Catálogo de libros: Ficción: características especiales

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  • Stories from Tagore
    Rabindranath TAGORE
    Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a renowned poet, musician, polymath, Ayurveda-researcher and an artist who recast music, Bengali literature and Indian art in the late 19th and early 20th century. Author of the 'profoundly sensitive, revolutionary and beautiful verse' of Gitanjali, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1913. Rabind...
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    10,00 €

  • Old Songs in a New Cafe
    Robert James Waller
    From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County--a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be. ...
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    29,87 €

  • Tales from a Greek Island
    Alexandros Papadiamantes / Elizabeth Constantinides
    Set in Skiathos, these 12 stories capture the folk ways of the culture of Greece and how traditional life there is both beautiful and harsh. ...
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    42,34 €

  • Long Made Short
    Stephen Dixon
    'Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plain-spoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fantasizing mind, ticklish in their comedy, alarming in their immediacy'.--'New York Times Book Review'. ...
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    43,82 €

  • In the Midst of Life
    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
    Some of the most chilling and macabre tales in the English language can be attributed to American journalist and short story writer Ambrose Bierce. His books include 'Can Such Things Be: Tales of Horror and the Supernatural', as well as 'The Devil’s Dictionary'. He has also penned scathing views of frontier life and its lawlessness, and the most caustic treatises on war. 'In th...
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    13,58 €

  • Talking to the Dead
    Sylvia Watanabe
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    14,44 €

  • Australian Literature
    Phyllis Fahrie Edelson
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    16,57 €

  • Plan B for the Middle Class
    Ron Carlson
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    14,77 €

  • What Was Mine
    Ann Beattie / BEATTIE
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    14,02 €

  • The Uncollected Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman
    Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
    The Uncollected Stories of Mary Wilkins Freemanedited by Mary R. Reichardt Few who appreciate the heritage of the short story would question Mary Wilkins Freeman’s important position in turn-of-the-century American fiction or her major contributions to the development of the short story form. Freeman (1852-1930), one of the first women elected to the National Institute of Arts...
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    49,68 €

  • Collected Short Stories
    Aldous Huxley
    Twenty-one distinguished stories, confirming Huxley’s stature as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. 'A very good book.'-V. S. Pritchett. ...
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    16,79 €

  • Haircut
    Ring W. Lardner / Ring WLardner
    Ring Lardner first burst upon the literary scene with his greatest popular success, 'You Know Me Al'. A sportswriter by trade, Lardner had a superb ear for regional peculiarities in speech and was loved for his sense of humor. Funny, sarcastic, sometimes bitter but always ironic, Lardner understood Americans-- their desires, their dreams, and their disappointments. Contained in...
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    13,05 €

  • The Fireman’s Wife and Other Stories
    Richard Bausch
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    16,62 €

  • Secrets & Surprises
    Ann Beattie
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    14,72 €

  • The Yellow Wallpaper
    Charlotte Gilman
    ’It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The color is repellent . . . In the places where it isn’t faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about . . .’Based on the author’s own experiences, The Yellow Wallpaper is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the ’rest cu...
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    8,69 €

  • Distortions
    Ann Beattie
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    16,75 €

  • Lithuania
    Joseph Ashby Porter
    The author of 'Eelgrass' and 'The Kentucky Stories' now offers a collection of 'mysterious and beautiful' (Lee Smith) stories, 'as subtle, syntactically graceful, and beautiful as any I’ve seen' (Toby Olson). ...
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    43,80 €

  • All Gone
    Stephen Dixon
    A collection of 18 short stories by a 'very skillful storyteller (whose) grasp of the life of ordinary American city dwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far from ordinary imagination' ('Times Literary Supplement'). ...
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    39,88 €

  • Karankawa County
    Neal Morgan
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    19,69 €

  • The Mirror Maker
    Primo Levi / Raymond Rosenthal
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    14,26 €

  • On Being Told That Her Second Husband Has Taken His First Lover, and Other Stories
    Tess Slesinger
    'An intensely feminine book, in which bleakness, unemployment, heartache, and heartlessness are combined with an agreeable feeling of settling down for conversation with an intimate, disillusioned, gossipy, malicious, and often very witty friend.'-New Statesman. ...
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    16,79 €

  • Paper Products
    James W. Hall / James WHall
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    14,97 €

  • 'Masquerade' and Other Stories
    Robert Walser
    Born in Switzerland in 1878, Robert Walser worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor’s assistant before discovering what William H. Gass calls his 'true profession.' From 1899 until he was misdiagnosed a schizophrenic and hospitalized in 1933, Walser produced nine novels and more than a thousand short stories and prose pieces.Walser’s contemporary admirers w...
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    42,19 €

  • Dislocations
    Janette Turner Hospital
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    13,87 €

  • Final Reckonings
    Robert Bloch
    Best known as the author of 'Psycho', Robert Bloch is world-renowned for his stories of horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. Many of the 25 stories in this first volume of 'The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch' have been unavailable for decades. The stories are in his classic style of gripping suspense, science fiction and fantasy. As Bloch writes, 'These stories in t...
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    17,96 €

  • All It Takes
    Patricia Volk
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    14,77 €

  • England, My England and Other Stories
    D. H. Lawrence / DHLawrence
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    77,34 €

  • Stones
    Timothy Findley
    Findley exposes the sharp changes in the traditional institutions of love andmarriage and family through a vivid terrain of images and insightful stories.10,000 print. ...
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    14,07 €

  • Winterwood
    Keith Roberts
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    16,52 €

  • Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
    Harold Brodkey
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    17,32 €


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