The Country of the Pointed Firs and Selected Short Fiction, by Sarah Orne Jewett, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
In these stories by Melissa Pritchard, the past brushes up against the present, the voices of both the sane and the obsessed are heard, and the spirits speaking unbidden through the mouths of some spurn others who desire them most.
May We Borrow Your Country is a contemporary collection of stories and poems that looks at dislocation and displacement with sympathy, tolerance and humour.
"e;Said the Poet"e; are writings of poetry, short stories, dramatized dreams, experiences of life by many different people of all ethnicities, ages, backgrounds and statuses from different time periods, instructions, political and controversial outlooks, writings of wisdom and much more, all as told and documented by a poet of much life experience of the poetry he calls life itself, and the true poem one writes just by simply living it.
'The curtain veiling the mysterious things called the past rending itself in two and reflecting ghostly light over the twentieth century is the tower of london.
