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  Fresh from the Sea and Other...

  Stefania Hartley

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  Will Gnà Peppina give her customers what they need, even if it’s more than food? 
  What pleasures can a man indulge in after his wife has put him on a draconian diet? 
  Who will be able to cook dinner for the family with five euros? 
  Five humorous short stories ablaze with the Sicilian sunshine, vibrating with the singsongs of the street sellers, fragrant with the scent of the sea. 
  Written by Stefania Hartley, also known as The Sicilian Mama. 
  "Full of atmosphere, fun and warmth. It’s an absolutely charming read." (Shirley Blair, senior editor of The People’s Friend magazine, on the short story "Cooking with Franca") 
  "Hartley doesn’t just give us stories, she gives us a slice of Italian life served with lashings of charm and wit. Highly recommended!" (Ella Hayes, author of Her Brooding Scottish Heir) 
  "In these short stories Stefania Hartley skewers universal foibles with humor. With sharp and at the same time gentle irony she invites us to laugh not only at the characters but, with them, at ourselves. The sunny quality of the tales owes as much to their Sicilian setting as to a warm perspective on human beings." (Valeria Vescina, author of That Summer in Puglia)

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  London - A City in Stories

  Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K...

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  London. A candidate for global capital.  Center of an Empire. The swift-beating heart of culture.  A sprawling metropolis of life’s rich tapestry.  And a bewildering Escher city-scape of overlapping and colliding forces.  People, streets, buildings interweaving and interchanging.  And our eminent writers have the talent and focus to reveal the story that lies beneath the words.

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  Our Mutual Friend

  Charles Dickens

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  A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap's expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights "Noddy" Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes "the Golden Dustman." Charles Dickens's last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend encompasses the great themes of his earlier works: the pretensions of the nouveaux riches, the ingenuousness of the aspiring poor, and the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt all who crave it. With its flavorful cast of characters and numerous subplots, Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens's most complex—and satisfying—novels

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  The Staircase

  Hugh Walpole

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  Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.The Staircase tells the story of a house. An old house, which has seen much and knows many things about the ways of humans. In this story the house feels compelled to intervene in the affairs of the inhabitants to prevent an impeding disaster by murdering one of the humans.

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  The Hound

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American author who achieved posthumous acclaim for his outstanding and influential works of horror fiction.'The Hound' is a terrifying story of two morbid young men who add excitement to their dull lives by robbing graves and creating a macabre museum of ghoulish trophies. But one day they open a grave containing a strange and sinister jade amulet...and once they are in possession of this artefact, terrifying events overtake them.

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  Great Short Stories

  O. Henry, Saki Saki, Herman...

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  The short stories are about English persons, who are members of the ancient nobility, about the true love, inheritance and other interesting occurrences.Die Kurzgeschichten berühmter Autoren erzählen von einer englischen Adelsfamilie, in der ein Kleptomane Verwirrung stiftet, von der wahren Liebe, die (in dieser Geschichte) nicht einmal als Illusion Bestand hat, vom richtigen Umgang mit Erbschaften und vielen weiteren Begebenheiten.Die GoyaLiT-Reihe "The Sound of the Language" präsentiert die beliebtesten Themen der englischsprachigen Literatur im Original. Englische Schauspieler interpretieren die ungekürzten Texte. Die Sammlung literarischer Perlen ermöglicht lebendiges Fremdsprachenlernen durch Hören. Eine Vokabelliste im Booklet erleichtert das Verständnis.Inhalt: O. Henry: One Thousand Dollars - Saki: The Seven Cream Jugs - William S. Gilbert: Angela. An Inverted Love Story - Herman Melville: The Fiddler - Katherine Mansfield: The Sister of Baroness

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