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In honor of the centenary of the birth of Borges, this collection of his fiction has been gathered into a single volume. "An unparalleled treasury of marvels."--"Chicago Tribune."

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Politics, religion, culture, travel, science and technology, family life: nothing escaped the eye and pen of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, nineteenth-century America's most famous writer and a legend in his own lifetime. In this book, he tells his story.

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Twain's playful exuberance and remarkable storytelling gifts are on full display as he regales readers with his real-life adventures, some of them so outrageous they cannot be true - or can they He brought to literature a new, distinctly American voice. This book tells his story.

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"This is a collection of stories about possible future communications platforms -- how those technologies might affect social and political structures, and how they play out differently in various geographies and social strata"--

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This volume contains three tales, CONAN THE DESTROYER, CONAN THE MAGNIFICENT and CONAN THE TRIUMPHANT. This edition also contains CONAN THE INDESTRUCTIBLE: a history of Conan and his times, by L. Sprague de Camp.

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From ballet and Balanchine to tap and hip-hop, two centuries of rich and eloquent writing about the beauty and magic of American dance.

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Subtly linked by the background narrative of a murderer's arrest in Vancouver, the stories in this collection inhabit a dark, urban landscape as they journey into the realm of desperate relationships, of power and impulse, emotional wagers and negotiations.

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A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of todays best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.

In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning.

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Perfectly timed for the approach of the new millennium, this book offers a smart, quirky collection of the myths, misinformation, and unknown truths about the 20th century.

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Though primarily known as a novelist, over thirty years the author has also built up a reputation as one of our most entertaining and insightful critics of contemporary culture. This title brings together his writings on a variety of contemporary subjects: the differing cultures of Japan and Singapore; music and the movies; and many others.

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Depicting the tender inner lives of the characters, two new novellas and 11 stories are offered from the master of violent American satire.

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A wonderful selection of writing on dogs, from Plato to Virginia Woolf, and from ancient Egypt to twentieth-century New York

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"An exquisite and powerful harvest, this truly a Book of Common Prayer for our planet's people in this time."

JOANNA MACY, author of 'Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age'

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Bringing Fitzgerald instant fame, the stories and novellas collected here are the early works of America's greatest chronicler of the pleasures and discontents of the Jazz Age.

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Indigenous Tales of Nature from Around the World

An array of vivid responses to nature from indigenous oral traditions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas.

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'Perfectly crafted, intricate and haunting stories' from the bestselling author of THE READER.

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This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.

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Featuring new work from Rebecca Makkai, Aleksandar Hemon, Louise Erdrich, Mieko Kawakami and more, the tenth and final instalment of the boundary-pushing literary journal Freeman's explores all the ways of coming to an end.

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Brilliantly observed, funny, bittersweet, Joyce Grenfell's witty sketches and songs never fail to entertain. This edition contains all the material in the original volumes of George, Don't Do That and Stately as a Galleon, including the bloodthirsty 'Ethel' and the unforgettable nursery school monologues.