The Cossacks and Other Stories

Tolstoy's powerful semiautobiographical stories based on his time spent in the Russian army, part of our series of fresh new Tolstoy translations I...

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Publisher: Prince ClassicsAuthor(s): Leo TolstoyNumber of pages: 358Collection: Prince ClassicsPublication date: 2019Dimensions: 146 x 222 x 30Cove...

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

Billy Budd & Other Stories - Herman Melville

An exceptional book covering 500 years of the history of the Cossacks - the recklessly brave, wild horsemen or the romantic hero of the steppe or t...

*Includes pictures *Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "Had I just 10, 000 C...

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...

Amid the oppressive heat, and in the aftermath of the exuberance of Seville's Expo '92, Marina spends a chaotic summer with her grandmother while h...

Reducere. The Cossacks is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. It was originally called Yo...

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This volume includes Daisy Miller, Pandora, The Patagonia, and Four Meetings

A queer countercultural icon opens up about all things artistic, radical and romantic. Winner of the PEN American Center essay prize.

The four selections in this volume span his entire writing career and are among his best-known stories. They include: The Notorious Jumping Frog of...

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Following in the footsteps of such chroniclers of American absurdity as Cormac McCarthy, Joy Williams, and Charles Portis, Robin McLean's Pity the ...

A new novel from the author of Malarky, this takes readers into the head of a pervert haunting the London underground. Explores the treatment of se...

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

The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment, and its crowning achievement was Voltaire's "Candide". It follows the worldwide encounter...

From the author of People in the Room, a literary memoir from Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer, a friend of Borges, Neruda and Lorca.

Four bestselling Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler titles available together on one brilliant CD!

Written during the final stages of the Indian Independence movement, between the gloom and angst of the interwar period and at the cusp of the begi...

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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, ...

Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. As a girl she sees her village sacked and her beloved father and brother...

A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would...

'Perhaps the luminous novel is this thing that I started writing today, just now. Maybe these sheets of paper are a warm-up exercise. [...] But it'...

The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud, that's where we put the heroin... Imagine a cabbage: at its centre is North London's Tu...

More than 15 short stories for 7 - 9 year olds in a fabulous anthology to celebrate the National Year of Reading. Complete with every story to read...

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Level 2. Lost Love and Other Stories - Jan Carew

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