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Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century; but it was the LETTERS, first published in book form in 1869, which remained his favourite creation and has proved his most lasting. Throughout his working...
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Penguin
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2007-12-06
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The stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James’s writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society.The motif and title story, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, is an inspired joke, a...
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Penguin
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2007-12-06
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Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous...
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Penguin
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2007-12-06
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There was a movement at the station, for the word had passed around That the colt from old Regret had got away 'The Man From Snowy River' Banjo Paterson is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written with great gusto and...
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E-Penguin
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2007-11-26
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Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction is Alison MacLeod's collection of highly charged short stories.Sexy, tender, funny and haunting by turns, the stories in Alison MacLeod's daring collection are tales of lovers, would-be lovers and lovers gone wrong. Here we discover...
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Penguin
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2007-09-27
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6 of the Roaring Twenties chronicler’s most scintillating short stories, chosen from Flappers and Philosophers (1920) and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922). This inexpensive volume comprises "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Ice Palace," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "May...
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Penguin
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2007-09-27
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Young, fiery and bright, Eshlaini has her whole future ahead of her – until her father condemns her to a life of spinsterhood.Joyce has settled into Malaysian life after thirty years as an ex-pat wife – or so she thinks, until a newcomer arrives and reveals just how...
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Penguin
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2007-08-30
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Sometimes, great change starts with the smallest action ...One day, two grandmothers meet in the park, with a remarkably ambitious goal in mind. More and more women decide to join them and the impact on their community soon makes international news. Together, these...
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Penguin
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2007-08-30
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In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century.In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of...
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Penguin
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2007-08-02
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The volume includes: 'Youth'; 'The Secret Sharer'; 'The Lagoon'; 'An Outpost of Progress'; 'Il Conde'; 'The Duel'.The intention is a range of settings - we move from the sea to the colonial world, the Far East and Africa to England and then the Continent....
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Penguin
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2007-08-02
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Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored the...
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Penguin
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2007-05-31
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Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. Published in English in 1786, it was one of the most successful of the oriental tales then in fashion. This edition makes available to a new generation of...
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Penguin
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2007-04-26
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHKatherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they range from short sharp studies...
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Penguin
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2007-03-29
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Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short storyInnovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native...
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Penguin
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2007-03-29
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Hardy's two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed both with the search for his ideal woman and with sculpting the perfect figure of Aphrodite.
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Penguin
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2007-02-22
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Drawing directly on original manuscripts, this collection comprises the major short stories published after Kafka’s death. It includes The Great Wall of China, Blumfeld, An Elderly Bachelor, Investigations of a Dog and his great sequences of aphorisms, with fables and...
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Penguin
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2007-01-25
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Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, comprising Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a volume of spine-chilling short stories collected and published...
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Penguin
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2006-10-26
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In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a...
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Penguin
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2006-09-28
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"See if she is dark or fair, and if you can, notice if her hands be white; if not, see if they look as though she had ever done housework, or are milker's hands like mine."So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new...
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Penguin
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2006-08-31
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