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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The passion according to G.H	Clarice Lispector	The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector's mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid's room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, …	OL1002138W
Naked Masks	Luigi Pirandello	Presents six plays by the Nobel Prize winning dramatist.	OL100417W
Selected Tang Dynasty Stories (English-Chinese)	Shen Jiji	227 pages ; 21 cm	OL10164509W
Ghost Stories of Old China	Yang Hsien-yi,Gladys Yang	Archer Yi the Governor of Ghosts Zhong-kui the Ghost Catcher Sung Ting-po Catches a Ghost Tsui Min-cheuh Chiang Chien Frying a Ghost Chen Luan-feng Pan the Scholar Wang Chi-ming Wei Pang Wa…	OL10260381W
Past continuous	Khải Nguyẽ̂n,Nguyẽ̂n, Khải.	"Nguyen Khai's documentary novel, Past Continuous, published in the early 1980s before the "doi moi" policy was introduced, gives a fascinating inside view of North Vietnamese views and strategies du…	OL1026698W
Trojan Women	Euripides	"The Trojan Women" is a play by the 5th century B.C. Greek dramatist Euripides. The story takes place at the end of the Trojan war and is focused on the Greeks' division of the spoils, who happen to…	OL10306670W
Mansha Yad's tamasha & other stories	Muḥammad Manshā Yād	Eighteen short stories translated from Urdu into English by eminent literary figures.	OL1035436W
In the eyes of the cat	Demi	A collection of Japanese nature poems organized according to the seasons, illustrated with paintings corresponding to the themes of the poems.	OL103645W
Fire and other images	Paritosha Sena	Translations of author's selected writings in Bengali.	OL1038460W
Songs of three great South Indian saints	Jackson, William J.	Study of the songs of Kanakadāsa, 1509-1607, Purandaradāsa, 1484-1564, and Tallapaka Annamacharya, 1408-1503.	OL1039689W
The best of Satyajit Ray	Ray, Satyajit	Selection of short stories.	OL1041269W
The unicorn expedition and other stories	Ray, Satyajit	For children.	OL1041319W
Rage, revelry & romance--	Udaya Prakāśa / उदय प्रकाश / Uday Prakash	Translation of selected short stories of a Hindi author.	OL1042511W
Five great short stories (Дама с собачкой / Дом с мезонином / Крыжовник / Мужики / Чёрный монах)	Антон Павлович Чехов	Contains; Дама с собачкой Дом с мезонином Крыжовник Мужики Чёрный монах	OL10425679W
The Eternal Husband and other stories	Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский	A nasty anecdote -- The eternal husband -- Bobok -- The meek one -- The dream of a ridiculous man.	OL10432711W
The Invisible Witness	Wolfgang Ecke	Fifteen mystery cases for readers to solve, with solutions provided in the back of the book.	OL104955W
Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective…	OL1063588W
The Eight Strokes of the Clock	Maurice Leblanc	<p>Trying to escape from her boring life, Hortense Daniel meets the mysterious Prince Rénine (or should we say <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/arsene-lupin">Arsène Lupin</a>?) who enl…	OL1064268W
Le coup de grâce	Marguerite Yourcenar	Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, Coup de Grâce tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting wi…	OL106854W
Forest interludes	Anitā Agnihotrī	Comprises short stories, essays, and a novel; translated from Bengali.	OL1074785W