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With the exception of the first four stories, all...
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When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ well-appointed house in Paris, she is prepared to spend her day between trains looked after by an old friend of her ...
He gave the hunting crop a twitch 'My daughter has been here'. 'She did look in' 'Ha!' I knew what that 'Ha!’ meant. It was short for 'I shall now trash you within an inch...
Jeeves may not always see eye to eye with Bertie on ties and fancy waistcoats, but he can always be relied on to whisk his young master spotlessly out of the soup (even if...
A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse floweri...
Genteel life at 'the 'Big House' continues while the Irish War of Independence rages beyond the gates, but for how long?
The Irish troubles rage, but up at the 'Big Hou...
A Golf collection
From his favourite chair on the terrace above the ninth hole, The Oldest Member tells a series of hilarious golfing stories. From Evangeline, Bradbury...
'It beats me why a man of his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and what not,' says Bertie. 'If I had Jeeves's brain, I should have a stab at being Pr...
This collection comprises of Joyce's three novels, plus the short story collection Dubliners.
Dubliners, about Joyce’s native city, is faithful to his country, seeing i...
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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...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), a lea...
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A P.G. Wodehouse novel
Château Blissac, on its hill above St Roque, is in a setting where every prospect pleases. But it doesn't please its current occupier, J. Welling...
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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...