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  • As For Sinclair Ross

    by David Stouck ...
    Series series Heritage
    Sinclair Ross (1908-1996), best known for his canonical novel As for Me and My House (1941), and for such familiar short stories as "The Lamp at Noon" and "The Painted Door," is an elusive figure in Canadian literature. A master at portraying the hardships and harsh beauty of the Prairies during the Great Depression, Ross nevertheless received only modest attention from the public during his ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century

    This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature.“Edited by three eminent Fitzgerald scholars, this fine book comprises nineteen incisive and provocative essays (most written for this collection) by . . . well-known Fitzgerald critics. The content is as varied as the international origins of its authors.” —ChoiceAs the author ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories

    Series series New Canadian Library
    The eighteen pieces collected in Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories bring together the many and subtle voices of Ethel Wilson, demonstrating her extraordinary range as a writer. From the gentle mockery of the title story to the absurdist reportage of “Mr. Sleepwalker,” Wilson exerts unerring narrative control. Revealing what is “simple and complicated and timeless” in everyday life, these stories ... Read more

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    A Timeless Modernist Classic of Memory, Identity & Inner Life

    A single day. A lifetime of memories. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is one of the most celebrated novels of the 20th century—a luminous exploration of consciousness, time, and the hidden depths of everyday life. Set over the course of a single day in post–World War I London, the novel follows Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for an evening party. Yet beneath the surface of social gatherings and ... Read more

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  • The Wine-Dark Sea

    'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil GaimanFor fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen**Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Lady in the Looking Glass

    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.''If she concealed so much and knew so much one must prize her open with the first tool that came to hand - the imagination.'Virginia Woolf's writing tested the boundaries of modern fiction, exploring the depths of human consciousness and ... Read more

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  • Cousin Rosamund

    by Rebecca West ...
    Series Book 3 - The Saga of the Century Trilogy
    In the final installment of Rebecca West's Saga of the Century trilogy, family, marriage, and love alter the sisterly bonds that have seen them through poverty, war, and scandalIn the years after the war, Mary and Rose Aubrey have found success as accomplished pianists. In spite of their travels and material rewards, they remain apart from society. When their cherished cousin Rosamund surprises ... Read more

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  • The Short Stories Of Virginia Woolf

    The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this volume we ... Read more

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  • The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

    by Jean Stafford ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    Pulitzer Prize-Winning Short Stories from a Distinctively American VoiceThe Collected Stories of Jean Stafford brings together the major short works of fiction by one of the most unique and compelling American stylists of her generation. In these stories, Stafford masterfully communicates the intricate details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom, and the desire to belong. With an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Brother Of Daphne

    Series Book 1 - B-Berry Pleydell
    Daphne is ‘well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright’. In this, Yates’ earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures. It is a world of Edwardian gentility and accomplished farce that brought the author instant fame when the stories appeared in ‘Windsor Magazine’. ... Read more

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  • Decorating a Room of One's Own

    Conversations on Interior Design with Miss Havisham, Jane Eyre, Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Bennet, Ishmael, and Other Literary Notables

    by Susan Harlan ...
    What would Little Women be without the charms of the March family's cozy New England home? Or Wuthering Heights without the ghost-infested Wuthering Heights? Getting lost in the setting of a good book can be half the pleasure of reading, and Decorating a Room of One's Own brings literary backdrops to the foreground in this wryly affectionate satire of interior design reporting. English professor ... Read more

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  • Complete Angela Brazil Schoolgirl Adventure Anthologies

    by Angela Brazil ...
    She was one of the first British writers of "modern schoolgirls' stories", written from the characters' point of view and intended primarily as entertainment rather than moral instruction. In the first half of the twentieth century she published nearly 50 books of girls' fiction, the vast majority being boarding school stories. Her books were commercially successful, were widely read by tween ... Read more

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