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In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eye-witness account of the Revolution.

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Rome Stories explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a Renaissance sculptor, 18th-century tourists, American, British and French novelists and the authors of modern Rome, each testing and unravelling the city's ageless paradoxes.

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Russian Stories rounds up marvellous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Babel and Nabokov, and continuing up to contemporary writers such as Tatyana Tolstaya and the recent Nobel Prize winner, Svetlana Alexievich.

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Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Saki's elegantly mischievous young heroes sow chaos in their wake without breaking a sweat, occasionally assisted by werewolves, tigers, eavesdropping house pets and casually murderous children.

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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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Byatt, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, Anita Desai, Colm Tibn, Lorrie Moore and many others reflect upon all aspects of motherhood in stories lyrical and satirical, realistic and fantastic, hilarious and heartbreaking.

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Classic adventure stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London mix with marvellously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith and J.

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"An anthology of short stories about physical and psychological illness, healing, and healers featuring an array of classic and contemporary writers, from Anton Chekhov to Lorrie Moore"--

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Offers a nuanced portrait of two deeply flawed but moving characters, Joan and Richard Maple and their entwined lives. This book traces the decline and fall of a marriage, they also illumine a history in many ways happy, of growing children and a million mundane moments shared.

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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.