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Gold StreetGold Street |
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Scnes de La Vie PriveBalzac's first collection of short stories exploring women's role in society in various conjugal situations -- the daughter marrying against the father's wishes; the young woman marrying for love only to find she is no match for her husband's philandering; the unfaithful wife who brings her family to the brink of ruin; the religious zealot who so poisons her husband's existence so that he decides to lead a double life; the young woman who wishes at all costs to marry an aristocrat and who rejects the man she loves because she does not deem him of noble birth; the lovely, intelligent wife who uses her wiles to bring her straying husband back into the fold. This edition reproduces the text of the 1830 first edition. It comes with a cd-rom containing the scholarly apparatus prepared by Andrew Oliver, a renowned Balzac scholar. |
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ReginaldPeople may say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die. -- Saki Saki was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, a witty, often macabre author who wrote an appreciative novel of the German conquest of England an then (in his forties, mind you!) signed up to die on the Belgian front during World War I. He's considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His stories are generally short, and often memorable. If you haven't read him before, you're in for a treat. |
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El Rey de la MilongaEl Rey de la Milonga |
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La Maquina de FollarLa Maquina de Follar |
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The Greater InclinationEdith Wharton was born and bred to be a society wife, but in that she was a dismal failure: her marriage was pure misery, and in time the Whartons parted. As a writer, though, she was an incredible success -- she had real insight into the people around her, and she could tell of them beautifully. She published her first story in 1889, and numerous books in the years that followed. Included in this collection of Edith Wharton's stories are The Muse's Tragedy, A Journey, The Pelican, Souls Belated, A Coward, The Twilight of the God, A Cup of Cold Water, and The Portrait. |
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The Complete Short StoriesThe first complete collection of short fiction -- 36 stories in all, most of them otherwise unavailable -- by the century's greatest English comic novelist. A marvelous array of stories, among them such small masterpieces as Mr. Loveday's Little Outing and Scott-King's Modern Europe , displaying Waugh's characteristically brilliant savage wit and reproducing in miniature his unmistakable fictional world, with its unique blend of mischief and gravity. |
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Cuentos HumoristicosCuentos Humoristicos |
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Balcony StoriesBalcony Stories |
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Beasts and Super-BeastsBeasts and Super-Beasts |
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