Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths | Reading Level: very good
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. ...Show more
Great Italian Stories / Grandi Racconti Italiani: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
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Category: Short Stories
A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the ...Show more
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
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Category: Short Stories
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson "Ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short cen ...Show more
Loot by Tania James
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Category: Short Stories
An epic historical heist novel of plundered treasure, savage empire, lasting love and a young man's dream to make his mark on the world. From an Indian American writer at the height of her powers. 'Loot held me spellbound from the first page.' Maggie O'Farrell An epic tale of plundered treasure, savage ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Short Stories
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore the ...Show more
Winter - (Seasons Quartet 2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey (Translator); Lars Lerin (Illustrator)
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser.
From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters addressed directly to Knausgaard's unborn daughterIn Winter,we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as the birth of his daughter draws near. In preparation for her arrival, he takes ...Show more
Florida by Lauren Groff
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Category: Short Stories
FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2018 The universally acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies. "Haunting and arresting." (New York Times Book Review) "Outstanding." (The Boston Globe) "Marvelous." (The Economist) "Gorg ...Show more
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 2 by Patrick McGuinness (ed)
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Category: Short Stories
'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates ...Show more
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Little Black Classics 119 | Reading Level: very good
"Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. "
Latest Readings (PB) by Clive James
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Category: Short Stories
An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his librar ...Show more
My Mother, My Father: On Losing a Parent by Susan Wyndham
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Category: Short Stories
The loss of a parent is an experience that we all face without any training - relating to a parent through old age and illness; going through the actual death in different circumstances and whether we can help parents to have a good death; the emotional aftermath - shock, grief, relief, the effect on fa ...Show more
Liberation Day by George Saunders
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Category: Short Stories
'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best' Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling' i paper 'A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and sma ...Show more