Sudden Fiction
Gathers seventy stories by Paley, Hannah, Barthelme, Cheever, Updike, Tallent, Carver, Boyle, Williams, Oates, Hemingway, and Malamud
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Robert McKee’s screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to …
Bird by Bird
Book on writing by American novelist and non-fiction writer Anne Lamott
Hollywood Stories
At high noon on a cold November day in 1974, sixty-seven-year-old John Wayne faced off with the staff of the Harvard Lampoon on the famous campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The students had issued their challenge by calling the beloved American icon a fraud. Wayne, who had his new movie McQ to promote, responded by saying …
The Complete Works of O. Henry
Well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings
Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
This anthology contains a complete compendium of all poems and songs written by Scotland’s national poet – Robert Burns. Arranged according to the date they were written, this anthology contains both famous and lesser known works by Burns. Written in his distinct style, replete with slang and terminology native to his homeland, the poet covers …
The Devil’s Dictionary
“Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.” Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time …
Fathers and Sons
One of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev’s finest work
The Splendid and the Vile
History of the bombing of London during WWII, by Erik Larson
Last Hope Island
History of WWII Europe in exile by Lynn Olson