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To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit,
Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself caught
in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural!
In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments
of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and
scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna’s body parts, the
power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately,
there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to
protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural!
A mysterious cursed spirit with a grudge against Maki flies into
Sakurajima Colony. It evolves with incredible speed from cursed womb to
adult form and threatens to overwhelm Maki and Noritoshi. Just then,
two more combatants join the battle…
The heroes of the stories in this book are people who in the hell
of the Holocaust were doomed for life, people who cannot or do not
want to speak about their past, about the heavy baggage of their
life's experiences. Being a witness, Irit Amiel translates the long
silence of people living in the Israeli melting pot into testimony.
The stories are written in a simple and restrained way, but the
voices coming out touch the most profound human feelings. These
short stories achieve a weight through the use of poetic shortcuts,
such as the two-page memory about the last parting from home and
parents. 'I was then eleven years old and from that very moment I
have never felt at home in life again.'
One summer before World War I, a young couple escapes on a romantic
weekend getaway to the small German town of Rheinsberg, north of
Berlin, in the midst of a rural landscape filled with country
houses and castles, cobble-stone streets, lush forests, and dreamy
lakes. The story of Wolfie and Claire, told with a fresh, new style
of ironic humor, became Kurt Tucholsky s first literary success and
the blueprint for love for an entire generation. Kurt Tucholsky was
a was a brilliant satirist, poet, storyteller, lyricist, pacifist,
and Democrat; a fighter, lady s man, one of the most famous
journalists in Weimar Germany, and an early warner against the
Nazis. Erich Kaestner called him a "small, fat Berliner," who
"wanted to stop a catastrophe with his typewriter." When Tucholsky
began to write, he had five voices in the end, he had none. His
books were burned and banned by the Nazis, who drove him out of his
country. But he is not forgotten. Rheinsberg is at once a
delightful and a deeply disquieting story. The lovers, Claire and
Wolfie a silly but harmless pair escape the confines of Berlin for
a romantic romp in the countryside. As their brief interlude nears
its end, already consigned to memory, there comes with it an end to
innocence, to frivolity. It was 1912; Kurt Tucholsky s prescience
was uncanny: the holiday is over and soon we will go to war.
--Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Hester Among the Ruins and The
Scenic Route Once known as Weimar Germany s greatest political
satirist and one of that fabled era s most celebrated literary
figures, Kurt Tucholsky is today virtually unknown in America. Now,
readers have the chance to discover one of his early pieces of
fiction that exhibits the intense wit, charm, and rhetorical verve
for which he earned his reputation. Noah Isenberg, author of
Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism
In Rheinsberg, Tucholsky delivers the newness and intensity of
young love, sweet, sometimes strident, with repartee juxtaposed
against the sylvan landscape of rural Germany. Poignant, biting,
tender: a reminder of what love promises and can be. Victoria
Zackheim, playwright, novelist, and anthologist A wonderful and
charming love story, finally rediscovered and brought to America
Claudia Dreifus, Professor of International and Public Affairs at
Columbia University, New York Teachers and students of history and
literature will welcome this collection of texts by Kurt Tucholsky,
an early 20th century master of literary and political criticism,
whose incisive and elegant voice will now be more widely available
in English. Atina Grossmann, Professor of History at Cooper Union
and author of Jews, Germans and Allies: Close Encounters in
Occupied Germany Rheinsberg a short story of two unconventional
lovers in the last carefree days of Germany before 1914. The first
major work by the anti-Nazi journalist and poet Kurt Tucholsky
finally appears in a new translation for English speakers. Ian
King, Professor of German, Chair of the Kurt Tucholsky Society
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second part in Douglas Adams' smash hit sci-fi comedy and cult classic series. This stunning gift edition is illustrated by Costa Award winning Chris Riddell.
If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe?
Which is exactly what Arthur Dent and the crew of the Heart of Gold plan to do. There's just the small matter of escaping the Vogons, avoiding being taken to the most totally evil world in the Galaxy and teaching a space ship how to make a proper cup of tea.
And did anyone actually make a reservation?
Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With
Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The
novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty,
desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in
the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist features some of the
author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who
dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical
Fagin, the menacing Bill Sikes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'. For
any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian
literary colossus, Oliver Twist is, without doubt, an essential
title.
The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book’s brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupéry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world’s most widely translated books, enjoyed by adults and children alike.
In the meeting of the narrator who has ditched his plane in the Sahara desert, and the little prince, who has dropped there through time and space from his tiny asteroid, comes an intersection of two worlds, the one governed by the laws of nature, and the other determined only by the limits of imagination. The world of the imagination wins hands down, with the concerns of the adult world often shown to be lamentably silly as seen through the eyes of the little prince. While adult readers can find deep meanings in his various encounters, they can also be charmed back to childhood by this wise but innocent infant. This popular translation contains the author’s own delightful illustrations, bringing to visual life the small being at the tale’s heart, and a world of fantasy far removed from any quotidian reality. It is also a sort of love story, in which two frail beings, the downed pilot and the wandering infant-prince who has left behind all he knows, share their short time together isolated from humanity and finding sustenance in each other.
This is a book which creates a unique relationship with each reader, whether child or adult.
When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the
extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother
Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the
reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say, "It's
been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it.... But he was murdered,
wasn't he?"
In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to
unravel the mystery....
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The
Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and
a devastating expose of the 'Jazz Age'. Through the narration of
Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially
glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore
in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but
wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that
surrounds him. The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of
American literature from the period following the First World War
and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.
This beautifully designed paperback featuring three
Christmas-themed stories by a world-renowned classic writer will
make the perfect stocking-stuffer purchase. This paperback will
feature 3 Christmas-themed stories by the author, led by "The Story
of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," a tale acknowledged as a
precursor to Dickens's beloved classic A Christmas Carol. Other
featured stories include "What Christmas Is as We Grow Older" and
"A Christmas Dinner." This book will be accompanied by three
similar titles: Christmas with L.M. Montgomery, Christmas with
Louisa May Alcott, and Christmas with O. Henry. The book will
feature elegantly designed covers and endpapers, quality paper
stock for interiors, and card-stock covers (with flaps).
Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all
time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes
the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England
community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo,
at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an
author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music
and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of their domestic
adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their
friendship with the neighbouring Laurence family, and their later
love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever.
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Earth Abides
(Paperback)
George R Stewart; Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Discovery Miles 4 710
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“We always believe that changing our mind is an improvement, bringing a
greater truthfulness to our dealings with the world and other people.
It puts an end to vacillation, uncertainty, weak-mindedness. It seems
to make us stronger and more mature. Well, we would think that,
wouldn't we?”
In these engaging and erudite essays, critically acclaimed writer
Julian Barnes explores what is involved when we change our minds: about
words, about politics, about books, about memories, about age and time.
To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed
spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself
caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural!
In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments
of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and
scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna’s body parts, the
power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately,
there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to
protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural!
Military forces from foreign countries invade the culling game, seeking
to harness the unlimited potential of cursed energy. However, the
soldiers soon find themselves facing off against a horde of cursed
spirits! While the merger with Tengen forges on, Fushiguro tries to
help his sister
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Salt Slow
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Julia Armfield
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With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English
and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and
co-editor of 'Poetry Review'. Moby Dick is the story of Captain
Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest
is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man
becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the
crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a
co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands,
each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the
crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and
extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent,
the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice
of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his 'mighty
theme' - not only the whale but all things sublime - Melville
breathes in the world's great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest
novel ever written by an American.
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