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This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-west among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, ... More

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Hemingway's direct and deceptively simple style shapes these stories into true masterpieces. From "Up in Michigan", written in 1921, to "Old Man at ... More

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Just in time for back-to-school, this is a beautifully repackaged collection from one of the preeminent voices of American literature. This ... More

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Choice collection of masterly short fiction. In addition to title story: "The Birthmark," "Rappaccini's Daughter," "Roger Malvin's Burial," "The ... More

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Flamboyant, theatrical, exuding, ambiguous sexualtiy, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of newcastle, was one of the seventeenth century's most striking ... More

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To read a story by Henry James is to enter a world--a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious ... More

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One of James's finest moments, "The Beast in the Jungle" is a portrait of a man alienated from life and love. Also includes "The Jolly Corner" and ... More

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'But it hadn't been given for nothing. It had been given, even the most wildly squandered sum, as an offering to destiny that he might not remember ... More

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With a specially commissioned afterword, the "Collector's Library" series includes a brief biography of the author, and a further reading list. This ... More

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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway will stand as the definitive collection by the man whose craft and vision remains an enduring ... More

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Contains the entire contents of the first omnibus volume "The First Forty-nine" plus 14 stories published subsequently in books or magazines and ... More

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An intense collection of interconnected stories that portray life through the eyes of a young man in a small Iowa town, by the author of Angels and ... More

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A movie tie-in edition to the brilliant new film by Robert Altman, based on these nine stories by Carver, "one of the great short story writers of ... More

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Here is a collection of this witty and irreverent author's works--all in their most authoritative texts. Includes The Picture of Dorian Gray, The ... More

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An intense collection of interconnected stories that portray life through the eyes of a young man in a small Iowa town, by the author of "Already ... More

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This is a collection of gripping tales of crime, crisis or disaster, in which ordinary people find themselves tested in extraordinary circumstances.

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Men Without Women was a milestone in Hemingway's career. Fiesta had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short ... More

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Men and women of passion and action live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of ... More

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"It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden evil-smelling emptiness. . ." A flamboyant, hard-drinking, ruthless, and ... More

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The first forty-nine stories by Ernest Hemingway.

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Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin. ... More

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The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR ? ... More

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A fully revised collection of Poe's work The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and ... More

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Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's "philosophical tales," in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. First ... More

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