The Elephant
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The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short...
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Jack David Zipes and Angela Carter
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In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are...
The Gaze
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From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of...
The Machine Stops
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'"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when...
The Pit and the Pendulum: The Essential Poe
Edgar Allan Poe and Peter Ackroyd
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This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest...
The Vault
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In a world where vampires rule and teenaged humans are quarantined as a food source, there's only...
Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Russell Crofts and Jenny Taylor
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The most beautiful gifts may contain the most terrible poison. Robert Audley should be delighted...
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories
Nikolai Leskov and David McDuff
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The story of a passionate young woman who escapes her stifling marriage through adultery and murder,...
Music for Chameleons: New Writing
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At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a 'nonfiction novel' based on the...
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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When Bond rescues a beautiful, reckless girl from self destruction, he finds himself with a lead on...