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Dall'autore de I Viceré, una raccolta di racconti che svela il volto grottesco e spietato della società italiana post-unitaria.
Pubblicati per la prima volta nel 1890, questi quattordici "verbali" sono altrettante istantanee fulminanti, che fermano sul vivo i tic, le...
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Cactus
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2025-10-19
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From the winner of the 2023 Ursula K Le Guin Prize for Fiction comes a short story collection that radiates from the dark forests of the Pacific northwest. In ten tales, Rebecca Campbell’s exquisite prose channels ancient forest spirits, the lost ghosts of unknown...
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Stelliform Press
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2025-10-16
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In questo ciclo di racconti, capolavoro della letteratura italiana post-unitaria, Camillo Boito – architetto, critico d’arte e fine conoscitore dei vizi segreti della Storia – scruta le pieghe più ambigue della natura umana. Il celebre titolo Senso dà il nome a un’opera...
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Cactus
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2025-09-27
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A funny and heartfelt collection of rare short stories about unlikely pairings by the famed Anne of Green Gables author.
L. M. Montgomery, best known for creating the beloved Anne of Green Gables series, had a thriving writing career that included several novels and...
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Nimbus
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2025-09-16
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The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis: Complete Collection, Vol. 1 — Illustrated gathers together twenty remarkable works by America’s first Nobel Prize laureate in Literature. Written between 1915 and 1930, these stories showcase Lewis’s keen eye for social detail, his...
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Asimis Books
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2025-09-08
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“There was no point in telling Dorie that an education, even one in psychology, is no protection from the inherited mess with which we’re let loose upon this life; that psychologists stumble and fall as hard, and with as much puzzlement, as anybody else.”Growing up in...
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Freehand Books
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2025-09-08
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This richly illustrated volume brings together the most important and enduring works of Susan Glaspell, a trailblazing American playwright, novelist, and short story writer. A founding figure in modern American drama and a Pulitzer Prize winner, Glaspell explored themes...
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Andrii Ponomarenko
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2025-06-25
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A sinister note sewn in the lining of a vintage jacket from a second-hand store compels a young woman to make changes in her life.A brother discovers his dying twin has been burying jars of coins in an attempt to create mystery in a neighbourhood. On his 43rd birthday,...
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University of Calgary Press
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2025-06-15
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The first collection of short stories from award-winning author Tim Bowling, exploring childhood, work, and aging.
Set on the west coast of British Columbia and in Edmonton, the fifteen stories in this collection focus on moments of transformation: between parents and...
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Freehand Books
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2025-05-01
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Set on an island in BC's Salish Sea, a richly imagined and often hilarious collection of linked stories by Bill Gaston, a master of the art of short fiction.
Eleven stories feature a cast of characters striving to overcome pasts that often include a catastrophic error....
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Thistledown Press
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2025-04-29
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Finalist, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year (Short Stories) Now, for the first time, a blistering book of short fiction from one of Canada’s most loved novelists. In Skin, Catherine Bush plunges into the vortex of all that shapes us. Summoning relationships between the...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2025-04-22
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This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poe's complete tales and poems, such as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado".
This edition has been professionally...
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Beelzebub Classics
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2025-02-06
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Debut stories about the absurdity of growing up and being human in the twenty-first century.A woman finds her childhood friend working in a booth at a psychic fair in the West Edmonton Mall courtyard. A lonely neuropsychology student steals cocaine from his lab rat to...
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Freehand Books
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2025-02-01
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Mark Kalluak was a respected community leader and Inuktitut specialist who was passionate about sharing Inuit culture. This book is a compilation of Kalluak’s works on traditional Inuit stories and beliefs from his home community of Arviat, Nunavut. These tales and...
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Inhabit Media
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2025-01-24
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Recommended in The New York Times.Our Lady of Mile End is a neighbourhood of stories about gentrification and displacement in a once affordable area that is feeling the squeeze of social and cultural transformation. The overlapping lives of girls and women, tenants and...
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Anvil Press
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2024-12-31
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Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe is a powerful coming-of-age novel that explores the life, struggles, and inner world of Eugene Gant, a young man growing up in the fictional Southern town of Altamont, which closely resembles Wolfe’s hometown of Asheville, North...
Editeur :
Andrii Ponomarenko
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2024-12-17
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In un freddo Natale vittoriano, Ebenezer Scrooge, un vecchio avaro e solitario, vive rinchiuso nel suo mondo di avidità e indifferenza. Ma la vigilia di Natale, la sua vita viene stravolta dall'apparizione di tre spiriti che lo obbligano, attraverso un viaggio...
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Cactus
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2024-12-04
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Tilting Towards Joy is a collection of interconnected stories that trace the delicate threads binding lives across continents and through time. Set against the backdrop of rural France, each story follows familiar characters through unfamiliar terrain, offering insight...
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Signature Editions
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2024-11-05
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In un tempo imprecisato fra i secoli XV e XVII, in un'Ucraina devastata da tartari e turchi e asservita ai polacchi, il bellicoso Taras Bul'ba combatte per la libertà della sua gente a capo di feroci orde di cosacchi. Durante l'assedio alla città di Dubno uccide Andrii,...
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Cactus
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2024-09-14
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Questa breve novella racconta uno spaccato della vita di Attanasio Ivanovic Tovstogub e sua moglie Pulcheria Ivanovna Tovstogubicha, lui sessant'anni, lei cinquantacinque, due proprietari di vecchio stampo, come da titolo. Nikolaj Gogol descrive una quotidianità di...
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Cactus
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2024-09-14
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