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Title: The Open Boat
Author: Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Series: Classics
ISBN: 1-86092-025-x
The Open Boat is a captivating short story based on a real-life event. On January 1st 1897, the great American writer, Stephen Crane, was sailing in the steamer, Commadore, which was running arms from Florida to rebels resisting Spanish domination in Cuba. Crane was a war correspondent at the time. The Commodore sank and Crane was cast adrift in an open boat with three or four crew members, including the captain, Edward Murphy. This the dramatic story of what happened next.


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Title: A Chance for Mr Lever
Author: Graham Greene (1904-1991)
Series: Classics
ISBN: 1-86092-021-7
A Chance for Mr Lever A Chance for Mr Lever is one of Graham Greene's most memorable short story masterpieces. "I believe I have never written anything better," he wrote in 1975. At a very low ebb Mr Lever, a retired machinery salesman who has lost his money in the depression, rashly accepts a commission-only job which sends him out on a gamble to Africa. He must find a man called Davidson and secure his signature to a contract. Everything depends on finding Davidson. Mr Lever's once cosy life is now hanging in the balance far, far away in the sweat of a remote African jungle.


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Title: The Rocking-Horse Winner
Author: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Series: Classics
ISBN: 1-86092-007-1
A Fragment of Stained Glass The Rocking-Horse Winner, which first appeared in Cynthia Asquith's Ghost Book of 1926, is one of D. H Lawrence's best known stories; an eerily supernatural tale about a small boy who is determined to reverse his family's continuiing ill-fortune by winning huge amounts of money at the races. In A Fragment of Stained Glass monks at an old abbey believe they have seen the Devil trying to break in through a stained glass window. But what was really happening? Many years later a local parish priest thinks he has the answer.


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Title:

Madeniusekke Fifi /
The Devil
Author: Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
Series: Classics
ISBN: 1-86092-009-8
Guy de Maupassant's sharpness, brilliance and wit made him the most popular short story writer of his day. In Mademoiselle Fifi, set during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871, a loutish and destructive band of Prussian officers has taken over a beautiful French Ch‰teau. They call in some prostitutes to eleviate their boredom but the evening goes badly wrong. In The Devil a young peasant farmer, fretting over the expense of his elderly mother's imminent death, strikes a deal with an odious old ironing woman.


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Title: The Other Two
Author: Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
Series: Classics
ISBN: 1-86092-023-3
Famous as the author of The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome and The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton was also a distinguished writer of short stories, with more than 70 published stories to her credit. Written in 1904, and set in the polite society of New York which Wharton was herself a part of, The Other Two is a surprisingly modern piece. Recently married to the twice-divorced but utterly charming Alice, Mr Waythorn finds himself becoming rather better acquainted with Mrs Waythorn's ex-husbands than he could ever have imagined.

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Title: Lord Savile's Crime
Author: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Series: Classics
ISBN: 1-86092-016-0
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, first published in 1887, opens at Lady Windermere's society soirŽe in London. A chiromantist, Mr Septimus Podgers, has been brought to the party to entertain the assembled guests. All goes well until he examines Lord Arthur Savile's hand: "Podgers grew curiously pale, and said nothing. A shudder seemed to pass through him. Then some huge beads of perspiration broke out on his yellow forehead, like a poisonous dew, and his fat fingers grew cold and clammy...."

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