Fifty great short stories

Fifty Great American Short Stories

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Great French Short Stories

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Great American Short Stories

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Great American Short Stories

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Five Great Short Stories

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Great German Short Stories

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50 Great Short Stories - neuveden

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley

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50 Great Short Stories (9780553277456)

Kniha - autor Milton Crane, 592 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá 50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan and O'Connor. Th...

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100 Great American Short Stories

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50 Great Short Stories - Milton Crane

Anotace: 50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but a...

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50 Great Short Stories - Milton Crane

<p>50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan and O'Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have ...

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Lost Worlds Short Stories

Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, including Chilling Ghosts, Murder Mayhem and Crime a Myste

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Dystopia Utopia Short Stories

Following the great success of the very first Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this latest

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Great Russian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century

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Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century

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Crime a Mystery Short Stories

Following the great success of the very first Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this exciti

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Swords a Steam Short Stories

Following the great success of the early Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this exciting ti

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Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts - Various

Anotace: A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the original Italian alongside an expert English translation, pr...

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Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts - Various

<p>A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insigh...

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Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts - Various

<p>A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the original Italian alongside an expert English translation, pro...

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Great Gatsby

“This superb volume offers a rich cultural fabric that greatly deepens our understanding of The Great Gatsby. Illuminating short stories by Fitzgeral

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Great Spanish and Latin American Short Stories of the 20th Century

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Bodies in the Library Short Stories

Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy deluxe short story compilations, this latest in the series is packed with amateur detectives solving

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Three Japanese Short Stories - Rjúnosuke Akutagawa

<p>'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit ...

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Great Japanese Stories: 10 Parallel Texts - Jay Rubin

<p>A captivating selection of short stories in the original Japanese alongside their English translations</p> <p>This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates some of the very best Japanese literature from the past hundred years. Each story appears in the original Japanese alongside an e...

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The Great Gatsby and Other Stories - Fitzgerald Francis Scott

Anotace: Love, ambition, and wealth take center stage in this collection of classic stories from the Jazz Age.Often described as the "Great American Novel," F. Scott Fitzgerald`s The Great Gatsby is the quintessential story of love, ambition, and wealth in the Roaring Twenties. In the Long Island village of West Egg, the rich and mysterious Jay Gatsby pursues the now-mar...

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Bohemian Stories - Renáta Fučíková

Anotace: Czech immigrants traveled to the unknown beyond the Atlantic in several waves. Some came to America in search of religious and political freedom, while others simply sought a better life in a country of great opportunities. Today we know that without their involvement, independent Czechoslovakia would hardly have come to exist, and without the assistance of the ...

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First Forty-Nine Stories

A collection of Hemingway's first forty-nine short stories, including "Up in Michigan", "Fifty Grand", and "The Light of the World", and the "Snows of

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The Great Wall of China: And Other Short Works - Franz Kafka

Drawing directly on original manuscripts, this collection comprises the major short stories published after Kafka''s death.

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Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories - Peter Kuper

<p>Award-winning graphic novelist Peter Kuper presents a mesmerizing interpretation of fourteen iconic Kafka short stories. Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the master's dark humor, Kuper adapted the stories over the years to plumb their deeper truths. Kuper's style deliberately evo...

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The Burrow and Other Stories. Posthumously Published Short Fiction - Franz Kafka

After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka's wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction be destroyed.

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Great Bazaar and Brayan’s Gold

Two exciting short stories set in the engrossing world of The Demon Cycle from bestselling fantasy author Peter V. Brett.

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Penguin Book of First World War Stories

An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and cu

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Sherlock Holmes: Classic Stories - Doyle Arthur Conan

Anotace: For fans of the great detective, this volume collects 10 classic tales of mystery and detection. In addition to the complete short novel The Hound of the Baskervilles , it includes several stories that Holmes s creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, himself selected as the intrepid pair s greatest adventures: A Scandal in Bohemia , The Speckled Band , The Red-Headed Leagu...

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The Burrow and Other Stories - Franz Kafka

Anotace: After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka's wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction be destroyed. This fiction included not only The Castle and The Trial but also the amazingly varied, chilling and ingenious short works collected in The Burrow and Other ...

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Sherlock Holmes: Classic Stories - Arthur Conan Doyle

<p>IIFor fans of the great detective, this volume collects 10 classic tales of mystery and detection. In addition to the complete short novel `The Hound of the Baskervilles', it includes several stories that Holmes's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, himself selected as the intrepid pair's greatest adventures: `A Scandal in Bohemia', `The Speckled Band', `The Red-Headed ...

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I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories

The final collection of unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the iconic American writer of The Great Gatsby

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The First Forty-Nine Stories - Hemingway Ernest

Anotace: A collection of Hemingway`s first forty-nine short stories, including "Up in Michigan", "Fifty Grand", and "The Light of the World", and the "Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Winner Take Nothing" and "Men Without Women" collections.

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A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories - Eva Ibbotson

<p>Curl up with a collection of romantic short stories taking you from nineteenth-century Vienna, over the wild moors of Northumberland to the snowy streets of pre-revolutionary St Petersburg. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfe...

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The First Forty-Nine Stories - Ernest Hemingway

<p>From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it...

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A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories - Terry Pratchett

<p>A truly unmissable set of unearthed stories from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett: award-winning and bestselling author, and creator of the phenomenally successful Discworld series.An exclusive collection of twenty early short stories by one of the world's best loved authors, these are rediscovered tales that Pratchett wrote under a pseudonym for newspapers during ...

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Long and the Short of it

In print for the very first time, The Long and Short of It collects eight unmissable short stories from the international bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series. With introductions plus the brand new short story, A Perfect Storm. When a Child is Born A jump back to 1066 to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror goes slightly astray. Roman Holiday Max an...

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I´d Die for You and Other Lost Stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald; Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Anotace: I'd Die for You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, iconic author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. All eighteen short fictions collected here were lost in one sense or another: physically lost, coming to light only recently; lost in the turbulence of Fitzgerald's later life; lost to readers because...

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Bohemian Stories: An Illustrated History of Czechs in the USA (978-80-7252-817-2)

Kniha - autor Renáta Fučíková, 196 stran, anglicky, Pevná, plátěný potah - autor Renáta Fučíková, 196 stran, anglicky, pevná, plátěný potah Czech immigrants traveled to the unknown beyond the Atlantic in several waves. Some came to America in search of religious and political freedom, while others simply sought a better life in a country of great opportunities. Today ...

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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 2 - Arthur Conan Doyle

<p>Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Novels and StoriesVolume IISince his first appearance in "Beeton's Christmas Annual" in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle's classic h...

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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 2 - Arthur Conan Doyle

Anotace: Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Novels and StoriesVolume IISince his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s cl...

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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 1 - Arthur Conan Doyle

Anotace: Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Hol...

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Bohemian Stories - An Illustrated History of Czechs in the USA - Fučíková Renáta

Czech immigrants traveled to the unknown beyond the Atlantic in several waves. Some came to America in search of religious and political freedom, while others simply sought a better life in a country of great opportunities. Today we know that without their involvement, independent Czechoslovakia would hardly have come to exist, and without the assistance of the United Sta...

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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 1 - Arthur Conan Doyle

<p>Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I Since his first appearance in "Beeton's Christmas Annual" in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle's classic...

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Bohemian Stories - An Illustrated History of Czechs in the USA - Renáta Fučíková

<p></p> <p>Czech immigrants traveled to the unknown beyond the Atlantic in several waves. Some came to America in search of religious and political freedom, while others simply sought a better life in a country of great opportunities. Today we know that without their involvement, independent Czechoslovakia would hardly have come to exist, and without the...

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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 4 - Dick Philip K.

Anotace: The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick`s short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre.This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick`s work includes the influential `We Can Remember It For You Wholesale` and `The Electric Ant`, as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influ...

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The Burrow : Posthumously Published Short Fiction - Franz Kafka

<p>After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka's wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction be destroyed. This fiction included not only The Castle and The Trial but also the amazingly varied, chilling and ingenious short works collected in The Burrow and Other Stories. Th...

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Liberation Day: From ´the world´s best short story writer´ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize - Saunders George

Anotace: `One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far` SFX Review `Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best` Anne Enright, Guardian `A triumph of storytelling` i paper`A joy. `Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart` Daily Mail____________The first short story collection ...

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Liberation Day: From ´the world´s best short story writer´ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize - George Saunders

<p>'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best' Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling' i paper 'A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart' Daily Mail ____________ The first short story collec...

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Tales of the Jazz Age

A collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby

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Tales of the Jazz Age

From Collins Classics, short stories from the author of ‘The Great Gatsby’ and including ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’.

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The Distance of the Moon - Italo Calvino

<p>'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging fro...

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Konundrum

In this new selection and translation, Peter Wortsman mines Franz Kafka’s entire opus of short prose–including works published in the author’s brief lifetime, posthumously published stories, journals, and letters–for narratives that sound the imaginative depths of the great German-Jewish scribe from Prague. It is the first volume in English to consider his deeply strange,...

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Lance - Vladimir Nabokov

<p>'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with...

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A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM Edgar Allan Poe and Art in the Czech Lands - Veronika Hulíková, Otto M. Urban (EN)

This publication examines the reception of the work of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) in the visual arts in the Czech lands, and the more general phenomenon of horror and fear. To this day, Poe enjoys great attention, and his short stories and poems inspire not only writers but also artists, film makers, and musicians. The project introduces a broad gamut...

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