Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 31 October 2011
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Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women
This anthology brings together twenty-eight lively and readable short stories by nineteenth-century women writers, including gothic tales to romances, detective fiction and ghost stories. It contains short fiction by well-known authors such as Maria Edgeworth, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant.
To what extent is Japan in decline? In recent years popular writings, media commentaries and analysts often take the view that the rise of Japan is long since over and that the world's second largest economy is not just treading water but that society and the economy are failing, with potential catastrophic outcomes. But is this really the case? Could it be that once again Japan is being misread and misinterpreted? Are there not both obvious and less obvious signs of renewal and recovery? And how might the new DPJ-led government reform Japan?
Writing in general and the short story in particular - An informal textbook
"There are now not enough commercial magazines regularly publishing literary fiction to count on the fingers of a single hand," says Rust Hills. So why bother writing literary short stories, or books about doing so? Because, says Hills, a longtime fiction editor at Esquire, "what young writers want to write, or ought to want to write, is literature." In Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular, Hills examines "the essential techniques of fiction and how they function."
Added by: Dasha Shapiro | Karma: 56.19 | Fiction literature | 24 October 2011
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Lighthousekeeping Jeanette Winterson
The heroines of Jeanette Winterson's fiction have been fighting gravity for decades. With fantastical powers of weightlessness, walking on water and winging their way through cyberspace, their quest is to attain a bearable lightness of being. Moving in spirals rather than lines, her fiction reaches towards a timeless centre and she claims that her previous novel, The PowerBook, marked the end of a seven-novel cycle. With Lighthousekeeping, she has begun again.
The Fiction & Reality of Jan Struys - A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Globetrotter
Dutch Sailmaker and sailor Jan Struys' (c.1629-c.1694) account of his various overseas travels became a bestseller after its first publication in Amsterdam in 1676, and was later translated into English, French, German and Russian. This new book depicts the story of its author's life as well as the first singular analysis of the Struys text.
