It is difficult to find a modern author writing in Italian more revered than Italo Calvino. Most critics choose to view his fantasies not as escapes from reality but as alternate ways to perceive it. Works studied in this text include Invisible Cities, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, and The Nonexistent Knight.
Guy De Maupassant (Bloom's Major Short Story Writers)
Works of Guy de Maupassant covered in this informative volume include "Boule de Suif," "Madame Tellier's Establishment," "The Necklace," "A Piece of String," and "The Horla."
Having died a month short of his 40th birthday, Franz Kafka is seen by some critics as having been on the threshold of a greater art than he had displayed earlier in his career. Examined in this text are Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgement," "In the Penal Colony," "A Hunger Artist," and "Josephine the Singer and the Mousefolk."
A perfect gift for young people going off to school or setting up a house for the first time, for adults suddenly forced to take responsibility for a modicum of cleanliness, or for experienced housekeepers who want to learn short-cuts and money-savers, this is the book that helps people get off to a clean start!
Finally collected in one volume, Martin Gardner's immensely popular short puzzles; along with a few new ones from the master. For more than twenty-five years, Martin Gardner was Scientific American's renowned provocateur of popular math. His yearly gatherings of short and inventive problems were easily his most anticipated math columns. Loyal readers would savor the wit and elegance of his explorations in physics, probability, topology, and chess, among others.
