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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
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Include books by the same authorDubliners
James Joyce · 226 pages
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation
The Fictions Of Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz · 304 pages
Seiobo There Below
Laszlo Krasznahorkai · 457 pages
The Bear, Old Man, and Spotted Horses: Three Famous Short Novels
William Faulkner
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
Joseph Conrad · 261 pages
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
A.S. Byatt · 277 pages
A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes. She asks for a younger body, then requests he make love to her.
Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Gabriel García Márquez · 146 pages
The Progress of Love
Alice Munro · 309 pages
A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents' confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his younger brother. In these and other stories Alice Munro
Flights
Olga Tokarczuk · 416 pages
A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 273 pages
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combined hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.
Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra
Ruskin Bond · 164 pages
You Can't Go Home Again
Thomas Wolfe · 638 pages
A twentieth-century classic, Thomas Wolfes magnificent novel is both the story of a young writer longing to make his mark upon the world and a sweeping portrait of America and Europe from the Great Depression through the years leading up to World War II. Upon the publication of You Cant Go Home Again in 1940, two years after Wolfes death,The New York Times Book Review declared that it “will stand
Wolf Solent
John Cowper Powys · 633 pages
Wolf Solent moves to Dorsetshire and discovers "a world of pagan splendor and medieval insularity."publisher description.
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter
Complete Stories
Clarice Lispector · 672 pages
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 239 pages
Seven Japanese Tales
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki · 298 pages
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Zachary Mason · 234 pages
Zachary Mason’s brilliant and beguiling debut novel, *The Lost Books of the Odyssey*, reimagines Homer’s classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer’s original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to e
Three Tales
Gustave Flaubert · 128 pages