Following a string of clues, William Riskin investigates the mysterious disappearance of numerous people. As he uncovers his partner's part in these crimes, he comes face to face with the ultimate evil.
In the tradition of Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift -- and as a clear forerunner of the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges -- Epitaph of a Small Winner, first published in 1880, is one of the wittiest self-portraits in ...
When Josef Vadassy arrives at the Hotel de la Reserve at the end of his Riviera holiday, he is simply looking forward to a few more days of relaxation before returning to Paris.
A lyrical, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an organic peach farmer, Epitaph for a Peach is "a delightful narrative . . ....
More often there is a wry tone which characterizes the most well-known epitaphs, combining rhyme and humour: Remember friend as you pass by As you are now so once was I.As I am now you will surely bePrepare thyself to follow me.This book ...
The invisible lives of prostitutes, pimps, pornographers, skinheads, and crack addicts are revealed in stories from the dark edge of contemporary life, combining elements of travel writing and reportage, autobiography and anecdotes, and ...
Thus the vast majority of poetical epitaphs cited in ' adab literature , poetical anthologies and eschatological treatises stem from Syria and Iraq , and more than a third of these go back to the first two centuries H ( as far as we can ...
Don M. Wolfe [ New Haven : Yale University Press , 1953 ) , 566 ) . M. H. Abrams discusses the centrality of the sermo humilis in Wordsworth's poetry as a whole in his Natural Supernaturalism : Tradition and Revolution in Romantic ...
'One of the masterpieces of Brazilian literature ... The kind of humour that makes skulls smile' Salman Rushdie
Astarte et Towa sont deux jeunes filles travaillant en tant que " messagers funéraires ", personnes chargées de transmettre les derniers mots des mourants à leurs proches. Tout en donnant...
This book examines a number of facets of Western epitaph culture since antiquity, with particular emphasis on post-medieval developments in the major European countries as well as in North America....