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  The Pegnitz Junction - A Novella...

  Mavis Gallant

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  A devastating collection exploring the wake of mankind’s greatest conflict World War II exerted a psychic toll on Europe that is still evident today. The Pegnitz Junction is Mavis Gallant’s look at how Europe handles that collective pain. In the title novella of this sharply written collection, a girl rides the train with her boyfriend and his son in postwar Europe. Onboard, she encounters all manner of personalities, each person burdened by the weight of what he or she has just experienced, openly bleeding from the emotional wounds of a terrifying global conflict. A wife must come to terms with her husband’s mistakes and find reconciliation in herself as she meets the refugee he had an affair with. A soldier must reintegrate himself into civilian life, no matter how difficult it is. An unlikely friendship between an actress and a police commissioner begins to form. No matter where or when Gallant’s stories are set, each one is a small enchantment, anchored by the insights of a master of her craft.

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  Barry Pain - Six of the Best -...

  Barry Pain

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
  1 - Six of the Best - Barry Pain - An Introduction 
  2 - Barry Pain - An Introduction  
  3 - The Extermination by Barry Pain 
  4 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain 
  5 - The Act of Heroism by Barry Pain 
  6 - The Bet by Barry Pain 
  7 - Murder, from The Memoirs of Constantine Dix by Barry Pain 
  8 - Post Mortem by Barry Pain

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  Little Things

  John R Little

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  The Collected Short Fiction of John R Little, full-color illustrations by Luke Spooner, with new story introductions by John R Little. This volume contains 24 short stories. Little Things is Volume 2 of a four-part series.  
  Introduction by John R Little 
  Volunteers Needed 
  Tommy’s Christmas 
  Growing Up 
  Doing Daddy 
  3:26 a.m. 
  Those Little Cameras! 
  In the Boys’ Clubhouse 
  Ever After 
  Welcome to Inferno 
  Climbing Mount Turnpike 
  The Jameson House 
  The Thief of Time 
  Accordion Season 
  The Oasis 
  Cruel Eyes 
  The Slow Haunting 
  Following Marla 
  Sammy 
  George’s Head 
  Flies 
  My Little Jillian 
  The Wishing Stones 
  Placeholders 
  The True Story of Christmas 
  About the Author

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  Thirst - A Nepal Short Story

  Merryn Glover

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  When the water runs out at the village tap, a woman's kindness to a stranger yields a miracle.

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  Church The - A Short Story...

  Henry James, D H Lawrence,...

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  Faith is a wonderful thing.  Whether its faith in each other or to a God, Gods, or whatever entity you believe in, it brings a familiar comfort and sustenance to heart, soul and mental well-being. 
   
  Whilst faith can be practiced anywhere religious faith is usually at a church or temple.  The stories in this volume are centered both in houses of worship and with those with a strong association to its calling. 
     
  Of course, short story authors have a determined belief in their undoubted talents to make us look at this subject from different angles.  In this volume they take us on literary journeys that are revealing and challenging yet always entertaining. 
  1 - The Church - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - The Altar of the Dead - Part 1 by Henry James 
  3 - The Altar of the Dead - Part 2 by Henry James 
  4 - A Fragment of Stained Glass by D H Lawrence 
  5 - Neccesity. An Eastern Tale by Vladimir Korolenko 
  6 - Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley.wav 
  7 - The Haunted Church by Frederick Cowles 
  8 - Lucifer by Anatole France 
  9 - Anathema by Alexander Kuprin 
  10 - Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev 
  11 - The Black Crusader by Alicia Ramsay 
  12 - The Saint by Mary Butts 
  13 - Marsyas In Flanders by Vernon Lee 
  14 - The Ankardyne Pew by W F Harvey 
  15 - The Tomb of Sarah by F G Loring 
  16 - The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac 
  17 - A Collector's Company by R H Malden

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  The Conquering Sword of Conan

  Robert E. Howard

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  In a meteoric career that covered only a dozen years, Robert E. Howard defined the sword and sorcery genre. In doing so, he brought to life the archetypal adventurer known to millions around the world as Conan the barbarian.This collection features Howard at his finest and Conan at his most savage. Truly heroic fantasy at its best, this volume contains "The Servants of Bit-Yakin," "Beyond the Black River," "The Black Stranger," "The Man-Eaters of Zamboula," and "Red Nails," which is perhaps Conan's most famous adventure.

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