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When Jill McCorkle feels a short story coming on, she goes right ahead and "wastes" wonderful ideas instead of hoarding them for a novel. The result is another extraordinary collection of stories and characters. In "It's a Funeral! RSVP," the storyteller is a woman who...
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Algonquin Books
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1998-01-06
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After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor 'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street JournalIn this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of...
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Penguin
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1997-10-30
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The Country of Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece, established her among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fiction. Composed in a series of beautiful web-like sketches, the novel is narrated by a young woman writer who leaves the city to...
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Penguin
Parution :
1995-10-26
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The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adventure stories featuring the author's unique knowledge of the Yukon and the behavior of humans and animals facing...
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Penguin
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1995-01-26
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It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in...
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Penguin
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1994-07-28
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The Collected Stories - a stunning volume of William Trevor's unforgettable short stories William Trevor is one of the most renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker...
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Penguin
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1993-12-30
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This second volume of short stories contains more diverse and lively writing from the Spanish-speaking world. Again much of it is from Latin America, Carlos Fuentes being Mexican, Norberto Fuentes Cuban, and the other writers having their roots in Uruguay, Chile, Peru,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1992-07-30
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This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this volume, however, some of the language used is a little more advanced...
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Penguin
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1992-07-30
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Introducing sixteen short stories from some of the best English writers over two hundred years of our history.The Penguin Book of English Short Stories celebrates the shorter format through some of the most widely known writers of all time. Though many are known for...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1992-04-30
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The Penguin Book of English Short Stories
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A much neglected literary figure, Ivan Bunin is one of Russia's major writers and ranks with Tolstoy and Chekhov at the forefront of the Russian Realists. Drawing artistic inspiration from his personal experience, these powerful, evocative stories are set in the late...
Editeur :
Penguin
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1992-03-26
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Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1990-10-25
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Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters -...
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Penguin
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1990-08-30
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If you know London primarily through novels like WHITE FANG, these stories will provide a new perspective. Full of intriguing characters and snippets of pidgin, they also highlight London's concern with social issues.
Editeur :
Penguin
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1989-05-25
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With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk, the author's first great literary triumph, is the story...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1988-11-24
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'The Kreutzer Sonata' is the self-lacerating confession of a man consumed by sexual jealousy and eaten up by shame and eventually driven to murder his wife. The story caused a sensation when it first appeared and Tolstoy's wife was appalled that he had drawn on their...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1985-09-26
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Introducing twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over two hundred years of history.'American literature and the short story might be said to have come of age at about the same time, and this, along with something in the bustling and energetic...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1982-05-27
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DARKER THAN GARRISON KEILLOR!
9 short stories on the fates of lay-people, with a lot of humour and some sweet-and-sour insight into the human soul, and a slight touch of cruelty to spice it all up.
Kurt Tidmore’s characters can be painfully normal or they can be...
Editeur :
Editions Taos
Parution :
1905-07-11
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In un mondo sospeso tra la disperazione più cupa e la beffarda leggerezza del vivere, Maksim Gor'kij dipinge con crudo realismo due ritratti indelebili dell'animo russo.
Il burlone ci presenta un uomo che ha fatto della presa in giro la sua unica ragione di vita. Un...
Editeur :
Cactus
Parution :
2025-10-31
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Un mondo sbiadito, fatto di cose “buone da nulla”, di oggetti dimenticati in un solaio, di ville in disfacimento e di ritratti di avi in uniformi antiquate. È questo il regno in cui Guido Gozzano, il poeta-crepuscolare per eccellenza, costruisce il suo “altare del...
Editeur :
Cactus
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2025-10-31
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