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Included also is Caragiale’s short story At Manjoala’s Inn. Both stories are rather dark. Although he is best known as a playwright, he wrote hundreds of short stories, and is …
Paperback, 128pp Faber, 2009 Translated by Jamie McKendrick Valerio Magrelli was born in Rome in 1957. Among many other awards for his poems, he has won the Mondello Prize (1980), …
This novel’s story and its setting were inspired by a holiday Elizabeth von Arnim had taken on the Italian Riviera. Four women in 1920s England, each dissatisfied with their social …
Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke was a medical doctor who, after training at the bar, became in effect the first forensic scientist; Freeman described him as a “medical jurispractitioner.” He was strictly …
This book was Charlotte Mew’s first publication. It was issued in chapbook format by the Poetry Bookshop; it was issued in the United States in book form in 1921. RETRO …
From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer observes the real-life story of a clash between two of the world’s greatest boxers, both in and out of the …
Neil Collins is going AWOL from his National Service – for the third time. Twice he has served time for previous desertions and been sent back, despite being hopelessly unsuited …
O. Henry’s short story technique is the gold standard of the pithy, often unbelievable tale with a humorous twist, America’s answer to Maupassant. He turned to writing late in life, …
The Gallows-Humored Melody has two connected themes of music and mortality; in other words it charts a crotchet decay. The posh blurb says it “explores relationships between creation and destruction.” It is …
Jack London was a great boxing fan, and loved to box himself. He wrote two novellas and several short stories about the sport. The first novella was The Game, published in …
The author started this novel when at school, but it was published in 1905 when the author was thirty years-old. It was the second of sixteen published novels by Reid, …
Katherine Mansfield, alongside James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence, shaped literary modernism by experimenting with style, subject matter and theme, and by focusing on the inner lives of …
The Gift of a Daughter is a novel of delusion and self-knowledge, tradition and change, loss and identity in which the pace, plotting, characterisation and dialogue are as faultless as …
James Curtis belongs to a tradition of novelists, Patrick Hamilton among them, whose left-wing politics shapes not only their lives but also their fiction. Curtis used his plots to highlight …
Three unhappy characters, flee from their old lives to seek adventure on the open road. Fate brings them together and into the presence of a broken-down theatrical touring company. Throwing …
The Goodness of St. Rocque & Other Stories was published in 1899, the year after her marriage to the poet Paul Dunbar. She was born in New Orleans in 1875 …
This is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, published in 1925. The main character, the young and mysterious Jay Gatsby, ex- of Trinity College, Oxford, is infatuated by the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. …
The Great God Pan, although it sold well, was considered at the time of its publication to be a degenerate work (it published in its entirety in book form in …
Post free to UK addresses only Hardback | 208pp HarperCollins, 2023 | 9780008414221 From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships …