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A celebration of fathers and fatherhood, this anthology features the richly varied voices of sons and daughters, and of fathers...
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of...
The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month...
In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and...
Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the...
Horse Stories corrals two centuries of short fiction about the most majestic of domesticated animals. From writers old and new...
Stories of Motherhood gathers together more than a century of short fiction from a wide variety of authors in a literary...
As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence...
If every fiction is at heart a mystery, then the detective story is fiction distilled to its purest essence, combining the...
Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first...
Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the...
'America was never innocent.'
Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It's James Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his...
In 1914 Paul Baumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a...
When Catherine Sloper falls for Maurice Townsend, her father, a wealthy New York doctor, believes that Townsend is a fortune...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made...
In this remarkable trilogy, Richard Ford creates one of the most enduring and empathetic characters in contemporary American...
Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irene Nemirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite...
This early novel, written in collaboration with a friend, is a fascinating curiosity which suggests that Wodehouse might have...
Clarence Chugwater is not a Boy Scout for nothing. It is summer 1909 and everyone is too interested in the Test Match to notice...
This volume reprints two of Wodehouse's earliest story sequences, each linked by a central character, a technique he used many...
Would-be painter, George Finch, with lots of money and no talent, falls for lovely Molly Waddington who falls for him....
Monty Bodkin has returned to London from Hollywood, leaving Sandy Miller, his secretary there, heartbroken, because Monty loves...
Everyone in Company for Henry wants to escape from something. Hard-up Henry Paradene would like to unload his hideous country...
It is the general view at Eckleton that there never was such a house of slackers as Kay's. The fags run riot, the senior dayroom...
Following the death of Carmen Flores, the lubricious Mexican star, her Hollywood house is bought by wealthy Adela Cork, whose...
In this charming story of the Jackson cricketing dynasty at boarding school, Wodehouse evokes the peaceful, prosperous world of...
The Adventures of Sally is a transatlantic comedy set in worlds Wodehouse knew well: American theatres, English country houses,...
When O’Hara and Moriarty, two boys at Wrykyn School, tar and feather the statue of a pompous local MP, O’Hara mislays at the...
This charming novel is one of Wodehouse’s best late works. The vintage plot concerns a Gainsborough miniature, a mouldering...
This substantial collection of early stories displays a variety of tone, style and setting which may surprise readers familiar...
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