Men Without Women
Yrnest Heminguej
Men Without Women was a milestone in Hemingway's career. Fiesta had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short stories, his second collection, he showed that it is possible, within the space of a ... [ more ] |
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A Moveable Feast
Yrnest Heminguej
Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. He recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation. |
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami
A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as ... [ more ] |
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Lullaby
Chyk Polanik
Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the ... [ more ] |
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England, England
Dzhulian Barns
As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast ... [ more ] |
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Slaughterhouse 5
Kyrt Vonegyt
Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. |
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Timequake
Kyrt Vonegyt
According to Vonnegut`s alter ego, science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 february 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great ... [ more ] |
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Mother Night
Kyrt Vonegyt
A companion novel to Slaughterhouse 5 , covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire, it tells of an American spy in Germany who becomes confused by his own methods as ... [ more ] |
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Vonnegut Omnibus: Welcome to the Monkey House , Palm Sunday
Kyrt Vonegyt
An anthology of writings by Kurt Vonnegut. Welcome to the Monkeyhouse brings together some of his shorter essays and stories, and Palm Sunday consists of speeches, letters, fiction, articles and autobiography. |
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Collected Short Stories - Vol 1
U. Symyrset Moym
This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and & ... [ more ] |
