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"Enter the dark worlds created by Edgar Allen Poe in the collection "The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales." Poe emphasizes morbidity and death through his tales and poems, and this anthology holds all of Poe's best and most famous works from throughout his career. In "The Fall of the House of Usher," a man and his sister suffer from a strange, debilitating illness. Her death drives him to the point of madness, and the fragile mansion falls...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at The New Yorker. Tragically, five days after...
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English
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Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) was a British author and playwright. He dedicated his life to championing the causes of people he considered oppressed, becoming involved with movements such as Jewish emancipation, Jewish assimilation, territorialism, Zionism, and women's suffrage. His work earned him the nickname "the Dickens of the Ghetto" in England. 'The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes' contains several stories, some of which were later adapted...
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Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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The brilliant collection of short stories about the American West by author John Jakes, hailed by Patricia Cornwell as "the best historical novelist of our time" The Bold Frontier collects bestselling author John Jakes's timeless stories about the untamed American West. Jakes thrillingly portrays the harsh realities of life on the frontier with tales of lawmen in the Sierra Nevada, railroad workers in Kansas, and gamblers on the steamboat River Queen....
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
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English
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An anthology of short stories by a poet and dramatist who considered his prose fiction "the important writing." The collection represents the seeds of creation for his later works in which he looked at the tragicomic plight of man. The titles range from Assumption, published in a magazine when Beckett was 23, to Stirrings Still, written when he was 82.
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992.
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English
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This volume of previously uncollected work represents the final legacy of one of the great and truly American writers of our time. It includes five of Raymond Carver's early stories (including the first one he ever published), a fragment of an unpublished novel, poems that have previously appeared only in small-press editions, and all of his uncollected nonfiction. Included here as well is Carver's last essay, "Friendship" about a London reunion with...
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English
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Get carried away by this enchanting romance set on the remote Isles of Scilly. The beautiful young girl Armorel has lived a sheltered life—until the day that she saves two men lost at sea in a daring rescue. One of the boat's occupants, artist Roland Lee, is enraptured by Armorel's beauty and sensitivity, but ultimately determines that the girl is too young to be the object of his affection. Will the two star-crossed lovers ever find a way
...20) Dogs of war
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Graphix
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs. Based on true stories.
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