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Katherine Mansfield
A Dill Pickle

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She drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bear Katherine Mansfield was a magician of the short story, whose work was described by Virginia Woolf as …

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Mikhail Bulgakov
A Dog's Heart

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What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov's topsy-turvy world, the dog starts to walk on two legs, drink, smoke, …

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Sei Shonagon
A Lady in Kyoto

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All moonlight is moving, wherever it may be... Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in the Emperor's palace and discover a lost world, in which games of poetry …

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Willa Cather
A Lost Lady

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How light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . . Marian Forrester enchants everyone around her: her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; the small town of Sweet Water; and Niel Herbert, her…

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Laurie Lee
A Moment of War

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In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borr…

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Oscar Wilde
A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint

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"All art," Oscar Wilde once announced, "is quite useless." Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject of art - useless, illuminating, artificial, uplifting, radical, gorgeous, boring,…

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César Aira
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

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It is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint the sights that unfold: vast chasms, surreal plants a…

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Stefan Zweig
Chess

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My dreadful situation forced me ... to try splitting myself into a Black self and a White self, to keep from being crushed by the terrible void around me A prisoner of the Nazis for years, what if your o…

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Bohumil Hrabal
Closely Watched Trains

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Closely Watched Trains tells the story of Miloš Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Miloš is overwhelmed with worries - about his virginity, his love for the conduct…

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Leo N. Tolstoi
Family Happiness

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'I'm not the sort of husband you dream of when you're walking alone along the avenue in the evening, am I? And it would be a disaster, wouldn't it?' How does love die? This question lies at the heart of T…

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Dante
Hell

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Lay down all hope, you that go in by me . . . Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes, leering devils and rivers of blood, lies the ultimate evil: Satan himself. Masterfully translated by Doro…

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Edgar Allan Poe
Hop-Frog

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Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks in his…

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Nikolai Leskov
Night Owls

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'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken.'Condemned to sleeplessness by the chatter permeating his guesthouse room, …

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Emily Brontë
No Coward Soul Is Mine

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Yes, as my swift days near their goal,'Tis all that I implore;In life and death, a chainless soul,With courage to endure. In this new selection of Emily Brontë's heart-rending poems, we uncover a soul una…

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Carson McCullers
Reflections in a Golden Eye

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On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain's wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderton - unhappily married to the unfaithful Leon…

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Czeslaw Milosz
Rescue

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Collecting two of his most celebrated works - Rescue, written in Warsaw in the shadow of Nazi occupation, and A Treatise on Poetry - a momentous history of Poland, told in four cantos - here lie the sharp…

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Lafcadio Hearn
Some Japanese Ghosts

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'The body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beat: yet there were no other signs of death.'The phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore are in this book driven back into the world of the living…

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Margaret Cavendish
The Blazing World

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security'In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there …

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Rabindranath Tagore
The Broken Nest

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors to ever live. In these two short stories - 'The Broken Nest' and 'Dead or Alive' - he is at his d…

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Bram Stoker
The Burial of the Rats

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The bones were still warm; but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own dead This spine-chilling collection from Dracula creator Bram Stoker showcases five haunting tales, including the newl…

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