Street fiction / urban fiction

Handsome mechanics, struggling actresses, unhappy couples, and seemingly successful businessmen, Gigolo is an Edna Ferber short story collection that recounts the quiet private lives of everyday Americans.

A collection of short stories by the infamously witty Jazz Age writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edna Ferber, including Buttered Side Down, Cheerful - By Request, Half Portions, and Gigolo.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edna Ferber, this collection of short stories features the tales of many brave, charming women who will stay with you long after you've set this volume down.

This volume contains all three books in Edna Ferber's comedic Emma McChesney trilogy.

Emma McChesney & Co.

Hardworking and stylish, Edna Ferber's much-loved Emma McChesney returns in this sequel to Roast Beef, Medium.

A seminal short story collection containing 12 humorous and dark tales from the prominent Jazz Age author, Edna Ferber.

Centring on the Lorimer sisters, who open a photography business after the death of their father, The Romance of a Shop offers a vivid portrait of women determined to achieve independence in a society that offers them few options.

"e;Youth and the Bright Medusa"e; is a 1920 collection of short stories by Willa Cather.

"e;The Grandchildren of the Ghetto"e; is a 1892 novel by British author Israel Zangwill (1864-1926).

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

John Dos Passos' ground breaking novel Manhattan Transfer is a landmark literary achievement.

North and South is a novel that exposed Victorian inequalities.

The events in 'Old New York' are set in the same New York as Wharton’s 'The Age of Innocence', making this a prequel.

'Dubliners' is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce.

The Age of Innocence is set in upper class New York City in the 1870s, and centers on an upper class couple''s impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness.

Mervyn begins to get sick, and fearing a forced trip to the hospital (a death trap), he decides to hide himself in the old Welbeck mansion.

James Weldon Johnson''s landmark novel is an emotionally gripping and poignant look into race relations.

Babbitt is professionally successful as a realtor.

This riveting novel tells of the seduction of a British schoolgirl by a dashing soldier, John Montraville, who brings her to America and there abandons her, pregnant and ill.

Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.

Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist follows the life of a young man by the name of Carwin as he realizes his biloquial, ventriloquist, talents.

It is one of several nineteenth-century novels which uncovers the changes in women''s work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work.

''Ulysses'' takes place in a single day, 16 June 1904, also known as Bloomsday, it sets the characters and incidents of the Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin and represents Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope and Telemachus in the characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, and contrasts them with their lofty models.

Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress.

Chesnutt''s stories were more complex than those of many of his contemporaries.

Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

The Rise of David Levinsky is a novel by Abraham Cahan.

Maggie is "regarded as the first work of unalloyed naturalism in American fiction.

The Heroic Slave was Frederick Douglass'' only piece of fiction.

In a fictionalization of Burroughs'' own difficulties in finding a job prior to becoming a best-selling writer, Jimmy Torrance attempts to make a career for himself in 1921 Chicago, where criminals seem to be everywhere!

Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser.

The Sport of the Gods (1902) is a novel by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar.

The Secret Agent is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr.

Double Kiss is the fast-paced, thrilling sequel to Framed, by snooker champion Ronnie O'SullivanThe race is on.

The enemy is close to home in The Manor, a gripping gangland thriller from the top five bestseller Jessie Keane.

In modern London, a young woman finds herself on the wrong side of the law.

The unstoppable Ruby Darke returns as old enemies threaten her family in The Edge, a gripping gangland thriller from top ten bestselling author Jessie Keane.

Longlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2021'Excellent, lucid, intelligent and gripping' - Scotsman'An utterly riveting read' - Guardian, Thriller of the Month6 December 1993.

'An engrossing and inspiring story of loss, love and hope, set against a backdrop of art, activism and addiction.

'Novel of the year was Aravind Adiga's Selection Day .

The robot is upon us: The future is so near and yet so far.

Mosaicos Urbanos è un’opera che raccoglie parte degli scritti dell’autore dal 2011 a oggi.

"e;A masterpiece that presents us with a high level of artistic and fictional creation, Urban Mosaics indicates a light at the end of the tunnel by focusing the several current problems we've faced since the fateful civilization and its discontents foreseen by the men and women who forged psychoanalysis in the late Nineteenth century.

Five pulp novels of passionate romance between men from the New York Times-bestselling author of the Peter and Charlie Trilogy.

A New York native looks back on his Lower East Side youth in a trilogy from the New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.

Meet one of the most unscrupulous businessmen in American literature-from a New York Times-bestselling novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.