short stories
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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 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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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".
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket