The stories in The Two of Us focus on pairs: intense one-on-one relationships and encounters. Characters undergo genetic testing, garden, overeat, starve themselves, consider suicide, travel, have their hair cut, fall pregnant, all...
Short stories, English
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Author:Page, KathySummary: -
Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:Britain is still an Empire and India still her loyal subject when Carnehan and Dravot set out for the wild northern passes "to be kings."
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Author:Stevenson, Robert LouisSummary:Presents a Hawaiian couple who find themselves saddled with a genie in a bottle who is no bargain; and three other supernatural tales: Markheim; Thrawn Janet; and Olalla.
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Author:Stevenson, Robert LouisSummary:In 1815 in Scotland, having realized that the corpses he and his peers examine in anatomy class are stolen from fresh graves, a young medical student finds that he must procure the next specimen; and The isle of voices, and The waif...
- Author:Rendell, RuthSummary:
Internationally celebrated novelist Ruth Rendell offers a collection of unforgettable stories evocative of Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and other masters of the chilling touch.
- Author:Athill, DianaSummary:
"I can remember in detail being hit by my first story one January morning in 1958." So begins literary legend Diana Athill in the preface to Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, a long-overdue collection of her short fiction, stories which...
- Author:PERRIAM, WendySummary:
SHORT STORIES. A girl with a crippling pea-phobia, a woman driven to murderous rage in an Anger Management Workshop, a wife torn between her dashing artist-lover and her uptight accountant-husband - these are some of the characters in...
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Author:Lahiri, JhumpaSummary:Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of cultures and generations....
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The latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times bestselling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, with stories of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and friends in a variety of eras and forms.
- Author:Strahan, JonathanSummary:
From sorcerous bridges that link worlds to the simple traditions of country folk; from the mysterious natures of twins to the dangerous powers of obligation and contract. Laden with perils for both the adventurous and the unsuspecting,...
- Author:Strahan, JonathanSummary:
An amazing array of the most popular and exciting names in Fantasy are set to appear in the first in a brand new series of Fantasy anthologies featuring original fiction, from the master editor Jonathan Strahan. The authors appearing in...
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Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:Charles Dickens is known for writing the greatest of all Christmas stories -- A Christmas Carol, but few know that he wrote a number of other short stories for that holiday season. Here in one wonderful audio collection are six short...
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This entertaining collection features thirteen short mystery stories from some of our finest writers, all based on some piece of music.
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Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:From the author of the bestselling Jalna series! Writing in isolation was never trickier than in this full house. In this short but poignant tale, Mazo de la Roche tells the story of a small boy from an orphan home who has come to work...
