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42) London stories
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll call of storytellers includes cultural giants like Shakespeare, Defoe, and Dickens, and an innumerable host of writers of all sorts who sought to capture the essence of the place. Acclaimed historian Jerry White has collected some twenty-six stories to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of both London life and writing over the past four centuries, from Shakespeare's...
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A one-of-a-kind, beautifully jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories for art lovers. With full-cloth binding and a silk ribbon marker. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS. Stories of Art and Artists gathers two centuries of stories from around the world. From Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Artist of the Beautiful" and Albert Camus's "The Artist at Work" to Bernard Malamud's "Rembrandt's Hat" and Aimee Bender's "The Color Master," the tales collected here...
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Stories from the Kitchen is a one-of-a-kind anthology of classic tales showcasing the culinary arts, from across the centuries and around the world. Here is a mouthwatering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, by a range of masters of fiction--from Dickens and Chekhov to Isaac Bashevis Singer, from Shirley Jackson to Jim Crace and Amy Tan. These richly varied selections offer tastes as decadent as caviar and as humble as cherry...
45) Paris Stories
Series
Publisher
Everyman's Pocket Clsssics
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eye-witness account of the Revolution. From the 1800s, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola offer fascinating portraits of the city's teeming humanity; the Goncourt brothers chronicle the explosion of artistic talent; Huysmans describes an evening at the Folies Bergere. Colette chronicles...
46) Berlin stories
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of stories set in Berlin, by both German and non-German writers, from across the past century"--
47) Florence stories
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of stories set in Florence by a wide range of great writers, from Dante to Salman Rushdie"--
48) Scottish stories
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics collection of stories by great Scottish writers from the past two centuries ranging from Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Muriel Spark, Ali Smith, Irvine Welsh, and Leila Aboulela, and many more. Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from an entrancingly literary land. Scotland is known for its centuries of colorful Celtic folklore and its long tradition of spine-tingling...
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The characters in the delightful stories collected here range all the way from the ink-stained medieval monks in Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' to the book-besotted denizens of Ali Smith's 'Public Library and Other Stories.' In these pages readers are invited to enter the interior lives of librarians in Lorrie Moore's 'Community Life' and Elizabeth McCracken's 'Juliet' and are ushered into a host of unusual libraries, including the infinite...
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