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Anthologies and short stories
Second Plane
By Martin Amis
Paperback
Published 01-Jan-2009
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A collection of short stories of the author including "In the Place of the End" and "The Last Days of Muhammad Atta", and essays and reviews.
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Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
By Malcolm Bradbury
Paperback
Published 28-Apr-2011
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A collection of the finest short stories from our best loved authors, including Samuel Beckett, Graham Greene, William Golding, Kingsley Amis, Doris Lessing, Muriel Spark, J G Ballard, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Rose Tremain, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift and Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Metamorphosis and Other Stories
By Franz Kafka
Paperback
Published 25-Jan-2007
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Brings the small proportion of the author's works such as "Metamorphosis", an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation, "Meditation", a collection of studies, "The Aeroplanes at Brescia", his eyewitness account of an air display in 1909, and others.
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Metamorphosis
By Franz Kafka
Paperback
Published 01-Feb-1992
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One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. The author explores the confusing nature of human experience with compelling originality.
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Smoke and Mirrors
By Neil Gaiman
Paperback
Published 19-Sep-2005
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SMOKE AND MIRRORS will haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul
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Short Stories
By Anton Chekhov
Paperback
Published 01-Apr-1979
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The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov s creative career.
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Collected Short Stories
By W Somerset Maugham
Paperback
Published 07-Mar-2002
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This final, classic collection of stories reveals Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Included are: "The Lotus Eater", "The Outstation" and "The Back of Beyond".
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Girl with Curious Hair
By David Foster Wallace
Paperback
Published 06-Nov-1997
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In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily "real", almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians. In the title story, punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism.
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
By Oscar Wilde
Audio
Published 01-Apr-2010
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A collection of stories in which there is an unconventional ghost story about a bungling and inept ghost, a twist on the conventional murder mystery formula and a whimsical fantasy on the provenance of Shakespeare's "Sonnets".
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Aleph
By Jorge Luis Borges
Paperback
Published 07-Sep-2000
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A collection of short stories with such themes as dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.
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