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Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) - A New Selection of the Sharp, Sensitive and Much-Revered Stories by Guy de Maupassant; Elsie Martindale Hueffer (Translator); Ada Galsworthy (Translator); Robert Hampson (Contribution by); Helen Chambers (Contribution by); Joseph Conrad (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: riverrun editions
A priest receives an unexpected visitor from his past. A triumphant celebration ends in murder. A doctor tells of an unrequited love that only ended with death. Maupassant's direct treatment of sex and sexuality, and his insistence that the artist's primary duty was faithfulness to his own perception ...Show more
The Crocodile and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) - Dostoevsky's Finest Short Stories in the Timeless Translations of Constance Garnett by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Michael Wood (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: riverrun editions | Reading Level: very good
'I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps from the hour I was born' A man goes mad because he is happy. A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party. A man is swallowed by a crocodile, but not eaten nor seriously damaged. Dostoevsky's stories inhabit similarly volcanic ...Show more
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