Seventeen scottish short stories

Seventeen Scottish Short Stories

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Short Stories of George Mackay Brown

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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa - one of Japan's foremost stylists and a modernist master whose short stories are marked by imagery, cynicism, beauty,

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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cy

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Scottish Short Stories, 1800-1900

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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories - Akutagawa Rjúnosuke

Anotace: Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan`s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. `Rashoemon` and `In a Bamboo Grove` inspired Kurosawa`s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as `The Nose`, `O-Gin` and `Loyal...

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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories - Rjúnosuke Akutagawa

<p>Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. 'Rashoemon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove' inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as 'The Nose', 'O-Gin' and 'Loyalt...

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Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories

A collection that gives a multi-faceted view of Scotland, the Scots and the Scottish short story, with stories ranging from Roman Britain through the

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Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories

From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vi

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Same Same but Different Short Stories

A stunning collection of seventeen stories by a vibrant mix of established and emerging writers. The best short story collection to come out of lockdo

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Scottish Folk &amp; Fairy Tales: Epic Tales - Allison Galbraith

<p>The folklore of Scotland has gripped the imagination for centuries, with its stories of sublime creatures, high adventures and uncanny spirits of all kinds. The human and fairy realms of Scotland's mythical heritage blur seamlessly together: knights and clan leaders clash swords in the same lands where brownies and bogles romp; and simple farmers and fishermen fr...

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Edinburgh Mystery

This new collection presents seventeen classic stories, spanning a period from the 1880s to the 1970s, by a host of Scottish authors alongside writers

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Uncommon Type

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.

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Its Colours They Are Fine

Alan Spence's debut collection of short stories is a timeless portrait of Glasgow, and an acknowledged piece of classic Scottish writing. Introduced b

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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot (1529176247)

Kniha - autor Marianne Cronin, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Life is short - no one knows that better than seventeen year-old Lenni Petterssen. On the Terminal Ward, the nurses are offering their condolences already, but Lenni still has plenty of living to do. When she meets 83-year-old Margot Macrae, a fellow patient offering new friendship and envi...

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Kouření škodí zdraví cigaret a další povídky (978-80-748-2328-2)

Elektronická kniha - autor James Khoury, 320 stran, česky This bilingual collection of absurdist short stories set in Prague attempts to answer the more complex questions of life, such as why a butterfly would be bitter against the world, how an octopus could resent all things Scottish, which breed of cow is the most superficial, and whether bookcases have a sense of hu...

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The Fraud - Smith Zadie

Anotace: Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literatu...

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The Fraud - Zadie Smith

<p>Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literatur...

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