Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories, Paperback - David Lodge

The first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and critics A nameless man, who has fallen out of love with life, refu...

Reducere. In the eight stories comprising THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT BOW the cast of characters includes a journalist in a Middle Eastern war zone, an unemployed ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

"Feels like a major collection" - The Washington PostA short fiction collection to stand with Ted Chiang's Exhalation and Kelly Link's Magic for Be...

A collection of stories about love from the author of Every Day - newly published in the UK for the first time. They explore the many aspects of an...

Reducere. Now a Major Motion PictureA dazzling debut--and a publishing phenomenon--the tender, savagely funny collection from a young immigrant who has taken...

The characters in David Constantine's fourth collection are delicately caught in moments of defiance. These bewitching, finely-wrought stories give...

Reducere. Phantom limbs, porous realities, and strange reflections shifting in black glass. The thirteen stories included in David Peak's decade-spanning col...

Hilda is a small, speckled hen. And when Hilda makes up her mind, nothing can stop her. Hilda's auntie has just had a family of chicks, and she's d...

From Mrs Hauksbee's Simla drawing-room to Mulvaney's cot in barracks, to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling re-creates the India he knew in stor...

The tension is very high in Fairydell wood, as each fairy has to claim the prettiest flower to wear to the ball where the Prince has to take a bride.

Some of the Sneetches have bellies with stars, but the plain-bellied ones have none upon thars! But an unexpected visitor soon leads them to discov...

A whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story, and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they unfold f...

Reducere. A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcend...

Reducere. Hilda is a small, speckled hen. And when Hilda makes up her mind, nothing can stop her. Hilda's auntie has just had a family of chicks, and she's d...

A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS. A MAN OF PASSION. A MAN OF THE FUTURE. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert G...

The first collection of short stories from the author of }Accidents In The Home{ and }Everything Will Be All Right{, examining the extraordinary an...

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In this hilarious book, featuring three timeless fables, Dr. Seuss explores the pitfalls of growing too big for your boots!

First published in 1888, The Happy Prince and Other Stories brings together beloved children's stories by Oscar Wilde, including The Happy Prince, ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Francois KiefferFollow the action-filled stories of the young Italian orphan friend of St. Francis of Assisi in the da...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark HelprinWinner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these ten stories and the title novella, "Ellis ...

Thirteen of Roald Dahl's most unexpected tales to appeal to older readers. Ages: 12+

Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold anthology--written by the best children's authors--...

'There's not a recipe here I don't want to eat immediately.' - Nigella LawsonRoast Chicken and Other Stories provides an insight into Simon Hopkins...

Reducere. The nineteen stories contained herein, all beautifully translated for the first time into English by Sue Boswell, combine work published by Marcel ...

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Reducere. Irrevocably tied to the Carolinas, these stories tell tales of the woebegone, their obsessions with decay, and the haunting ache of the region itse...

DescriptionArranged in the order of their original publication and written during Kipling's time as a journalist in India, these seventeen short st...

Everyone's favourite family cat is back in this fabulous collection of 3 Mog stories: Mog & Bunny, Mog & The V.E.T, and Mog & The Granny.

Reducere. Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in...