Paris Stories - Gallant Mavis

Paris Stories - Gallant Mavis

A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, 'radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade.' Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work

Pozdní navrátilec - Mavis Gallantová

Mavis Gallantová se narodila v Kanadě a žila ve Francii, kde v roce 2014 zemřela ve věku 91 let. Celý svůj život se věnovala téměř výlučně jedinému žánru, povídce, a prvním místem jejich vydání byl takřka výhradně časopis The New Yorker. Ve svých stručných, břitkých

Paris Stories (Whiteside Shaun)(Pevná vazba)

Paris Stories gathers classic stories about the City of Light by a wide range of writers across four centuries. Perhaps no other European city has so captured the imagination of the artistically and romantically minded. Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing

Gallant - Victoria Schwabová

Šestnáctiletá Olivia Priorová postrádá tři věci: matku, otce a hlas. Jedinými společníky jsou jí přízraky, které vídá kolem sebe, a matčin deník zachycující matčinu rozbouřenou duši. Pak ale dostane dopis od strýce, kterého nikdy nepoznala, s pozváním na jeho panství -

City Trails - Paris (Lonely Planet Kids)(Paperback / softback)

Here's a book about Paris that's seriously streetwise. Discover secrets and stories guaranteed to blow your mind that are definitely off the tourist trail. Find out where you can ride a dodo, how to paint the Eiffel Tower, where Paris keeps its historic underpants and lots more! For readers aged 8

Birds (Pilbeam Mavis)(Paperback)

Richly illustrated poetry anthology featuring beautiful images of birds from around the

Ivanhoe (Scott Sir Walter)(Paperback)

Jousts, kidnappings, duels to the death, a mysterious Black Knight, and the gallant outlaw Robin of Locksley all add zest to this timeless tale of medieval romance and adventure It is the dark days of King Richard's reign, when the beloved king is fighting in far-off lands, leaving his corrupt

Fishing Stories(Pevná vazba)

Whether set against the open ocean or tiny mountain streams, in ancient China, tropical Tahiti, Paris under siege, or the vast Canadian wilderness, this title features stories that cast wide and strike deep into the universal joys, absurdities, insights, and tragedies of

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling (Fielding Henry)(Paperback)

Despite being abandoned by his parents, Tom Jones grows into a gallant and irresistible young man. Most of his time is spent romping through the English countryside, getting himself into all kinds of troublewith hisgood nature and unquenchable eye for women. After being betrayed by jealous

Claudine In Paris (Colette)(Paperback / softback)

THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019. The second book in Colette's enchanting Claudine series. Seventeen-year-old Claudine is in despair having left her beloved village Montigny for a new life in

Paris for One and Other Stories - Discover the author of Me Before You, the love story that captured a million hearts (Moyes Jojo)(Paperback / softback)

'Moyes somehow manages to break your heart before restoring your faith in love' Sunday Express A collection of 11 unmissable short stories from the number 1 internationally bestselling author of Me Before You and After You Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's never even been on a

Sword and the Circle (Sutcliff Rosemary)(Paperback / softback)

Rooted in folklore, medieval ideals of chivalry, and the last gallant struggles of the British against the Saxon invaders, this book tells the story of the birth of Arthur, the gift of Excalibur, the forming of the Round Table and the first noble quests of its knights until the arrival of

A Maigret Christmas: And Other Stories (Simenon Georges)(Paperback)

It is Christmas in Paris, but beneath the sparkling lights and glittering decorations lie sinister deeds and dark secrets. In the short story that lends its title to the volume, the Inspector receives two unexpected visitors on Christmas Day, who lead him on the trail of a mysterious intruder

Fairy Tail 59 (Mashima Hiro)(Paperback)

FRIEND OR FOE? Mavis manages to successfully escape, and Fairy Tail renews their resolve to take back their guild Meanwhile, a mighty change has been boiling up inside of Natsu's body--his demonic power has awakened. The power threatens to transform Natsu's will, and he makes his way towards

A Parisian Affair and Other Stories (Maupassant Guy De)(Paperback)

Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth-century literature. They

Polyamory in Paris - 9 erotic romance stories - Lisa Vild - e-kniha

eBook:,James and Andrea are bored with their predictable sex life. Both of them dream about excitement and pleasure, but they have never talked about their fantasies with each other. When they go to Paris, they agree to be in an open relationship and for the first time in their life, they get to

Murder Underground (Hay Mavis Doriel)(Paperback / softback)

When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station, her fellow-boarders in the Frampton Hotel are not overwhelmed with grief at the death of a tiresome old woman. But they all have their theories about the identity of the murderer, and help to unravel the mystery of who

Death on the Cherwell (Hay Mavis Doriel)(Paperback / softback)

For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when the drowned body of the college bursar is found floating in her

Santa Klaus Murder (Hay Mavis Doriel)(Paperback / softback)

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered - by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus - with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are

Stories - Collected Stories (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

The Arabian Nights (Mahdi Muhsin)(Paperback)

The stories of The Arabian Nights (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories) are famously told by the Princess Shahrazad, under the threat of death should the king lose interest in her tale. Collected over the centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from

Collected Stories (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Features seventy-nine stories such as: love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, and of London during the

Daft Wee Stories (Limmy)(Paperback)

Daft Wee Stories is Limmy's first book. It is a collection of stories. There are short stories. There are longer stories. There are stupid stories. There are thoughtful stories. There are upside-down stories. There are normal-way-up stories. There are weird stories. There are less weird stories

Russian Stories(Pevná vazba)

Russian Stories rounds up marvellous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Babel and Nabokov, and continuing up to contemporary writers such as Tatyana Tolstaya and the recent Nobel Prize winner,