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HarperCollins Publishers The Complete Short Stories The 1960s Part 3 The Brian Aldiss Collection
Book SynopsisFollowing on from the 1950s collection, this is the second collection of Brian Aldiss’ short stories, taken from the 1960s. A must-have for collectors. Part three of four.Trade Review‘Aldiss is a magician’ Sunday Times‘The titan of science fiction.’ Telegraph ‘Brian Aldiss is one of the most influential – and one of the best – SF writers Britain has ever produced.’ Iain M Banks ‘The best contemporary writer of science fiction.’ Guardian ‘One of the truly prophetic figures of the space age… the colossus of science fiction’New Yorker ‘Once again he demonstrates the power of his imagination.’ Daily Mail
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HarperCollins Publishers Will You Read This Please Lifechanging stories
Book SynopsisMoving and vital' i NEWSA beautiful book' EVENING STANDARDDeserves to be read by as wide an audience as possible' DAILY MIRRORHow do we give a voice to those who so often remain unheard? Will You Read This, Please? is a frank and impactful collection of twelve stories written in conjunction with our best British writers, including Tracy Chevalier and Clare Mackintosh, based on the lived experience of people who have faced mental illness in the UK.Edited by Sunday Times bestselling author Joanna Cannon, the stories told here are powerful, resonant and heart-breaking. This is a ground-breaking and unforgettable collection, shining a light on the stigma and isolation of living with mental illness, while also showing the strength and resilience of the human spirit.Trade Review‘Moving and vital’ i NEWS ‘A beautiful book’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Cannon’s varied selection vividly portrays how our minds can become locked-in worlds of anguish, terror and distress […] We learn how hard, and how long, the road to recovery can be’ TLS ‘Cannon’s book is a labour of love and deserves to be read by as wide an audience as possible’ DAILY MIRROR ‘Powerful and important. I recommend it to everyone’ ALICE HOPKINS, BBC RADIO OXFORD ‘I’ve been recommending it to everyone’ RAY D’ARCY ‘Amazing and powerful… I hope this book will inspire more people with lived experience of mental distress to write their own stories; and inspire professionals to listen better’ DR GWEN ADSHEAD READER REVIEWS ARE IN ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Enlightening and heartbreaking’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Powerful and insightful’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘A bold idea, sensitively executed… [this is] an important book that I hope can play a part in shifting assumptions and, hopefully, encouraging empathy’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Heartbreaking, horrific and eye-opening… Please read this book, it may help you to understand a little about one other person you know’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘I am in awe of the open and honest accounts given by the people in this book… Thank you’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Heart-breaking and hopeful, written with such kindness and beauty. A must read for anyone wanting to better understand mental illness’
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Burning Chrome
Book Synopsis“A breath of fresh air . . . the vision is deeply imagined, very complete and controlled . . . Gibson is truly brilliant.”—Washington Times magazine From a true master of science fiction comes a collection of short stories that show how, no matter the length, Gibson is one of the greatest writers working today.Known for his seminal science fiction novel Neuromancer, and for the acclaimed books Pattern Recognition, The Peripheral, and Agency, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 short stories, including some written with Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, and Michael Swanwick, and with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson’s characters and intensely realized worlds at their absolute be
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Bradbury Stories
Book SynopsisThis retrospective collection of 100 of Bradbury’s greatest stories spans six decades of his astonishing career and secures his place as a master of the American short story.For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America''s preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from a lifetime of words and ideas. The stories within these pages were chosen by Bradbury himself, and
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HarperCollins Publishers Million Dollar Baby
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HarperCollins Confessions of a Falling Woman
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HarperCollins All Aunt Hagars Children
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Collected Stories
Book Synopsis“García Márquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform.” — Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book ReviewCollected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez''s most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog, Big Mama''s Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez''s prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Republic of East L.A.
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HarperCollins Passion and Affect
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Complete Stories
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HarperCollins The Red Convertible
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Murder in the Mews
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Parker Pyne Investigates
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Unrestricted Access
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Nobody does this stuff better.” — Lee Child “Bestseller Rollins’s excellent 15th Sigma Force novel... marries nail-biting action with a highly imaginative premise...This is a thoughtful, nonstop thrill ride that’s an exemplar of an escapist page-turner.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Last Odyssey “Rollins balances action-adventure, history, mythology and science in a truly imaginative story. All of the elements harmonize in this page-turner, which takes his team of adventurers into the very gates of Hell. This is one of Rollins’s best novels, and a perfect book to get immersed in during these turbulent times.” — Seattle Times on The Last Odyssey “Rollins spins an entertaining thriller.” — Kirkus Reviews on The Last Odyssey “Science fiction and archaeology have had a long relationship. The link is a conviction that there is a hidden truth in the relics of dead civilizations…and that this can be uncovered by what we now know about science… The dominant figure in this area of fiction right now is James Rollins.” — Wall Street Journal
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Catastrophe
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HarperCollins Last Breath
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Im Waiting for You
Book Synopsis?Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art itself. Reminiscent of the world we experienced in Matrix, Inception, and Dark City, still it leads us to this entirely original structure, which is a ground-breaking, mystic literary and cinematic experience. Indeed, powerful and graceful.??Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director of ParasiteIn this mind-expanding work of speculative fiction, available in English for the first time, one of South Korea?s most treasured writers explores the driving forces of humanity?love, hope, creation, destruction, and the very meaning of existence?in two pairs of thematically interconnected stories.Two worlds, four stories, infinite possibilitiesIn ?I?m Waiting for You? and ?On My Way,? an engaged couple coordinate their separate missions to distant corners of the galaxy to ensure?through relativity?they can arrive back on Earth simultaneously to make it down the aisle. But small incidents wreak havoc on space and time, driving their wedding date further away. As centuries on Earth pass and the land and climate change, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. In two separate yet linked stories, Kim Bo-Young cleverly demonstrate the idea love that is timeless and hope springs eternal, despite seemingly insurmountable challenges and the deepest despair.In ?The Prophet of Corruption? and ?That One Life,? humanity is viewed through the eyes of its creators: godlike beings for which everything on Earth?from the richest woman to a speck of dirt?is an extension of their will. When one of the creations questions the righteousness of this arrangement, it is deemed a perversion?a disease?that must be excised and cured. Yet the Prophet Naban, whose ?child? is rebelling, isn?t sure the rebellion is bad. What if that which is considered criminal is instead the natural order?and those who condemn it corrupt? Exploring the dichotomy between the philosophical and the corporeal, Kim ponders the fate of free-will, as she considers the most basic of questions: who am I?
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Unrestricted Access
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Midwinter Murder
Book SynopsisINSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER!Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.? ?Tana French, New York Timesbestselling author of the Dublin Murder Squad novelsAn all-new collection of winter-themed stories from the Queen of Mystery, just in time for the holidays?including the original version of ?Christmas Adventure,? never before released in the United States!There?s a chill in the air and the days are growing shorter . . . It?s the perfect time to curl up in front of a crackling fire with these wintry whodunits from the legendary Agatha Christie. But beware of deadly snowdrifts and dangerous gifts, poisoned meals and mysterious guests. This chilling compendium of short stories?some featuring beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple?is an essential omnibus for Christie fans and the perfect holiday gift for mystery lovers.?Agatha Christie [is] the maestro of murder tales.? ?People
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HarperCollins The Beast You Are
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Smoke and Mirrors
Book SynopsisFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, an outstanding array of short fiction that surveys the terrain between the illusory and the ordinary and reveals the terrors and wonders reflected in the funhouse mirrors of our dreams―one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene Yee“He is a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him.” —Stephen King Spanning the realms of dark imagination, Smoke and Mirrors surveys the terrain between the illusory and the ordinary, treating readers to a gift of wonder and delight from one of the most unique literary artists of our time.The miraculous inventions contained herein - stories, novellas, and poems - reveal Gaiman to be a writer of immense talent and sophisticated invention. In his deft hands, magic is no mere illusion, but a powerful means of illumination, revelation, and reflection on what it means to be human. Poignant and haunting, humorous and unorthodox, Smoke and Mirrors is an outstanding array of short fiction from one of the world’s most distinguished literary masters.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Deadly Affair
Book Synopsis?[We] can?t get enough of Christie?s plush and murderous thrills.? ?Entertainment WeeklyFrom the Queen of Mystery?this all-new collection of stories about love gone horribly wrong will get your heart racing.Love can propel us to our greatest heights . . . and darkest depths. In this new compendium of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love?crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly deceits. This pulse-pounding compendium features beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, master of charades Parker Pyne, the enigmatic Harley Quin, and the adventurous Tommy and Tuppence, all at the ready to solve tantalizing mysteries.In ?The Face of Helen,? a night at the Royal Opera could reach a fatal crescendo for a woman caught in a dicey love triangle; ?Finessing the King? delivers a curious ad in the personals that could mask sinister intentions; who?s in danger of getting stung in ?Wasps? Nest? depends on rounding up suspects and solving a murder?before it even happens. These are just a few of the tales in this collection featuring essential reading that Christie fans old and new will simply love to death.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Miss Marple The Complete Short Stories
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Galatea
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc For Your Eyes Only
Book SynopsisA STUNNING COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT SENDS BOND TO BERMUDA, THE BAHAMAS, AND BEYOND “From a View to a Kill” whisks Bond to the French countryside where he must go undercover to expose a deadly secret-intelligence plot, and in “For Your Eyes Only,” 007 is absorbed into a private vendetta of M’s, blurring the lines between the personal and professional. In “Quantum of Solace,” Bond attends a dinner party in the Bahamas and learns how passion can soon twist into cruelty, while “Risico” forces the secret agent to fight for the lesser of two evils in a smuggling war set amid the Mediterranean. Finally, “The Hildebrand Rarity” lands 007 in an old-fashioned murder mystery at sea, where even he has a secret to keep. A collection of both classic intrigue and intrepid self-examination, For Your Eyes Only packs full, vibrant worlds into five classic tales.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Midsummer Mysteries
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Stroke of the Pen
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HarperCollins Guatemalan Rhapsody
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HarperCollins Guatemalan Rhapsody
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HarperCollins Partners in Crime
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HarperCollins Extinction Capital of the World
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The October Country
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Penguin Publishing Group The Portable Jack London Viking Portable Library
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Penguin Publishing Group The Atlas
Book SynopsisWinner of the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction – a collection of fifty-three interconnected stories by the National Book Award-winning author of Europe CentralHailed by Newsday as the most unconventional--and possibly the most exciting and imaginative--novelist at work today, William T. Vollmann has also established himself as an intrepid journalist willing to go to the hottest spots on the planet. Here he draws on these formidable talents to create a web of fifty-three interconnected tales, what he calls a piecemeal atlas of the world I think in.Set in locales from Phnom Penh to Sarajevo, Mogadishu to New York, and provocatively combining autobiography with invention, fantasy with reportage, these stories examine poverty, violence, and loss even as they celebrate the beauty of landscape, the thrill of the alien, the infinitely precious pain of love. The Atlas brings to life a fascinating array of human beings: an old Inuit walrus-hunter, urba
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Penguin Publishing Group Selected Tales and Sketches Classics S
Book SynopsisThe short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.
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Penguin Books Ltd Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
Book SynopsisQuesting after Pancho Villa''s revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again. He left behind him theDevil''s Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction.This new collection gathers some of Bierce''s finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War fictions ''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'' and ''Chickamauga'', his macabre masterpieces, and his tales of supernatural horror. Reminiscent of Poe, these stories are marked by a sardonic humour and a realistic study of tense emotional states.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contempTable of ContentsIntroductionSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextFrom In the Midst of LifeSoldiers:A Horseman in the SkyAn Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeChickamaugaA Son of the GodsOne of the MissingKilled at ResacaThe Affair at Coulter's NotchThe Coup de GrâceParker Adderson, PhilosopherAn Affair of OutpostsThe Story of a ConscienceOne Kind of OfficerThe Mocking-BirdCivilians:The Man Out of the NoseThe Man and the SnakeThe Boarded WindowFrom Can Such Things Be?Can Such Things Be?:Moxon's MasterA Tough TussleA Resumed IdentityThe Night-Doings at "Deadman's"The Realm of the UnrealThe Damned ThingHaïta the ShepherdThe Ways of Ghosts:Present at a HangingA Wireless MessageSoldier Folk:Three and One Are OneFrom Negligible TalesNegligible Tales:A Bottomless GraveJupiter Doke, Brigadier-GeneralThe City of the Gone AwayThe Major's TaleCurried CowA Revolt of the GodsThe Parenticide Club:My Favorite MurderOil of DogFrom AntepenultimataA Bivouac of the DeadFrom The OpinionatorThe Controversialist:The Short StoryExplanatory NotesGlossary of Military TermsBattle Sites and Battle Leaders
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Penguin Publishing Group The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Book SynopsisA definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horrorI think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale. -Stephen KingFrequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as The Outsider to the overpowering cosmic terror of The Call of Cthulhu. More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical- and visionary-American writer.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leadiTable of ContentsThe Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird StoriesIntroductionSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextDagonThe Statement of Randolph CarterFacts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His FamilyCelephaisNyarlathotepThe Picture in the HouseThe OutsiderHerbert West - ReanimatorThe HoundThe Rats in the WallsThe FestivalHeCool AirThe Call of CthulhuThe Colour Out of SpaceThe Whisperer in DarknessThe Shadow Over InnsmouthThe Haunter of the DarkExplanatory Notes
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Aleph and Other Stories
Book SynopsisFull of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Sadness of Beautiful Things
Book SynopsisAn exquisite new collection of short stories from award winning author Simon Van Booy, exploring love, loss, human connection, and the chance encounters that shape our lives.
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Cengage Learning, Inc Little Birds
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Oxford Paperbacks Major American Short Stories
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Oxford University Press Inc The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law
Book SynopsisNorval Morris is widely known as one of the foremost experts in the field of criminal law. This work represents the culmination of his thinking about the major criminal law debates of our time - capital punishment, adoption conflicts, the insanity defence, battered wife syndrome and child abuse among others. Morris illustrates these complex and controversial issues through a number of vivid stories set in the colonial Burma of the 1920s. Morris borrows Orwell''s persona, Eric Blair, a young district officer placed in the position of being both policemen and judge, to probe questions that animate contemporary legal debate. Morris''s use of fiction as a vehicle for legal argument contributes to an exciting trend in legal studies which includes the work of Derrick Bell (AND WE ARE NOT SAVED) and Patricia Williams. Most of the stories have been published in legal journals and have been enthusiastically received by legal scholars. A film featuring Raoul Julia in the role of Eric Blair is being produced by Blaze productions, to be distributed by Warner Brothers. A television series of the eight stories is under consideration.Trade ReviewExcellent tales which illustrate key legal concepts and dilemmas within cultural contexts - fascinating introduction. * Sarah Winwin, University of Nottingham *`this is an original book, and a delightful one ... These parables ... provide a seductive mode of discussing contemporary moral problems. Each one stands ... in its own right, as a fascinating story varying in length from twenty to fifty pages. Anyone interested in the law, or ethics, or George Orwell, and anyone who enjoys reading short stories, would appreciate this book ... the format is ideal for use in university law or philosophy seminars or for more general discussion groups' LCCJ Newsletter
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Oxford University Press Hardboiled
Book SynopsisWhat are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? `Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex,'' said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blonde, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. - the likes of Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe. These elements, typifying the gritty strain of American crime fiction termed `hard boiled'', have profoundly influenced the public''s imagination, both through the literary mainstream and through the many films based on hard-boiled fiction (The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice etc.). Hard-boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, with over half of the stories never published before in book form. Included are thirty-six sublimely suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form, from its beginnings in the 1920s to the present day. It contains stories by Dashiel Hammett, Raymond Chandler, anTrade Reviewan anthology of consistently high quality, full of forgotten gems alongside the famous names, and a potent reminder that it's a noir, noir world. * John Williams, The Mail on Sunday *One of the best anthologies ever to trace the hard-nosed, amoral school of American short crime fiction. * Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph *
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Oxford University Press Leopoldo Lugones
Book SynopsisArgentina''s best-known writer during his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones''s work spans many literary styles and ideological positions. He was influential as a modernist poet, as a precursor of the avant-garde, and also as the poet of Argentine nature. His short stories (Las Fuerzas Extranas: 1906) were early examples of the fantastic in Latin American fiction and influenced Borges, Quiroga, and others They reflect an interest in the uncanny and inspired contemporary interest in animism and occultism because the protagonists of many the stories were scientists and doctors experimenting in the transmutation of thought. His prose works include La Guerra Gaucha (1905) and the essay El Payador (1916) in which he idealized the gaucho as a heroic figure, popular poet, and a symbol of Argentine identity. Lugones altered his political views many times, adopting radical anarchism, and later in life, fascism. He was therefore a controversial figure, both accalimed and scorned by his contemporaries. HTrade Review"This translation will surely be useful for those students of literature and history searching to understand the complex and paradoxical history of ideas in Latin America." --Translation Review
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Tellwell Talent Pterosaur
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Tellwell Talent Tea Time Tales for Pale Old Ladies
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