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

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

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

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 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

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

African Stories

Ben Okri

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• Award-winning writer Ben Okri, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, curates this one-volume overview of classic stories of Afri... 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

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

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

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

Detective Stories

Peter Washington

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• A glorious collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. Including creators such as Poe and Conan Doyle to Hammet, Christie, Chandler, Rende... 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

Ghost Stories

Peter Washington

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• Tales about ghosts are as old as human culture itself but the ghost story as a distinguished literary form reached its apogee in the late nineteenth a... Lees meer