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The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller's art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire. LeGuin's sly perspective on Sleeping Beauty in 'The Poacher', these spellbinding stories transform the stuff of fables and fairy tales into high art.

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Playful kittens and ruthless predators, beloved pets and witches' familiars - cats of all kinds come alive in these stories. The essential unknowableness of cats inspires the most exotic flights of fancy: Calvino's secret city of cats in 'The Garden of Stubborn Cats', the disappearing animal in Ursula K.

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As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired topics ranging from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination. This work features stories that is imbued with Christmas spirit of one kind or another. It also includes: "Green Holly"; "The Night Before Christmas"; "Vanka"; "The Burglar's Christmas"; and "Dancing Dan's Christmas".

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The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling's heroically faithful 'Garm', Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a 'yaller dog' and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull who lives in a block of flats for dogs in Jonathan Lethem's 'Ava's Apartment'.

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Horse Stories corrals two centuries of short fiction about the most majestic of domesticated animals. From writers old and new come stories of magnificent stallions, broken-down nags, racehorses, ponies, cowboy's steeds, workhorses, and beloved companions, in a wide variety of literary styles.

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Brings together an assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited love, marriage, adultery, jealousy, and the complicated bonds of those who have spent their lives together.

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In this enchanting collection, favourite bed-time songs for children 'Rock-a-bye, Baby', 'Bye, Baby Bunting', 'Golden Slumbers' mingle with less familiar lullabies from around the world.

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Writers have always been uniquely inspired by New York City, and the classic stories collected here provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the metropolis in all its grittiness and glamour.

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Includes tales by Dickens, Twain, Beckett, Colette, Dorothy Parker, F Scott Fitzgerald, Doris Lessing, Frank O'Connor, Penelope Lively, and many more. Whether living it up or drowning their sorrows, this book features vividly drawn characters who will leave you shaken and stirred.

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Stories from the Kitchen is a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, by a rich variety of authors from Dickens, Chekhov and Saki to Isak Dinesen, Jim Crace and Amy Tan.

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From Nathaniel Hawthornes The Artist of the Beautiful and Albert Camuss The Artist at Work to Bernard Malamuds Rembrandts Hat and Aimee Benders The Color Master, the tales collected here range from haunting fables about the power of art to vivid portraits of those who create.

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At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer tells of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first childs birth, and from Frank OConnors comes a hilarious tale of a small boys war against his paternal rival in My Oedipus Complex.

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Scott Fitzgerald's "The Bridal Party," Joy Williams's "The Wedding," and Lorrie Moore's "Thank You For Having Me", encompass comic wedding mishaps, engagements broken and mended, honeymoon adventures, and scenes both heartwarming and heartbreaking.