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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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A Visit to Grandpa’s and Other Stories
- £20.00
- Thomas's paternal grandparents, Anne and Evan Thomas, lived at The Poplars in Johnstown, just outside Carmarthen. Anne was the daughter of William Lewis, a gardener in the town. She had been born and brought up in Llangadog, as had her father, who is thought to be "Grandpa" in Thomas's short…
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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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Bunga Emas: contemporary Malaysian Literature (1930-1963)
- £25.00
- Bunga Emas means Golden Flower in Malay, and this anthology includes many pieces originally written in English as well as those translated from Chinese and Tamil, by 22 Malaysian writers.
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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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Collected Stories (Pritchett)
- £15.00
- Long recognised as the doyen of the English short story, this collection brings together 29 stories demonstrating his mastery over 50 years.
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Collected Stories (Tagore)
- £9.00
- This collection combines some of Tagore's more popular stories like The Cabuliwallah with lesser known ones like The Son of Rashmani, all of them bound together by a common theme-human fallibility. Tagore impartially delineates the mistakes of his charac-ters, their impulsive generosity and even their unthinking cruelty towards their fellow…
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Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins
- £25.00
- Contains five short stories. In the title story a loving and contented husband discovers the true nature of his marriage, as though he has walked through a mirror and found that the life held in the glass was not his own at all.
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Debits and Credits
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- 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
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- 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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Franny and Zooey
- £35.00
- A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth - from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye. 'Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And…
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Galgenlieder (‘Gallows songs’) Nebst Dem “Gingganz”
- £25.00
- A collection of poems by Christian Morgenstern. Following ten years of writing work, it was first published in March 1905 by Bruno Cassirer. And illustrations in a different edition were done by the famous Switzerland Cuban and surrealist artist, Paul Klee in 1914. These poems are weird and half macabre…
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Ghosts and Marvels (World’s Classics No. 284)
- £35.00
- A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood (World's Classic No. 284). Includes stories by M R James, Daniel Defoe, Lord Lytton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Le Fanu, George Eliot, Mrs Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, W W Jacobs, H G Wells, Algernon Blackwood, Barry Pain and…
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Hajji Musa and the Hindu Fire-Walker
- £16.00
- South Africa's culturally rich and complex Asian community-the birthplace of Gandhiism - is officially subsumed under apartheid's blanket "non-white" category, with the accompanying indignities of forced removals and other restrictions. Now Ahmed Essop gives these other South Africans a literary voice, in stories ranging from the humorous "Hajji Musa and…
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How the Whale Became and other stories
- £100.00
- This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar…
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Island Nights’ Entertainments
- £8.00
- Consisting Of The Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices.
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Last Stories
- £25.00
- In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed…
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Liberation Day (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo. MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York…
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Limbo (Phoenix Library)
- £10.00
- Huxley's first collection of short stories
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Limits and Renewals
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Limits and Renewals, Kipling’s last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Unsurprisingly therefore, many of the stories take on the themes of pain, inner suffering and mental anguish, with an on-going exploration into the level of physical and psychological…
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Many Inventions
- £15.00
- 14 short stories , 12 of which appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine. The title refers to a verse from Ecclesiastes (Eccl 7:29).
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Miss Marple’s 6 Final Cases and 2 other stories
- £25.00
- Published 3 years after Christie's death, this anthology brought together stories for the first time in one place in the UK. Contents: Sanctuary; Strange Jest; Tape-Measure Murder; The Case of the Caretaker; The Case of the Perfet Maid; Miss Marple Tells a Story; The Dressmaker's Doll; In a Glass Darkly.
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Nineteen Stories (Graham Greene)
- £200.00
- Eight of the stories originally appeared in an earlier collection (1935) entitled The Basement Room. Among those new to this collection are "A Drive in the Country," "The Lottery Ticket," and "The Other Side of the Border," the latter two of which were excised from later collections.
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Not After Midnight – five long stories
- £18.00
- The stories are: Don't Look Now; Not After Midnight; A Border-Line Case; The Way of The Cross; The Breakthrough.
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Old Babes in the Wood: New stories of love and mischief (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Atwood's first new fiction publication since The Testaments, this deeply personal collection includes a stunning sequence that follows a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love -- and what comes after. The stories explore the full…
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Ox-Tales: Elements (4 vols: Earth, Air, Fire, Water: 32 authors)
- £25.00
- Extraordinary collection of short stories by writers at the top of their game, with each volume headlined by Vikram Seth. Mark Haddon, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Hislop, Sebastian Faulks, John Le Carr, Xiaolu Guo, William Sutcliffe, Ali Smith, Lionel Shriver, Jeanette Winterson, Vikram Seth, David Park, Hari Kunzru, Zoe Heller, William…
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: This was Kipling's first published volume of fiction. The stories with their brevity and concentration of effect are a landmark in the history of the short story.
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Problems and Other Stories
- £25.00
- A collection of stories that deals with situations and phenomena that need to be coped with: divorce and marriage, parents and children, prostitution and leprosy, extinct mammals and guilt-gems, resigning from a committee and getting in and out of Ethiopia.
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Quite Early One Morning, broadcasts
- £25.00
- A collection from the many broadcasts made by the poet Dylan Thomas and which was proposed just before he left for New York on what would be his final journey. Prefaced and edited by Aneirin Talfan Davies, who was Welsh Region director for the BBC.
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Quite Early One Morning, broadcasts
- £20.00
- A collection from the many broadcasts made by the poet Dylan Thomas and which was proposed just before he left for New York on what would be his final journey. Prefaced and edited by Aneirin Talfan Davies, who was Welsh Region director for the BBC.
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Rumpole (Folio)
- £25.00
- Mortimer selects and introduces this Folio Society edition of an anthology of Rumpole of the Bailey 10 short stories.
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Sarratt and the Draper of Watford: And Other Unlikely Stories About Sarratt
- £30.00
- Sarratt is in Hertfordshire village in which le Carr set his fictional training establishment for the Circus (roughly equivalent to MI6). As well as le Carr's commissioned short story, this contains other unlikely stories about Sarratt from international authors, including Mikhail Lyubimov (of the KGB), William Petre, Kurt Willinger, "A…
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Sealskin Trousers and Other Stories (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Five stories, two of which concern the supernatural, written by the Welsh-born Scottish poet and writer, military historian and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, Eric Linklater won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a…
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Sketches in Lavender Blue and Green
- £25.00
- Jerome K. JeromeÕs Sketches of Lavender, Blue and Green is a vast collection of short fiction, diverse in themes and topics. Each infused with JeromeÕs clever wit, this collection of short fiction caters to every mood. In The Materialism of Charles and Mivanway, a paranormal misunderstanding brings a couple closer…
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Smut: Stories
- £7.00
- One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient…
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Splendours and Miseries
- £40.00
- Sacherverell Sitwell's anthology of short stories and essays. Sitwell was an English writer and poet. He produced many works on art, music and architecture and over 50 volumes of poetry. He was best known as an art and music critic. This book was published in the context of the Second…
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Stalky & Co
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Stalky & Co. is a novel by Rudyard Kipling about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority. It was first published in 1899 (following serialisation in the Windsor…
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Stories from the New Yorker 1950-1960
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- Third anthology of New Yorker short stories; includes writers such as John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, Philip Roth, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Richard Wilbur, Roger La Farge, Roald Dahl, Penelope Mortimer, Dorothy Parker, Prawer Jhabvala, Nadine Gordimer, John Cheever
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Table for Two (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences…
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Tales of the Early World
- £40.00
- In this collection of tales from Ted Hughes, God appears as an artist who is sometimes surprised by his creatures. He puts an awful lot of care into fashioning the birds, whereas he simply pulls Newt out of the ground. Beautifully illustrated by Andrew Davidson.
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Tales of the Hasidim: Book 1 & 2 (The Early Masters and The Later Masters)
- £20.00
- This edition, bringing together Volumes One and Two of Buber's classic work, contains marvelous tales - terse, vigorous, often cryptic - of the Hasidic masters.
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Tales of Unrest
- £12.00
- Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon
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Tales of Unrest, and Typhoon
- £25.00
- Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon
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Tea-Table Talk
- £25.00
- "Tea-table Talk" is an imaginary conversation between the writer and a number of un-named characters at the afternoon tea table. The Woman of the World, the Old Maid, the Girton Girl, the Philosopher and the Minor Poet wax lyrical on subjects like marriage, art, society and politics. With 15 b/w…
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Tell Tale (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fifteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time and again. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and the pretentious schoolboy…
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The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
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- In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking…
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A brilliant Ð and rather transgressive Ð collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. Including a new story ÔThe School of EnglishÕ. Hilary Mantel is one of BritainÕs most accomplished and acclaimed writers.…
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The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard
- £35.00
- Foreword by Hammond Innes whose own literary career was inspired by Haggard. There were three main themes in Haggard's life: Africa, Ancient Egypt and rural England and among his shorter works are some outstanding tales.
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The Christmas Books of Mr M. A. Titmarsh (vol IX of XIII)
- £10.00
- Michael Angelo Titmarsh was one of Thackeray's several pseudonyms early on in his career. He was a trenchant critic and satirist of the absurdities and hypocrisies of high society. The 5 Christmas books were combined and not revealed to be Thackeray's until after his death in 1863.
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The Christmas Stories (Complete Short Stories vol. I of V)
- £25.00
- Undated hardback reprint for the Trollope Society with a foreword by Joanna Trollope. Nine short stories
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The Club of Queer Trades
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- The Club of Queer Trades by English author G. K. Chesterton was first published in 1905. It consists of 6 short stories centred around a gentlemen's club. To get entry into this club, the person must make their living by extraordinary and peculiar means. One of Chesterton's earlier works, The…
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The Complete Short Stories (3 vols)
- £150.00
- Maugham's brilliant stories move the reader from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abstention and…
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The Complete Short Stories (3 vols)
- £120.00
- Maugham's brilliant stories move the reader from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abstention and…
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The Dutch Cheese and Other Stories
- £12.00
- Originally published in 1931, this version includes five stories - "The Dutch Cheese"; "Lucy"; "Alice's Godmother"; "A Penny a Day"; and, "The Three Sleeping Boys of Warwickshire".
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The Empty House
- £40.00
- Aunt Julia, an elderly spinster with a mania for psychical research, has the keys to the haunted house on the square. She invites her nephew to accompany her on a midnight investigation into what really happened a hundred years ago when a servant girl fell to her death. But the…
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The Fothergill Omnibus (limited & SIGNED)
- £450.00
- The Fothergill Omnibus 'for which Seventeen Eminent Authors have written short stories upon one and the same plot: A man gets into a correspondence with a woman whom he doesn't know and he finds romance in it. Then he sees a girl, falls in love with her in the ordinary…
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The Giant Crab and other tales told from Old India
- £35.00
- Rouse's collection of these short stories were based on the Buddhist collection called The Jātaka, about the Buddha's former births, and originally published in 1897 by David Nutt. This edition beautifully produced with Heath Robinson's illustations.
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The Hill Bachelors
- £20.00
- The Hill Bachelors - a remarkable collection of stories from the master storyteller William Trevor. 'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' The Wall Street Journal The Hill Bachelors is a stunning meditation on men and women and the heartbreak of missed opportunities: three people are…
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The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall
- £50.00
- Washington Irving (1783Ð1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820). One of Irving's most lasting contributions to American culture is in the way…
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The Kidnapped Saint and other stories
- £40.00
- B(runo) Traven was the pseudonym of a mysterious ?German writer, whose true identity is still in dispute. He is best known for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. This collection of short stories was published posthumously in the USA in 1975, having been translated by his wife Rosa Elena Lujan.
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The Lost Tales of Sir Galahad
- £20.00
- Rabbit Room Press is proud to present these historical documents to the world for the first time. With contributions from visiting scholars such as Jonathan Rogers, Malcolm Guite, Junius Johnson, A. S. Peterson, and many more, these tales have been scrupulously compiled and annotated by leading experts of dubious renown…
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The Night-Mare
- £35.00
- Ten tales of horror depicting the cynacism, terror and cruelty of Hitler's Nazi regime, which whilst fictional took as their basis sworn testimony from the Nuremburg and Belsen War Trials. Not one of these stories,' writes Mr Forester in his foreword, 'tells of an actual happening, but all of them…
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The Sire de Malétroit’s Door
- £15.00
- A short story published for the 1st time in this edition - Denis De Beaulieu, a French soldier, is made a prisoner by the Sire of De Malétroit, who believes that the soldier has compromised the Malétroit family honour. 145x102mm
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The Spy’s Bedside Book
- £100.00
- On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's The Spy's Bedside Book provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence. Includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming and John Buchan, Sir…
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The Two Heroines of Plumplington
- £10.00
- In the Barsetshire town of Plumplington the daughter of the town’s leading banker and the daughter of its brewer have each chosen their future husbands. But both young men are regarded by the fathers as unsuitable, even though each suitor is, in fact, much like the respective father when at…
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The White Hour, and other stories
- £10.00
- Neil Miller Gunn (1891Ð1973) was a prolific novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. With over twenty novels to his credit, Gunn was arguably the most influential Scottish fiction writer of the first half of the…
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The Works of George Crabbe (in 5 volumes)
- £250.00
- The collected poetry and prose writings of the great poet, surgeon and clergyman, George Crabbe. Published in his lifetime (1754-1832). Complete with engravings. Includes The Borough sequence (the basis of Benjamin Britten's operatic masterpiece Peter Grimes)
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The World Elsewhere and other stories
- £25.00
- Nirmal Verma (1929Ð2005) was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator. He is credited as being one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (New Story) literary movement of Hindi literature, wherein his first collection of stories, Parinde (Birds) is considered its first signature. This anthology collects a number of…
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The Wrong Set and other stories
- £40.00
- A satirist collection of twelve short stories, including: Union Reunion, A Story of Historical Interest, The Wrong Set, Crazy Crowd, Raspberry Jam, and more. Written by Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, an English novelist and short story writer who was one of England's first openly gay authors,
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The Young King and other stories
- £50.00
- Three stories, The Young King, The Star child and The Happy Prince illustarted in full-page brown toned drawings by Georg Ehrlich.
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Three Stories: Bartleby; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd
- £18.00
- ÔStruck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!Õ It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero Ð the ÔHandsome SailorÕ Ð to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy Budd is forced to defend himself, but his fearful, silent…
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Thy Servant A Dog (told by Boots)
- £15.00
- Apparently, a "delightful and touching story to pull at the heartstrings of dog lovers, told by 'Boots' in the most insightful 'dog-speak'". Make of that what you will.
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Told After Supper
- £90.00
- Told After Supper (1891) is a collection of short ghost stories written by the English writer Jerome K Jerome. The collectionÕs ÒintroductoryÓ starts as follows: ÒIt was Christmas Eve. I begin this way because it is the proper, orthodox, respectable way to begin [É] The experienced reader knows it was…
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Tommy & Co. Etc (+ Roberts’ The Way of A Man + Albanesi’s Cissy)
- £20.00
- Tommy and Co was published in 1904. A series of short stories, pen portraits of a cast of different characters. The first is Peter Hope, described as follows, "Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with…
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Ukridge
- £12.00
- First published in 1924, these short stories had previously appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine in the US and in the Strand Magazine in the UK. There are 10 included, relating the adventures of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, narrated by Ukridge's long-suffering friend, the writer "Corky" Corcoran.
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Wessex Tales (Wessex Novels vol XIII) – with map of Wessex
- £18.00
- Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy…
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Who do you think you are? Stories and Parodies
- £20.00
- A collection of short stories, centred around academics, psychiatrists and media figures. Accompanying them are nine of Bradbury's playful parodies - among them the fifth volume of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" and an entire novel from Muriel Spark.
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William and A.R.P. (Air Raid Precautions)
- £25.00
- Crompton's William series Book 21. In time of war, William Brown is a force to be reckoned with, with his newly formed band of experts on air raid tactics and his gas mask made from a flower pot. Saving the country should be easy for someone with William's courage and…
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William the Rebel
- £20.00
- Crompton's William series Book 15. Contains: Three dogs and William; A Rescue Party; Mistakes Will Happen; William and Cleopatra; The Outlaws and the Penknife; Wiliam and the Watch and Chain; William's Wonderful Plan; William and the Fisherman; William and the Drug Trafficker; April Fool's Day; William Makes Things Hum; It…
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Youth And Gaspar Ruiz
- £10.00
- Youth was not my first contribution to " Maga " * It was the second. But that story marks the first appearance in the world of the man Marlow, with whom my relations have grown very intimate in the course of years. The origins of that gentleman (nobody as far…
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Youth: A Narrative; Heart of Darkness; End of the Tether
- £25.00
- Combination of Youth (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), The End of the Tether (1902)
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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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A Visit to Grandpa’s and Other Stories
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- Thomas's paternal grandparents, Anne and Evan Thomas, lived at The Poplars in Johnstown, just outside Carmarthen. Anne was the daughter of William Lewis, a gardener in the town. She had been born and brought up in Llangadog, as had her father, who is thought to be "Grandpa" in Thomas's short…
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Actions and Reactions
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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
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- 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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Bunga Emas: contemporary Malaysian Literature (1930-1963)
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- Bunga Emas means Golden Flower in Malay, and this anthology includes many pieces originally written in English as well as those translated from Chinese and Tamil, by 22 Malaysian writers.
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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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Collected Stories (Pritchett)
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- Long recognised as the doyen of the English short story, this collection brings together 29 stories demonstrating his mastery over 50 years.
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Collected Stories (Tagore)
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- This collection combines some of Tagore's more popular stories like The Cabuliwallah with lesser known ones like The Son of Rashmani, all of them bound together by a common theme-human fallibility. Tagore impartially delineates the mistakes of his charac-ters, their impulsive generosity and even their unthinking cruelty towards their fellow…
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Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins
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- Contains five short stories. In the title story a loving and contented husband discovers the true nature of his marriage, as though he has walked through a mirror and found that the life held in the glass was not his own at all.
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Debits and Credits
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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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Franny and Zooey
- £35.00
- A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth - from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye. 'Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And…
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Galgenlieder (‘Gallows songs’) Nebst Dem “Gingganz”
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- A collection of poems by Christian Morgenstern. Following ten years of writing work, it was first published in March 1905 by Bruno Cassirer. And illustrations in a different edition were done by the famous Switzerland Cuban and surrealist artist, Paul Klee in 1914. These poems are weird and half macabre…
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Ghosts and Marvels (World’s Classics No. 284)
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- A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood (World's Classic No. 284). Includes stories by M R James, Daniel Defoe, Lord Lytton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Le Fanu, George Eliot, Mrs Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, W W Jacobs, H G Wells, Algernon Blackwood, Barry Pain and…
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Hajji Musa and the Hindu Fire-Walker
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- South Africa's culturally rich and complex Asian community-the birthplace of Gandhiism - is officially subsumed under apartheid's blanket "non-white" category, with the accompanying indignities of forced removals and other restrictions. Now Ahmed Essop gives these other South Africans a literary voice, in stories ranging from the humorous "Hajji Musa and…
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How the Whale Became and other stories
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- This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar…
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Island Nights’ Entertainments
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- Consisting Of The Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices.
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Last Stories
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- In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed…
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Liberation Day (SIGNED)
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- The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo. MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York…
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Limbo (Phoenix Library)
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- Huxley's first collection of short stories
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Limits and Renewals
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Limits and Renewals, Kipling’s last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Unsurprisingly therefore, many of the stories take on the themes of pain, inner suffering and mental anguish, with an on-going exploration into the level of physical and psychological…
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Many Inventions
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- 14 short stories , 12 of which appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine. The title refers to a verse from Ecclesiastes (Eccl 7:29).
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Miss Marple’s 6 Final Cases and 2 other stories
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- Published 3 years after Christie's death, this anthology brought together stories for the first time in one place in the UK. Contents: Sanctuary; Strange Jest; Tape-Measure Murder; The Case of the Caretaker; The Case of the Perfet Maid; Miss Marple Tells a Story; The Dressmaker's Doll; In a Glass Darkly.
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Nineteen Stories (Graham Greene)
- £200.00
- Eight of the stories originally appeared in an earlier collection (1935) entitled The Basement Room. Among those new to this collection are "A Drive in the Country," "The Lottery Ticket," and "The Other Side of the Border," the latter two of which were excised from later collections.
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Not After Midnight – five long stories
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- The stories are: Don't Look Now; Not After Midnight; A Border-Line Case; The Way of The Cross; The Breakthrough.
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Old Babes in the Wood: New stories of love and mischief (SIGNED)
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- Atwood's first new fiction publication since The Testaments, this deeply personal collection includes a stunning sequence that follows a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love -- and what comes after. The stories explore the full…
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Ox-Tales: Elements (4 vols: Earth, Air, Fire, Water: 32 authors)
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- Extraordinary collection of short stories by writers at the top of their game, with each volume headlined by Vikram Seth. Mark Haddon, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Hislop, Sebastian Faulks, John Le Carr, Xiaolu Guo, William Sutcliffe, Ali Smith, Lionel Shriver, Jeanette Winterson, Vikram Seth, David Park, Hari Kunzru, Zoe Heller, William…
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Plain Tales from the Hills
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: This was Kipling's first published volume of fiction. The stories with their brevity and concentration of effect are a landmark in the history of the short story.
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Problems and Other Stories
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- A collection of stories that deals with situations and phenomena that need to be coped with: divorce and marriage, parents and children, prostitution and leprosy, extinct mammals and guilt-gems, resigning from a committee and getting in and out of Ethiopia.
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Quite Early One Morning, broadcasts
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- A collection from the many broadcasts made by the poet Dylan Thomas and which was proposed just before he left for New York on what would be his final journey. Prefaced and edited by Aneirin Talfan Davies, who was Welsh Region director for the BBC.
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Quite Early One Morning, broadcasts
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- A collection from the many broadcasts made by the poet Dylan Thomas and which was proposed just before he left for New York on what would be his final journey. Prefaced and edited by Aneirin Talfan Davies, who was Welsh Region director for the BBC.
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Rumpole (Folio)
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- Mortimer selects and introduces this Folio Society edition of an anthology of Rumpole of the Bailey 10 short stories.
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Sarratt and the Draper of Watford: And Other Unlikely Stories About Sarratt
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- Sarratt is in Hertfordshire village in which le Carr set his fictional training establishment for the Circus (roughly equivalent to MI6). As well as le Carr's commissioned short story, this contains other unlikely stories about Sarratt from international authors, including Mikhail Lyubimov (of the KGB), William Petre, Kurt Willinger, "A…
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Sealskin Trousers and Other Stories (SIGNED)
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- Five stories, two of which concern the supernatural, written by the Welsh-born Scottish poet and writer, military historian and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, Eric Linklater won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a…
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Sketches in Lavender Blue and Green
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- Jerome K. JeromeÕs Sketches of Lavender, Blue and Green is a vast collection of short fiction, diverse in themes and topics. Each infused with JeromeÕs clever wit, this collection of short fiction caters to every mood. In The Materialism of Charles and Mivanway, a paranormal misunderstanding brings a couple closer…
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Smut: Stories
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- One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient…
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Splendours and Miseries
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- Sacherverell Sitwell's anthology of short stories and essays. Sitwell was an English writer and poet. He produced many works on art, music and architecture and over 50 volumes of poetry. He was best known as an art and music critic. This book was published in the context of the Second…
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Stalky & Co
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Stalky & Co. is a novel by Rudyard Kipling about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority. It was first published in 1899 (following serialisation in the Windsor…
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Stories from the New Yorker 1950-1960
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- Third anthology of New Yorker short stories; includes writers such as John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, Philip Roth, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Richard Wilbur, Roger La Farge, Roald Dahl, Penelope Mortimer, Dorothy Parker, Prawer Jhabvala, Nadine Gordimer, John Cheever
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Table for Two (SIGNED)
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- Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences…
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Tales of the Early World
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- In this collection of tales from Ted Hughes, God appears as an artist who is sometimes surprised by his creatures. He puts an awful lot of care into fashioning the birds, whereas he simply pulls Newt out of the ground. Beautifully illustrated by Andrew Davidson.
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Tales of the Hasidim: Book 1 & 2 (The Early Masters and The Later Masters)
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- This edition, bringing together Volumes One and Two of Buber's classic work, contains marvelous tales - terse, vigorous, often cryptic - of the Hasidic masters.
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Tales of Unrest
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- Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon
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Tales of Unrest, and Typhoon
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- Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon
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Tea-Table Talk
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- "Tea-table Talk" is an imaginary conversation between the writer and a number of un-named characters at the afternoon tea table. The Woman of the World, the Old Maid, the Girton Girl, the Philosopher and the Minor Poet wax lyrical on subjects like marriage, art, society and politics. With 15 b/w…
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Tell Tale (SIGNED)
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- Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fifteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time and again. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and the pretentious schoolboy…
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The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
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- In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking…
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A brilliant Ð and rather transgressive Ð collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. Including a new story ÔThe School of EnglishÕ. Hilary Mantel is one of BritainÕs most accomplished and acclaimed writers.…
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The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard
- £35.00
- Foreword by Hammond Innes whose own literary career was inspired by Haggard. There were three main themes in Haggard's life: Africa, Ancient Egypt and rural England and among his shorter works are some outstanding tales.
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The Christmas Books of Mr M. A. Titmarsh (vol IX of XIII)
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- Michael Angelo Titmarsh was one of Thackeray's several pseudonyms early on in his career. He was a trenchant critic and satirist of the absurdities and hypocrisies of high society. The 5 Christmas books were combined and not revealed to be Thackeray's until after his death in 1863.
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The Christmas Stories (Complete Short Stories vol. I of V)
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- Undated hardback reprint for the Trollope Society with a foreword by Joanna Trollope. Nine short stories
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The Club of Queer Trades
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- The Club of Queer Trades by English author G. K. Chesterton was first published in 1905. It consists of 6 short stories centred around a gentlemen's club. To get entry into this club, the person must make their living by extraordinary and peculiar means. One of Chesterton's earlier works, The…
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The Complete Short Stories (3 vols)
- £150.00
- Maugham's brilliant stories move the reader from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abstention and…
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The Complete Short Stories (3 vols)
- £120.00
- Maugham's brilliant stories move the reader from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abstention and…
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The Dutch Cheese and Other Stories
- £12.00
- Originally published in 1931, this version includes five stories - "The Dutch Cheese"; "Lucy"; "Alice's Godmother"; "A Penny a Day"; and, "The Three Sleeping Boys of Warwickshire".
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The Empty House
- £40.00
- Aunt Julia, an elderly spinster with a mania for psychical research, has the keys to the haunted house on the square. She invites her nephew to accompany her on a midnight investigation into what really happened a hundred years ago when a servant girl fell to her death. But the…
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The Fothergill Omnibus (limited & SIGNED)
- £450.00
- The Fothergill Omnibus 'for which Seventeen Eminent Authors have written short stories upon one and the same plot: A man gets into a correspondence with a woman whom he doesn't know and he finds romance in it. Then he sees a girl, falls in love with her in the ordinary…
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The Giant Crab and other tales told from Old India
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- Rouse's collection of these short stories were based on the Buddhist collection called The Jātaka, about the Buddha's former births, and originally published in 1897 by David Nutt. This edition beautifully produced with Heath Robinson's illustations.
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The Hill Bachelors
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- The Hill Bachelors - a remarkable collection of stories from the master storyteller William Trevor. 'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' The Wall Street Journal The Hill Bachelors is a stunning meditation on men and women and the heartbreak of missed opportunities: three people are…
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The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall
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- Washington Irving (1783Ð1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820). One of Irving's most lasting contributions to American culture is in the way…
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The Kidnapped Saint and other stories
- £40.00
- B(runo) Traven was the pseudonym of a mysterious ?German writer, whose true identity is still in dispute. He is best known for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. This collection of short stories was published posthumously in the USA in 1975, having been translated by his wife Rosa Elena Lujan.
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The Lost Tales of Sir Galahad
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- Rabbit Room Press is proud to present these historical documents to the world for the first time. With contributions from visiting scholars such as Jonathan Rogers, Malcolm Guite, Junius Johnson, A. S. Peterson, and many more, these tales have been scrupulously compiled and annotated by leading experts of dubious renown…
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The Night-Mare
- £35.00
- Ten tales of horror depicting the cynacism, terror and cruelty of Hitler's Nazi regime, which whilst fictional took as their basis sworn testimony from the Nuremburg and Belsen War Trials. Not one of these stories,' writes Mr Forester in his foreword, 'tells of an actual happening, but all of them…
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The Sire de Malétroit’s Door
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- A short story published for the 1st time in this edition - Denis De Beaulieu, a French soldier, is made a prisoner by the Sire of De Malétroit, who believes that the soldier has compromised the Malétroit family honour. 145x102mm
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The Spy’s Bedside Book
- £100.00
- On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's The Spy's Bedside Book provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence. Includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming and John Buchan, Sir…
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The Two Heroines of Plumplington
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- In the Barsetshire town of Plumplington the daughter of the town’s leading banker and the daughter of its brewer have each chosen their future husbands. But both young men are regarded by the fathers as unsuitable, even though each suitor is, in fact, much like the respective father when at…
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The White Hour, and other stories
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- Neil Miller Gunn (1891Ð1973) was a prolific novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. With over twenty novels to his credit, Gunn was arguably the most influential Scottish fiction writer of the first half of the…
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The Works of George Crabbe (in 5 volumes)
- £250.00
- The collected poetry and prose writings of the great poet, surgeon and clergyman, George Crabbe. Published in his lifetime (1754-1832). Complete with engravings. Includes The Borough sequence (the basis of Benjamin Britten's operatic masterpiece Peter Grimes)
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The World Elsewhere and other stories
- £25.00
- Nirmal Verma (1929Ð2005) was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator. He is credited as being one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (New Story) literary movement of Hindi literature, wherein his first collection of stories, Parinde (Birds) is considered its first signature. This anthology collects a number of…
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The Wrong Set and other stories
- £40.00
- A satirist collection of twelve short stories, including: Union Reunion, A Story of Historical Interest, The Wrong Set, Crazy Crowd, Raspberry Jam, and more. Written by Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, an English novelist and short story writer who was one of England's first openly gay authors,
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The Young King and other stories
- £50.00
- Three stories, The Young King, The Star child and The Happy Prince illustarted in full-page brown toned drawings by Georg Ehrlich.
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Three Stories: Bartleby; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd
- £18.00
- ÔStruck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!Õ It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero Ð the ÔHandsome SailorÕ Ð to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy Budd is forced to defend himself, but his fearful, silent…
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Thy Servant A Dog (told by Boots)
- £15.00
- Apparently, a "delightful and touching story to pull at the heartstrings of dog lovers, told by 'Boots' in the most insightful 'dog-speak'". Make of that what you will.
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Told After Supper
- £90.00
- Told After Supper (1891) is a collection of short ghost stories written by the English writer Jerome K Jerome. The collectionÕs ÒintroductoryÓ starts as follows: ÒIt was Christmas Eve. I begin this way because it is the proper, orthodox, respectable way to begin [É] The experienced reader knows it was…
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Tommy & Co. Etc (+ Roberts’ The Way of A Man + Albanesi’s Cissy)
- £20.00
- Tommy and Co was published in 1904. A series of short stories, pen portraits of a cast of different characters. The first is Peter Hope, described as follows, "Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with…
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Ukridge
- £12.00
- First published in 1924, these short stories had previously appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine in the US and in the Strand Magazine in the UK. There are 10 included, relating the adventures of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, narrated by Ukridge's long-suffering friend, the writer "Corky" Corcoran.
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Wessex Tales (Wessex Novels vol XIII) – with map of Wessex
- £18.00
- Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy…
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Who do you think you are? Stories and Parodies
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- A collection of short stories, centred around academics, psychiatrists and media figures. Accompanying them are nine of Bradbury's playful parodies - among them the fifth volume of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" and an entire novel from Muriel Spark.
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William and A.R.P. (Air Raid Precautions)
- £25.00
- Crompton's William series Book 21. In time of war, William Brown is a force to be reckoned with, with his newly formed band of experts on air raid tactics and his gas mask made from a flower pot. Saving the country should be easy for someone with William's courage and…
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William the Rebel
- £20.00
- Crompton's William series Book 15. Contains: Three dogs and William; A Rescue Party; Mistakes Will Happen; William and Cleopatra; The Outlaws and the Penknife; Wiliam and the Watch and Chain; William's Wonderful Plan; William and the Fisherman; William and the Drug Trafficker; April Fool's Day; William Makes Things Hum; It…
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Youth And Gaspar Ruiz
- £10.00
- Youth was not my first contribution to " Maga " * It was the second. But that story marks the first appearance in the world of the man Marlow, with whom my relations have grown very intimate in the course of years. The origins of that gentleman (nobody as far…
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Youth: A Narrative; Heart of Darkness; End of the Tether
- £25.00
- Combination of Youth (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), The End of the Tether (1902)
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