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88 More Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
- £16.00
- Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies…
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A Point of Law (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
- £100.00
- American mystery magazine with short story by Somerset Maugham (that had originally been published in 1903 in The Strand magazine)
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A Sense of Reality
- £60.00
- A collection of four stories comprising ` Under The Garden' (A short novel); `A Visit to the Morin'; Dream of a Strange Land' and `A Discovery in the Woods'. In these four stories Graham Greene, one of the master of modern English fiction, has allowed himself the liberty of fantasy,…
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A Thief in the Village, and other stories (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- Some moving and atmospheric short stories by James Berry who won the Grand Prix Smarties Prize for his vivid portrayal of children and life in the Caribbean.
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Actions and Reactions
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in…
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After Rain
- £10.00
- After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor 'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano…
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All the Year Round: A weekly journal (Dec 1870 – May 1871)
- £100.00
- Charles Dickens started All The Year Round after a legal dispute with the publisher of his Household Words in 1859. It was in this weekly magazine that he first published A Tale of Two Cities. A week before he died in 1870, Dickens passed the editorship to his son, Charles…
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Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Beyond Turner’s Road: New Paintings; Walking up Walls
- £40.00
- In 2001, Sinclair wrote Walking up Walls to accompany McFadyen's solo exhibition at Agnew's. Small oblong 8vo concertina into postcard size.
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Chasing Tales: The Lost Stories of Charles Lee (SIGNED by editor)
- £75.00
- Tender and funny stories about the working men and women of Cornwall, by the literary enigma, Charles Lee (1870-1956).
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Debits and Credits
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: ‘Debits and Credits’ is a collection of anguished and bleak stories written by an author struggling with his own inner sufferings. Marital discord and adultery, war and death, cancer and disease are recurring themes throughout the stories, with the relentless ticking of the clock acting as a…
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Difficulties of a Bridegroom
- £25.00
- A collection of stories by the the great poet including others the fable "O'Kelly's Angel," about a man who captures and cages an angel, and "The Wound," about an episode in World War II. Why it has to say 'Poet Laureate of England' (rather than UK) on the cover, though,…
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Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine
- £15.00
- Full title: Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honor de Balzac. Short stories collected under the first, second and third decade. Dedicated by the translator to 'all who understand the spirit of humane laughter'.
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Flight of the White Crows: stories, tales and paradoxes (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- From the cover: Devastatingly original Stories, Tales and Paradoxes about the cheerful horror of West confronting East in the shadow of the Himalayas. Including the 'Pious Puzzles of Ananda Mahadev'
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88 More Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
- £16.00
- Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies…
- Add to basket
-
A Point of Law (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
- £100.00
- American mystery magazine with short story by Somerset Maugham (that had originally been published in 1903 in The Strand magazine)
- Add to basket
-
A Sense of Reality
- £60.00
- A collection of four stories comprising ` Under The Garden' (A short novel); `A Visit to the Morin'; Dream of a Strange Land' and `A Discovery in the Woods'. In these four stories Graham Greene, one of the master of modern English fiction, has allowed himself the liberty of fantasy,…
- Add to basket
-
A Thief in the Village, and other stories (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- Some moving and atmospheric short stories by James Berry who won the Grand Prix Smarties Prize for his vivid portrayal of children and life in the Caribbean.
- Add to basket
-
Actions and Reactions
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in…
- Add to basket
-
After Rain
- £10.00
- After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor 'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano…
- Add to basket
-
All the Year Round: A weekly journal (Dec 1870 – May 1871)
- £100.00
- Charles Dickens started All The Year Round after a legal dispute with the publisher of his Household Words in 1859. It was in this weekly magazine that he first published A Tale of Two Cities. A week before he died in 1870, Dickens passed the editorship to his son, Charles…
- Add to basket
-
Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
- Add to basket
-
Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
- Add to basket
-
Beyond Turner’s Road: New Paintings; Walking up Walls
- £40.00
- In 2001, Sinclair wrote Walking up Walls to accompany McFadyen's solo exhibition at Agnew's. Small oblong 8vo concertina into postcard size.
- Add to basket
-
Chasing Tales: The Lost Stories of Charles Lee (SIGNED by editor)
- £75.00
- Tender and funny stories about the working men and women of Cornwall, by the literary enigma, Charles Lee (1870-1956).
- Add to basket
-
Debits and Credits
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: ‘Debits and Credits’ is a collection of anguished and bleak stories written by an author struggling with his own inner sufferings. Marital discord and adultery, war and death, cancer and disease are recurring themes throughout the stories, with the relentless ticking of the clock acting as a…
- Add to basket
-
Difficulties of a Bridegroom
- £25.00
- A collection of stories by the the great poet including others the fable "O'Kelly's Angel," about a man who captures and cages an angel, and "The Wound," about an episode in World War II. Why it has to say 'Poet Laureate of England' (rather than UK) on the cover, though,…
- Add to basket
-
Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine
- £15.00
- Full title: Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honor de Balzac. Short stories collected under the first, second and third decade. Dedicated by the translator to 'all who understand the spirit of humane laughter'.
- Add to basket
-
Flight of the White Crows: stories, tales and paradoxes (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- From the cover: Devastatingly original Stories, Tales and Paradoxes about the cheerful horror of West confronting East in the shadow of the Himalayas. Including the 'Pious Puzzles of Ananda Mahadev'
- Add to basket
