Short stories Large Print Books

1. Beethoven was One-sixteenth Black & other stories - Nadine Gordimer

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From Nobel and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer, this collection illustrates the showdowns, stand-offs and highlights of human intimacy while penetrating the nuances of immigration, national identity and race.

2. Fine Just the Way It Is - Annie Proulx

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'Fine Just The Way It Is' marks Proulx's return to the Wyoming of Brokeback Mountain & the familiar cast of hardy prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries, & capture the voices & lives of the settlers this weatherworn country has known.

3. Notwithstanding - Louis De Bernieres

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Introduces you to the village of Notwithstanding where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, and a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband.

4. Selected Short Works - Joseph Conrad

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Josephe Conrad (1857 - 1924) spent much of his life at sea, and his experiences as a mariner deeply influenced his fiction. He set many of his finest stories aboard ship, where his characters - closely confined, enduring the rigors of the sea - might struggle more intensely with the psychological and moral issues that engaged him.

5. The Sun Book of Short Stories - Various

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A Quick Reads title.

To celebrate the launch of Quick Reads in 2006, The Sun ran a short story competition called 'Get Britain Reading' in order to find the hidden talent among its millions of readers. This book contains a selection of the winning entries.

6. A Changed Man and Other Tales - Thomas Hardy

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7. A Fistful of Fig Newtons - Jean Shepherd

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From the wild and wacky world of a favorite funnyman, a dozen truer-than-life tales of tailgating on the Jersey Tumpike, infuriating infants, and other everyday catastrophes, defeats, and humiliations that are the familiar fate of Americans everywhere.

8. A Great Emergency and Other Tales - Juliana Horatia Ewing

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9. A House-Boat on the Styx - John Bangs Kendrick

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10. A Modern Telemachus - Charlotte M. Yonge

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11. A Set of Six - Joseph Conrad

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12. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago - Ben Hecht

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13. A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories - Mary Hallock Foote

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14. Across the Years - Eleanor H. Porter

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15. Adventure Stories - Jack London

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This text aims to capture the spirit of the American wilderness and its people, in the early 20th century. These youthful tales also include important social themes and ideas.

16. After Long Years and Other Stories - Sophie A. Miller

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17. Americans All -

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18. Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences - Frank R. Stockton

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19. Anting-Anting Stories - Sargent Kayme

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20. Balcony Stories - Grace Elizabeth King

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