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Arthur Schnitzler
A Confirmed Bachelor

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Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for many years. There he meets the Schleheim fami…

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Katherine Mansfield
A Dill Pickle

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She drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bear Katherine Mansfield was a magician of the short story, whose work was described by Virginia Woolf as …

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Mikhail Bulgakov
A Dog's Heart

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What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov's topsy-turvy world, the dog starts to walk on two legs, drink, smoke, …

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Franz Kafka
A Hunger-Artist

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The whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people's participation grew; everyone wanted to see the hunger-artist at least once a day; on the later days there were…

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Sei Shonagon
A Lady in Kyoto

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All moonlight is moving, wherever it may be... Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in the Emperor's palace and discover a lost world, in which games of poetry …

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Willa Cather
A Lost Lady

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How light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . . Marian Forrester enchants everyone around her: her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; the small town of Sweet Water; and Niel Herbert, her…

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Laurie Lee
A Moment of War

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In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borr…

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Oscar Wilde
A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint

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"All art," Oscar Wilde once announced, "is quite useless." Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject of art - useless, illuminating, artificial, uplifting, radical, gorgeous, boring,…

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Albert Camus
A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past

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Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns and traditions of his youth. Selected here are some of…

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Irmgard Keun,
After Midnight

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Arrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far from over. Her best friend Gerti has fallen for a Jewish boy, her b…

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Chester Himes
All God's Chillun Got Pride

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Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in the 1930s while serving jail time for armed …

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César Aira
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

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It is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint the sights that unfold: vast chasms, surreal plants a…

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Alexander Lernet-Holenia,
Baron Bagge

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Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, uns…

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Andy Warhol
Beauty

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'People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look.' From Warhol's romantic relationships to his thoughts on interior design, these candid, highly entertaining musings -…

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George Orwell
Can Socialists be Happy?

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No thinking person can or does genuinely keep out of politics, in an age like the present one This stirring new collection brings together George Orwell's most cherished essays with lesser-known gems, al…

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Stefan Zweig,
Chess

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My dreadful situation forced me ... to try splitting myself into a Black self and a White self, to keep from being crushed by the terrible void around me A prisoner of the Nazis for years, what if your o…

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Federico García Lorca
Cicada!

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Now you slip away in sleep. Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore. Spain's most beloved poet, Federico García Lorca brilliantly captures the beauty and brutality of the twentieth century. His crea…

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Bohumil Hrabal,
Closely Watched Trains

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Closely Watched Trains tells the story of Miloš Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Miloš is overwhelmed with worries - about his virginity, his love for the conduct…

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Audre Lorde
Coal

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'I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.' Impassioned and profound, the poems in Coal showcase Audre Lorde in all her dazzling elegance and multipl…

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Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

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Luminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas' works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor Stravinsky, and Phoebe Bridgers. This selection includes som…

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