cubas--an enigmatic, amusing and frequently insufferable antihero--describes his childhood spent

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas (Machado De Assis Joaquim Maria)(Paperback)

A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest black authors in the Americas A Penguin Classic The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed

Epitaph of a Small Winner (de Assis Machado)(Paperback)

In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Jorge Luis Borges,

death in Brazil (Robb Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Using the art, food and the books of Brazils nineteenth-century writer, Machado de Assis, this work is about its history of slavery and the multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth

Epitaph of a Small Winner (Assis Machado de)(Paperback / softback)

'One of the masterpieces of Brazilian literature The kind of humour that makes skulls smile' Salman

The Black Butterfly: Brazilian Slavery and the Literary Imagination (Wood Marcus)(Pevná vazba)

Focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants - Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. Wood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has

The Low, Low Woods (Hill House Comics) (Machado Carmen Maria)(Paperback)

From New York Times bestselling author Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body And Other Parties, In The Dream House) comes a story so horrifying you won't dare to forget There's something in the woods... Shudder-to-Think, Pennsylvania, has been on fire for years. The woods are full of rabbits with human

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Machado Carmen Maria)(Paperback)

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction ' These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.'--Roxane Gay 'In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories and hunger and desire. I couldn't put it

The Rock Eaters: Stories (Peynado Brenda)(Paperback)

A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first generation experiences to xenophobia. What does it mean to

Her Body And Other Parties (Machado Carmen Maria)(Paperback / softback)

'Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable.' - Roxane Gay - Demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and

The Inn and Other Stories (Kieffer Jean-Francois)(Paperback)

Follow the action-filled stories of the young Italian orphan friend of St. Francis of Assisi in the days of knights and troubadours. With Francis as his guide and a tamed wolf by his side, the seeds of faith, hope, and charity take root in Loupio, and are sure to grow in young readers' hearts

In the Dream House: A Memoir (Machado Carmen Maria)(Paperback)

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of

Diario de Santa Maria Faustina Kowalska (Kowalska St Maria Faustina)(Paperback)

This Thing of Darkness (De Maria Fiorella)(Paperback)

Labels and Other Stories (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

Best Short Stories: A Dual-Language Book (Maupassant Guy De)(Paperback)

In his stories Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) blended brilliantly realistic depictions of characters moving against carefully described backgrounds with an objectivity and universality that has earned him a place among the finest of all short-story writers. In this collection of seven of his most

Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls (Maggi Humberto)(Paperback)

A personal, practical, and historical work, Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls is a detailed account of the life and death of the Spanish queen Mar a de Padilla, her rise to popularity in the witchcraft of Spain and Portugal, and her later migration with the exiled witches to Brazil where she

El Evangelio Secreto de La Virgen Maria (Martin Santiago)(Paperback)

Sex After Sixty - a French guide to loving intimacy (Hennezel Marie de)(Paperback / softback)

33 Day Consecration to Jesus through Mary - Inspired by St Louis Marie de Montfort(Paperback / softback)

Manuscripts on Purgatory: As Seen by Two Mystics (Marie De La Croix Sister)(Paperback)

Unpublished Manuscript on Purgatory, by Sister M. de L.C. Treatise on Purgatory, by St. Catherine of GenoaThe kindness of God provides us with all the grace and knowledge we need to arrive at that eternal Beatitude to which he calls each one of us. Occasionally, he even bestows extraordinary

Twisted Romance Volume 1 (Campi Alex De)(Paperback)

Four stories of love and lust from comics' coolest artists and writer ALEX DE CAMPI First, a demon who prowls the 1978 New York disco scene in Old Flames, drawn by KATIE SKELLY. Then, a curvy photographer's assistant who

Taxi: Stories from the Back Seat (Jongh Aime de)(Paperback)

'This beautifully woven series of vignettes from the brilliant Aimee De Jongh are a necessary and poignant reminder of our common humanity.' --Joe Sacco'One of the great young cartoonists in the world.' --Comic Book ResourcesAim e de Jongh, one of the brightest new talents in Europe, creates her

Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade (de Sade Marquis)(Paperback)

Amongst the most accessible of Sade's fiction, the stories in this collection range from the dramatic novella 'Eugenie de Franval' to comic tales such as 'The Husband Who Played