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Bridge on the Drina by ANDRIC
Category: Old Titles - No Stock | Series: Phoenix Fiction Ser.
A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I, "The Bridge on the Drina" was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, ti ...Show more
Irwin Shaw - Short Stories - Five Decades by Irwin Shaw
Category: No Category | Series: Phoenix Fiction Ser.
Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Classics | Series: Phoenix Fiction Ser.
In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher--who fears Reger's plans to kill himself--gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, ...Show more
Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy by Randall Jarrell
Category: Classics | Series: Phoenix Fiction Series PF Ser.
Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell's classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standar ...Show more
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