The eight short stories of this collection have a dual theme: Ireland - its people, its personality - and woman - woman betrayed, or sacrificed, innocence involuntarily lost, happiness stolen or mislaid.

A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories

O'BRIEN, EDNA.

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Putnam

The short story has developed into Canada's healthiest and most versatile literary genre. The twenty-eight stories in this collection have been carefully selected and introduced to provide both entertaining reading and an insight into the dominant themes and directions of Canadian literature from its beginning in the early nineteenth century to the present day.

Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories

Grady, Wayne

British & Irish

The Iron Wolf and Other Stories

NEW HARD TO FIND SOFTCOVER COLLECTIBLE.

ADAMS, Richard

Short Stories & Anthologies

This is, in part the story of Cain and Abel, told from the point of view of Cain. It is also about the nature of family relationships and sibling rivalry and about Jewishness. Along the way the book makes observations about skin problems among angels and pre-Freudian psychological complexities.

Very Model of a Man

HOWARD JACOBSON

Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 2 (Twentieth Century Classics)

Marcel, Proust

Classics

The Blue Afternoon

This book is the winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search of a murderer, but finally in celebration of a glorious, undying love.

BOYD, William

Anything Considered

MAYLE, PETER

Contemporary

Strange Landscape (BBC Books)

History

Christopher Frayling

Europe

Kiss Me, Judas

Will Christopher Baer

An alphabetically organized guide to 225 of the most insteresting authors of the twentieth century features biographical profiles, reviews, and bibliographies of writers ranging from Margaret Atwood and Paul Auster to Alice Walker and Tobias Wolff, along with essays and recommended reading lists by some of these noted authors. Original.

The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors

Biographies & Memoirs

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