Quick Reads: Penguin Modern Classics Short Stories edition ALA Alex Award (2006) Except apparently Hope Beaumont

Except apparently Hope Beaumont

It's everything she's ever wanted

Hacking’s introduction provides important background

and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization”––who forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel

Quick Reads: Penguin Modern Classics Short Stories edition ALA Alex Award (2006) Except apparently Hope BeaumontDescription: Here are some quick reads by some of the best names in literary history. These reads by Samuel Beckett, Angela Carter, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Jean Rhys let you dive into the minds and genius of these authors, dipping your feet in to see if their style is indeed what you are looking for. Consists of: Bluebeard (Well Read), The Expelled (Well Read), In The Penal Colony (Well Read), The Widow Ching Pirate (Well Read), La Grosse Fifi