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This Norton Critical Edition includes thirty-five of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories with explanatory annotations.
With the exception of the first four stories, all...
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Северная Америка, 1898-1910 годы. Пять рассказов с совершенно неожиданными концовками о преступниках и преступлениях, сыщиках и их расследованиях, о любви и надеждах влюбл...
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Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist. He is best known for his novel Red Badge of Courage (1895). The novel introduced for most readers ...
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Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в тканевом переплете и суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. Издание состоит из 5 книг, которые упакованы ...
The Pupil is the emotional story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishonorable family. He befriends his tutor, who is the only adult in his life th...
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд, возвестивший миру о начале нового века — «века джаза», стоит особняком в современной американской классике. Хемингуэй писал о нем: «Его талант б...
When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for w...
Includes the title story plus: The Birds ~ The Little Photographer ~ Monte Verita ~ The Apple Tree ~ The Old Man ~ The Split Second ~ No Motive.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories - all of them had been published earlier, independently. Divided into three separate parts, according ...
Очарование и иллюзии "эпохи джаза" - вечного праздника молодости и богатства - в трех блистательных романах Ф. Скотта Фицджеральда.
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In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's m...
"A Dog's Tale" is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's Magazine. In January of the following year it was extracted...
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote numerous short stories alongside his novels, the best known of which is of course The Great Gatsby. Flappers and Philosophers includes some of Fi...
This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer.
Here Henry gives a richly co...