Fiction Literature category: 621673 books

A collection of plays, essays, poetry, and reportage compiled by “the 20th-century’s premier scholar of Japanese literature” (Slate). Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene’s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the...

“A Nigerian bildungsroman featuring Dantala, a street kid thrust calamitously into the arms of a gentle sheikh, who thereafter faces Islamic extremism.” —O, The Oprah Magazine, “10 Titles to Pick Up Now” Winner of the 2017 Betty Trask Prize A Finalist for the Nigeria Prize for Literature Nominated...

HIGH AZTECH, the underground cult classic, is back and ready to blow your mind wide open. “A high-energy adventure peppered with great ideas, well-imagined unusual settings, outlandish characters, and a wicked sense of fun.’. –Locus In mid 21st century Mexico, Tenochtitlán, the...

“Go Down, Moses” by William Faulkner is a collection of seven related stories. Since the pieces of short fiction are related, it is sometimes considered a novel. It does not fall under the category of a novel because it lacks the unity required of a novel.Isaac McCaslin is the most significant...

Rock Crystal is an exquisite novella by a master, a writer of lucid serenity whose sublime tales have established themselves as classics of short fiction. As the story opens, it is the day before Christmas, and Conrad and Susanna (nicknamed Sanna) are paying a holiday visit to their grandmother...

Arab women's writing in the modern age began with 'A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study-first published in Arabic in 2004-looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's...

**Nominated for the 2013 Typographical Translation Design Award** **Featured as part of the 2012 Found in Translation Award given to translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones for her services to Polish-to-English literary translation that year** **Long-listed for the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction...

Aeolian Visions / Versions is a collection of more than 70 literary works, including poetry, short fiction, essays, and author interviews, translated from Turkish to English. All of the works were translated during the annual Cunda Workshop for Translators of Turkish Literature. This exceptionally...

The city of the plains', 'the garden city', 'the cathedral city': Christchurch has traditionally been characterised by its geography, its horticulture and its Anglican heritage. But Christchurch also has a strong literary pedigree, signalled early on by Canterbury settlers like Sarah Amelia Courage,...

 Welcome to the 3 Books To Know series, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of How to Read Literature Like a Professor tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Thomas C. Foster’s book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be...

An overwhelming erotic gay romance full of passion. Carlo is a man in his thirties, married and who is trying to have a son with his wife. His life will change when he meets Roberto, a charming bartender who will tempt him more and more, giving rise to an overwhelming homosexual erotic passion. "An...

American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920 offers provocative new readings of authors whose innovations are recognized as inaugurating Modernism in US letters, including Robert Frost, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H. D., and Marianne Moore. Gathering the voices of both...

Violet America takes on the long habit among literary historians and critics of thinking about large segments of American literary production in terms of regionalism. Jason Arthur argues that classifying broad swaths of American literature as regionalist or “local color” writing brings with it...