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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Golf Stories

Charles McGrath

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• Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, and John Updike, mixed with surprises like an appearance by Ian Fleming's James Bond and a little crime on the links from mys... 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

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

Horse Stories

Diana Secker Tesdell

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• Horse Stories corrals two centuries of short fiction about the most majestic of domesticated animals. From writers old and new come stories of magnifi... 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

New York Stories

Diana Secker Tesdell

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• Writers have always been uniquely inspired by New York City, and the classic stories collected here provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the metropolis i... Lees meer

Bedtime Stories

Diana Secker Tesdell

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• The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller's art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire. L... Lees meer