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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition.. In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager's practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his wife's nursing-home romance. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her best, tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane..

New York: Gold Medal / Fawcett, 1958 Book. Fine. Pbk. 2nd Printing. A collection of 6 Shell Scott short stories : Sinner's Alley/ Code 197/ The Build-Up / Trouble Shoote2/ Murder's Strip Tease/ The Sleeper Caper. 174p.Vintage pbk. Small stain inside front cover but text is clean and crisp looks unread..

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1997 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. Short, amusing collection of Christmas stories (includes 'Dinah, the Christmas Whore,' 'Season's Greetings from the Dunbar Family' and 'Christmas Means Giving.'134p. Name of previous owner on ffep. else as new.

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1997 Book. As New. Soft cover. First Thus. As the back cover warns it "collects six of Davdi Sedaris' s most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice scraper, ' (includes 'Dinah, the Christmas Whore,' 'Season's Greetings from the Dunbar Family' and 'Christmas Means Giving.') 134p..

New York: Pocket Books, 1956 Book. Illus. by Cover By Morton Roberts. Near Fine. Pbk. 1st Pbk Edition. [ 074] "15 exciting stories of invasion from outer space" by Murray Leinster, Eric Frank Russell, David Grinnell, Alan Lang, Donald Wollheim, Theodore Sturgeon, Mack Reynolds, Milton Lesser, Howard Koch (the story with which Orson Welles scared America on October 30th 1938!) , Mildren Clingerman, Edward Grengen, Edgar Pangborn, William Tenn, Kathleen MacLean, Anthony Boucher. Contains 15 of the 22 stories which were first published by Vanguard Press in 1952. 257p, Original vintage paperback. Clean tight and crisp, light wrinkles along spine, else fine..

Winnipeg: ARP/Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2013 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Canadian Edition.. In her debut collection of short stories... renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and colonialism. Told with voices that are rarely recorded but need to be heard, and incorporating the language and history of her people [is] a profound, important, and beautiful book.143p. .

New York: Tor Books, 1995 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. "In the fictional city of Newford, replete with the brutal realities of modern urban life, de Lindt's characters encounter magic in strange and unexpected places." Short stories including : Waifs and Strays / Mr. Truepenny's Book Emporium and Gallery / The Forest is Crying / The Wishing Well / Dead Man's Shoes / Bird Bones and Wood Ash / A Tempest in Her Eyes / The Bone Woman / Pal O' Mine / Coyote Stories / Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night / Dream Harder, Dream True / The Pochade Box; / The Forever Trees / Saxophone Joe / Woman in Black. 318p. As New except for remainder mark..

Moscow: Mir, 1973 Book. Illus. by Translation by Gladys Evans. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Seven stories by Russian writers . "Soviet SF lies well within the mainstream of Soviet writing, generally, and is as diverse in theme and imagery. In the fifty odd years of its existence, its course has been a chequered one, veering with all the turns in the tide of Soviet history, particularly during the times of the First Five -Year Plan and World War Two, but even more so when Sputnik shot up to furrow the unexplored outer fields of space. " 396p. illus..

Athens: Organismos Ekdoseos Didaktikon Biblion, 1987 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Reprint. Anthology of Greek literature/ short stories/ poems for use in First year Greek high Schools. 323p. illus (some col) [2 copies found in n WorldCat] .

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999 Book. Very Good. Original Wraps. ARC/Advance Reading Copy.. Eleven stories, all set in different places and cultures "The Distance to Delphi " (pp117-144) is set in the Greece of the Colonels..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.Can Ed... Eleven stories, all set in different places and cultures one story "The Distance to Delphi " (pp117-144) is set in the Greece of the Colonels..

London: Running Press, 2010 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Pbk Edition. 23 wickedly witty,racily romantis,and sublimely sensual stories. Contains : Maguire, Margo -Angelique/ Kennedy, Shirley -The Catch of the Season/Boyle, Elizabeth - Cynders & Ashe /Grange, Amanda -.

Seacus NJ: Castle Classics, 1992 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. Christmas is not normally perceived as a scary, supernatural season - until you encounter this collection of thirteen spinechilling stories by W. W. Jacobs; Sabine Baring-Gould; F. S. Smythe; Hugh Walpole; Marjorie Bowen; Nigel Kneale; F. McDermott; Robert Aickman; R. Chetwynd-Hayes; Robert Bloch; Ron Weighall; Basil Copper; Stephen Gallagher. 248 pages;.

London: Peter Owen Limited, 2001 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. This anthology aims provides a representative selection of the best Greek poetry and prose from .1821 to the present day. INCLUDES : Aris Alexanadrou, Manolis Anagnostakis, Katerina Angelaki-Rooke, Nikos Bakolas, Nicolas Calas, C.P.Cavafy, Kyriakos Charalambides, Stratis Doukas, Odysseas Elytis, Andreas Embiricos, Nikos Engonopoulos, Rhea Galanaki, Michalis Ganas, Nikos Gatsos, Dimitris Hatzis, Yorgos Heimonas, Yorgos Ioannou, Andreas Kalvos, Ioannis Karasoutsas, Andreas Karkvitsas, K.G.Karyotakis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Alexanader Kotsias, Yannis Makryiannis, Jenny Mastoraki, Michail Mitsakis, Stratis Myrivilis, Kostis Palamas, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Titos Patrikios, Yorgis Pavlopoulos, Nikos Gabriel Pentzikis, Kosmas Politis, Lefteris Poulios, Pantelis Prevelakis, Yiannsi Ritsos, E.D.Roidis, Miltos Sachtouris, George Seferis, Angelos Sikelianos, Takis Sinopoulos, Dionysios Solomos, Kostas Tachtsis, Konstantinos Theotokis, Stratis… Leer más

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006 Book. As New. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st.Can Ed... ".a series of interrelated stories that trace the course of a life, and also the lives intertwined with it - those of parents, siblings, children, friends, enemies, teachers, and even animals. As in a photograph album, time is measured in sharp, clearly ovserved moments - the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage, old age and death. The settings are equally varied: large cities, suburbs, farms, northern forests. The book opens in the present, as a couple no longer young regard themselves in a larger world no longer safe. The narrative then leads us back in time to the 1940s and progresses chronologically toward the present.' Author inscription om title page.

New York: Berkley, 2003 Book. Near Fine. Pbk. A collection of 17 original tales of mystery, intrigue, and murder inspired by the life, times, and work of William Shakespeare Featuring stories by features contributions by Jeffery Deaver, Carole Nelson Douglas, Robert Barnard, P.C. Doherty, and other notable writers.

New York: Gallery Books, 1991 Book. As New. Hardcover. An anthology of murder mysteries set in interesting locales. Includes "Perfect Honeymoon" (set on a Greek Island) by Robert Barnard (pp.1-9 ).

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. A volume of short stories first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories are considered by some critics to be his best work, as well as pioneering works in the English-language short story tradition.Issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" Introduction by Mrs Stevenso. [Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson] 427p Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards. Neat unmarked copy except for the name of previous owner on ffep.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. Collection of SF short stories. Contains : Orson Scott Card - "Holy"; John Kessel - "Animals"; Carter Scholz - "Amadeus"; Sydelle Shamah - "Growing up on Vlin"; Joseph V. Francavilla - "Deletions"; Bruce Taylor - "The Breath Amidst the Stones"; Peter Santiagio C - "A Chrysalis Unbroken" ; Stephen W.Potts - "Mare Somniorum"; Marta Randall - "Circus"; Felix C Gotschalk - "A Presidential Tape"188p..

New York: Harper & Row, 1980 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. Collection of SF short stories. Contains : Orson Scott Card - "Holy"; John Kessel - "Animals"; Carter Scholz - "Amadeus"; Sydelle Shamah - "Growing up on Vlin"; Joseph V. Francavilla - "Deletions"; Bruce Taylor - "The Breath Amidst the Stones"; Peter Santiagio C - "A Chrysalis Unbroken" ; Stephen W.Potts - "Mare Somniorum"; Marta Randall - "Circus"; Felix C Gotschalk - "A Presidential Tape"188p..