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Carson McCullers
Reflections in a Golden Eye

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On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain's wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderton - unhappily married to the unfaithful Leon…

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Antonio Tabucchi,
Requiem

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'My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life' It is a hot July Sunday in Lisbon and our narrator has an appointment to meet someone by the quayside. But when his guest does…

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Czeslaw Milosz
Rescue

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Collecting two of his most celebrated works - Rescue, written in Warsaw in the shadow of Nazi occupation, and A Treatise on Poetry - a momentous history of Poland, told in four cantos - here lie the sharp…

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W. B. Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid. An ancestor was rector there Long years ago, a church stands near, By the road…

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Mary Gaitskill
Secretary

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A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace: these four tales of desire and dislocation explore the rough edges of relationships and the in…

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Lafcadio Hearn
Some Japanese Ghosts

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'The body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beat: yet there were no other signs of death.'The phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore are in this book driven back into the world of the living…

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Georges Simenon
Stan the Killer

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'Maigret moved slowly, edging his bulky frame through the throng in Rue Saint-Antoine, which burst into life every morning, the sunshine streaming down from a clear sky on to the little barrows piled high…

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Hermann Hesse
Strange News from Another Planet

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Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit... A visitor to a zoo discovers he can understand the an…

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Allen Ginsberg
Sunflower Sutra

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'I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys' Allen Ginsberg's poetry fomented a social and political revolution, and wi…

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Maryse Condé
Tales from the Heart

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'I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.' Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the intimate, formative stories from the childhood of the legendary Caribbean wr…

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Margaret Cavendish
The Blazing World

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security'In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there …

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Rabindranath Tagore
The Broken Nest

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors to ever live. In these two short stories - 'The Broken Nest' and 'Dead or Alive' - he is at his d…

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Bram Stoker
The Burial of the Rats

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The bones were still warm; but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own dead This spine-chilling collection from Dracula creator Bram Stoker showcases five haunting tales, including the newl…

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Clarice Lispector
The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels

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'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' - Colm Tóibín A housewife's life is shattered by a sudden epiphany. A simple tale of killing cockroaches fragments into multiple narratives, each unc…

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Charles Dickens
The Chimes

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Trotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes are irredeemable. But, on New Year's Eve, summoned to the church tower by…

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Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs

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A young writer leaves the city to complete her manuscript in a small coastal town, but finds herself writing about the lives of its inhabitants instead - their occupation with memory and tradition, their …

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Shirley Jackson
The Daemon Lover

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It's terribly important that I get in touch with a gentleman who may have stopped in here to buy flowers this morning. Terribly important. Sometimes, the person you think you love isn't who they seem. An…

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

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I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rank A delusional man whose strange dream changes his life; a self-justifying husband who causes his wife's suicide; a witness to…

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Karen Blixen
The Dreaming Child

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'As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories'Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen's short stories offer incisive psychological portraits and imaginative…

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Muriel Spark
The Driver's Seat

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Muriel Spark claimed The Driver's Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise - heading for the holiday of a lifetime in an extraordinarily garish dress and with violence o…

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