In this dazzling finale - both of the Ghorba Ghost Story Series and award-winning author Massoud Hayoun's brief career as a novelist - Darf Publishers brings you a Jewish Egyptian Wizard of Oz, radiating "crushed velour and luxury" and "sensuality, once more".
Mathilde aspires to high society, despite being married to a low-paid clerk who tries his best to please her. When he manages to cadge an invitation to a grand ball at the Ministry of Education, Mathilde refuses to attend unless she can look the part. She obtains a splendid gown, but then demands a necklace to go with it.
In War Stories - a jumbo book of great stories about the military and war - editor Lamar Underwood has pulled together the finest writings about war-fighting that capture readers' imaginations. It includes legendary tales from the French and Indian Wars, the Civil War, the Great War, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq - more than 250 years of warfare ......
An curious gem of 19th-century gothic fiction Cecil Dreeme is one of the queerest American novels of the 19th century. This edition, which includes a new introduction contextualizing the sexual history of the period and queer longings of the book, brings a rare, almost forgotten, sensational gothic novel set in New York's West Village back to ......
Galileo Galilei was a great scientist, and therefore not afraid of causing controversy, even if he had to pay a great price. This book deals with motion and the resistance of solids. It is the summary statement of a life devoted to scientific experimentation and free inquiry un-trammeled by tradition and authority.
In his last years, Mark Twain had become a respected literary figure whose opinions were widely sought by the press. He had also suffered a series of painful physical, economic, and emotional losses. This book denies the existence of a benign Providence, a soul, an afterlife, and even reality itself.
An enduring icon of American culture, Mark Twain is still widely read, carefully studied, and reinterpreted more than a century after his death. He is best known for humor and for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but his writings extend far beyond the humorous and his immortal boy heroes. He wrote in a dizzying variety of genres, ......
Call of the Wild marks a turning point in the in naturalist litterature dealing with the exploration of heredity versus environmental influences. Set during the Klondike Gold Rush, the story tells the journey of Buck as a sled dog in Alaska as he becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories offering insights into the crime scene of Victorian London in a time of trains, gaslight and paper mail.
