The Go-Away Bird
Inne tytuły:
Twins (eng.)
Autor:
Muriel Spark
Overall The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories is an intriguing curate's egg. Like Scott Fitzgerald, Spark sometimes wrote rather bad pieces. Like him, she also wrote plenty of things that were exceptionally good. This book contains no genuine duds - in fact, I suspect that even the ones I have criticised may emerge as far better than I realise, once I've let them settle in my memory for a while. My favourites in the collection are those that contain an obvious element of the supernatural, but, for readers who like things that don't immediately give up their secrets, each story has its own particular strangeness and is worthy of at least one read through.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Inne tytuły:
Olalla (eng.)
Autor:
Robert Louis Stevenson
You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him.Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll?
Birthday Stories
Inne tytuły:
Bath (eng.)
Autorzy:
Russell Banks, Denis Johnson, William Trevor, David Lyons, David Foster Wallace, Ethan Canin, Andrea Lee, Raymond Carver, Paul Theroux, Claire Keegan, Lewis Robinson, Haruki Murakami
In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snapshot of life on a single day. Including stories by Russell Banks, Ethan Canin, Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace, Denis Johnson, Claire Keegan, Andrea Lee, Daniel Lyons, Lynda Sexson, Paul Theroux, William Trevor and Haruki Murakami, this anthology captures a range of emotions evoked by advancing age and the passing of time, from events fondly recalled to the impact of appalling tragedy. Previously published in a Japanese translation by Haruki Murakami, this English edition contains a specially written introduction.
Theory of machines
Podtytuł:
a textbook covering the syllabuses of the B.Sc. (Eng.), Inst. C.E., and I. Mech. examinations in this subject
Autorzy:
Louis Toft, A.T.J. Kersey
Nine Tomorrows
Inne tytuły:
Ugly Little Boy (eng.)
Autor:
Isaac Asimov
Nine Tomorrows is a collection of nine short stories and two pieces of comic verse by American writer Isaac Asimov. The pieces were all originally published in magazines between 1956 and 1958, with the exception of the closing poem, "Rejection Slips", which was original to the collection. The book was first published in the United States in 1959 and in the UK in 1963. It includes two of Asimov's favorite stories, "The Last Question" and "The Ugly Little Boy".
