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A collection of linked poems by Leland Kinsey.

This is the most ambitious and representative anthology yet published of modern Hebrew novellas, a book that will provide any reader with a fine overview of the best fiction that small but vibrant country has to offer.Included here are novellas by six of Israel's most important and honored contemporary writers. Aharon Appelfeld's "In the Isles of St. George" tells of a fugitive black marketeer hiding on a desolate Italian island, who finds his...

Balancing life as a family-business entrepreneur, here's how one woman left a corporate career to become a farmer. Even though her feet don't quite reach the tractor pedals, this city-girl-turned-shepherd found happiness and love with one husband, two kids, grumpy rams, ewes and lambs, Mavis the Sheepdog, and a very fat pony.Ever dream of reinventing yourself and starting over? Sally Urwin did and this is her story-inspiring, touching, and oft...

Works by six of Israel 's most important contemporary authors. Included are Ahron Appelfeld's "In the Isles of St George", in which a fugitive black marketeer is forced to take refuge on a desolate Italian island where his past, his nationality, and his very sense of identity are resolved.

A mind-bending novel from the author of Life A User's ManualA Void is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, chock-full of plots and subplots, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of displays Georges Perec's virtuosity as a verbal magician. It is also an outrageous verbal stunt: a 300-page novel that never once employs the letter E. The year is 1968, and as France is torn apart by social and political anarchy, the noted eccen...

Originally published: Z'urich: Nagel & Kimche, 1992.

The world's highest mountain awaits-and the world's worst mountaineers (this side of Monty Python) are on their way to climb to its peak.Named by The Guardian as one of the "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, " (and by Bill Bryson as "one of the funniest books you will ever read."), this classic laugh-out-loud novel was first published in 1956 and never out-of-print somewhere in the world since then.Our adventure begins as Sir Hugeley Havering, c...

The first modern thriller."-Ken Follett The Riddle of the Sands set the mold for the contemporary spy novel. Yet its agents are far from typical. Our heroes here are former Oxford pals Charles Carruthers, a minor official in the British Foreign Office, and Arthur Davies, an yachtsman who doesn't appear to have any formal profession apart from exploring obscure coasts and sandbanks, with a penchant for chucking his belongings overboard and run...

The classic tale of rags to riches, and of kindness rewarded, that has entranced generations of children since 1905. Young Sara Crewe lives a life of luxury until a tragedy strikes. Thrown back on her own resources, Sara displays the nobility of a real princess until, as if by magic, her fortunes change again.Sara was the adored only child of a rich, indulgent father. She arrived at Miss Minchin's Seminary for Young Ladies in a flurry of silks...

* "It is an astonishing tribute to Orwell's gifts as a natural, unaffected writer that, although the historical events he is unfolding are all too bitterly familiar, the reader turns the page as though he did not know what was going to happen. Here, then, is a social, literary, and political history... which, while being intensely personal never forgets its allegiance to objective truth." -THE ECONOMIST

* "It is an astonishing tribute to Orwell's gifts as a natural, unaffected writer that, although the historical events he is unfolding are all too bitterly familiar, the reader turns the page as though he did not know what was going to happen. Here, then, is a social, literary, and political history... which, while being intensely personal never forgets its allegiance to objective truth." -THE ECONOMIST

* "It is an astonishing tribute to Orwell's gifts as a natural, unaffected writer that, although the historical events he is unfolding are all too bitterly familiar, the reader turns the page as though he did not know what was going to happen. Here, then, is a social, literary, and political history... which, while being intensely personal never forgets its allegiance to objective truth." -THE ECONOMIST

An internationally acclaimed and haunting ghost story. "One of the strongest stories of supernatural horror...the work bursts into life and does not flag until the end."-The Washington Post Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor, has come north from London to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. The townspeople are reluctant to share any information about Mrs. Drablow but Kipps soon realizes that there i...

Friendship, resourcefulness, adventures! Here's the classic tale of two families of children who band together against a common foe: an uncle who claims he's too busy for his nieces.The Walker children (John, Susan, Titty and Roger) are on school holiday in the Lake District and are sailing a borrowed catboat named "Swallow, " when they meet the Blackett children (Nancy and Peggy), who sail the boat, "Amazon." The children camp together on Wil...

A short novel that's a treat for animal lovers - an Englishman rescues a mistreated donkey in Pakistan and now both have to travel overland across half the world, home to suburban London. En route, they encounter drug smugglers, carpet salesmen, and hosts of every variety until they finally hitch a lift from Hector, an aristocratic Brit who drives a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, in which the two eccentric Englishmen successfully smuggle the donke...