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'It's the truth,' the women said from their mattress 'Everything is nice'.'Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf'Ali Smith'Jane Bowles's literary output, small but perfect, puts her...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2022-03-17
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W&N Essentials
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'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Kreutzer Sonata and Other StoriesThis second volume of Tolstoy's shorter...
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Riverrun
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2022-03-17
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riverrun editions
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'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to Hadji Murad and Other StoriesThis, the third volume of Tolstoy's shorter...
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Riverrun
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2022-03-17
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riverrun editions
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'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other StoriesTolstoy wrote in many genres for...
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Riverrun
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2022-03-17
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riverrun editions
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In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity, love, power and the complicated nature of being human.'Trust me: you want to read this. It's the queer horror book of...
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Sceptre
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2022-02-17
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Once upon a time there was a boy whose mother called him "Wolf"She thought this name would bring him strength, luck, natural authority, but how could she know that this boy would grow up to be the gentlest and strangest of sons and that he would end up captured like a...
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Maclehose Press
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2022-01-20
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What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and seen more as entertainment than art. However it has become far more...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-09
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What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and seen more as entertainment than art. However it has become far more...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-12-09
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The stories here collected under the title Five Women combine two different volumes. All together, these stories, each of which (as the reader will guess) has a woman at the apparent centre of its gaze, has the feel of a series study, or of a natural history, though one...
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Riverrun
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2021-11-11
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riverrun editions
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Ranging from Hans Christian Andersen to Karl Ove Knausgaard, have yourself a Nordic noel with the very best Scandinavian Christmas talesHave yourself a truly Scandinavian Christmas... Of visions and prophesies seen in dark, dark woods. Of toys and trees come to life. Of...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-10-21
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The complete SIX TUDOR QUEENS short-story collection by acclaimed historian and SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author, Alison Weir.'This brilliant series has brought Henry VIII's six wives to life as never before' TRACY BORMAN'Detailed, immaculately researched and convincing'...
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Review
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2021-09-30
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A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writingWith an introduction by David MitchellByatt takes her readers to a place that is rich in ideas, vivid in colour and wholly unforgettable. Mirrors...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-05-13
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'Everyone who met him commented on the arresting power of Lawrence's bright and sharp blue eyes, and the beard he later grew would be as red as a fox's brush, but it was not his appearance that Ford was describing. It was his menace' Frances Wilson, from her...
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Riverrun
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2021-05-06
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riverrun editions
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'A writer innately drawn to paradox, and to the moral questions inherent in the relationships between richness and poverty, mind and body, history and imagination' Ali Smith'As cunning and rich as anything Ozick's written' Wall Street Journal'One of our era's central...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2021-04-13
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W&N Essentials
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'Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them' VogueSELECTED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYA girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-04-01
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'Profoundly imagined characters, spiced with the off-kilter and deliciously mad . . . a work of great empathy and imagination' THE IRISH TIMESThe season's just begun at Seacliff Caravan Park, but none of the residents are having a good time. Frankie is haunted by his...
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Transworld Digital
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2021-04-01
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Like A.S. Byatt’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects he studies. In...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-03-25
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There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society.In the vast...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
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2021-03-25
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Caribbean Contemporary Classics
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There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society.Over our way lies...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
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2021-03-25
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Caribbean Contemporary Classics
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The stories of Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne paved the way for modern science fiction, fantasy and horror. Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories is a wonderful collection of excerpts and short stories from some of the genre's greatest writers. This is...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2020-12-15
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