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Machado de Assis - 26 Stories by Joaquim Machado de Assis; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); Robin Patterson (Translator); Michael Brenna Wood (Foreword by)
Category: Classic Fiction
Widely acclaimed as "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America" (Susan Sontag), as well as "another Kafka" (Allen Ginsberg), Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was famous in his time for his psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro--a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, gr ...Show more
Marcel Proust by Michael Wood
Category: Biography | Series: My Reading Ser.
This short book explores the work of Marcel Proust as an event in the world, something that happened to literature and culture and our understanding of history. This event has more aspects than we can count, but this book offers detailed critical snapshots of seven of them: the birth of Proust as a nove ...Show more
Outside Looking In by Wood Michael
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: DCI Matilda Darke
Practicing Peace - Theology, Contemplation, and Action by Michael John Wood; Peter Catt (Foreword by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
This book is about the practice of peace in daily life. We talk about the importance of peace but often struggle to embody it. Someone annoys us and suddenly we are embroiled in a vortex of conflict. We may ask ourselves, "How can we live with greater integrity? How can we make a positive difference in ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis by Joaquim Machado de Assis, Michael Wood
Category: Classic Fiction
Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839-1908)--the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves--was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil's greatest writer. His prodigious output of novels, plays, and stories rival ...Show more
The Crocodile and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) - Dostoevsky's Finest Short Stories in the Timeless Translations of Constance Garnett by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Michael Wood (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: riverrun editions
'I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps from the hour I was born' A man goes mad because he is happy. A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party. A man is swallowed by a crocodile, but not eaten nor seriously damaged. Dostoevsky's stories inhabit similarly volcanic ...Show more
The Mind of a Murderer (Dr Olivia Winter #1) by Michael Wood
Category: Crime & Adventure | Series: Dr Olivia Winter Ser.
The best person to understand a serial killer is one of his victims. Meet Dr Olivia Winter. 'I was hooked from the first page... mind-blowing and gripping. I am eagerly awaiting the next instalment' Angela Marsons 'Chilling, unnerving [and] pacey' John Marrs 'A searingly intense, utterly captiva ...Show more
The Seventh Victim by Michael Wood
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: DCI Matilda Darke Ser.
From the bestselling author of the DCI Matilda Darke series comes a standalone thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page... 'Dark, twisting and captivating. The very essence of the just-one-more-page thriller' Will Carver 'Wood gets better with every book. I could ...Show more
The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People by Michael Wood
Category: History
'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' Tom Holland'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want - and need - to know about the China of yesterday, today and tomorrow' ...Show more
The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People by Michael Wood
Category: History
'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' - Tom Holland ... 'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want - and need - to know about the China of yesterday, today and tom ...Show more
The Story of China: A portrait of a civilisation and its people by Michael Wood
Category: History
China's story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential for reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today.China is the oldest livi ...Show more