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A landmark event: the collected stories of one of the greatest writers of our era (Hilary Mantel) and the Irish novelist everyone should read (Colm Tóibín). Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and graceful. David Mitchell I have admired, even loved, John McGahern s work since his first novel. Melvyn Bragg Gentle, lyrical, an amorist of language, a natural historian of the soul. Irish Times Exquisite stories . . . Here is a Dublin of tatty dancehalls and uneasy courtships, of kisses in damp doorways and unfulfilled hungerings . . . Writing of extraordinary beauty. Guardian

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Lawrence is known mainly as a novelist and poet but he was also the author of many superb short stories and novellas. By bringing together all his shorter fiction, this volume makes it possible to survey his entire writing career. Together with many celebrated stories - including THE PRUSSIAN OFFICIER, THE VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY, ST MAWR and ODOUR OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS - there are many lesser known but still magnificent pieces which show the extraordinary diversity of Lawrence s talent and also reveal an often forgotten talent for comedy.

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The celebrated second novel by one of the greatest writers of our era (Hilary Mantel) and the Irish novelist everyone should read (Colm Tóibín) is a perfectly written tour de force (Sunday Times) and the best novel to come out of Ireland in many years. (Irish Times)Set in rural Ireland, John McGahern s second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Against a background evoked with quiet mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a human situation, superficially very ordinary, but inwardly an agony of longing and despair. Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and graceful. David Mitchell I have admired, even loved, John McGahern s work since his first novel. Melvyn Bragg

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The iconic debut novel by one of the greatest writers of our era (Hilary Mantel) and the Irish novelist everyone should read (Colm Tóibín).Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened by illness, seems to be losing the last vestiges of its purpose. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, John McGahern s first novel is one of haunting power. Marvellous. Susan Hill, Times Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and graceful. David Mitchell I have admired, even loved, John McGahern s work since his first novel. Melvyn Bragg Reminds one of the young Joyce ... McGahern is the real thing. Spectator

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John McGahern s astounding memoir of his childhood: A glowing masterpiece. Hilary Mantel The one Irish writer everyone should read. Colm TóibínAs wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels. David Mitchell I have admired, even loved, McGahern s work since his first novel ... Memoir strips the skin off his fiction as he faces a desperate early life with great force and tenderness. Melvyn BraggThis is the story of John McGahern s childhood, his mother s death, his father s anger and violence, and how, through his discovery of books, his dream of becoming a writer began. At the heart of Memoir is a son s unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes to the country schools where she taught and his happiness as she named for him the wild flowers on the bank remained conscious and unconscious presences for the rest of his life. A classic family story, told with exceptional restraint and tenderness, Memoir cannot fail to move all those who read it. Magnificent ... Stand[s] supreme in the Irish canon. Irish Times Profoundly beautiful. Daily Telegraph Extraordinary, spellbinding, spiritual. Irish Independent In a tremendously distinguished career, he has never written more movingly, or with a sharper eye. Andrew Motion, Guardian

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME McGahern s masterpiece: the sort of book which you can give anyone of any age and know that they will be changed by it (Colm Tóibín) by one of the greatest writers of our era (Hilary Mantel). A book that can be read in two hours, but will linger in the mind for decades. Sunday TelegraphOnce an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm where he raises his two sons and three daughters. Adrift from the structure and security of the military, he keeps control by binding his family close to him. But as his children grow older and seek independence, and as the passing years bring with them bewildering change, Moran struggles to find a balance between love and tyranny. McGahern brings us that tonic gift of the best fiction, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own. John Updike An overwhelming experience. The Times Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and graceful. David Mitchell I have admired, even loved, John McGahern s work since his first novel. Melvyn Bragg

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Now a major motion picture: the Booker-shortlisted Irish author s last novel: a masterpiece (Observer) - wise and compelling ... elegiac and graceful (David Mitchell) - by one of the greatest writers of our era (Hilary Mantel) Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. We are introduced, with deceptive simplicity, to a complete representation of existence - an enclosed world has been transformed into an Everywhere. McGahern brings us that tonic gift of the best fiction, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own. John Updike I have admired, even loved, John McGahern s work since his first novel. Melvyn Bragg

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Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. ⠘My only concern⠙, John McGahern once said, ⠘is that I get the sentence right and describe my world clearly and deeply.⠙⠘The Country Funeral⠙ witnesses three brothers, John, Philly and Fonsie Ryan, as they travel west from Dublin to Gloria Bog ⠓ the heart of the territory where so many of McGahern⠙s stories take place ⠓ to attend the funeral of their uncle. Depicting the customs and rituals of the day, McGahern exquisitely traces how the brothers react to the area in unexpected and tender ways, and face their own feelings about the transience of life.Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.

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This collection of nine Lost Tribe of the Sith stories is for fans of the NewYork Times bestselling Fate of the Jedi series, as it features the origin storyof the tribe of Sith that play such a crucial role in those novels.The bestselling Fate of the Jedi novels introduce the Star Wars universe to along-forgotten tribe of Sith. This collection of stories tells the origin of that tribe.Written by John Jackson Miller, this paperback will include all eight of the LostTribe of the Sith stories, as well as Pandemonium, the never-before-seen finalchapter that will only be available in this collection.

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The provocative novel by one of the greatest writers of our era (Hilary Mantel) and the Irish novelist everyone should read (Colm Tóibín).A writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. But his insensitivity to this love is in direct contrast to the tenderness with which he attempts to make his aunt s slow death in hospital tolerable, while his employer, Maloney, failed poet and comic king of pornographers, comes gradually to preside over this broken world. Everywhere in this rich novel is the drama of opposites, but, above all, sex and death are never far from each other. Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and graceful. David Mitchell I have admired, even loved, John McGahern s work since his first novel. Melvyn Bragg

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A haunting novel by one of the greatest writers of our era (Hilary Mantel) and the Irish novelist everyone should read (Colm Tóibín). A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year s sabbatical in London where he married an American divorcee. As a result he now faces certain dismissal by the school authorities. Moving from the earliest memories of both the man and the woman, the novel recreates their breaking of the shackles of guilt and duty into the acceptance of a fulfilling adult love. A beautiful, irresistible work of imagination. Sunday Telegraph Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and graceful. David Mitchell I have admired, even loved, John McGahern s work since his first novel. Melvyn Bragg

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Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction s best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome She Who Must Be Obeyed.These collected stories, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time, are a definitive introduction to one of the wisest and wittiest characters in British comic writing and a reminder of what justice should really be about. With a new introduction by Sam Leith, former literary editor of the Daily Telegraph and contributor to the Evening Standard, Guardian and Spectator.

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With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University.Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen s College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, In a German Pension, appeared in 1911, and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This edition of The Collected Stories brings together all of the stories that Mansfield had written up until her death in January of 1923.With an introduction and head-notes, this volume allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield s work from the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, through the luminous recollections of her childhood in New Zealand, and through the mature, deeply felt stories of her last years. Admired by Virginia Woolf in her lifetime and by many writers since her death, Katherine Mansfield is one of the great literary artists of the twentieth century.

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The complete collected short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant and influential writers of the twentieth centurySusan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories: fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she couldn t address in essay form. These short fictions are allegories, parables, autobiographical vignettes, each capturing an authentic fragment of life, dramatizing Sontag s private griefs and fears.Stories collects all of Sontag s short fiction for the first time. This astonishingly versatile collection showcases its peerless writer at the height of her powers. For any Sontag fan, it is an unmissable testament to her creative achievements.

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It would be difficult - in my opinion impossible - to point to a contemporary poet of greater originality or more genuine depth of feeling Anthony PowellTHE DEFINITIVE JOHN BETJEMAN COLLECTION, REISSUED FOR THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTHCollected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared, and has now sold more than two million copies, to an ever-growing readership. This newly expanded edition includes Betjeman s verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells. With a new Introduction by Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, Collected Poems is the definitive Betjeman companion.Includes his verse autobiography Summoned by Bells in its entirety.

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This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art.With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of spare complexity, often pushing the boundaries of the form in boldly unconventional directions. The settings in the COLLECTED STORIES range from Paris to Berlin to Switzerland, from the Riviera to the Côte d Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, as she herself was the most of her expatriate life. The wit and precision of her prose, combined with her expansive view of humanity, provide a rare and deep reading pleasure. With breathtaking control and compression, Gallant delivers a whole life, a whole world, in each story.

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The collected stories of Cixin Liu, international bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem.From cosmological horror to wry satire, from first contact to the end of everything, these 32 stories explore our place in the universe, pitting the vastness of space against the fragility of humanity.The scale of Liuâ ™s imagination is immense, exploring both the infinite and the infinitesimal, the epic and the intimate. Here, machine intelligences create art or sow terror, humanity is annihilated or created anew, alien civilizations come bearing gifts, or they come in the cold logic of universal war. Solar systems are devoured, planets are turned into spaceships, and time is reversed.With a physicistâ ™s mind and a philosopherâ ™s heart, Liu takes us to the boundaries of the cosmos and consciousness... but thatâ ™s just where his imagination begins.STORIES INCLUDE:With Her Eyes, Contraction, End of the Microcosmos, Whale Song, The Wandering Earth, Fire in the Earth, The Micro-Era, Full-Spectrum Barrage Jamming, The Village Teacher, The Messenger, Fibers, Sun of China, Devourer, Sea of Dreams, The Thinker, Destiny, Heard It in the Morning, Butterfly, Cannonball, Cloud of Poems, Glory and Dreams, Of Ants and Dinosaurs, Mirror, The Circle, For the Benefit of Mankind, Taking Care of God, Ode to Joy, Mountain, 2018-04-01, Moonlight, Curse 5.0, The Time Migration.

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The stories collected here are by turns confident, brutal, and breathtaking... must-read horror The New York TimesA beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram Stoker Awards (R) finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. Includes an introduction from acclaimed bestselling author Chuck Wendig.Eight stories of literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose. In these narratives, a woman imagines horrific scenarios whilst caring for her infant niece; on-line posts chronicle a cancer diagnosis; a couple in the park with their small child encounter a stranger with horrific consequences; a toxic relationship reaches a terrifying resolution...Originally published under the title The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales, this is a beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram Stoker Awards (R) finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes.

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The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham s most famous tales; Flotsam and Jetsam , the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; The Man with the Scar , and notably the opening story The Vessel of Wrath , a tale of the unexpected love that grows between a devout missionary nurse and a drunken reprobate. In this second volume of his collected stories, Maugham illustrates his characteristic wry perception of human foibles and his genius for evoking compelling drama from an acute sense of time and place.

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FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, GRACE PALEY Grace Paley s is exceptional KASIA BODDY, GUARDIAN Her unladylike gutsiness and friendliness are nonpareil EDMUND WHITE, OBSERVER They are stories full of the stories we all tell and live by, tall stories as well as short SALMAN RUSHDIE Here are all Grace Paley s classic stories in one volume. From her first book The Little Disturbances of Man (1959) to Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974) and Later the Same Day (1985), Grace Paley s quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language have won her readers hearts and secured her place as one of America s most accomplished short story writers. Her stories are united by her signature interweaving of personal and political truths, her extraordinary capacity for empathy and her pointed depiction of the small and large events that make up daily life.

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â ˜One of the funniest writers alive.â ™ Dave Eggersâ ˜Her stories, her stories, are perfect.â ™ Slate Such a delight. Sunday Telegraph Poetic, sharp and devastatingly funny. GuardianA wonderful collection from one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of her generation.Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful stories tell of the gulf between men and women, the loneliness of the broken-hearted and the yearned-for, impossible intimacies we crave. Gathered here for the first time in a beautiful hardback edition is the complete stories along with three new and previously unpublished in book form: Paper Losses, The Juniper Tree, Debarking.

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The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick s short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre. This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick s work includes the influential Minority Report and Sales Pitch , as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works.Work your way through some of the most influential stories from the 20th century, which have had a massive impact on popular culture. First time I have read Philip K. Dick and I thoroughly enjoyed his stories and the suspense that he puts into them Goodreads reviewer, Most of the stories had something to say about society.It was interesting to see how 50 years later so many of the fears and criticism was still relevant. Highly recommended Goodreads reviewer, Dick s stories are often surprising and spin a captivating yarn, but they are also teeming with fascinating ideas which ensure their ability to age well and keep modern readers interested Goodreads reviewer, Each tale is filled with twists and turns, and it s a total pageturner Goodreads reviewer,

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The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick s short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre. This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick s work includes the influential Adjustment Team and The Father Thing , as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works.Work your way through some of the most influential stories from the 20th century, which have had a massive impact on popular culture. I am bowled over. I am so impressed by the variety in stories, and how interesting the individual story ideas are Goodreads reviewer, Philip K.Dick is a master of messing with your head in a story Goodreads reviewer, Enter the Mind of a Genius . . .This collection of short stories by Philip K. Dick are great, thought provoking, funny, and some really frightening Goodreads reviewer, This blew my mind, and then some. The ideas and concepts alone need five stars.What an amazing man Goodreads reviewer,

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. N. WILSONThroughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson affirms in his introduction, that the instinctive artist is there at the very heart of her work .

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The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick s short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre. This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick s work includes the influential We Can Remember It For You Wholesale and The Electric Ant , as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works.Work your way through some of the most influential stories from the 20th century, which have had a massive impact on popular culture. A great collection, showcasing Dick s evolution Goodreads reviewer, my reason for giving the book a five-star rating has to do with my emotional state I felt when I closed the last page. I feel that I delved into a more extensive realm of PKD s mind by reading this collection Goodreads reviewer, An amazing collection of downright bizarre fiction.So many excellent stories that it would be hard to pick a favorite Goodreads reviewer,

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Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. The present volume includes all his available shorter fiction in a new collection edited and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici. The stories, which range from tiny fragments to substantial narratives, have been arranged both to illuminate one another and to illustrate Kafka s evolution as a writer - which, as Professor Josipovici shows, is more complex and radical than often thought. The extensive prefatory essay is an introduction not only to the stories but also to Kafka s work as a whole.

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The only complete collection of shorter fiction by the undisputed master of detective literature, assembled here for the first time in one volume, includes stories unavailable for decades. When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing in pulp magazines such as Black Mask before later writing his famous novels. In these stories Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling and alcohol in abundance. In addition to his classic detective fiction â “ in which his signature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around cool, intuitive loners such as Philip Marlowe â “ Chandler turned his hand to fantasy and even a Gothic romance. This rich treasury of twenty-five stories shows him developing the laconic, understated style that would serve him so well in his later masterpieces, immersing readers in the richly realized fictional universe that has become a part of our literary landscape.

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The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick s short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre. This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick s work includes the influential Beyond Lies the Wub and Second Variety , as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works.Work your way through some of the most influential stories from the 20th century, which have had a massive impact on popular culture. One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction Sunday Times No other writer of his generation had such a powerful intellectual presence Brian Aldiss Thought-provoking,original,deeply moving. HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION Goodreads reviewer, Very fun.Classic PKD Goodreads reviewer, Wow. Every single story in this book could be made into a contemporary movie Goodreads reviewer, Absolutely brilliant . .. Strongly recommend to everyone (even those who normally do not like science fiction) Goodreads reviewer,

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One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig s work - Ali Smith The Updike of his day... Zweig is a lucid writer, and Bell renders his prose flawlessly - New York ObserverPerfectly paced and brimming with passion - twenty-two tales from a master storyteller of the twentieth centuryIn this indispensable collection of short stories, Stefan Zweig captures the best and worst of human nature. At the heart of these tales lies passion - from a humble waiter s love for an aristocratic guest to an exiled Frenchwoman s longing for the glitter of court life, and a bookseller s fatal lust for print in wartime Vienna.Translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, and spanning a prolific literary career, these stories form a map of the human soul, drawn by a writer both tender and perceptive.Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.Translated by Anthea Bell.Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear.In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, Zweig left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York - a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.Anthea Bell (1936-2018) ranked among the leading literary translators of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her work from German, French and Danish into English encompassed the writings of Kafka, Freud, E.T.A. Hoffmann, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Georges Simenon, W.G. Sebald, René Goscinny, Cornelia Funke and many others. Her translations for Pushkin Press of Stefan Zweig have reintroduced to English-language readers the work of one of the most popular European authors of the interwar period. She won numerous literary awards, some of them several times, and was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2015.

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Many of these stores are now so famous from film and television adaptations that they need no introduction. Roald Dahl is well known as a master of the macabre and the unexpected in the tradition of Saki, and this volume does not disappoint. He began his literary career by writing about his own experiences in the RAF during World War II but soon developed this talent in a series of short-story collections.He is perhaps even more celebrated as an author of children s books, but the best of his short stories represent a claim for him to be numbered among the most remarkable story writers of the 20th century. The present volume includes for the first time all the stories in chronological order as established by Dahl s biographer, Jeremy Treglown, in consultation with the Dahl estate.

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This unique edition presents the complete span of Thomas short stories, from his urgent hallucinatory visions of the dark forces beneath the surface of Welsh life to the inimitable comedy of his later autobiographical writings.With PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG and ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE, Thomas found a new voice for his irreverent memories of lust and bravado in south-west Wales and London, leading to a sequence of classic evocations of childhood magic and the follies of adult life.The definitive collection of Dylan Thomas short stories, showing just why he is considered one of the 20th century s finest writers. Also featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary.

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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 to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes Bliss, The Garden Party and In a German Pension, and fifteen tantalizing fragments of unfinished stories published after her tragic death, including Honesty , an intriguing tale of two bachelors, and The Doves Nest , an exquisite story of a widowed mother and her daughter in the Riviera who receive a mysterious gentleman caller. Graceful, delicate and quietly devastating, they observe apparently trivial incidents to create sensitive, often painful revelations of her characters inner lives.

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Few cities in the world abound with so many extraordinary stories as Glasgow. The city has been the silent witness to some of the most significant events of the past century, from major triumphs to cataclysmic calamities, and the best of these anecdotes are compiled here to form this unique collection. Amongst the notable events revisited are the launching of the Queen Mary, which captivated the city s inhabitants in 1934, the victorious 16-month work-in campaign by the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in the early 1970s, the Ibrox disaster of 1971 and the plague that gripped the Gorbals in 1900. Some of Glasgow s most successful people are also covered, including Clydeside revolutionary John Maclean, founder of the Barras Maggie McIver and the inimitable Billy Connolly, whose humour and colourful personality are synonymous with the city. From the Battle of George Square to the bravery of the Glasgow people during the Blitz, Great Glasgow Stories provides an all-encompassing view of the city throughout the eras.

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A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing range of inventiveness, with dazzling sleight of hand, fantastical fairy tales, intellectual games and enchanting glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss.The collection displays Nabokov s astonishing range of technical and formal inventiveness: the dazzling sleight of hand, fanciful fairy tales, ingenious puzzles, enchanting vignettes and haunting melancholic narratives full of disturbing ambiguities.

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Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in the short story he reached the pinnacle of his art and it was his true métier. These expertly told tales, with their addictive plot twists and vividly drawn characters, are both galvanizing as literature and wonderfully entertaining. In the adventures of his alter ego Ashenden, a writer who (like Maugham himself) turned secret agent in World War I, as well as in stories set in such far-flung locales as South Pacific islands and colonial outposts in Southeast Asia, Maugham brings his characters vividly to life, and their humanity is more convincing for the author s merciless exposure of their flaws and failures. Whether the chasms of misunderstanding he plumbs are those between colonizers and natives, between a missionary and a prostitute, or between a poetry-writing woman and her uncomprehending husband, Maugham brilliantly displays his irony, his wit, and his genius in the art of storytelling.

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In an interview, Updike once said, If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories. These stories were originally published in The New Yorker and then in various collections before Vintage first put them together in one volume in 1964, as a paperback original. They follow the life of one character from the age of ten through manhood, in the small Pennsylvania town of Olinger (pronounced, according to Updike, with a long O and a hard G), which was loosely based on Updike s own hometown. All the stories draw from the same autobiographical well, Updike explained, the only child, the small town, the grandparental home, the move in adolescence to a farm. The selection was made and arranged by Updike himself, and was prefaced by a lovely 1,400-word essay by the author that has never been reprinted in full elsewhere until now.

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Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent type, combining the dour temperament of the Scot with the stiff upper lip of the Englishman, Hannay is pre-eminent among early spy-thriller heroes. Caught up in the first of these five gripping adventures just before the outbreak of war in 1914, he manages to thwart the enemy s evil plan and solve the mystery of the thirty-nine steps . In Greenmantle, he undertakes a vital mission to prevent jihad in the Islamic Near East. Mr Standfast, set in the decisive months of 1917-18, is the novel in which Hannay, after a life lived wholly among men , finally falls in love; later, in The Three Hostages, he finds himself unravelling a kidnapping mystery with his wife s help. In the last adventure, The Island of Sheep, he is called upon to honour an old oath. A shrewd judge of men, he never dehumanises his enemy, and despite sharing some of the racial prejudices of his day, Richard Hannay is a worthy prototype hero of espionage fiction.

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John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it’s his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system.A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse.Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you.

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A fundamental principle of the American legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt. Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration.They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place, and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and the corrupt court system that can make them so hard to reverse. Told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of overcoming adversity when the battle already seems lost, and the deck is stacked against you.

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In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us, the impossibility of shared loss, the lengths we will go to in order to protect our families and the distance we will run to protect ourselves.Drawing on a host of enthralling characters â “ a farmer, a cuckold and a teenager exploring his sexuality; good parents, bad parents, writers and soldiers; a student, a rent boy and a hitman â “ Boyne examines the hopeful and the damaged without prejudice or judgement. This, his first collection of short stories, is some of John Boyneâ ™s finest writing to date. It includes â ˜Rest Dayâ ™ which won the 2015 Writing.ie Short Story of the Year award in Ireland.

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Whatâ ™s the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parentsâ ™ liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are stories suffused with beauty, sadness, and the gathering storm of a bender well-done. Seen through the gin-lacquered looking glass of Cheeverâ ™s writing, your next drink may have you reaching for a lime and soda instead. Selected from the book Collected Stories by John CheeverVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the worldâ ™s greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Swimming by Roger DeakinEating by Nigella LawsonCalm by Tim PeaksLove by Jeanette Winterson

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Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: one of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah WatersElizabeth Taylor, highly acclaimed author of classic novels such as Angel, A Game of Hide and Seek and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, is also renowned for her powerful, acutely observed stories. Here for the first time, the stories - including some only recently rediscovered - are collected in one volume. From the awkward passions of lonely holiday-makers to the anticipation of three school friends preparing for their first dance, from the minor jealousies and triumphs of marriage to tales of outsiders struggling to adapt to the genteel English countryside, with a delicate, witty touch Elizabeth Taylor illuminates the nuances of ordinary lives.Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame

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The Fiery Spirits tells the story of the MPs in parliament and the protestors in the streets who played a pivotal role in the English Civil Wars. Through their stories, John Rees reveals the hidden history of the republicans who brought a desperate nation to the brink of revolution.At the start of the English Civil Wars, very few could have imagined that the country would soon become a republic. Practically alone in his republicanism was Henry Marten, MP and future regicide. But he soon gathered around him a group of radical Parliamentarians that included William Strode, the parliamentary firebrand, Alexander Rigby, the formidable soldier, and Sir Peter Wentworth, descendant of a long line of opponents of monarchy. They formed the nucleus of a group that allied itself to a popular movement outside parliament to defeat the king politically and militarily.In The Fiery Spirits, Rees tells how Marten and his radical allies overcame both moderate Parliamentarians and Royalists to change the face of England forever, establishing a kingdom without a crown.

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In this thrilling collection of stories, John Wyndham, author of the acclaimed classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos, conducts ten experiments along the theme of I wonder what might happen if . . . There s the story of the meteor, which holds much more than meets the eye. In Chronoclasm a man is pursued by his own future. We meet a robot with an overactive compassion circuit.And what happens when the citizens of the future turn the past into a giant theme park? One of the few authors whose compulsive readability is a compliment to the intelligence Spectator

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER⠘A master of the short form⠙ IndependentWide-ranging, suggestive, and ever-daring, Roberto Bolaño s short stories map out the dark terrain that he would go on to explore in his novellas and epic novels. From melancholic portraits of exile and its folklore to a rogue⠙s gallery of desperate characters futilely attempting to unearth the animating secrets of the world, each of Bolaño⠙s short fictions adds yet another door, a window, a secret passage onto the sinister, eerie universe that Bolaño brought to life across his body of work. Bringing together Last Evenings on Earth, The Return and The Insufferable Gaucho, as well as Bolaño⠙s posthumously published stories, this new book marks the first time these fictions have been collected in one edition, allowing for a major reappraisal of the vital place that the short story commands for Bolaño⠙s literary legacy. ⠘Bolaño was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time⠙ Paul Auster⠘Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled⠙ Mariana Enríquez

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The third volume of Somerset Maugham s Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham s own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatises both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality. Accountable only to R , Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor, the passionate Guilia Lazzari, and the sinister hairless Mexican .

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Hudební Blu-ray - Jedinečný box 40 disků kompletuje práci amerického skladatele Johna Adamse. Najdete v něm vše, co udělal do roku 2020. Americký skladatel John Adams je mimo jiné držitelem Pulitzerovy ceny. K jeho nejznámějším pracem patří opery Nixon In China a Doctor Atomic. Jedinečný box 40 disků kompletuje práci amerického skladatele Johna Adamse. Najdete v něm vše, co udělal do roku 2020. Americký skladatel John Adams je mimo jiné držitelem Pulitzerovy ceny. K jeho nejznámějším pracem patří opery Nixon In China a Doctor Atomic. Rok vydání : 2022 Seznam stop CD1 Harmonielehre, Pt. I [17:03] / Harmonielehre, Pt. II: the Anfortas Wound [12:16] / Harmonielehre, Pt. III: Meister Eckhardt and Quackie [10:31] CD2 The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra) [12:27] / Christian Zeal and Activity [10:07] / Two Fanfares for Orchestra: Tromba Lontana [04:11] / Two Fanfares for Orchestra: Short Ride in a Fast Machine [04:13] / Common Tones in Simple Time...

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These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald s death.Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald s short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings together his most famous stories, including The Diamond as Big as the Ritz , a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby; and The Lost Decade , written in Fitzgerald s last years.

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I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own... Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supernatural tales draw on the terrors of the everyday, in which documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot. Lonely country houses, remote inns, ancient churches or the manuscript collections of great libraries provide settings for unbearable menace, from creatures seeking retribution and harm. These stories have lost none of their power to unsettle and disturb.This edition presents all of James s published ghost stories, including the unforgettable Oh, Whistle and I ll Come to You, My Lad and Casting the Runes , and an appendix of James s writings on the ghost story. Darryl Jones s introduction and notes provide a fascinating insight into James s background and his mastery of the genre he made his own.

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This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham s unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Brilliant tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice, the stories range from The Lotus Eater in which a man has a vision of a life of bliss in the Mediterranean, to the astringent tales of The Outstation and The Back of Beyond in Malaya and South East Asia. Largely set in favourite Maugham country, this colourful collection brilliantly evokes the numbered days of the British Empire.

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