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In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and...
These autobiographical stories about growing up in small-town Pennsylvania are among John Updike’s best, and were the closest to...
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...
These eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage...
Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first...
At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the...
Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the...
During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including ‘Boule de Suif’, ‘The Necklace’,...
Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People, by Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness, recalls both Iceland's...
'America was never innocent.'
Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It's James Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his...
An unjustly neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably 'the great Danish novel' – but is...
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...
Hana, a Canadian nurse, exhausted by death, and grieving for her own dead father; the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent,...
Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of...
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...
A classic musical comedy plot turned into a novel, The Prince and Betty is the story of a man who gives up everything for his...
In these articles first produced for magazines and substantially rewritten for book publication, Wodehouse reveals his enduring...
When is an autobiography not an autobiography? When the author is P. G. Wodehouse.
Over Seventy purports to be a series of...
Despite an enormous solo output, P. G. Wodehouse often co-operated with other writers, especially in the early stages of his...
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....
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