A poor Irishman, seeking his own identity, drifts through worsening stages of despair until his final disintegration

Ivan Doig recalls growing up among the ranches and wilderness of Montana with his father and grandmother, and their friends in the rural community

Provides guidelines for the writing and teaching of the popular Japanese poem form

Events in the life of Hemingway's memorable character are presented chronologically in this arrangement of the stories

Presents a personal perspective on the American light-skinned Negro's experience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future

'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor—seemingly there for the men's solace—their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the morning draws inexorably closer, the men cross the psychological wall between life and death, long before the first shot rings out. This brilliant snapshot of life in anguish is the perfect introduction to a collection of stories where the neurosis of the modern world is mirrored in the lives of the people that inhabit it . This is an unexpurgated edition translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander.

The author reveals the experiences and associations of her extraordinary life and literary career in her personal journal

A talented artist and doctor recalls his exile in the primitive Italian village of Galiano during the Abyssinian War of 1935