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A flag on the island
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V. S. Naipaul |
A collection of stories with settings in England, India and Trinidad, and ranging from humor to horror. |
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Long After Midnight
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Ray Bradbury |
Two drifters caught in the backwash of space wander from city to dead city, sifting the rubble for the fabled Blue Bottle of Mars—and find in it two different, equally entrancing, dooms...
A young… |
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The Second Hammer Horror Film Omnibus
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John Frederick Burke |
Four films from the House of Hammer... presented as four spine-chilling novels. |
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Means Of Evil & Other St (Wexford Collection)
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Ruth Rendell |
Vijf verhalen met inspecteur Wexford in de hoofdrol. |
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Doctor Marigold
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Charles Dickens |
Originally published in 1865, Doctor Marigold was extremely successful, as were Dickens's public performances of a play based on the story--fascinating and easy to read. Doctor (it is his given name)… |
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The Ebony Tower
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John Fowles |
The five masterful works of short fiction in The Ebony Tower bring us once again into the company of a great contemporary novelist working his intriguing and dazzling themes, probing the fitful relat… |
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Works (Kiss Kiss / My Uncle Oswald / Switch Bitch)
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Roald Dahl |
Contains:
[Kiss Kiss](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16248853W/Kiss_Kiss)
My Uncle Oswald
[Switch Bitch](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45873W/Switch_Bitch) |
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Adventures in Reading -- Volume 1-- Short Stories
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Marjorie Braymer,Arthur Conan Doyle,Ray Bradbury,Edgar Allan Poe,Evan Lodge,B.J. Chute |
Dive right in / B.J. Chute
Catherine and the winter wheat / P.B. Hughes
Apprentice / Dorothy Canfield
Ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry
The adventure of the dying detective / Arthur Conan Doyle … |
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Girls' night out
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Sarah Mlynowski,Carole Matthews,Chris Manby |
Presents twenty-one short stories by American and British women writers, including Jessica Adams, Emily Giffin, Marian Keyes, Anna Maxted, and Lauren Henderson.
Featuring such "New York Times" bests… |
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Sherlock Holmes (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes / His Last Bow / Memo…
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
- [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes)
[Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia)
[Re… |
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The Penguin book of modern Indian short stories
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Wimal Dissanayake,Stephen Alter |
Most translated from various Indian languages. |
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Out of this world
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Mack Reynolds,Raymond F. Jones,Al Nussbaum,Kurt Vonnegut,Ray Bradbury,Arthur C. Clarke,Damon Knight,Jack Finney,Fritz Leiber,Douglas M. McLeod,Ursula K. Le Guin,Isaac Asimov,William Tenn,Clifford D. Simak,Deborah H. Sussman |
The fun they had / Issac Asimov --
To serve man / Damon Knight --
Starlight, starbright / Al Nussbaum --
Hail and farewell / Ray Bradbury --
A bowl of biskies makes a growing boy / Raymond F. Jon… |
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I am China
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Xiaolu Guo |
"In her flat in north London, Iona Kirkpatrick sets to work on a new project translating a collection of letters and diaries by a Chinese musician. With each letter and journal entry, Iona becomes mo… |
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All the rage
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A.L. Kennedy |
"A. L. Kennedy's latest collection of stories is an investigation of "certain types of threat and the odder edges of sweet things"--Another intense and luscious feast of language from the author of T… |
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Short story criticism
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Jelena O. Krstovic |
Presents literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines,… |
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Tales from Africa
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Mary Medlicott,Ademola Akintola |
Includes nine stories based on folklore from various African countries and three original stories, representing the cultural diversity which exists in Africa. |
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The Feast of St Dionysus
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Robert Silverberg |
These stories were written before the end of Silverberg's "first period" (i.e., before 1974), and represent some of the finest short work he did during that time. The title story is a fine exploratio… |
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Uninvited ghosts and other stories
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Penelope Lively |
A collection of intriguing and witty stories featuring a Martian stranded in a backyard, a clutch of gryphons hatching in London and a family of overly friendly ghosts. |
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Just so stories for little children. Stalky & Co.
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Rudyard Kipling |
"Once upon a time O best beloved," and so begins one of the best loved and most respected collections of stories for children, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. This edition includes the author's ow… |
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Adore
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Doris Lessing |
Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs... Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretches beyond familiar bounds when these middle-aged mothers fal… |
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