Author: Ma Jian
A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walki ... |
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Author: Joanne Harris
Take your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear. In these twenty-two short stories ... |
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Short Stories
Author: Hilary Mantel
In the wake of Hilary Mantel's captivating memoir, "Giving Up The Ghost", this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. |
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Author: Haruki Murakami
The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then, the earthquake struck. Komura's wife follows the TV reports from morning to night, without eating or sleeping. The same images appe ... |
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Author: Richard Yates
With his second collection of short stories, Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power and eloquence.Liars in Love is concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth: Hop ... |
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Author: Derek Pearsall
In this key anthology Derek Pearsall offers a radically new approach to those teaching and studying English writing from Geoffrey Chaucer to the early work of Edmund Spenser. Ignoring the traditional barrier between med ... |
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Author: Alice Munro
In this collection of Munro's stories, whole lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories that bring the past bubbling up to the surface. And as her characters discover, the past is made up not only of ... |
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Author: Alice Munro
In 1818, James Laidlaw left the Edinburgh's Castle Rock and sailed to the new world with his family. This book presents the story of the shepherds from the Ettrick Valley and their descendants who are a Spartan lot, who ... |
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Author: Chris Baldick
The Gothic tale has been with us for over two hundred years, but this collection is the first to illustrate the continuing strength of this special fictional tradition from the late eighteenth century to the present day. ... |
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Author: Cynthia Ozick
It is the stories upon which Cynthia Ozick's literary reputation rests. She writes about bitterness, cruelty and compulsion with brutal acuity and tenderness. She has created a timeless collection in which Greek mytholog ... |
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Author: Picker
Australian Accounting Standards is an exciting new textbook that presents a thorough introduction to various Australian equivalents of the International Financial Reporting Standards. With the inception of the IFRS on 1 ... |
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Author: J.G. Ballard
Presents a collection of stories that have appeared in magazines such as "New Worlds", "Amazing Stories" and "Interzone", and in several separate collections. These stories provide an opportunity to review the career of ... |
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Author: Susie Bright
Guided by the genius of Susie Bright, 'the avatar of American erotica' (New York Times), the Best American Erotica series has sold an astonishing 450,000 copies. Now the latest edition promises to offer readers a whole n ... |
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Stories
Author: Jennifer Weiner
Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming t ... |
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The Hanging Garden, Beggars Banquet
Author: Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin has amassed an incredible portfolio of short stories, which all share the best qualities of his phenomenally popular novels. Now his two critically acclaimed short story collections - A GOOD HANGING and BEGGA ... |
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Author: Matthew Kneale
Matthew Kneale takes us on a journey around today's uncertain world. From England to South America, China to the Middle East, the United States to Africa, Kneale applies his gifts as a master storyteller, vividly capturi ... |
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Author: Craig Davidson
In steel-tipped prose, Craig Davidson conjures a savage world populated by fighting dogs, prizefighters, sex addicts, gamblers, a repo man and a disappearing magician. The title of the lead story, 28 Bones, refers to the ... |
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Seven Stories
Author: Yukio Mishima
When Mishima committed ritual suicide in November 1970, he was only forty-five. He had written over thirty novels, eighteen plays, and twenty volumes of short stories. During his lifetime, he was nominated for the Nobel ... |
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Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction
Author: Professor Makoto Ueda
To Lafcadio Hearn at the turn of the twentieth century, Japan's most priceless objets d'art were not the delicate masterpieces of its fine arts but its women. Today, the women of Japan are viewed with a mixture of old st ... |
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Author: Oxford World's Classics
The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he bega ... |
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