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Tales of the Irish Hedgerows

A collection of tales and folklore centred on the flora and fauna of the Irish hedgerow. These are atmospheric stories, interweaving fact and fiction,

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year

All 100 images awarded in the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition are featured in this powerful collection, together with the stories o

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Human Animal in Western Art and Science

From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways, as metaphors, stories, and images - as well as scientific theories - throughout history remind us that humans often act like animals, and that the line separating them is not as cl...

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Collected Stories Of Arthur C. Clarke

The definitive collection of short stories from the century's greatest science fiction writer.

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Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning

In the third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series by Chris Colfer, the Brothers Grimm have a warning for the Land of Stories.

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Namaha - Stories from the Land of Gods and Goddesses: Illustrated Stories Hardcover Edition Special Print

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Ghost Stories of M. R. James

The second in a series of republished classic literature, The Ghost Stories of M. R. James collects the tales that best illustrate his quiet mastery o

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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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Collected Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield

This collection allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield's work from the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, thr

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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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Red Badge of Courage a Other Stories

Reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier. This novel evokes the chaos and the dull cla

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Oxford Book of English Short Stories

A fresh contemporary design for A. S. Byatt's celebrated anthology of English short stories The Oxford Book of English Short Stories.The 37 stories fe

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Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1

Part of the "Tiny Stories" series, this book gathers together 32 illustrated stories.

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Cause of Humanity and Other Stories

This volume of previously uncollected short stories spanning the life of Rudyard Kipling offers readers some real rarities. Many of the stories are un

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Scent of Almonds and Other Stories

THE SCENT OF ALMONDS AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of short stories from the No.1 international bestseller Camilla Lackberg. Perfect for fans of S

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Oxford Book of French Short Stories

Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, this collection opens with a rumbustious tale from the Marquis de Sade, takes i

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Penguin Readers Level 3: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (ELT Graded Reader) - Doyle Arthur Conan

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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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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Illustrated Stories of Mermaids Usborne Publishing

Discover the mysterious selkies of the Scottish seas and the haunting Philippine tale of the curse of Sirena. Meet the merman from China whose tears turn to pearls and Hans Christian Anderson´s brave little mermaid, pursuing her dream. These nine stories, beautifully illustrated and full of wonder, will whisk you from the bottom of the Arabian sea to rivers, deep in the T...

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Illustrated Stories of Mermaids - Lan Cook

<p>Discover the mysterious selkies of the Scottish seas and the haunting Philippine tale of the curse of Sirena. Meet the merman from China whose tears turn to pearls and Hans Christian Anderson's brave little mermaid, pursuing her dream. These nine stories, beautifully illustrated and full of wonder, will whisk you from the bottom of the Arabian sea to rivers, deep...

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Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey

The 5th book in the No.1 New York Times bestselling series by Chris Colfer

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Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

This intensely moving story of Ivan Ilyich's lonely end is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late fiction. The ten other stories in this collecti

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Ends Of Our Tethers: Thirteen Sorry Stories

Shows the high jinks of many folk in the last stages of physical, moral and social decrepitude - a sure tonic for the young.

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Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories

All by writers who spent their formative years in South Africa, this diverse range of short stories spans from the end of World War II when the Nation

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Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

Presents the full range of classic English ghost fiction, including some of the very best and most frightening ghost stories ever written.

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Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Suitable for children aged 10 years and up, this title offers a collection of masterful stories such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the eerie Rip Van

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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

Includes terrifying ghost stories such as Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mar

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Kitten Love: A Collection of Stories

A collection of three adorable kitten stories to treasure in one book, from best-selling author Holly Webb. The collection includes Lost in the Storm,

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Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests

Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been

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Collected Stories of Machado de Assis

A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.

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Death of Ivan Ilyich a Other Stories

Tolstoy wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the tes

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Book of Ghost Stories - Roald Dahl

<p>Includes terrifying ghost stories such as Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone.</p>

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Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Introduces us to Rip van Winkle, the Dutch colonist who slept through the Revolutionary War; Ichabod Crane, the superstitious, social-climbing schoolm

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Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

Throughout the 19th century fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay beyond i

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Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.Every one of his sixty storie...

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Horrid Henry: 12 Stories of Christmas

Number one for fiendish fun! On the first day of Christmas Horrid Henry gave to me .... 12 festive stories!

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Level 3: Stories of Survival - Beddall Fiona

Anotace: Some people choose adventure. Others suddenly find themselves in danger in their ordinary lives. This book tells the true stories of survivors. In the Antarctica cold or the Sahara Desert heat, in the wide Atlantic Ocean or a small Rwandan bathroom, these people have known terrible suffering but have lived.

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Heart of Darkness and Other Stories

'The horror! The horror!' - these are Kurtz's final words in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the story of a man who travels into the jungle to seek his fortune and who instead finds an all-consuming moral and spiritual wilderness. Conrad's enduring tale served as a touchstone for many works of fiction inspired by its somber theme. This collection also includes an add...

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Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 3

The universe isn't made of atoms; it's made of tiny stories. This title offers a selection of stories small in scope but outsize in impact.

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Peter Rabbit Stories

A new edition of The Peter Rabbit Stories, illustrated by Anna Currey. It includes The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of t

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Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories

~The Red Badge of Courage," written in 1895 by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest of all Amer

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Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Stories

This volume unites four of Wells' liveliest and most engaging tales of the strange evolution and behaviour of animals - including human beings. The Is

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Big Book of Ohio Ghost Stories

Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Author James A. Willis shines a light i

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Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories

The definitive collection of the twentieth century's most characteristic genre-from H.G. Wells's prophetic vision of technological warfare to contempo

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Penguin Book of American Short Stories

Includes twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years that provide a multi-faceted portrait of a co

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Puffin Book of Five-minute Stories

A collection of stories such as "Little Red-Riding Hood", "The Three Billy Goats Gruff", "Horrendous Hullabaloo" and "Blessu". It features stories abo

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Beast You Are: Stories

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the Wor

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Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

H.P. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre for the 20th century, discarding witches and ghosts and envisaging mankind as an outpost of dwindling sanit

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Unstoppable: True Stories of Amazing Bionic Animals

Praised as 'inspiring and heartwarming,' these amazing animals making their way around the world with the help of prosthetics, braces, orthotics, and

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Howard Marks' Book Of Dope Stories

In this text, celebrated drug smuggler Howard Marks has collected together all of the unpublished material sent to him over the years from drug users,

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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk And Other Stories

An outsider by birth and instinct, the author was one of the most undeservedly neglected figures in Russian literature. He combined a profoundly relig

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Complete Fairy Stories of Oscar Wilde

The treasured fairy tales of Oscar Wilde in a stunning gift edition featuring exquisite illustrations by the celebrated artist Philippe Jullian with

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Elric of Melnibone and Other Stories

The Michael Moorcock Collection presents for the first time definitive editions of Michael Moorcock's most influential work, fully revised and updated

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Shadows on the Water Short Stories

The mysteries of the rivers, the secrets of the lochs, the whispers across the vast stretches of the ocean, there are so many stories from the beginni

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Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

An anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers which is in the best traditions of literary ghost stories.

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Enchanted Library: Stories of Favourite Friends

A gorgeous picture book to delight all little readers, with surprises from old friends who live in the Faraway Tree and hidden birds. Collect the whol

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Disney: 7 Days of Animal Stories

Join the Disney animals for seven magical tales in this exciting storybook. Whether it's the 101 Dalmatian puppies causing mischief, Simba and Nala pl

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Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories

Beginning with the late nineteenth-century writings which first assimilated and reworked Western literary traditions, and coming right up to the young

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Complete Short Stories of A. A. Milne

The first complete collection of A. A. MilneÂ’s short fiction for grown-ups, including several newly discovered stories

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Heart of Darkness and Other Stories

This collection also includes an additional five of Conrad's best stories: 'The Secret Sharer', 'Youth', 'Typhoon', 'Karain: A Memory' and 'Falk: A Re

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