Maria: 6239 books

From one of the twentieth century’s master novelists, the author of the classic All Quiet on the Western Front, comes Heaven Has No Favorites, a bittersweet story of unconventional love that sweeps across Europe. Lillian is charming, beautiful . . . and slowly dying of consumption. But she...

From the quintessential author of wartime Germany, A Time to Love and a Time to Die echoes the harrowing insights of his masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front. After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks’ leave. But since leaves have been canceled...

In Spark of Life, a powerful classic from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front, one man’s dream of freedom inspires a valiant resistance against the Nazi war machine. For ten years, 509 has been a political prisoner in a German concentration camp, persevering in the most...

From the beloved author of All Quiet on the Western Front, Flotsam is a terrifying portrait of Europe as the Nazi shadow falls over the continent. Political dissidents, Jews, medical students, petty criminals: Among the thousands of displaced persons traveling the unpaved roads of Europe, there...

Are you afraid of the dark? From Christopher Fowler’s “The Man in the Rain,” to Jason Muller’s “Lullaby of the Grotesque,” the stories collected here suggest a simple, terrifying fact — that darkness gives life to the fears that haunt us all. From a widespread fear of darkness...

On the eve of her thirty-seventh birthday, Fran Clark finds herself in a role she would never have envisioned: that of a surprisingly desperate housewife. As Fran halfheartedly attempts to relaunch her once-vibrant career as a voiceover artist and obsesses over keeping up with the ruthless mothers'...

A book of poems on the solitude of being and the loneliness of being in love. And the [dis]comfort the author finds in the thought of dying.

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. This month, We have original fiction from Maria Dahvana Headley ("The Cellar Dweller")...

De langverwachte nieuwe roman van Maria Duenas Drie Spaanse zussen emigreren begin twintigste eeuw naar de VS, waar ze het restaurant van hun overleden vader overnemen. Aanvankelijk verzetten ze zich tegen de manier van leven in New York, maar algauw beseffen ze dat ze alleen kunnen overleven...

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose...

With 113 writing prompts to choose from, this collection of creative, fun writing ideas offers something for every Potter fan. Prompts are closely connected to the text and include a wide variety of writing topics. Use them for daily journaling, longer writing assignments, and collaborative...

This is a book of poems about longing, desire; love, as well as the darker parts of the mind: loneliness, regret; pain.

Maria Marotti applies a unique mixture of strains of contemporary literary theory to the body of posthumously published works so far published in the Mark Twain Papers series, examining these late, frequently incomplete or abandoned, and usually experimental, works in theoretical light. Marotti's...

Liberating Literature is, primarily, a bold and revealing book about feminist writers, readers, and texts. But is is also much more than that. Within this volume Maria Lauret manages to look with fresh vision at the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s; socialist women's writing of the 1930s;...