Short Essays

This Yuletide collection of stories, poems, and essays has been rescued from obscurity by the editor, who has also edited and annotated them to make these wonderful classics more easily accessible to modern listeners. While some of these authors may be unknown to you, their works have been included in this collection because of their capacity to instantly intrigue and delight. Give them a try, and don't be surprised if a few of them make their way onto your list of all-time personal Christmas favorites!

Each disparate object described in this book - a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific - shares a common fate: It no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of 12 specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as a whole, opens mesmerizing new vistas of how we can think about extinction and loss.

From the author of On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After It Happened: A Daughter's Memoir of Mental Illness, Stories from My Memory-Shelf is the story of my life, told in short fiction and essays. Features author commentary on the real-life events that inspired the stories.

Eu rezemos só que me safo foi o livro de estreia do professor primário, Marcello D’Orta, e apresenta uma divertida colectânea de sessenta redacções dos alunos da escola primária de Arzano. Foi considerado pela crítica um bestseller de potência bíblica, onde rebelião, ignorância e má educação transformam-se em expressão, até revolução da língua. Renova a fé na existência do humor Napolitano como um género literário autónomo. Um encontro entre o desconhecido e o pensamento infantil que é ao mesmo tempo grandiosamente sério e cómico.