Stories of Art & Artists

Diana Secker Tesdell

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• From Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Artist of the Beautiful” and Albert Camus’s “The Artist at Work” to Bernard Malamud’s “Rembrandt’s Hat” and Aimee Bend... Lees meer

The Maples Stories

John Updike

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• Offers a nuanced portrait of two deeply flawed but moving characters, Joan and Richard Maple and their entwined lives. This book traces the decline an... Lees meer

Olinger Stories

John Updike

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• In an interview, Updike once said, "If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories." They follow the life of one character f... Lees meer

Music Stories

Wesley Stace

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• Variations on a musical theme by a striking range of authors, among them Flaubert, Turgenev, Proust, Nabokov, Katherine Mansfield, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian... Lees meer

Dog Stories

Rowan Pelling

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• The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling's heroically faithful 'Garm', Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a 'yaller dog' and the a... Lees meer

Rome Stories

Jonathan Keates

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• Rome Stories explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a Renaissance sculptor, 18th-century tourists, American, ... Lees meer

Paris Stories

Shaun Whiteside

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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 Restif de la Bretonn... Lees meer

Stories of Motherhood

Diana Secker Tesdell

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• Byatt, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, Anita Desai, Colm Tóibín, Lorrie Moore and many others reflect upon all aspects... Lees meer

Love Stories

Diana Secker Tesdell

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• Brings together an assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited lov... Lees meer

Fishing Stories

Henry Hughes

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• Whether set against the open ocean or tiny mountain streams, in ancient China, tropical Tahiti, Paris under siege, or the vast Canadian wilderness, th... Lees meer

Stories of the Sea

Diana Secker Tesdell

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• Classic adventure stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London mix with marvellously imaginative t... Lees meer

Stories of Fatherhood

Diana Secker Tesdell

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• At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer tells of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first child’s birth, and from Fra... Lees meer

Stories of Books and Libraries

Jane Holloway

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• Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provinc... Lees meer

Cat Stories

Diana Secker Tesdell

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• Playful kittens and ruthless predators, beloved pets and witches' familiars - cats of all kinds come alive in these stories. The essential unknowablen... Lees meer

Russian Stories

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• Russian Stories rounds up marvellous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev... Lees meer

Saki

Saki

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• Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and featuring well-contr... Lees meer

Stories of Trees, Woods and Forests

Gabriel Hemery

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• 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 ... Lees meer

London Stories

Diana Secker Tesdell

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• London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the w... Lees meer

Garden Stories

Various

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Scottish Stories

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• Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chi... Lees meer

Christmas Stories

Diana Secker Tesdell

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• As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired topics ranging from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination. This work features... Lees meer

Stories from the Kitchen

Diana Secker Tesdell

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• Stories from the Kitchen is a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, by a rich variety of authors from Dickens, Chekhov... Lees meer

Erotic Stories

Rowan Pelling

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• A perfect gift of timeless erotic stories ranging from ancient Greek myth to modern stories of longing and lust. Lees meer

Berlin Stories

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• Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, 'has always been a city of desperate modernity', both in terms of urban architecture... Lees meer