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A Hunger-Artist

Franz Kafka

The whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people’s ...

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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rankA delusional man ...

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Can Socialists be Happy

George Orwell

No thinking person can or does genuinely keep out of politics, in an age like the present ...

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Why I am a Stoic

Seneca

Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never ...

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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

César Aira

It is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and ...

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Some Japanese Ghosts

Lafcadio Hearn

'The body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beat: yet there were no other signs of ...

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The Emperors New Clothes

Hans Christian Andersen

Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he ...

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The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin

There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did ...

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Cicada!

Federico Garcia Lorca

Now you slip away in sleep. Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore. Spain’s most beloved ...

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The Shadow out of Time

H. P. Lovecraft

‘Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no ...

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Transformation

Mary Shelley

'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider’s claws, and seemed to ...

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The Blazing World

Margaret Cavendish

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘I had rather die in the adventure of ...

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Paris France

Gertrude Stein

“All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that ...

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Lois the Witch

Elizabeth Gaskell

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBeware the self-righteous man of faith, ...

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A Confirmed Bachelor

Arthur Schnitzler

Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote ...

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The Chimes

Charles Dickens

Trotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality ...

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No Coward Soul Is Mine

Emily Brontë

Yes, as my swift days near their goal,’Tis all that I implore;In life and death, a chainless ...

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A Dill Pickle

Katherine Mansfield

She drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet ...

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The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

M. R. James

There are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral ...

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A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint

Oscar Wilde

“All art,” Oscar Wilde once announced, “is quite useless.” Selected here are some of his finest ...

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Hop-Frog

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a ...

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The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling ...

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A Dogs Heart

Mikhail Bulgakov

What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the ...

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The Rich Boy

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . .. In this glittering ...

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Dylan Thomas

Luminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas’ works have captivated generations of readers, ...

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Sailing to Byzantium

W B Yeats

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘Under bare Ben Bulben’s headIn ...

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