Lafcadio Hearn
'The body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beat: yet there were no other signs of death.'The phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore are in this b ...
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Kate Chopin
There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to nameNuns, maidens, adve ...
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Federico Garcia Lorca
Now you slip away in sleep. Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore. Spain’s most beloved poet, Federico García Lorca brilliantly captures the beauty and ...
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H. P. Lovecraft
‘Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before’After five years of 'strange amnesia', Nathaniel Wingate ...
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Mary Shelley
'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider’s claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before him'His inheritance squandered an ...
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Margaret Cavendish
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security’In 1 ...
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Gertrude Stein
“All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revol ...
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Arthur Schnitzler
Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for m ...
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Charles Dickens
Trotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes are irredeemable. But, on New ...
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Katherine Mansfield
She drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bearKatherine Mansfield was a magician of the short story, who ...
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Oscar Wilde
“All art,” Oscar Wilde once announced, “is quite useless.” Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject of art – useless, illuminating, artif ...
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H. G. Wells
The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. ...
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the read ...
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every childRediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a ...
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Aesop
Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every childRediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a ...
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Andrew Brodsky
‘Brimming with surprising insights and useful tips. The resource we need for avoiding misunderstandings and making genuine connections’ Adam Grant, bestselling ...
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Mikhail Bulgakov
What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov’s topsy-turvy world, the do ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . .. In this glittering new selection of Fitzgerald’s short stories, we meet Anson Hunte ...
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Dylan Thomas
Luminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas’ works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor Stravinsky, and ...
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Kim Bussing
Fairy tales meet Freaky Friday in this enchanting new series, where there's a magical mix-up for every princess!As a baby, Rose was cursed to meet a mysterious ...
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Fairy tales meet Freaky Friday in this enchanting new series, where there’s a magical mix-up for every princess!Twelve-year-old Ella dreams of adventure, but sh ...
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Jeff Kinney
International bestselling author Jeff Kinney serves up heaps of laughs in Partypooper, the 20th book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. You’re Invited – RSVP f ...
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Bea Fitzgerald
The eagerly anticipated new YA Greek myth re-imagining from Bea Fitzgerald, TikTok superstar and Sunday Times bestselling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen.Pandor ...
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Oh Jung-hee
A selection of the best short stories by Oh Jung-hee, one of South Korea’s most influential writersIn this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung-hee prob ...
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