Selected Short Stories by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Short Stories
Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and confusion of life'. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of 'Solid Objects' through t ...Show more
Cruelty by Roald Dahl
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Picks Ser.
Cruelty has a human heart . . . Even when we mean to be kind we can sometimes be cruel. We each have a streak of nastiness inside us. In these ten tales of cruelty master storyteller Roald Dahl explores how and why it is we make others suffer. Among others, you'll read the story of two young bullies and ...Show more
Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Category: Short Stories
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR The first-ever collection of short stories from Jeffrey Eugenides, the bestselling author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot, explores characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. Kendall has failed a ...Show more
Bodies in the Library Short Stories by Rosemary Herbert (Foreword by)
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy deluxe edition short story compilations, including Cosy Crime, Murder Mayhem and Lost Worlds, this latest in the series is packed with amateur detectives solving mysterious murders, suspicious butlers and terrifying encounters. This collection contains ...Show more
Pianos and Flowers: Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind (HB) by Alexander McCall Smith
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Category: Short Stories
In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it like to be them? We hold our breath for ...Show more
Wild Fearless Chests by Mandy Beaumont
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Category: Short Stories
Brutal. Uncompromising. Magnificent. Complex. Unforgettable. A timely debut short story collection that breaks open the idea of women from a powerful new Australian literary voice.She is the explosion, the clamour, the thunder. She is the beat, the rage. She is every piece of violence imagined on the sk ...Show more
Maar Bidi: Next Generation Black Writing by Elfie Shiosaki (Editor); Linda Martin (Editor)
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Category: Short Stories
In this beautifully crafted, evocative and poignant anthology of prose and fiction, a diverse group of young black writers are encouraged to find strength in their voices and what is important to them. maar bidi is a journey into what it is to be young, a person of colour and a minority in divergent and ...Show more
Ghost Lover: The electrifying short story collection from the author of THREE WOMEN by Lisa Taddeo
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Category: Short Stories
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Three Women and Animal comes an electric masterclass in short fiction'Fearless . . . This summer's must-read literary thriller' EVENING STANDARD'Showcases Taddeo's dark imagination, confronting prose and vodka-dry humour' RED----------------Behind anonymous sc ...Show more
Million Dollar Baby by F.X. Toole
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Category: Short Stories
'Ring magic is different from the magic of the theatre, because the curtain never comes down - because the flood in the ring is real blood, and the broken noses and the broken hearts are real, and sometimes they are broken forever. Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and ...Show more
Selected Short Stories by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
It is universally acknowledged that Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was as much a master of the short story as of the full-length novel. This original collection, which features some of his most hard-to-find tales, will enchant longtime enthusiasts of Tolstoy's work as well as n ...Show more
The Best Horror of the Year Volume 9 by Ellen (EDT) Datlow
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Best Horror of the Year