Only the most beautiful in the hen's eyes survives , so when you admire a peacock you know you have the same taste as a pea - hen . But women are more mysterious than birds . You've heard of beauty and the beast , haven't you ?
Dedicated to Hermes - messenger to the gods and conductor of souls to the afterworld - this collection is composed of masterpieces of fantasy.
This third volume of Maugham’s stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI.
When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset...
Collected Short Stories
These 30 short stories, comprising Somerset Maugham's first collection, are set in locations ranging from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific.
“A kid with big ideas and good leadership qualities.” Father Conklin called the phone number on the sign in the window and made a date for two days later. He also said that he spoke fluent Spanish and would take a Hispanic curate with ...
Collected Short Stories: The Fallen Curtain and Other Stories, Means of Evil and Other Stories, The Fever Tree and Other Stories and The New Girlfriend and Other Stories.
This collection of Thomas Hardy's short stories is edited by a well-known authority on Hardy whose other books on Hardy include Hardy's Wessex and Hardy: Novelist and Poet.
This final classic collection reveals Somerset Maugham’s unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships in tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice.
Collected Short Stories
This wonderful collection of seventy stories, including classics like ‘A Face in Dark’, ‘The Kitemaker’, ‘The Tunnel’, ‘The Room of Many Colours’, ‘Dust on the Mountain’ and ‘Times Stops at Shamli’, is a must-have ...
Collected Short Stories
Includes work originally published in M̀y enemy's enemy', plus two stories never published in book form, Ìnvesting in future' and Àffairs of death'.
A collection of Brecht's 37 short stories, spanning the years 1921 to 1946. They fall into three groups - those written in Bavaria early in the 1920s, in Berlin before Hitler, and in exile up to World War II.
This collection of short stories are about country life and the open air and were first published in the 1950s. Patrick O'Brien is the author of Clarissa Oakes, The Wine-Dark...
A reprint of McLaverty's short story collection about Northern Ireland's lonely hill farms, rough island terrain And The tight backstreets of Belfast.
Guy de Maupassant's strangely beautiful stories vary from uplifting explorations of moralistic living, through humorous parodies of the middle classes of 19th century France and their foolish attempts to better themselves, right through to ...
Guy de Maupassant's strangely beautiful stories vary from uplifting explorations of moralistic living, through humorous parodies of the middle classes of 19th century France and their foolish attempts to better themselves, right through to ...