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  • Collected Short Stories
    Coward / Noal Coward / Noel Coward
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    36,14 €

  • Love, Guilt and Reparation
    Melanie Klein
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    25,70 €

  • Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Ron Carlson
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    14,79 €

  • This Here’s a Good’un
    Bill Brett
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    14,26 €

  • My Aunt Christina
    J.I.M. Stewart / J.I.MStewart
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    16,65 €

  • The Possession of Immanuel Wolf
    Marvin Kaye
    Kaye’s first collection of short fiction presents a selection of his finest fantasy and horror works, including the title story about an elderly Jew possessed by the spirit of Hitler. 3 ...
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    16,58 €

  • Stories of the Qur’an
    Ibn Kathir / Imam Ibn Kathir / Shaykh Ibn Kathir
    If Amazon does not have this book in stock, you can buy at bn.com . The book Stories of the Quran is based on the key stories of the Quran as recorded by Ismail ibn al-Kathir in his widely respected and popular commentary generally known as the Tafsir Ibn Kathir. Written in clear, simple language, this compilation from Ibn Kathir’s authentic narration contains 19 of these capti...
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    22,43 €

  • The Race and Other Stories by Sinclair Ross
    Sinclair Ross
    Heralded as a prairie writer and best known for As For Me and My House and for his stories of the bleak dust bowl Prairies of the Great Depression, Sinclair Ross has also written of urban life and, briefly, of army life, as the stories in this collection demonstrate.The Race and Other Stories includes previously uncollected short stories and a chapter from Whir of Gold, here ti...
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    19,85 €

  • Selected Stories of Isabella Valancy Crawford
    Isabella Valancy Crawford / University of Ottawa Press
    Known primarily as a poet, Isabella Valancy Crawford’s short stories represent the best of early English-Canadian prose. In her stories, as in her poetry, her power lies in her use of imagery. In this collection her fictional portrayals of Canadian life give us glimpses into our literary past. 3 ...
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    14,99 €

  • The Wounded Cormorant
    Liam O’Flaherty
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    17,41 €

  • Poetries and Sciences, a Reissue of Science and Poetry (1926, 1935) with Commentary
    I. A. Richards / IARichards / Ivor A. Richards / Ivor ARichards
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    14,25 €

  • Chess Traps, Pitfalls and Swindles
    Fred Reinfeld / Israel A. Horowitz / Israel AHorowitz
    This is a rich storehouse of Chess ’crimes.’ Sometimes the villain is thwarted: more often he gets away with his nefarious deeds. But, in either event, the tales, and their telling, will prove to be instructive and vastly entertaining. ...
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    15,56 €

  • First Love and Other Tales
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev / David Magarshack
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    19,76 €

  • Droll Stories
    Honore de Balzac
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    15,16 €

  • Presumption
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'The inner sense of his own destiny which had never deserted him whispered that he was going to be a rich man. But at the end of that year an event took place which made him think that it didn’t matter after all.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Presumption (1926)Presumption (1926) by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in The Saturday Evening Post at the height of the author’s magazi...
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    9,13 €

  • The Rich Boy
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful...'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Boy (1926)The Rich Boy (1926) by F. Scott Fitzgerald was originally published in The Redbook Magazine and later in a collection of Fitzgerald’...
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    10,60 €

  • The Pusher-in-the-Face
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '...the kind of face that makes up crowds, gray in color with ears that shrank back against the head as if fearing the clamor of the city, and with the tired, tired eyes of one whose forebears have been underdogs for five thousand years.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Pusher-in-the-Face (1925)The Pusher-in-the-Face (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of many short stories the autho...
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    7,39 €

  • The Sensible Thing
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing (1924)The Sensible Thing (1924) by F. Scott Fitzgerald was originally published in the weekly magazine Liberty and is based on the early lives of Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda. Main character George does not have enough money to marry his sweetheart Jonquil, and t...
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    7,47 €

  • The Third Casket
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Reclining lazily in an armchair not two yards away sat a gold-and-ivory little beauty with dark eyes and a moving, childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Third Casket (1924)The Third Casket (1924) is one of the 68 stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in the Saturday Evening Post over a seventeen-year timespan. The unique plo...
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    7,44 €

  • The Unspeakable Egg
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '...the public was pleased to know that they were ugly monsters for all their money, and everyone was satisfied all around.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Unspeakable Egg (1924)The Unspeakable Egg (1924) is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that features ultra-rich main character Fifi, engaged to be married to a man who in her estimation is too perfect. The day before the wedding...
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    7,53 €

  • Two for a Cent
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'He had been bored with the President, he had been bored and not a little embarrassed with the duchesses-nevertheless, the two incidents had pleased him and still sat softly upon his naive vanity.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Two for a Cent (1922)Two for a Cent (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a short story that deviates from his romantic plotline and is the first of several he wrote ...
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    7,44 €

  • Winter Dreams
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams (1922)Winter Dreams (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the author’s early short stories which served as a first draft of sorts for The Great Gatsby (1925) also available from Cosimo Cl...
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    10,26 €

  • The Story of the Other Wise Man
    Henry van Dyke
    Complete edition of The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry van Dyke and illustrated by J. R. Flanagan.  A powerful story of Christmas from a wise man who spent his life in search of the Christ Child, it was made into a movie called, 'The Fourth Wise Man.''You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they travelled from far away to offer their gifts at the ma...
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    7,29 €

  • The Story of the Other Wise Man
    Henry van Dyke
    Complete edition of The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry van Dyke and illustrated by J. R. Flanagan.  A powerful story of Christmas from a wise man who spent his life in search of the Christ Child, it was made into a movie called, 'The Fourth Wise Man.''You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they travelled from far away to offer their gifts at the ma...
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    18,13 €

  • The Couple
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Carrol’s arrogance, her coldness, her growing dislike for him, had been beyond endurance. He was short- tempered himself and many times in the last month their disputes had hovered on the verge of physical violence.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Couple (1920-1922)The Couple, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was written sometime between 1920 and 1922, then published posthumously as one of t...
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    7,56 €

  • The I.O.U.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Non-fiction is a form of literature that lies half-way between fiction and fact.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The I.O.U. (1920)The I.O.U. by F. Scott Fitzgerald was written early in his professional career, submitted to Harper’s Bazaar magazine in 1920, and rejected. The story, published posthumously, offers a satirical take on the publishing world and describes how publishers sensat...
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    7,44 €

  • The Curious Republic of Gondour
    Mark Twain
    'I found that the nation had at first tried universal suffrage pure and simple, but had thrown that form aside because the result was not satisfactory.'-The Curious Republic of Gondour (1870) The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches (1906) is a collection of short stories and sketches written by Mark Twain in 1870-1871 for The Galaxy and The Buffalo Expres...
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    10,50 €

  • Free Air
    Sinclair Lewis
    'She knew the exaltation of starting out in the fresh morning for places she had never seen, without the bond of having to return at night.'― Sinclair Lewis, Free AirFree Air (1919), by Sinclair Lewis, was one of the first novels to celebrate the adventure and freedom that road trips introduced to America at the start of the twentieth century, thanks to the invention of the au...
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    39,44 €

  • The Metamorphosis
    Franz Kafka
    Unabridged English value reproduction of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. This wonderfully weird classic of an average family with an unacceptable member is studied in universities across the globe. The Metamorphosis is multilayered and resonates in people in different ways, opening doors of thoughts that were often never even seen before.This beautifully tragic science fictio...
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    16,55 €

  • Dubliners
    James Joyce
    Unabridged value reproduction of Dubliners by James Joyce is the 1914 classic written during the heyday of Irish nationalism. Every vignette stands alone, yet every vignette is part of the same tapestry, producing both a personal and profound effect for the reader.Shocking for his time because of its realism, today Dubliners is a portal back to the gritty reality of the Irish e...
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    8,31 €