Selected Stories

Selected Stories
Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466834951

In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing. Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald—and Selected Stories gives the fullest display of his talent. "He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."

The Crown

The Crown
Author: Kiera Cass
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062392190

The spectacular happily ever after of the #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series Kiera Cass’s #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series has captured the hearts of readers from its very first page. Now the end of the journey is here. Prepare to be swept off your feet by The Crown—the eagerly awaited, wonderfully romantic fifth and final book in the Selection series. In The Heir, a new era dawned in the world of The Selection. Twenty years have passed since America Singer and Prince Maxon fell in love, and their daughter is the first princess to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn didn’t think she would find a real partner among the Selection’s thirty-five suitors, let alone true love. But sometimes the heart has a way of surprising you…and now Eadlyn must make a choice that feels more difficult—and more important—than she ever expected. Don’t miss The Betrothed, a glittering royal romance sure to captivate Kiera Cass’s legion of loyal readers and lovers of courtly intrigue alike!

Recognizing the Romantic Novel

Recognizing the Romantic Novel
Author: Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

"The Romantic era was a vibrant and exciting time in the history of the novel. Yet, aside from a few iconic books - for example, Pride and Prejudice or Frankenstein - it has been ignored or dismissed by later readers and critics. Bringing this rich but neglected body of works to the fore, Recognizing the Romantic Novel challenges us to rethink our ideas of the novel as a genre, as well as our long-held assumptions about the literary movement of Romanticism."--BOOK JACKET.