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LOOKING FOR A GIFT FOR THE BOOKWORM IN YOUR LIFE? THIS QUIZ BOOK IS IT!Which Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song? In Roald Dahl s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie s surname? What is heavy-drinking Rachel Watson known as in the title of a 21st-century bestseller? And what do you get if you add the number of Bennet sisters in Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice to the number of Karamazov brothers in Fyodor Dostoevsky s The Brothers Karamazov?With four hundred questions covering books from literary classics to modern bestsellers, through iconic children s books and books you say that you ve read but really you haven t, The Penguin Book Quiz is as appropriate for making you look well-read at a party as it is for a book-loving family to tuck into after Christmas dinner: it s as enjoyable to read as it is to play.Featuring the work of everyone from Antony Beevor to Zadie Smith, books from The Very Hungry Caterpillar to Ulysses, and with movie, music, television, theatre and literary references abounding, this entertaining quiz tickles the fancy (and the brains) of light and heavy readers alike.Answers:- Norwegian Wood- Bucket- The Girl on the Train- Eight (five sisters, three brothers) Unceasingly enormous fun Alan Connor, author of The Joy of Quiz I ll definitely be buying copies of this book as gifts Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing The greatest social lubricant since the invention of alcohol John Preston, author of A Very English Scandal

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A charming and beautifully illustrated book about the world’s most beloved bird, written by Peter Fretwell, a leading scientist at The British Antarctic Survey, and illustrated by Lisa Fretwell.There’s something about penguins that makes them irresistible. Maybe it’s their comical waddle, their black-and-white ‘tuxedo’ plumage, or their apparent cheerfulness in the face of extreme weather conditions. Whatever the reason, their cult following around the globe is indisputable. Penguins can tell us so much about the world we live in – and what the future of both our species might look like.In The Penguin Book of Penguins, leading British Antarctic scientist Peter Fretwell introduces us to eighteen charismatic species of penguin and the fascinating lives they lead: their evolution, behaviours and habitats, and their history with humans. From the fact that emperor penguins dive twice as deep as any other bird, to the story of a king penguin called Sir Nils Olav III who was made a Major General by the Norwegian Army, we discover through fascinating first-hand encounters (and even penguin jokes and emojis!) why penguins matter so greatly to all of us.

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[Ahmad s] introduction is fiery and charismatic... This book encompasses the diversity of experience, with beautiful variations and stories that bicker back and forth. --Parul Sehgal, The New York TimesThe first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Warsan Shire, with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat, author of Everything InsideA Penguin ClassicEvery year, three to four million people move to a new country. From war refugees to corporate expats, migrants constantly reshape their places of origin and arrival. This selection of works collected together for the first time brings together the most compelling literary depictions of migration.Organized in four parts (Departures, Arrivals, Generations, and Returns), The Penguin Book of Migration Literature conveys the intricacy of worldwide migration patterns, the diversity of immigrant experiences, and the commonalities among many of those diverse experiences. Ranging widely across the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries, across every continent of the earth, and across multiple literary genres, the anthology gives readers an understanding of our rapidly changing world, through the eyes of those at the center of that change. With thirty carefully selected poems, short stories, and excerpts spanning three hundred years and twenty-five countries, the collection brings together luminaries, emerging writers, and others who have earned a wide following in their home countries but have been less recognized in the Anglophone world. Editor of the volume Dohra Ahmad provides a contextual introduction, notes, and suggestions for further exploration.

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The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players.Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge) to games of high chance (Newmarket) to trick-taking (Whist) and banking (Pontoon), David Parlett, seasoned specialist in card games, takes us masterfully through the countless games to choose from.Not content to merely show us games with the conventional fifty-two card pack, Parlett covers many games played with other types of cards - are you brave enough to play with Tarot? With a working description of each game, with the rules, variations and origins of each, as well as an appendix of games invented by the author himself, The Penguin Book of Card Games will delight, entertain and inform both the novice and the seasoned player.

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A landmark collection of stories--nearly half appearing in English for the first time--selected and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa LahiriA Penguin ClassicWhen Jhumpa Lahiri decided to read exclusively in Italian, a language she had studied for many years, her life as a reader--and writer--took a surprising turn. Complete immersion in this rich literary heritage brought fresh insight andunexpected freedom.This collection brings together forty writers who have shaped her love of the Italian language and profound appreciation for its literature. More than half of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, and the wide-ranging selection includes well-known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante, and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating rediscoveries.Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross-section of Italian society. Together they reflect more than a hundred years of Italy s vibrant and diverse short-story tradition, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions, and the dramatic political events of the twentieth century.For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher s timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His introduction is as enriching as anything that has been published this year Sunday TimesA spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty yearsWe are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can be published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted a host of remarkable, subversive, entertaining and innovative writers. Philip Hensher, following the success of his definitive Penguin Book of British Short Stories, has scoured a vast trove of material and chosen thirty great stories for this new volume of works written between 1997 and the present day.Includes short stories by A.L. Kennedy, Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jackie Kay, Graham Swift, Jane Gardam, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman, Martin Amis, China Miéville, Peter Hobbs, Thomas Morris, David Rose, David Szalay, Irvine Welsh, Lucy Caldwell, Rose Tremain, Helen Oyeyemi, Leone Ross, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Will Self, Gerard Woodward, James Kelman, Lucy Wood, Hilary Mantel, Eley Williams, Sarah Hall, Mark Haddon and Helen Dunmore.

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The definitive global anthology of writings about dragons, from Ancient Egypt to the modern daySince the earliest moments of human history, dragons have occupied a place in our imaginations. Bringer of night in Ancient Egypt; mortal enemy of the elephant in South Asia; slain by a god in Sanskrit hymn. In the Book of Revelation, there is the Leviathan; in Loch Ness, a monster. Their crushing coils and their treasure hoards are found throughout literature and language: in the Old English of Beowulf, in the Elvish of Tolkien, in the far-flung travels of Marco Polo.The Penguin Book of Dragons is the definitive collection of all this and more: two thousand years of legend and lore about the menace and majesty of dragons.

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Burning ice, biting flame; that is how life began The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the world s great stories. The Penguin Book of the Norse Myths compellingly retells these stories for the modern reader, taking us from the creation of the world through the building of Asgard s Wall to the final end in Ragnarok. You ll discover how Thor got his hammer and how Odin lost his eye, the terrible price of binding the wolf Fenrir and why Loki the trickster can never be trusted. The Norse myths are as thrilling to read as they are of vast cultural and historical importance. In this gripping book Kevin Crossley-Holland brings alive the passion, cruelty and heroism of these unforgettable stories.

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A joyous multiplicity of writings incorporating collective manifestos, poetry, fiction, and autobiography... endlessly fascinating Catherine Taylor, Financial Times A tour de force of feminist thinking, spanning seven centuries and multiple continents Jennifer Thomson, Review 31 The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing rounds up the voices of women from across history to discuss the meaning and practice of feminism. This is a book that every person should read: the multiplicity of voices from various times and spaces allows women of the past alongside women of the present to be noisy about why feminism matters. It is a collective masterpiece Helen Carr, BBC History, Books of the Year Bulging with brilliant and exciting writing. Its vast sweep takes us from the 15th century, when Christine de Pizan, a court writer in medieval France, imagined a City of Ladies where women would be safe from harassment, through to the present day, with work by Maggie Nelson, Eileen Myles, Rachel Cusk, Deborah Levy and Lola Olufemi Rachel Cooke, ObserverEdited with an Introduction by Hannah Dawson

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The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible. . . . He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really permanent citizen of the earth, for mortals, at best, are but transients. —Dorothy Scarborough This new selection of ghost stories, by Michael Newton, brings together the best of the genre. From Elizabeth Gaskell s The Old Nurse s Story through to Edith Wharton s Afterword, this collection covers all of the most terrifying tales of the genre. With a thoughtful introduction, and helpful notes, Newton places the stories contextually within the genre and elucidates the changing nature of the ghost story and how we interpret it.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the world s greatest speeches, bringing together the words of over one hundred men and women. These brilliant and passionate declarations by Socrates, Robespierre, Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth I, Churchill, Washington, Pankhurst, Gandhi and many others provide a vivid glimpse of history in the making while retaining their power to move and inspire today. Impeccable. MacArthur prefaces each address with a short but scholarly historical explanation that sets the scene perfectly. An attractive volume Andrew Roberts, Sunday Times Works well not just as an anthology but as a history Independent on Sunday.

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For millennia, societies have told tales of their fears incarnate – otherworldly couriers of plague, death, temptation and moral decline. Drawing from three thousand years of religious traditions and world literature, The Penguin Book of Demons follows these supernatural creatures – and the humans who have hunted and been haunted by them – through accounts across cultures and continents, including: the daimones of ancient Greece and Rome; the giant, biblical half humans known as Nephilim who stalked the earth before the Great Flood; corrupted angels, condemned to eternity in Hell; the djinn of Islamic Arabia; the female, child-eating gelloudes of Byzantium; the seductive incubi and succubi of northern Europe; the animal spirits of early modern China; and the cannibalistic wendigo of Native American folklore. From demonic possession to black magic, these accounts give life to a spellbinding, skin-crawling history of the paranormal.

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â ˜An ever-surprising and stylistically diverse anthology that will surely stand as the touchstone collection of Korean literature for decades to comeâ ™ Literary ReviewThis eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captures a hundred years of Korea s vibrant short-story tradition. Here are peddlers and donkeys travelling across moonlit fields; artists drinking and debating in the tea-houses of 1920s Seoul; soldiers fighting for survival; exiles from the war who can never go home again; and lonely men and women searching for connection in the dizzying modern city. The collection features stories by some of Korea s greatest writers, including Pak Wanso, O Chonghui and Cho Chongnae, as well as many brilliant contemporary voices, such as P yon Hyeyong, Han Yujoo and Kim Aeran. Curated by Bruce Fulton, this is a volume that will surprise, unsettle and delight. Edited by Bruce FultonWith an introduction by Kwon Youngmin

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The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories, edited by novelist and critic Malcolm Bradbury, is a collection of the finest short stories from our best loved authors, including Samuel Beckett, Graham Greene, William Golding, Kingsley Amis, Doris Lessing, Muriel Spark, J. G. Ballard, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Rose Tremain, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift and Kazuo Ishiguro. The short story has become one of the major forms of modern literary expression - in some ways the most modern of them all. The story of the British short story since the Second World War is one of change and revolution and this powerful and moving collection brilliantly demonstrates the evolution of the form. Containing thirty-four of the most widely regarded postwar British writers, it features tales of love and crime, comedy and the supernatural, the traditional as well as the experimental. This many-storied, many-splendored collection is a brilliant portrait of the generation of writers who have immediately influenced the brightest, sharpest and most intriguing writers who continue to emerge today.Malcolm Bradbury was a novelist, critic, television dramatist and professor of American studies and creative writing. He was awarded the CBE in 1991 for his services to Literature and was knighted in the 2000 New Year s Honours List. He died in 2000.

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Journey into the underworld through three thousand years of visions of hell, from the ancient Near East to modern AmericaFrom the Hebrew Bible s shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you ll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk - a monster with a thousand giant hands; wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante s Inferno and witness the debates that raged in Victorian England when new scientific advances cast doubt on the idea of an eternal hereafter. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles and accounts of saints lives, this fascinating volume of hellscapes illuminates how Hell has long haunted us, in both life and death.

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Perfect for Hallowe en: haunting accounts of real-life exorcisms through the centuries, from ancient Egypt and the biblical Middle East to colonial America and twentieth-century South AfricaLevitation. Feats of superhuman strength. Speaking in tongues.A hateful, glowing stare. The signs of spirit possession have been documented for thousands of years and across religions and cultures, even into our own time. Unsettling and chilling, The Penguin Book of Exorcisms brings together the most astonishing accounts: Saint Anthony set upon by demons in the form of a lion, a bull and a panther, who are no match for his devotion and prayer; the Prophet Muhammad casting an enemy of God out of a young boy; fox spirits in medieval China and Japan; a headless bear assaulting a woman in sixteenth-century England; the possession of an entire convent of Ursuline nuns in a French town; a Zulu woman who daily floated to a height of five feet; the exorcism in Earling, Iowa, in 1928 that inspired the film The Exorcist; a Filipina girl bitten by devils ; and a rare example of a priest s letter requesting permission of a bishop to perform an exorcism - after witnessing a boy walk backwards up a wall. . .

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This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day.Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends old favourites and hidden gems - many of which have never before been translated into English - and introduces readers to surprising new voices as well as giants of Spanish literary culture, from Emilia Pardo Bazán and Leopoldo Alas, through Mercè Rodoreda and Manuel Rivas, to Ana Maria Matute and Javier Marías. Brimming with romance, horror, history, farce, strangeness and beauty, and showcasing alluring hairdressers, war defectors, vampiric mothers, and talismanic mandrake roots, the daring and entertaining assortment of tales in The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories will be a treasure trove for readers.

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Introducing a beautifully-designed collection of 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 their novels, they provide a mesmerizing, multi-faceted portrait of a country and its people. Some stories are classics, such as James Joyce s The Dead; others - like Mr Loveday s Little Outing by Evelyn Waugh - are relatively unknown and a joy to discover.Covering a wide range of genres and writers, each of these concise, evocative, subtle and satisfying stories is a little jewel, providing a small window into another world.Featuring short stories from classical English authors including Charles Dickens, Katherine Mansfield, H.G. Wells, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf and many more.

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A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki MurakamiThis is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the most well-known Japanese writers - Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new pieces, from Yuko Tsushima s Flames to Banana Yoshimoto s Bee Honey . Ranging over myth, horror, love, nature, modern life, a diabolical painting, a cow with a human face and a woman who turns into sugar, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty and comedy. Edited by Jay Rubin with an introduction by Haruki Murakami

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Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover The Independent Food for short story lovers everywhere Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. The first volume spans four hundred years, taking the reader from the sixteenth century to the golden age of the fin de siècle. Its pages are populated by lovers, phantoms, cardinals, labourers, enchanted statues, gentleman burglars, retired bureaucrats, panthers and parrots, in a cacophony of styles and voices. From the affairs of Madame de Lafayette to the polemic realism of Victor Hugo, the supernatural mystery of Guy de Maupassant to the dark sensuality of Rachilde, this is the place to start for lovers of French literature, new and old.Edited and with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness, academic, writer and translator.

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Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover The Independent Food for short story lovers everywhere Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. The second volume takes the reader through the tumultuous twentieth century in the company of writers including Simone de Beauvoir and Maryse Condé, Patrick Modiano and Virginie Despentes, covering world wars, revolutions, and the horrors of the motorway service station. Along the way we meet electronic brains, she-wolves, a sadistic Cinderella, ancestors, infidels, dissatisfied housewives and lonely ambassadors, all clamouring to be heard. Funny, devastating and fresh at every turn, this is the place to start for lovers of French literature, new and old.Edited and with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness, academic, writer and translator.

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The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman s selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you ll surely want to wander in again. Clare Lowden, TLS There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excellent book Jonathan Gibbs, Minor Literatures We were kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We re much smarter now, so smart it s pathetic. Except for Bavink, who went crazy A husband forms gruesome plans for his new fridge; a government employee has a haunting experience on his commute home; prisoners serve as entertainment for wealthy party guests; an army officer suffers a monstrous tropical illness. These short stories contain some of the most groundbreaking and innovative writing in Dutch literature from 1915 to the present day, with most pieces appearing here in English for the first time. Blending unforgettable snapshots of the realities of everyday life with surrealism, fantasy and subversion, this collection shows Dutch writing to be an integral part of world literary history.Joost Zwagerman (1963-2015) was a novelist, poet, essayist and editor of several anthologies. He started his career as a writer with bestselling novels, describing the atmosphere of the 1980s and 1990s, such as Gimmick!(1988) and False Light (1991). In later years, he concentrated on writing essays - notably on pop culture and visual arts - and poetry. Suicide was the theme of the novel Six Stars (2002). He took his own life just after having published a new collection of essays on art, The Museum of Light.

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Introducing a beautifully designed collection of 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 American temperament, might go some way towards explaining why the two go together as well as they do. Twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years provide a mesmerizing, multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the unique literature produced by this most exuberant of nations.Featuring short stories from classic American authors including Mark Twain, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and many more.

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A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form s astonishing range Kate Kellaway, Observer A superb anthology . . . it is hard to know how it could possibly be bettered Daily TelegraphThis is the prose poem: a genre with an oxymoron for a name , one of literature s great open secrets, and the home for over 150 years of extraordinary work by many of the world s most beloved writers. This uniquely wide-ranging anthology gathers essential pieces of writing from every stage of the form s evolution, beginning with the great flowering of recent years before moving in reverse order through the international experiments of the 20th century and concluding with the prose poem s beginnings in 19th-century France.Edited with an introduction by Jeremy Noel-Tod

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Of all the decisions a new parent makes, choosing that special name is the most significant and the most rewarding. A new reference book for prospective parents, this clear, helpful and easy-to-use A-Z guide gives you thousands of brilliant suggestions for picking the perfect name for your new arrival. It also includes appendices of the top ten names through the centuries and the most popular celebrity names.

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A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology The Guardian At times, you simply have to stand back in amazement Daily Telegraph An exhilarating feat, it takes its place as the definitive anthology in English for decades to come Marina WarnerBrought together for the first time, here are 100 pieces of Oulipo writing, celebrating the literary group who revelled in maths problems, puzzles, trickery, wordplay and conundrums.Featuring writers including Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino, it includes poems, short stories, word games and even recipes. Alongside these famous Oulipians, are anticipatory wordsmiths who crafted language with unusual constraints and literary tricks, from Jonathan Swift to Lewis Carroll. Philip Terry s playful selection will appeal to lovers of word games, puzzles and literary delights.

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Nowhere have I witnessed real happiness, but surely it is to be found here... The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. Here are decadent tales, bloody tales , fairy tales, detective stories and war stories.They are stories about the self and the other, husbands, wives and lovers, country and city, rich and poor. The first volume spans four hundred years, taking the reader from the sixteenth century to the golden age of the fin de siecle. Its pages are populated by lovers, phantoms, cardinals, labourers, enchanted statues, gentleman burglars, retired bureaucrats, panthers and parrots, in a cacophony of styles and voices.From the affairs of Madame de Lafayette to the polemic realism of Victor Hugo, the supernatural mystery of Guy De Maupassant to the dark sensuality of Rachilde, this is the place to start for lovers of French literature, new and old. Edited and with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness, academic, writer and translator.

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A story? No. No stories, never again... The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery.Here are fables, puzzles, fairy tales, war stories and family histories, testing and expanding the boundaries of the form. They are stories about the self and the other, the centre and the periphery, experimental and existential, real and surreal. The second volume takes the reader through the tumultuous twentieth century in the company of writers including Simone de Beauvoir and Maryse Conde, Patrick Modiano and Virginie Despentes, covering world wars, revolutions, and the horrors of the motorway service station.Along the way we meet electronic brains, she-wolves, a sadistic Cinderella, ancestors, infidels, dissatisfied housewives and lonely ambassadors, all clamouring to be heard. Funny, devastating and fresh at every turn, this is the place to start for lovers of French literature, new and old. Edited and with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness, academic, writer and translator.

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*FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED*Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Barack Obama on Selma and the meaning of America, speeches have profoundly influenced the way we see ourselves and society.Gathered here are some of the most extraordinary and memorable speeches of the last century - from Lenin to Reagan, Thatcher to Malala. Some are well known, others less so, but all helped form the world we now inhabit.

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This rich and surprising anthology is a holistic, global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia. Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BCE Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices - from King David to Lao Tzu, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Malian Epic of Sundiata - this selection presents a number of canonical figures like Blake, Dickinson and Tagore, alongside lesser-anthologized, diverse poets going up to the present day. Together they show the breathtaking multiplicity of ways humanity has responded to the spiritual, across place and time.

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A bold anthology ... alive with provocations and insights John Carey, Sunday Times The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I ve had very little practice in this sort of thing, you see The British short story tradition is probably the richest, most varied and historically extensive in the world. This new anthology celebrates the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones, from the story s origins with Defoe, Swift and Fielding, to the golden age of the fin de siècle and Edwardian period, ending with the First World War. Including the most famous authors as well as some magnificent, little-known stories never republished since their first appearance in magazines and periodicals, these stories are by turns topical and playful, ghostly and theatrical, rumbustious and sublime.Edited with an introduction by Philip Hensher

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Kniha - 288 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama, Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire, and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier and Italo Calvino take a cynical view of the season and Selma Lagerlof and Angela Carter celebrate its miracles. Ranging from Cork to Lagos to the Wild West, and from Paris to San Paolo to outer space, this is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short-story writers of all time.

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The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time - now in a beautiful clothbound editionThis is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space. Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote, Shirley Jackson, Dylan Thomas, Saki and Chekhov, as well as little-known treasures such as Italo Calvino s wry sideways look at Christmas consumerism, Wolfdietrich Schnurre s story of festive ingenuity in Berlin, Selma Lagerlof s enchanted forest in Sweden, and Irène Nemerovsky s dark family portrait. Featuring santas, ghosts, trolls, unexpected guests, curmudgeons and miracles, here is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time.

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Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending with modern poetry from 1868 onwards, including the rising poets Tamura Ryuichi and Tanikawa Shuntaro.

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The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake s Tyger , Coleridge s Khubla Khan and Shelley s Ozymandias alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.

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Unrivalled for its range and intensity, the poetry of the First World War continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This title reflects the diverse experience of those who lived through the war - bringing together the words of poets, soldiers and civilians affected by the conflict.

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It is my hope that the Wales of the past and present is well represented in this volume, together with the world of work and workmen in some of our more ravaged terrains. In twenty-four short stories, written by Welsh men and women, for the most part about Welsh people, we are treated to depictions of valley and mountain, country and town, as well as offered powerful and moving insights into the nature of the people.

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From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage of a woman stoned to death on the streets of Philadelphia while the Continental Congress met, this title offers a treasury of historical accounts of accused witches.

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This anthology begins in 1970 and brings together a half century of powerful American short stories from all genres, including - for the first time in a collection of this scale - science fiction, horror, and fantasy, placing writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Ken Liu, and Stephen King next to beloved greats of the literary form: Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Denis Johnson.

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Sometimes to find yourself, you have to go back to where you came from. You just might not like what you find. A searing thriller about family, redemption and revenge, from the award-winning author of A Lesson in Violence. #39;Beautifully written #39; S. A. Cosby ‘Burns bright and fast’ Peter Swanson‘Darkly irresistible’ Megan Abbott ________________After failing in his new life, Luke decides to go home, back to the one place where he’d once felt he belonged. But that was a long time ago and now he has to face the life that he chose to run away from: The Combine. The gang that his uncle now leads, but which his father still runs from prison. Brutal, unforgiving . . . family. Reunited with his childhood friend Callie and tagging along on jobs with her and her boyfriend Pretty Baby, Luke soon discovers that he might have a place back home after all. When another gang try to encroach on their turf, The Combine and Luke must go to war to save all that they know. But in trying to be someone you’re not, can you ever find out who you really are? Family is everything and blood is love. ________________Reader #39;s cannot get enough of The Last King of California . . . ***** #39;Good lord, this book was everything i wanted and needed. #39; ***** #39;This is the first of author Jordan Harper’s books I have read and it won’t be the last! #39; ***** #39;My likely pick for book of the year. Ferocious writing and storytelling. #39;***** #39;A noir tour-de-force. #39;***** #39;Such a brilliant writer and a great story. #39; ________________More praise for Jordan Harper . . . ‘When I say The Last King of Californiasubverts the stereotypical American Outlaw Mythos, it #39;s the highest praise I can give it. No one is thinking deeper about what crime fiction is than Jordan Harper’ S. A. Cosby #39;Urgent and beautiful #39; Lauren Beukes #39;Fast-paced and gritty #39; Amy Engel #39;Truly astounding #39; Robin Wasserman #39;Easily one of the best things I #39;ll read this year. Visceral and violent. An exploration o family and loyalty. Reads like poetry. Bravo! #39; Chris McDonald #39;[A] gripping and emotional journey . . . Authors paint pictures with words, and like the Mona Lisa or Van Gogh #39;s Sunflowers, some of their books are instant masterpieces sure to inspire readers and elicit envy from fellow wordsmiths.The Last King of California is simply that good. Jordan Harper wields words like weapons .. . It is like poetry on the page #39; BoloBooks Top Read of 2022 #39;Blistering, brutal, with a big beating (black) heart,The Last King of California confirms Harper as one of the finest writers of noir today, with what #39;s easily a best-of-the-year book #39; James. D. F. Hannah, Shamus-winning author of the Henry Malone novels

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Do you know your ET from your AI? Do you know the year 2001: A Space Odyssey was released ? Put your knowledge to the test with over 1,000 questions about all things sci-fi!Whether you #39;re breaking out of the Matrix or escaping the Terminator, there are ten categories of quizzes, each split into three difficulty levels that will test even the most knowledgeable fans #39; acumen of science fiction films.Whether playing against your family or getting together with your friends, The Ultimate Sci-Fi Movie Quiz Book makes an ideal gift and is a fun way to determine who knows more about this out-of-this-world genre of films.Categories include:Robots and AIAlien invasionTime travelSpace explorationDystopiasGlobal disasterPost-apocalypseOther realitiesExtraordinary abilitiesMad scientistsand more!Test your knowledge with these sample questions!1. There have been two big screen adaptations of Frank Herbert #39;s Dune, but which director, working with legends such as Chris Foss and H.R. Giger, famously failed to bring his Dune adaptation to the screen?2. What year does Marty McFly travel to in Back to the Future III (1990)?3. Isle of Dogs (2018) sees all the dogs moved to a trash island after an outbreak of canine influenza in which country?4. In The World #39;s End (2013), starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, what is the one processed food that Andy misses after the apocalypse?5. A Trip to the Moon (1902) is one of the very earliest depictions of space travel in film. In the lunar mission it depicts, where does the space capsule hit the moon?Also available:So This is Christmas Quiz BookNul Points - The Unofficial Eurovision Quiz BookAnswers: 1. Alejandro Jodorowsky; 2. 1885; 3. Japan; 4. Cornettos; 5. In the eye.

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Are you a Marvel pro who knows everything there is to know about this iconic brand? Can you match the archnemesis to the Super Hero, or name all the Avengers?From Iron Man to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and everything in between, there s a quiz for each movie and streaming series with questions to suit everyone - from new recruits to Marvel fanatics. Fun for everyone, The Ultimate Marvel Studios Quiz Book is the ideal gift for the Marvel fans in your life. Conquering these quizzes, you ll discover who has the genius of Tony Stark, and who needs to study up on the MCU. Quizzes include:Iron ManThe AvengersEternalsGuardians of the GalaxyBlack PantherShang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten RingsWandaVisionLokiMoon Knightand more!Also available: The Ultimate Disney Quiz Book© 2022 MARVEL.

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All the fun of Pavilionâ ™s bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form!Test your rugby knowledge with this handy quiz book, packed with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest events from more than a century of rugby history.Quiz categories include:Famous Firsts and LastsTrophy CabinetUnexpected InterruptionsMen and Women Behaving BadlyPolitical ConnectionsThe Numbers GameFamily TiesNever Mind the WeatherWhether you re testing your friends, practising for pub quizzes or just reading it in an armchair, this book will take your rugby knowledge to a whole new level.Word count: 30,000 words.

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The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader s companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book.Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.

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TEST YOUR FOOTBALL KNOWLEDGE IN THIS BOOK OF FOOTBALL QUIZZES, JAM-PACKED WITH OVER 300 FUNNY AND FASCINATING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL GAME. How much do you know about football â “ and the world? Test yourself and your friends with hundreds of brain-busting questions from Football School. Discover questions on:- Star strikers- Crafty coaches- Momentous matchesPlus much more fascinating trivia and hilarious cartoons! This spin-off from the bestselling series is the perfect way for fans to learn more about the beautiful game. â ˜We love this series!â ™ Match of the Day Magazine *** Thereâ ™s a whole world of Football School to enjoy, where every lesson is all about football â “ collect the series! Football School Facts â “ Discover 365 football facts every day of the year Football School Encyclopedia â “ Find out everything you want to know about football Epic Heroes â “ Celebrate the greatest names and teams in football history Terrific Teams â “ Discover the incredible stories behind the most famous clubs in the world The Amazing Quiz Book â “ Test your World Cup knowledge with 300+ brain-busting questions about international games The Incredible Joke Book â “ Laugh out loud reading 200+ side-splitting football jokes The Ultimate Puzzle Book â “ Train your brain and enjoy hours of football-themed puzzles Four books that explains the best and worst things in the world through football! Season One: Where Football Explains the World Season Two: Where Football Saves the World Season Three: Where Football Tackles the World Season Four: Where Football Celebrates the World

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THE BUMPER QUIZ BOOK BASED ON THE HIT TV SERIES, AND LET⠙S PLAY THE WEAKEST LINK . . . AT HOME!Everyone⠙s favourite game of general knowledge and clever strategy is now an up-to-date quiz book, with over 3000 questions. Work as a team to build up money in tricky trivia rounds ⠓ but don⠙t forget to ⠜bank⠝ or one wrong answer could cost you a fortune. Now the real fun begins. Who⠙s got more brains than a neurosurgeon . . . and who thinks Julius Caesar invented a salad dressing? Look around at your teammates ⠓ it⠙s time to vote off The Weakest Link. With testing questions, strategic gameplay and a healthy dose of competitive instinct, bring the thrill of one of TV⠙s best-loved quiz shows to your next games night. May The Strongest Link win!

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Dive into this fun and entertaining quiz book from the UKÂ’s biggest Black British pub quiz! Get your thinking caps on because itÂ’s time to test your knowledge on all things Black and British, with rounds on everything from music, sport, history and geography to Black Twitter, anime, your favourite culinary delights and much more.Whether youÂ’re a history buff, a self-proclaimed movie critic, food connoisseur, a perfect all-rounder or a novice, youÂ’ll find your chance to show off your knowledge!So, assemble every group chat and the cousins from your mumÂ’s side of the family, as we have something for everyone inside The Black British Quiz Book.

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Love itself might be blind, but over millennia it has inspired some of the most perceptive and visionary poetry ever written. From the fragments of Sappho, to the sonnets of Shakespeare and the Romantic verses of Byron, Keats and Shelley, right through to Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry collates and curates the very finest poems on this subject from across cultures and ages. Whether it s the burning passion of two young lovers, the steady companionship of a married couple, the unconditional love of a parent for a child or the enduring affection of lifelong friendship, this is Penguin s definitive collection of the most treasured writing on the most universal of themes.

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*The OFFICIAL Doctor Who quiz book*Quiz your way through space and time and help the Doctor save the universe! With 250 questions testing your Doctor Who knowledge, this is the official way to prove you have what it takes to be an expert on the Whoniverse.The databanks of the TARDIS have been sabotaged, and Time is being rewritten with all the wrong facts! The Doctor has picked YOU â “ an expert in his life and times â “ to help him.If you can help the Doctor answer a host of timey-wimey questions, the databanks will be renewed and filled back up with the Doctorâ ™s true history.Through ten locations, from Earth to Skaro, you must work with the Doctor and his friends to answer questions and battle foes.Get quizzing. It s only the universe at stake.

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Let hosts Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman guide you through the quiz rounds with their trademark warmth and humour and battle it out against your friends and family for Pointless glory. Perfect for playing along alone or with family and friends, The Very Pointless Quiz Book will test your knowledge and tease your brains.So how good are you at Pointless? Really? Do you think you ve got enough in-depth knowledge of Regional Railways, African Countries With No Coastline and Types of Lettuce to carry off the coveted Pointless trophy?Well let s see shall we?Here s your chance to step up to the podium (metaphorically speaking of course, chances are you ll be sitting somewhere very comfortably with either a mug of tea or a roll of Andrex within easy reach) put that knowledge to the test, and see just how far you can go in a genuine four-round Pointless ordeal.Right, if everyone s ready, let s play Pointless...

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