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  • NINE STORIES
    SALINGER, S.D.
    The "original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful" short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after World War II, including "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and the first appearance of Salinger's fictional Glass family.Nine exceptional stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urb...
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  • SIX FOOT SIX
    KIT DE WAAL
    It's an exciting day for Timothy Flowers. It's the third of November, and it's Friday, and it's his twenty-first birthday. When Timothy walks to his usual street corner to see his favourite special bus, he meets Charlie. Charlie is a builder who is desperate for Timothy's help because Timothy is very tall, six feet six inches. Timothy has never had a job before - or no work tha...
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  • PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER
    PORTER, KATHRINE ANNE
    From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider', where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memor...
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  • FIRST PERSON SINGULAR
    MURAKAMI, HARUKI
    A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to dre...
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  • COLLECTED STORIES
    CHEEVER, JOHN
    John Cheever's Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the last century. Stories of love and of squalor, they include masterpieces such as 'The Sw...
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  • 14 STORIES
    DIXON, STEPHEN
    Stephen Dixon's stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel -a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that same wry, inventive, knife-edged humor that has come to characterize his distinctive style. With an adroit use of language and a keen eye for the quirky, offbeat side of human nature...
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  • SELECTED STORIES
    KIELY, BENEDICT
    Selected Stories gathers together some of the best examples of Benedict Kiely's work - a true and gifted man of letters. Edited by Ben Forkner, founder of The Journal of the Short Story. From 'Soldier, Red Soldier' and 'A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly' to 'A Letter to Peachtree', these stories sing in the unforgettable voice of an Irish master who inspired, and will continu...
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  • INTERPRETER OF MALADIES
    JHUMPA LAHIRI
    Pulitzer-winning in 2000, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise.A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the arrival of his arranged-marri...
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  • THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2016 - GUEST EDITOR STUART DYBEK
    ALLAN POE, EDGAR
    This second installment of The Best Small Fictions continues to celebrate the diversity and quality captured in fiction forms fewer than 1,000 words. Forty-five acclaimed and emerging writers-including Alberto Chimal, Toh EnJoe, Kathy Fish, Amelia Gray, Etgar Keret, R. O. Kwon, and Eliel Lucero-offer readers "some of the brightest concise writing available today" (NewPages). Wi...
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  • DADDY
    CLINE, EMMA
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  • UNCOMMON TYPE
    HANKS, TOM
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  • A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN
    BERLIN, LUCIA
    The New York Times bestseller.'This selection of 43 stories should by all rights see Lucia Berlin as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver' - IndependentIntroduced by Lydia Davis, Lucia Berlin's stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction.With extraordinary honesty and magnetism, Lucia Berli...
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  • HOLD TIGHT
    COBEN, HARLAN
    Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill - the latest in a string of issues at school - they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days t...
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  • TEN SHORT STORIES
    DAHL, ROALD
    Penguin Student Editions are complete unabridged texts of Penguin Classics, Modern Classics and some more recent titles, packaged with reading help for the student in the form of: - accessible yet authoritative introductions - glossary of cultural references and unfamiliar words - stimulating activities and discussion points, including activities needed to prepare for essays an...
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  • UNACCUSTOMED EARTH
    LAHIRI, JHUMPA
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  • 1. COMPLETE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES
    DAHL, ROALD
    The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the first of two unsettling and sinister volumes.'They are brutal, these stories, and yet you finish reading each one with a smile, or maybe even a hollow laugh, certainly a shiver of gratification, because the conclusion always seems so right' Charlie Higson, from his introduction.Roald Dahl is one of the most popular writers of the ...
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  • UNCOMMON TYPE - PB
    HANKS, TOM
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  • WHAT IS NOT YOURS IS NOT YOURS
    OYEYEMI, HELEN
    The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another.The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the ...
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  • CALYPSO
    SEDARIS, DAVID
    'Sedaris is the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt'He's like an American Alan Bennett' Guardian'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian'Entrancing . . . This book allows us to observed not just the nimble-m...
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  • THE GOOD LORD BIRD
    MCBRIDE, JAMES
    Soon to be a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke Winner of the National Book Award for FictionA Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the YearFrom the bestselling author of The Color of Water, Song Yet Sung, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography, comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown's an...
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  • ARABIAN NIGHTS
    ANONYMUS
    Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier’s daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales ...
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  • HIDEOUS KINKY
    FREUD, ESTHER
    Esther Freud's best-known novel, which inspired the Kate Winslet film, published as Penguin Essential for the first time. Two little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from the grinding conventions of English life but a quest for personal fulfilment; her children, however, seek something more soli...
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  • BABYJI
    DAWESAR, ABHA
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  • THE OXFORD BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
    THE LATE V. S. PRITCHETT
    V. S. Pritchett, one our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years.Great Britain, America, and especially Eire have fine traditions of short-story writing that have developed from the time of Sir Walter Sc...
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  • THAT GLIMPSE OF TRUTH : THE 100 FINEST SHORT STORIES EVER WRITTEN
    MILLER, DAVID
    Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of 100 of the finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. Wide in scope, both beautiful and vast, this is the perfect companion for any fiction lover.Here are childhood favourites and neglected masters, twenty-first centu...
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  • THE NEW YORK STORIES OF O. HENRY
    HENRY, O.
    With East Side tenements, Wall Street offices, and Fifth Avenue as their backdrops, these colorful tales by a master storyteller recount the dreams and passions of New Yorkers at the turn of the twentieth century. As O. Henry, William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) wrote more than 600 short stories, many of them situated amid the bustle of Manhattan. This collection presents 23 of h...
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  • BETTY
    MCDANIEL, TIFFANY
    Impressionant, emocionant novel·la ambientada a la falda dels Apalatxes sobre una noia jove i les veritats familiars que la perseguiran durant la resta de la seva vida. Inspirada per generacions de la seva família, Tiffany McDaniel pretén alliberar el passat entregant aquesta punyent però màgica història – una novel·la extraordinària que la proclama com a una de les veus més i...
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  • THE SHADOW LINE
    CONRAD, JOSEPH
    A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the increasing sense of isolation that he experiences, the captain crosses the 'shadow-line' between youth and adulthood. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, Conrad's novella was wr...
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  • THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY
    JOYCE, RACHEL
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  • THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES
    HARRISON, JESSICA
    The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all timeThis 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 eve...
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