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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
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1992-04-30
Collection :
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...
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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...
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Penguin
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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.
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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...
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Penguin
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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...
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Penguin
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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...
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Penguin
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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...
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Editions Taos
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1905-07-11
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In the stark, fog-bound heart of St. Petersburg, two young clerks share a bond of profound friendship. Arkady Ivanovich, solid and pragmatic, watches with growing concern as his ecstatic friend Vasya Shumkov prepares for his wedding. Vasya is overwhelmed not by fear,...
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Cactus
Parution :
2026-01-27
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, the unparalleled chronicler of America's Roaring Twenties, captures the dazzling energy and hidden melancholy of an era in this brilliant collection of short stories. Tales of the Jazz Age contains some of his most celebrated and imaginative...
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Cactus
Parution :
2026-01-27
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What if life were lived in reverse?
In this landmark, fantastical short story that inspired the major motion picture, F. Scott Fitzgerald unleashes his imagination on one of literature’s most enchanting and curious "what ifs."
Benjamin Button is born an old...
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Cactus
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2026-01-27
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In his first collection of short stories, Joseph Conrad, the peerless chronicler of moral crisis, turns his gaze from the high seas to the even more perilous terrain of the soul. Tales of Unrest gathers five masterful explorations of obsession, fear, and the fragility...
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Cactus
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2026-01-14
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In Anton Chekhov’s first full-length work, a simple story becomes an epic of perception. Young Yegorushka is traveling across the vast, seemingly endless grasslands of the Russian steppe to begin his education. Accompanied by a motley group of merchants and wagon...
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Cactus
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2026-01-10
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In a languid seaside town in the Caucasus, two men are locked in a downward spiral of mutual hatred. Ivan Andreitch Laevsky, a dissipated romantic and government clerk, is sinking into debt and self-loathing, trapped with a mistress he no longer loves. Fyodor...
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Cactus
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2026-01-10
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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...
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Cactus
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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...
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Cactus
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2025-10-31
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These interconnected short stories navigate love, loss, and the search for meaning in the wake of tragedy. Clare's husband Richard is battling cancer in St. Boniface Hospital, and when his cellphone is stolen, she embarks on a restless search, tracking its signal...
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Signature Editions
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2025-10-22
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Give Us This Day is a striking collection of short fiction that explores the weight of the past through a kaleidoscope of voices and styles. From retired grandparents thrust into unexpected childcare parenthood to young labourers adrift in mines and road crews, from...
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Signature Editions
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2025-10-22
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