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The Best After-Dinner Stories

Various Authors

Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge.

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The Best of Saki

Cats who learn to talk (to the discomfiture of their owners), bad-tempered aunts who get stuck in water tanks and the world’s most disgusting breakfast cereal, ‘Filboid Studge’, are just some of the fantastical inventions that populate the stories of Saki.

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The Complete Miss Marple Short Stories

Agatha Christie

Based on 'some of Agatha Christie's grandmother's Ealing cronies . . . but far more fussy and spinsterish', Jane Marple made her debut in the 1930 novel Murder at the Vicarage, but it was in the short stories that appeared in 1932 that Miss Marple's detective skills were first revealed.

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes, with his trademark deerstalker and pipe, was invented by Arthur Conan Doyle while he waited for patients to arrive at the medical practice he had set up in Portsmouth in the 1880s

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Don't Look Now and Other Stories

Daphne du Maurier

It was in her shorter prose that Daphne du Maurier allowed the free reign to her remarkable imagination.

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Great Short Stories

A collection of 43 short stories from six different countries and some of the world's greatest writers, including Samuel Beckett, Colette and Alexander Pushkin

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Hemingway Short Stories

Ernest Hemingway

Twenty-six tales taken from every stage of Hemingway's career make up this short stories collection - an ideal companion to the Great Novels Set.

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Stories

John Buchan

Buchan was not only the father of the modern thriller, but a sensitive and nuanced writer with an eye for place and an ear for language which few have equalled. In these stories, spanning his entire career, we see a master storyteller at work.

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Leo Tolstoy: The Collected Stories

A new, beautifully illustrated three-volume collection of Tolstoy's extraordinary, insightful and moving short stories.

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