David : 35381 books

An omnibus of three essential, darkly humorous novels from a master of his own, unique genre and an influential voice in contemporary literature. David Markson’s unique novels earned him praise from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallace, Ann Beattie and Zadie Smith. Markson...

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, July 12, 1817, and died there May 6, 1862. Most of his life was spent in that town, and most of the localities referred to in this volume are to be found there. His Journal, from which the following selections were made, was bequeathed to me by...

A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne. After six months in New York, Lord Edward returns to London only for his old sparring partner, Verity Browne, to convince him to investigate a murder in Madrid. Her lover, David Griffith-Jones, has been convicted for the murder...

**The ancient city of Chester, Friday night and the weekend starts here. High summer, skimpy fashions, girls in short skirts and tight jeans, boys looking for fun. A sultry night, and the town's relaxed. It's 11pm and the pubs are beginning to close. The band has just finished playing; packing...

In the outskirts of the ancient city of Chester, twenty-something Eleanor Wright lives in a run down caravan in an isolated spot down by the river. She does tricks for men, for cash, to fund a burgeoning drugs habit. It’s early winter, late Friday night, and there’s a thunderstorm hitting...

Part IX: 2018 Annual (1879-1895) features contributions by: Deanna Baran, Roger Riccard, David Marcum, Tracy Revels, S.R. Bennett, Nick Cardillo, Robert Stapleton, Kevin Thornton, Leslie Charteris and Denis Green, Shane Simmons, James Moffett, C.H. Dye, Stephan Gaspar, Marcia Wilson, Sonia Featherstone,...

A haunting and intimately observed new collection from David St. John, a poet of soaring imagination and passionate candor In The Last Troubadour, David St. John has given us a collection of new and selected poems of astonishing beauty, precise and keenly observed but also touched with sensuality...

A summertime short story by Chicago author David Jay Collins. Surprises await a lakefront tour guide who learns that the smallest kindnesses can be repaid in unexpected ways. Also by David: novels Gaybash and Summerdale.

God promises world peace someday soon: Isaiah JPS 1917 Edition 51:11 "And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." And this book introduces King David's written work.

I patterned this story after my son and his vivid imagination. When listening to children one gets a fresh view of the world. Of course I threw in a little imagination of my own. Call it being a child at heart, childish, or just plain having fun! I had loads of fun writing this one. You can look forward to more of the same as I continue my writing career.

“The finest American author of his generation.” —Sunday Mail “Viewed as an indictment of journalism or the law—take your pick—The Penitent is timely and exciting and, in the best of ways, awfully depressing.” —NBC New York “David Mamet is an American theater icon for...

Relatos que, de un modo descarado y en la frontera de lo grotesco, diseccionan personajes, situaciones y pequeñas historias aparentemente ridículas. Relatos que ocupan un solo párrafo, escritos como un esquema o como una entrada de diccionario, transcripciones de entrevistas cuyas preguntas...

Recopilación de diez relatos que recrean -de manera exquisita y perturbadora a la vez- la realidad en la que vivimos. David Foster Wallace era uno de los escritores con mayor talento y más audaces de la narrativa norteamericana contemporánea. En La niña del pelo raro, la presente...

This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British playwrights' (Independent on Sunday). The volume also includes the plays Slag, Teeth 'n' Smiles, Knuckle and Licking Hitler, and is introduced by the author.