short stories

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Collected short stories

1978
Contains thirty stories by the English author mainly set in the colonies, in a world in which men and women are caught between their European values and the richness and ambiguity of the unfamiliar surroundings.

Young Goodman Brown and other tales

1991
A selection of twenty short stories written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne between 1832 and 1850, reflecting his themes of guilt and secrecy, intellectual and moral pride, the supernatural, and the decadence of New England Puritanism.

The Perseids and other stories

2000
A collection of nine short stories by Robert Charles Wilson.

New stories from the South

the year's best, 1995
1995
Contains seventeen selected Southern short stories published during the preceding year in American magazines and literary journals.

The new Oxford book of Canadian short stories in English

1997
A collection of forty-seven stories by such Canadian authors as Alice Munro and John Metcalf, arranged chronologically and focusing on works written after World War II.

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales

2006
Presents eleven favorite fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, retold and illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger.

The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories

2013
Collects four short stories by Washington Irving, including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.".

Victorian horror stories

2002
Not for the faint-hearted; these hair raising tales will draw you into a world in which murder and evil reign supreme.

Throwing shadows

2007
Contains five short stories by E.L. Konigsburg in which chance meetings change the lives of the people involved in irrevocable ways.

Michael Hague's favourite Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales

1981
A collection of tales including "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "The Little Match girl," "Thumbelina," "The Elfin Hill," "Little Ida's Flower," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Wild Swans," and "The Emperor's New Clothes.".

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