Lydia Davis
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Overflowing with wonderfully creative songs that teach children and remind adults about our precious environment and its diverse inhabitants with delightful music and lyrics. Really terrific. Cleverly crafted, and the singing stands out above all!
Author
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
In 1800s provincial northern France, Emma Bovary yearns for a taste of the luxury and romance she has imbibed from the popular novels she had read. Instead, married to a man with a second-rate medical degree and little ambition, and living far away from the enticements of Paris, Emma is stifled by the banality and emptiness of her existence. Desperately frustrated, she embarks upon adulterous affairs and voracious spending sprees. However, not only...
4) Essays one
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 512 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis"--
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xv, 480 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions." --Paul Metcalf A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melancholy, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday--uncovering moments of grace...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers a new translation of Flaubert's classic tale, in which the title character turns to spending and a series of affairs to combat the boredom of married life and, heartbroken and crippled by debts, takes drastic action that results in tragedy.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Flaubert's classic tale, in which the title character turns to spending and a series of affairs to combat the boredom of married life and, heartbroken and crippled by debts, takes drastic action that results in tragedy.
