The midnight hour approaches. You lie in bed and try to sleep, but there is the howling of the wind outside, the creak of a floorboard, the scream of a cat, the ticking clock... Your heart beats, your skin crawls, and despite yourself ...

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Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader’s imagination...

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This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more."..

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In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day...

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'Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour - landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one's hair! Shot out at the feet of God entirely naked! ...

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The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell s shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this...

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Powerful and evocative, each of Katherine Mansfield's short stories is a masterclass in the form that made her name. Cut tragically short at the age of 34, hers was a life of passion that took her from New Zealand to Bohemian London and Paris....

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Výběr povídek a úvah známého humoristy, zpracovaný ojedinělým způsobem - na levé straně je původní text, na pravé straně pak překlad do češtiny, čímž odpadá pracné a zdlouhavé hledání ve slovníku...

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Zdokonaľte si znalosť anglického jazyka nevšedným spôsobom! Dvojjazyčné spracovanie poviedok Jeroma K. Jeroma - na ľavej strane je pôvodný text a vpravo preklad do slovenčiny - uľahčuje prácu s knihou a odpadá tak zdĺhavé vyhľadávanie slovíčok ...

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"The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth...

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Impressed into service aboard the seal-hunting "Ghost," Humphrey Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a tense shipboard drama. With a wary eye, he watches the vessel s abusive captain, Wolf Larsen, an enigma who can ...

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Dotisk r. 2001 a 2003

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Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics...

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The definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by Penelope Lively herself way, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human...

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A collection of bestselling Scandinavian author Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories...

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A baseball player turns killer-by-accident; a 19-year old experiences an unsettling sexual awakening; a man accuses Bigfoot of stealing his wife. Ron Carlson's stories come from all directions: sometimes wicked, sometimes bittersweet, ...

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The essential poems of the inspirational thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, scholar and mystic...

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The complete short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant & influential writers of the twentieth century - collected together for the first time. Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical...

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