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The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekhov
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics
Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky."The Steppe" th ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary 'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth ...Show more
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good
A first-person narrative that depicts a good man's transformation into an avenging angel. A Pulitzer Prize winner. In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Ch teau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of ...Show more
The Cranford Chronicles by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Based on three Elizabeth Gaskell novels, "The Cranford Chronicles" follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire market town, during one extraordinary year. In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards t ...Show more
The Death of the Heart by BOWEN ELIZABETH
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around her and looking for something that is not there. Evide ...Show more
The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
Krishna, an English teacher in the town of Malgudi, nagged by the feeling he's doing the wrong work, is nonetheless delighted by his domestic life, where his wife and young daughter wait for him outside the house every afternoon. Devastated by the death of his wife, Krishna comes to realise what he real ...Show more
The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In the topsy-turvy years between the dawn of the twentieth century and the dark days of 1939, the Moskat family have battled on. But like many Jewish families in Poland they can no longer turn a blind eye to the dwindling of their fortunes. In Warsaw, where saints mingle with swindlers, tough Zionists a ...Show more
The Flight from the Enchanter by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Annette runs away from finishing school to enter the school of life. As a result she meets a diverse group of characters, all of whom are trying to break free from their own particular obsessions.
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Like all good medieval coaching inns, the Green Man in Fareham, Hertfordshire, boasts a resident, if retired, ghost- Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy, rumoured to have killed his wife. The landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness ...Show more
The Green Road by Anne Enright
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Category: Fiction | Series: Irish Classics Ser. (Vintage Enright) | Reading Level: very good
Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her own children - forces them to confro ...Show more
The Haunted House and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Rich in fictional delights, this complete collection of Woolf's shorter fiction ranges from 1906 until the month before she committed suicide in 1941. It offers a valuable insight into the writer's development, demonstrating her evolving characterizations, narrative methods and themes.