The Collected Short Stories New Directions A married couple receives free

A married couple receives free holiday tickets just when their luck seems to have run out

Kierkegaard's infamous and hugely influential philosophical work on faith

The Buried Giant begins as a couple

and I by Nuruddin FarahOptimists by Richard FordStory of the lizard who had the habit of dining on his wives by Eduardo GaleanoHammam by Hervé GuibertEscort by Abdulrazak GurnahMidnight and I'm not famous yet by Barry HannahPortrait of the avant-garde by Peter HøegMoving house by Pawel HuelleFamily supper by Kazuo IshiguroEncounter by Roy JacobsenFirst day by Edward P

Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family

The Collected Short Stories New Directions A married couple receives free"Reading such stories as a group . . . can be overwhelming. Yet it is precisely this intense immersion in experience that is the essence of Rhys' art. The force of her stories lies in the fusion of elegant prose with an uncanny penetration of the darker reaches of the soul." Washington Post Book World Jean Rhys was one of the twentieth century's foremost writers, a literary artist who made exqusite use of the raw material of her own often turbulent