The story tells of how unscrupulous millionaire Benjamin Scobell decides to build a casino on the small Mediterranean island of Mervo, dragging in the unwitting heir to the throne to help. Little does he know that his stepdaughter Betty has...
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Hunting the Deceitful...
At last a new book: a baker’s dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt’s razor-sharp genius
For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most...
Story of the Bad Little...
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Jerome Klapka Jerome:
Jerome K. Jerome was a popular turn-of-the-century humorist. He was a born storyteller, and his works often began as anecdotes that he developed into short stories, plays, essays, or...
A Benefit...
A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem.
In a sunlit clearing in central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth’s first and greatest...
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob,...
The critically acclaimed novel from a master of contemporary American fiction — now available as an ebook
An irreverent satire of New York’s media world — and its influence and allure
Writers Tony, Patty, Fred, and David all...