The stories collected in Little Novels of Sicily are drawn from the Sicily of Giovanni Verga's childhood, reported at the time to be the poorest place in Europe. Verga's style is swift, sure, and implacable; he plunges into his stories almost in midbreath, and tells them with a stark economy of words. There's something dark and tightly coiled at the heart of each story, an ironic, bitter resolution that is belied by the deceptive simplicity of Verga's prose, and Verga strikes just when the reader's not expecting it.
Voyage to the City of the Dead
Alan Dean Foster
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The Best Short Stories by Cyril M. Kornbluth (Illustrated Edition) : The Rocket of 1955, What Sorghum Says, The City in the Sofa, Dead Center!, The Perfect Invasion
Cyril M. Kornbluth
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Wittgenstein Jr
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The Truth About Faking It
Cassie Hamer
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Holy City of Mars
Ralph Milne Farley
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WE (A Dystopia) : The Precursor to George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World (The Original 1924 Edition)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Rhapsody
Mitchell James Kaplan
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Dødvande
Ann Cleeves
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How Beauty Was Saved and Other Memories of the Sixties
Amanda Alcenia Strickland Washington
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Rust
Donal Ryan
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The Three Godfathers
Peter B. Kyne
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The Down Deep
Catherine Asaro
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