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  • Dubliners
    James Joyce
    Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, ...
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    5,80 €

  • The Mansion - and 18 more Henry van Dyke tales
    Henry van Dyke
    Complete edition of The Mansion by Henry van Dyke with 18 more of his short stories and many illustrations. Originally published as The Unknown Quantity : a book of romance and some half-told tales, it is a great treasury of wholesome tales for young and old.'They are like etchings in which more is suggested than is in the picture. For this reason they are called Half-Told Tal...
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    18,75 €

  • The Mansion - and 18 more Henry van Dyke tales
    Henry van Dyke
    Complete edition of The Mansion by Henry van Dyke with 18 more of his short stories and many illustrations. Originally published as The Unknown Quantity : a book of romance and some half-told tales, it is a great treasury of wholesome tales for young and old.'They are like etchings in which more is suggested than is in the picture. For this reason they are called Half-Told Tale...
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    8,35 €

  • Three Lives
    Gertrude Stein
    Unabridged English value reproduction of Three Lives by Gertrude Stein. This wonderfully complex drama of hopes, dreams, and love, has characters that resonate with readers in different ways reading after reading. The three stories are based on her being influenced by Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso.The first book of Stein, and written in an unconventional way, this beautifully b...
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    8,43 €

  • The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
    Mark Twain
    'Money had brought him misery, and he took his revenge upon us, who had done him no harm. He had his desire: with base and cunning calculation he left us but thirty thousand, knowing we would try to increase it, and ruin our life and break our hearts.'-The $30,000 Bequest (1906) The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of humorous tales by Mark Twain, cove...
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    22,21 €

  • The Baby Party
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '...the very vitality of the child irritated him...and one Sunday afternoon when she had disrupted a bridge game by permanently hiding up the ace of spades, he had made a scene that had reduced his wife to tears. -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Baby Party (1925) The Baby Party (1925) was first published in Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan at the height of the author’s magazine fic...
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    7,36 €

  • The Adjuster
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '...selfishness in women has an irresistible appeal to many men. Luella’s selfishness existed side by side with a childish beauty, and, in consequence, Charles Hemple had begun to take the blame upon himself for situations which she had obviously brought about.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Adjuster (1926)The Adjuster (1926) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a short story focused on the th...
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    7,59 €

  • Love in the Night
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'But the question of love in the night was the thing nearest his heart...there was a lovely unknown girl concerned in it, and that it ought to take place beneath the Riviera moon.' -F. Scott Fitzgerald, Love in the Night (1925) Love in the Night (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in the Saturday Evening Post at the height of the author’s popularity as a magazine ...
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    7,53 €

  • Absolution
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '... Absolution is a penetrating and profound effort to articulate life in primal and dark conflict.'-The New York Times (1926)Absolution (1924) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the story of adolescent Rudolph Miller, a romantic dreamer who attempts to escape his small, Midwestern town through the lies he tells and the alter ego he creates. Rudolph’s revelations in the confessional to...
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    7,53 €

  • The Lovers Grimaced
    Aruja King
    This is the third installment of the 'Grim' trilogy written by Aruja King.  Again we have 12 short stories specifically designed for those who have had trouble in dating and relationships...which is probably everyone.  This particular book deals with those embarrassing and awkward moments that you wish had happened to someone else.  The prose is direct and political cor...
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    14,53 €

  • Someone To Crawl Back To
    Phillip Gardner
    SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what they¿ve always wanted or what they¿ve eternally lost. Set in small town South Carolina, those hearts belong to wrecker drivers, drive-thru fast food workers, college professors, bartenders, insurance and mobile homes salesmen. Their common ground is The Paradise Lounge. The death of a marr...
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    12,07 €

  • The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories
    Mark Twain
    'I was a twenty-seven-year-old mining-broker’s clerk in San Francisco, andan expert in all the details of stock traffic. I was alone in the world and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation; but these were setting my feet in the road to eventual fortune, and I was content with the prospect.'-The £1,000,000 Bank Note (1893) The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Ot...
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    16,97 €

  • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
    Mark Twain
    'By Mark Twain’s story of the Frog, he scaled the heights of popularity at a single jump, and won for himself the sobriquet of The Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope.'-John Paul, editor, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1869)The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a short story by Mark Twain, originally published weekly in The Saturday Press in 1865, ...
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    10,28 €

  • The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins
    Mark Twain
    'There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.'-Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins (1894), one of Mark Twain’s most entertaining, funny, but also bitter works, takes place during the antebellum in the fictional town of Daw...
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    30,97 €

  • A Simple Soul
    Gustave Flaubert
    For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress—although the latter was by no means an agreeable person.Madame Aubain had married a comely yout...
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    7,32 €

  • A Simple Soul
    Gustave Flaubert
    For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress—although the latter was by no means an agreeable person.Madame Aubain had married a comely yout...
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    15,67 €

  • Sketches New and Old
    Mark Twain
    'I have scattered through this volume a mass of matter which has never been in print before (...) not doing this in order to make an advertisement of it, but because these things seemedinstructive.-Mark Twain, Preface Sketches New and Old (1875) Sketches New and Old (1875) by Mark Twain is a collection of short stories published first as newspaper articles all with Twain’s hu...
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    12,57 €

  • Bartleby, The Scrivener
    Herman Melville
    "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuse...
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    10,18 €

  • Bartleby, The Scrivener
    Herman Melville
    "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuse...
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    20,36 €

  • The Black Cat
    Edgar Allan Poe
    'The Black Cat' is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black cat and the subsequent deterioration of a man. The story is often linked with 'The Tell-Tale Heart' because of the profound psychological elements these two works share.Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Black Cat,” first published in the August 19, 1843, issue of the Saturda...
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    8,11 €

  • The Black Cat
    Edgar Allan Poe
    'The Black Cat' is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black cat and the subsequent deterioration of a man. The story is often linked with 'The Tell-Tale Heart' because of the profound psychological elements these two works share.Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Black Cat,” first published in the August 19, 1843, issue of the Saturda...
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    15,40 €

  • The Pit and the Pendulum
    Edgar Allan Poe
    The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe 'The Pit and the Pendulum' is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts.The narrator of the story describes his...
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    6,45 €


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