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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119573-5
EAN 9780141195735
'I suppose it was conceited of me. But it was fun. And I felt like getting a bit of my own back on some of the people who'd conned and flattered me into wasting all those years.' One of 50 original and exciting books of short stories, publishing in February to celebrate half a century ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119574-2
EAN 9780141195742
'We were friends, somehow. But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy. All the while that he was making the gestures of a close and precious friend he was fattening my soul in a coop till it was ready for killing.' Vital, exuberant, streetwise and philosophizing, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119577-3
EAN 9780141195773
'I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far.'Donald Barthelme is a puckish player with language, a writer of short but endlessly rewarding ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119581-0
EAN 9780141195810
'On days of combat, the crew would mix gunpowder with their liquor'Borges became famous as a writer of short stories that contained new realities: elaborately conceived, ingenious and gamesome précis of impossible worlds or imaginary books. In these five stories there is danger on the high seas, an ungracious teacher of etiquette and an encyclopaedia ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119582-7
EAN 9780141195827
'And then one day a solitary figure appeared, moving toward them across the lifeless plain from the west.One man on a camel 'Paul Bowles's unforgettable short stories portray people facing hostile environments and the innate savagery of humanity. These three unbearably tense tales from sun-drenched and brutal climes tell of vengeance, abandonment, violence and cruelty ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119588-9
EAN 9780141195889
'Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.'Angela Carter's playful and subversive retellings of Charles Perrault's classic fairy tales conjure up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains, wily animals and incredible transformations. In these seven stories, bristling with frank, earthy ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119589-6
EAN 9780141195896
'I pushed her back into the house without saying anything, shut the door. We stood looking at each other inside. She dropped her hand slowly and tried to smile. Then all expression went out of her white face and it looked as intelligent as the bottom of a shoe box I lit my cigarette, puffed ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119590-2
EAN 9780141195902
The colossus of crime leaned over to the little rustic priest with a sort of sudden interest.'You have heard of it?' he asked. 'Where have you heard of it?''Well, I mustn't tell you his name, of course,' said the little man simply. 'He was a penitent, you know. He had lived prosperously for about twenty ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119593-3
EAN 9780141195933
'And it happened when Martine or Philippa spoke to Babette that they would get no answers, and would wonder if she had even heard what they said Orshe would sit immovable on the three-legged kitchen chair, her strong hands in her lap and her dark eyes wide open, as enigmatical and fatal as a Pythia ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119595-7
EAN 9780141195957
'Her feelings for the child redeemed her from bitterness, and shed some light on the dark industrial terraces and the waste lands of the city's rubble.'One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Margaret Drabble is an unmatched observer of postwar English lives, portraying social change, sexual liberation, landscape, class and the messy complications ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119596-4
EAN 9780141195964
F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams and tarnished hopes. In these three tales of a fragile recovery, a cut-glass bowl and a life lost, Fitzgerald portrays, in exquisite prose and with deep human sympathy, the idealism of youth and the ravages of success.This book includes Babylon Revisited, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119598-8
EAN 9780141195988
"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that."'E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In 'The Machine ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-0-14-119607-7
EAN 9780141196077
'Of a sudden I realized that he was in the grip of some almost overpowering fear.'Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novels and poetry, but his short stories reveal a far more sinister and macabre side to his imagination. In these three chilling and psychologically penetrating tales, Kipling portrays hauntings, loss, madness, terrible secrets ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119608-4
EAN 9780141196084
'Was this what it all meant - utter, intact separateness, obscured by heat of living?'D. H. Lawrence's short stories portray complex, flawed interior lives, showing individuals facing momentous emotional events. In these two stories of fragile happiness and failed dreams, a tragedy forces a woman to acknowledge that she has never known her husband, and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119611-4
EAN 9780141196114
'Staring out at the river his agony was like a great lidless eye'In this stark, compelling and greatly autobiographical novella, Malcolm Lowry tells the story of Bill Plantagenet, a piano player and ex-sailor who has lost his band and his mind drinking in New York. As Plantagenet commits himself to a Psychiatric hospital to suffer ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119617-6
EAN 9780141196176
'"I wish you a speedy recovery. I do not know what happened that night. Some foul play, somewhere. The rogue who brought me the Coca-Cola must have drugged the drink. I will deal with him yet."'These haunting tales from India's foremost storyteller, set in the fictional town of Malgudi, are filled with characters from every ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119618-3
EAN 9780141196183
Praised as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor was a modern master of the short story. From an amateur brass band divided by partisanship to English soldiers who befriend their Irish captors, and from a child's comic confession to the end of a small-town friendship, these four humorous and tragic stories refract universal truths through the prism ...
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-0-14-119624-4
EAN 9780141196244
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- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-119625-1
EAN 9780141196251
'There, in Russia five years ago, when Cuba had been taken out of the oven to cool and Vietnam was still coming to a simmer, Bech did find a quality of life - impoverished yet ceremonial, shabby yet ornate, sentimental, embattled, and avuncular-reminiscent of his neglected Jewish past.'In these two short stories, Updike's brilliant observational ...
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