Selected Stories

This compilation includes the most significant writings that have already been published in Sopromat, The Notes of Optimist, and Life as it is. The stories offered here are deeply philosophical and use bright imagery.

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The best short stories from perhaps England’s finest young female comic writer.This selection of Nicola Barker’s finest short stories contains work first published in ‘Heading Inland’ and ‘Love Your Enemies’.A sixteen-year-old girl, in ‘Layla’s Nose Job’, is burdened with a grotesque nose. But plastic surgery only serves to demonstrate that her strangeness isn’t just skin-deep. The discovery turns her ingeniously violent. In ‘Inside Information’, Martha, a professional shoplifter, becomes pregnant and attempts to turn her pregnancy to criminal advantage, only to find herself harassed by her foetus, which can not only talk but proves to have grisly plans of its own. In three related pieces (‘Blisters’, ‘Braces’, and ‘Mr. Lippy’) featuring Wesley, a charming but damaged young man, attempts at normality are grimly, inevitably defeated. In ‘The Three Button Trick’, one of Barker’s most naturalistic, a middle-aged woman, who’s been abandoned by her husband, discovers, thanks to the ministrations of several odd acquaintances, how little she needs him and how wayward and liberating true eroticism is.

When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their working-class neighbours, this burgeoning sense of class consciousness is heightened by a realization of her own mortality. Published in 1922, at the height of literary modernism, 'The Garden Party' is now considered one of the key texts of that movement. This volume, which also includes all of Katherine Mansfield's other published short stories, is an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to discover one of the early twentieth century's finest writers.Contains: Prelude, Je ne parle pas francais, Bliss, The Wind Blows, Psychology, Pictures, The Man without a Temperament, Mr Reginald Peacock's Day, Sun and Moon, Feuille d'album, A Dill Pickle, The Little Governess, Revelations, The Escape, The Garden Party, The Daughters of the Late Colonel, The Doll's House, The Fly, Germans at Meat, The Baron, The Sister of the Baroness, Frau Fischer, Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding, The Modern Soul, At Lehmann's, The Luftbad, A Birthday, The Child-Who-Was-Tired, The Advanced Lady, The Swing of the Pendulum, A Blaze.

‘Jung was on a giant scale…he was a master physician of the soul in his insights, a profound sage in his conclusions. He is also one of Western Man’s great liberators.’ J. B. Priestly, Sunday Telegraph‘Jung can sometimes rise to the heights of a Blake or a Nietzsche or a Kierkegaard…like any true prophet or artist, he extended the range of the human imagination…to be able to share Jungian emotions is surely an almost necessary capacity of the free mind.’ Philip Toynbee, ObserverThis compact volume of extracts from the twenty volumes of Jung’s published writings presents him clearly, in his own words and in precis.Jung’s writing is the key to understanding 20th-century psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Most of the terms of reference now used (‘extrovert’, ‘collective unconscious’, ‘archetype’) are Jungian.This is essential reading for both students of psychology and the general reader.

For the first time all of Carol Shields’ remarkable short stories – some previously unpublished – are gathered together in one volume.‘Carol Shields’ stories have given me happiness, not just pleasure’ Alice MunroIn the Collected Stories we bring together Carol Shields’ original short-story volumes, Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival, as well as many stories not previously published in the UK, including ‘Segue’, her last work.In these stories the author combines the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels such as The Stone Diaries and Unless.

Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme -- With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy. .

The selected correspondence of Bernard Shaw relating to the play Candida contains 249 letters and entries, written between 1889 and 1950. The book represents a significant addition to modern-day understanding of Shaw's play Candida and reveals his thoughts on a wide variety of issues, love affairs und relationships with contemporaries. This publication from a revised edition Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant. By Bernard Shaw. The Second Vol-ume, containing the four Pleasant Plays published by Constable and Company Ltd., London: 1920 is a hand-made reproduction from the original edition, and remains as true to the original work as possible. The original edition was processed manually by means of a classic editing which ensures the quality of publications and the unrestricted enjoyment of reading. Here are some inspirational book quotes from Bernard Shaw: «The play, which is called Candida, is the most fascinating work in the world.» «I have written THE Mother Play—»Candida"—and I cannot repeat a masterpiece." «I shall never be able to begin a new play until I fall in love with somebody else.» «I assure you in all unhumility I am the greatest dramatist of the XX century.» «There is a Shaw boom on in Germany, because four of my plays have been produced in Vienna, Leipzig, Dresden and Frankfurt.» «But I want the Germans to know me as a philosopher, as an English (or Irish) Nietzsche only ten times cleverer.» «And remember that though we may be no bigger men than Goethe and Schiller, we are standing on their shoulders, and should therefore be able to see farther & do better. And after all, Schiller is only Shaw at the age of 8, and Goethe Shaw at the age of 32.» «I am never wrong. Other people are sometimes—often—nearly always wrong, especially when they disagree with me; but I am omniscient and infallible.» «Until within the last few months, when the success of Fraulein Agnes Sorma as Candida in Berlin was followed by an outbreak of Candidamania in New York, I had nothing to shew in the way of a successful play.» «But everybody likes Candida. Wyndham drops a tear over Candida; Alexander wants the poet made blind so that he can play him with a guarantee of 'sympathy'; Mrs Pat wants to play Candida; Ellen Terry knows she is Candida; Candida is everybody's play except the utter groundlings.» «But I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. I am a magnificently successful man myself, and so are my knot of friends but nobody knows it except we ourselves…» The book also includes an editor's note to German readers.

The famous city also has its downsides. Sometimes bad things happen. “Salzburg Crime Stories” contains 3 exciting short crime novels, written by Brigitte Lenz. Step into the exciting world of Inspector Martin Buchholz and his colleague Sandra Steiner.

"Aber wir verstehen nicht. Oder glauben, nicht zu verstehen. Oder wir verstehen, k?nnen aber nicht sagen, was eigentlich." "Kafka erscheint uns r?tselhaft, dabei schreibt er doch eigentlich in einer schlichten Prosa, seine Schilderungen sind pr?zise, seine Personen reden in einfachen Worten und es wird weder um das, was sie tun, noch um das, was sie reden, noch um das, was ihnen zust??t, ein gro?es Gewese gemacht. Aber wir verstehen nicht. Oder glauben, nicht zu verstehen. Oder wir verstehen, k?nnen aber nicht sagen, was eigentlich. Wir glauben immer etwas anderes, Drittes ausmachen zu m?ssen, das mit dem, was dort passiert, eigentlich bezeichnet wird, wir versuchen, das R?tsel zu l?sen. Aber das ist vielleicht ein Fehler. Vielleicht sollte man Kafka anders lesen, n?mlich ohne Reserve und ohne interpretatorische Ambitionen. So wie wir mittlerweile in der Malerei dreibeinige Pferde oder blaue B?ume hinnehmen k?nnen und auch atonale Musik und Wuppertaler Tanztheater: Wie es gerade kommt. Amerika w?re daf?r ein guter Einstieg, denn man kann das Buch auch fr?hlich als Abenteuerroman lesen, in dem zwar sprachlich immer mal wieder die Perspektiven verrutschen, der eine Satz dem anderen widerspricht, ?berdeutlichkeit mehr zur Vernebelung als zur Aufkl?rung beitr?gt, aber was soll's, die Geschichte ist gut und man will wissen wie es weitergeht, und es geht immer weiter, weil Karl Ro?mann ein wackerer Held ist, der alles M?gliche tut, blo? nicht lockerlassen. Aber das ist nat?rlich noch nicht einmal die halbe Miete. Es bleibt die R?tselhaftigkeit, die geheimnisvolle Macht der Bilder, die unseren Erfahrungen zugleich ent- und widerspricht, die Magie einer Sprache, die sich von einem ruhigen Dahinflie?en jederzeit und unvermittelt auft?rmen kann zu den st?rmischen Wellen ?u?erster Erregung, nur um gleich wieder abzuflauen und uns plaudernd einzulullen. Und alles ist ein bisschen schief, so wie im Kubismus, man sieht wie dort alles von allen Seiten zugleich und ist verwirrt, weil der Verstand rechtgibt, aber die Erfahrung widerspricht. Und so sind wir immer wieder versucht, innezuhalten und gr?ndlich zu ?berlegen, was denn da eigentlich los sei. Wenn man das H?rbuch h?rt, gibt es zu diesem Zweck die Pausentaste. Oder man l?sst es einfach laufen. Beides scheint mir der richtige Weg zu sein." Sven Regener