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A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace: these four tales of desire and dislocation explore ...

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A young writer leaves the city to complete her manuscript in a small coastal town, but finds herself writing about the lives of its inhabitants instead – their ...

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'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken.'Condemned to sleeplessness by ...

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'I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys'Allen Ginsberg's poetry fomented ...

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'What does love fear? Limitation.'Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contr ...

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‘Maigret moved slowly, edging his bulky frame through the throng in Rue Saint-Antoine, which burst into life every morning, the sunshine streaming down from a c ...

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Closely Watched Trains tells the story of Miloš Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Miloš is overwhelmed with worries – a ...

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories – ‘The ...

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksPriests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Ba ...

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Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in ...

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Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress’ rival and successor is also present. He falls for he ...

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How light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . .Marian Forrester enchants everyone around her: her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; the small ...

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In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution ...

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On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain’s wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderto ...

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Razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo’s essays established him as one of China’s most popular – and subversive – writers. From the political po ...

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Arrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far from over. Her best fri ...

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In October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris – a dreamlike journey towards getting lost. Also included in this volum ...

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Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakist ...

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Known as Ireland’s Chekhov, Frank O’Connor was a master of the modern short story, with an eye for capturing the spaces between our selves and our surroundings. ...

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘Under bare Ben Bulben’s headIn Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid. An ancestor was rector thereLong year ...

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This small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods.The hope is that in such a limited number of pages, the reader will come away with a ...

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‘As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories’Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen’s short stories offer inci ...

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It is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint the sight ...

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Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he spent all his money on dressing elegantly... Jewels in storytell ...

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