RYUNOSUKE, AKUTAGAWA

Cogwheels and Other Stories

Oakville, Mosaic Press / Valley Editions. 1982, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 0889621764) Soft cover. Ill.: Naoko Matsubara. Book, Akutagawa Ryunosuke is one of the literary giants of Japanese literature and the award established in his honour is the most coveted literary prize in Japan. This collection of stories is translated by Howard Norman and illustrated by well known Japanese Canadian artist Naoko Matsubara . 74p. As new except for library discard stamp. Near Fine.

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Book number: 33593

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: 0889621764 Naoko Matsubarajapanese Literature Canadian Artist Canadian Artists Japan - Fiction

SIMONDS, MERILYN

The Lion in the Room Next Door

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart. 1999, 1st.Can Ed.. (ISBN: 0771080662) Hardcover. Book, Eleven stories, all set in different places and cultures one story "The Distance to Delphi " (pp117-144) is set in the Greece of the Colonels. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 040028

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: 0771080662 Fiction Short Stories Greec Delphi Junta Greece 1960-1974 (Fiction) Sold

TESDELL, DIANA SECKER

Christmas Stories

New York, Everyman's Library. 2007. (ISBN: 1841596000) Hardcover. Book, Christmas Stories is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuriesfrom Dickens and Tolstoy to John Updike and Alice Munro. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging anthology. Goblins frolic in the graveyard of an early Dickens tale and a love-struck ghost disrupts a country estate in Elizabeth Bowens "Green Holly" The plight of the less fortunate haunts Chekhovs "Vanka" and Willa Cathers "The Burglars Christmas" but takes a boisterously comic turn in Damon Runyons "Dancing Dans Christmas" and in John Cheevers "Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor" From Vladimir Nabokovs intensely moving story of a fathers grief in "Christmas" to Truman Capotes hilarious yet heartbreaking "A Christmas Memory," from Grace Paleys Jewish girl starring in the Christmas pageant in "The Loudest Voice" to the dysfunctional family ski holiday in Richard Fords ""Crèche" each of the stories gathered here is imbued with Christmas spirit (of one kind or another), and all are richly and indelibly entertaining. New/New.

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Book number: 045015

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: 1841596000 Christmas Fiction Short Stories Christmas Gift Books