Despite the numerous books on World War II, until now there has been no one-volume survey that was both objective and comprehensive. Previous volumes have usually been written from an exclusively British or American point of view, or have ignored the important causes and consequences of the War.
A Short History of World War II is essentially a military history, but it reaches from the peace settlements of World War I to the drastically altered postwar world of the late 1940's. Lucidly written and eminently readable, it is factual and accurate enough to satisfy professional historians.
Outsiders - American Short Stories for students of ESL
The purpose of Outsiders is to help address this twofold obligation to nonnative English users in our colleges and universities by offering short stories carefully chosen for their quality, diversity, and appeal, so that they can provide a sound, structural basis for studying fiction as a literary genre in a college credit course. Since the "outsiders" theme, if left undiluted, could become somewhat intensive, an effort was made to intersperse the stories having more serious themes with lighter, more humorous pieces such as "The Loudest Voice," "Senor Payroll," "Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and Vocabulary," and "Rope."
Patricia Highsmith - Selected Novels & Short Stories
The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith's classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most dazzlingly seductive writing.
This is a reader-selected collection of short stories originally published between 1931 and 1963, that entered the US public domain when their copyright was not renewed.
