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Title: The Higgler
Author: A. E. Coppard (1878-1957)
Series: Romance
ISBN: 1-86092-010-1
Alfred Edgar Coppard, the son of a Kentish journeyman tailor and a hosteler's daughter, wrote his first short story at the age of 43 and achieved fame in his lifetime, for his vivid depictions of the English countryside and its rural characters. The Higgler, which first appeared in his anthology Fishmonger's Fiddle in 1925, is one of his finest works; a strangely unpredictable tale of an itinerant dealer in poultry and eggs whose emotional involvement with the mother and daughter of an isolated farmhouse on the moors threatens to become an obsession.

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Title: A Mere Interlude
Author: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Series: Romance
ISBN: 1-86092-045-4
Thomas Hardy is best remembered for his passionate poems and the series of Wessex novels which included Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the Durbevilles. The short story, A Mere Interlude, is an absorbing masterpiece with as many twists and turns as any plot in Hardy. A school teacher from the mainland returns to the island home of her childhood to be married to a man who is not altogether to her liking. But she meets another on her way and, in a moment of wildness, all her plans go seriously awry. This is a story of passion and cover-up; a tale of love, destiny and heroism in the best tradition of Thomas Hardy.


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Title: Bliss Feuille d'Album
Author: Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
Series: Romance
ISBN: 1-86092-005-5
In Bliss (1920) Bertha Young, a happily married mother, gives a small dinner-party for a theatre director and his wife, a whey-faced poet and a new friend for whom she feels a strange burning affinity. "What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss?". Feuille D'Album is an equally strange and compelling story about a handsome young artist working in Paris. "How could one resist him?" But it does not take people long to notice that the fascinating Mr French is not all that he seems to be.

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Title: Irish Revel
Author: Edna O'Brien
Series: Romance
ISBN: 1-86092-036-5
In Irish Revel Edna O'Brien explores the naive world of a young Irish girl, Mary, who is brought up in an isolated farmhouse and invited, aged seventeen, to a party for the first time in her life. Dressed in her mother's finest lace, she rides her bicycle to the Commercial Hotel in a state of high anticipation, but the party is not all that she expected it to be. Irish Revel first appeared in the short story collection The Love Object in 1968 and is one of Edna O'Brien's most moving works.


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