Featuring over twenty-five essays, this collection showcases Virginia Woolf's influential thoughts on modern literature and the art of the essay. Key pieces like "Modern Fiction" and "The Modern Essay" highlight her innovative perspectives and literary insights. Edited by Andrew McNeillie, the volume includes an introduction and an index, making it a vital resource for understanding Woolf's contributions to literary criticism and modernist thought.
In this New York Times bestseller, a single mother sets out to find the North Carolina man who sent a message meant for someone else . . . and the journey may change her life forever. Divorced and disillusioned about relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. Inside is a letter of love and longing to "Catherine," signed simply "Garrett." Challenged by the mystery and pulled by emotions she doesn't fully understand, Theresa begins a search for this man that will change her life. What happens to her is unexpected, perhaps miraculous-an encounter that embraces all our hopes for finding someone special, for having a love that is timeless and everlasting.... Nicholas Sparks exquisitely chronicles the human heart. In his first bestselling novel, The Notebook, he created a testament to romantic love that touched readers around the world. Now in this New York Times bestseller, he renews our faith in destiny, in the ability of lovers to find each other no matter where, no matter when...
Ironický román z židovského prostředí Ameriky 70. let.
Po letech milostných úspěchů jeho sebevědomí stále častěji narušují dívky s opačnou představou o svém životním údělu. Hrdina, jehož životní školou je časopis Playboy, se tak dostává do neskutečných situací a trapných dobrodružství, až se konečně zbaví svých šovinistických představ.
Jeremy Dyson's collection of twelve tall tales are linked by the writer's surreal slant on everyday occurrences, sensibilites and desires.Set throughout the world, from Leeds to Eastern Europe and the Orient, we meet a flatmate who is born to save all mankind, and an 18th century automaton so beautiful men have killed in order to possess her. We are taken for a ride on London Underground's lost line which has a dark secret all of its own, and to a seemingly harmless auction of electrical goods with a devastating, hidden cost.The metaphysical meets the mundane in a Cornish resort where the tide goes out never to return, revealing something truly extraordinary on the seabed, and in an art class where an unpromising student produces an astonishing painting, which years later proves to have a dreadful significance for his bullying teacher.
