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    Brief Encounters

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    A Gentle Spirit & A Faint Heart

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    Two of Dostoevsky's most powerful novellas of obsession, cruelty, and the fragility of the heartA pawnbroker paces beside his young wife's body, attempting to piece together the circumstances that led to …

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    Halldór Laxness,
    A Parish Chronicle

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    An intimate, magical novel about one enduring church in a rural Icelandic valley - an ode to a quiet way of life now lost to time foreverThe resting place of legendary Viking warrior Egil Skallagrímsson's…

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    Angela Carter
    A Souvenir of Japan

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    Five stories of desire and discovery set in 1970s Japan, from weird fiction's most influential pioneer - Angela CarterAn Englishwoman muses on her affair with a younger Japanese man. A spurned lover seeks…

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    Natsume Soseki,
    An Undesirable Friend

    Vintage Classics, Brief Encounters

    From Japan's most famous, classic novelist comes a remarkable gem of wit, irony, and feline observationA stray kitten, catapulted to literary fame loudly observes the world of Meiji Japan in all its absur…

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    Aldous Huxley
    Ape and Essence

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    Huxley's dystopian classic is a nightmare vision of the fate of humanity in a post-nuclear world.After a devastating global catastrophe, a group of scientists arrives in a ruined future shaped by fear, ri…

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    Herman Melville
    Bartleby, The Scrivener

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    Herman Melville's enduringly comic and affecting tale of a man who takes quiet quitting to its extremeA new clerk in a Wall Street lawyer's office causes dismay and confusion when, after a productive star…

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    Louisa May Alcott
    Behind a Mask

    Vintage Classics, Brief Encounters

    This is Alcott as you have never seen her before - gothic, and gloriously unsettlingA young governess arrives at a grand country house and quickly wins the confidence of its family. Humble and modest, Jea…

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    Edith Wharton
    Bewitched

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    Edith Wharton's ghost stories whisper of passion, exile, and the things we cannot forgetIn an old Dorset house, a couple settle into a life of quiet comfort - until a presence makes itself felt. At a coun…

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    José Saramago,
    Cain

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    Written in the last years of Saramago's life, Cain is a controversial and witty story of a wilful, authoritarian God.After killing his brother, Cain is condemned to wander the earth. As he moves through t…

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    Bohumil Hrabal,
    Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

    Vintage Classics, Brief Encounters

    This ebullient, gallivanting novella encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence.An ageing man holds court, spinning a single, unbroken s…

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    Roberto Bolaño,
    Distant Star

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    A dazzling, daring tale of poets at the end of the world, Distant Star is Roberto Bolano's miniature dystopian masterpieceAlberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry …

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    Richard Wright
    Down by the Riverside

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    A flood brings not only rising waters but the full force of a brutal, racist worldWith the Mississippi flooding, a Black farmer struggles to get his pregnant wife to safety. In the chaos, a single despera…

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    Bram Stoker
    Dracula's Guest

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    Step into the night where tombs lie open and wolves prowl under a cursed moonA solitary traveller strays from the road on the eve of Walpurgis Night. Snow closes in, strange figures emerge, and an abandon…

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    Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
    Fighters & Martyrs

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's stories of rebellion and sacrifice, where ordinary lives burn with extraordinary courageIn these tales of rebellion and sacrifice, ordinary lives burn with extraordinary courage. From …

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    Anita Desai
    Fire On The Mountain

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    Vivid and alive, this powerful novella about one woman's belated rebellion against the powers that be is Anita Desai at her finest.Nanda Kaul retreats to a quiet house in the hills, determined to live out…

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    Toni Cade Bambara
    First Light

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    At once a gripping thriller and a heartbreaking elegy, this is Toni Cade Bambara's powerful final testament, a hymn to Atlanta's missing children.Zala Spencer is barely surviving on the margins of Atlanta…

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    Richard Brautigan
    In Watermelon Sugar

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    A psychedelic post-apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of civil war...In iDEATH, the sun shines a different colour every day. It is a happy place, made of watermelon, and its inhabitants travel the…

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    Virginia Woolf
    Kew Gardens

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    In a single afternoon's walk, Virginia Woolf captures the infinite life of a garden...A couple pause among the flowerbeds, their thoughts drifting apart. A woman's mind fixes on a small, troubling mark on…

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    Jane Austen
    Lady Susan

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    Outrageous, and wickedly funny, Lady Susan introduces Jane Austen at her most scandalousRecently widowed and dangerously charming, Lady Susan Vernon arrives among her relatives determined to secure her ow…

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    Vera Caspary
    Laura

    Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

    When the woman you love may be dead, or worse - unknowable - obsession takes over.A young woman is found dead in her Manhattan apartment. In the aftermath, the men who knew her begin to tell their stories…

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