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The Fireside Book of Wine

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  • Published by:
    • Simon & Schuster, 1977, USA.
  • Edited by: Alexis Bespaloff
  • Also contains:
    • “Wine of Paris” byMarcel Ayme
    • “What You Always Wanted to Ask About Wine” by Russell Baker
    • “It Puckers Your Mouth” by Art Buchwald
    • “Earliest Wine Memories” by Colette
    • “Last Bottle in the World” by Stanley Ellin
    • “Vineyard Confrontation” by Idwal Jones
    • “‘Spanish Champagne’ Case” by Robert Keeling
    • “Aged and a Great Wine” by George Meredith
    • “Winesmanship” by Stephen Potter
    • “But Then, How It Was Sweet!” by G.B. Stern
    • “Greatest Wine in the World” by Bruce Todd

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Some of the world’s greatest wine lovers – with here and there a dissenting voice – celebrate the glories and pleasures of wine and the many roles it plays in life itself’. Many notables give their two cents worth in this volume about wine: Benjamin Franklin, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, Andre Simon, Roald Dahl, Art Buchwald and many more. Discussions, essays, poetry, anecdotes and personal comments… from Lord Byron (Don Juan) – “Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain – Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda-water the day after”.

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Fifty Years: Being A Retrospective Collection…

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Fifty Years: Being A Retrospective Collection…
Of Novels, Novellas, Tales, Drama, Poetry, And Reportage and Essays
(whether literary, musical, contemplative, historical,
biographical, argumentative, or gastronomical)
All Drawn from Volumes Issued During The Last Half–Century
by Alfred & Blanche Knopf

  • Published by:
    • Knopf, 1965, USA.
  • Edited by: Clifton Fadiman

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Exciting Escape Stories

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  • Published by:
    • Octopus Books, 1980, UK.
  • Edited by: Elizabeth Bland
  • Also contains:
    • “The Story of the Bagman’s Uncle” by Charles Dickens
    • “Love of Life” by Jack London
    • “Facing The Storm” by Joseph Conrad
    • “War Games” by Keith Miles
    • “A Descent Into The Maelstrom” by Edgar Allan Poe
    • “An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
    • “Free Men” by Andre Devigny
    • “Springing the Trap” by Anthony Hope
    • “Ceremonies of the Horsemen” by P. L. Frankson
    • “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allen Poe
    • “Lord Nithsdale’s Escape” by John Buchan
    • “An Awkward Sortie” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    • “Cute Pie” by Nicholas Fisk
    • “Bid for Freedom” by W. B. Thomas
    • “The Perfect Rendezvous” by Lawrence Durrell
    • “Jeeves and the Impending Doom” by P. G. Wodehouse
    • “The Fugitive” by Maxwell Gray
    • “The Three Strangers” by Thomas Hardy
    • “A Place in the Sun” by Charles H. Russell
    • “The Bell” by William Maginn
    • “A Question of Passports” by Baroness Orczy

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The Edgar Winners: 33rd Annual Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America

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  • Published by:
    • Random House, 1980, U.S.A.
  • Edited by: Bill Pronzini
  • Contains:
    • Introduction by Bill Pronzini
    • 1947: “The Adventure of the Mad Tea-Party,” by Ellery Queen
    • 1948: “After-Dinner Story,” by William Irish
    • 1950: “Catfish Story,” by Lawrence G. Blochman
    • 1952: “Love Lies Bleeding,” by Philip MacDonald
    • 1953: “Lamb to the Slaughter,” by Roald Dahl
    • 1954: “The House Party,” by Stanley Ellin
    • 1956: “The Blessington Method,” by Stanley Ellin
    • 1958: “Over There-Darkness,” by William O’ Farrell
    • 1959: “The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl
    • 1962: “The Sailing Club,” by David Ely
    • 1962 Special Award: “This Will Kill You,” by Patrick Quentin
    • 1964: “H as in Homicide,” by Lawrence Treat
    • 1966: “The Chosen One,” by Rhys Davies
    • 1967: “The Oblong Room,” by Edward D. Hoch
    • 1968: “The Man Who Fooled the World,” by Warner Law
    • 1969: “Goodbye, Pops,” by Joe Gores
    • 1970: “In the Forests of Riga the Beasts Are Very Wild Indeed,” by Margery Finn Brown
    • 1971: “Moonlight Gardener,” by Robert L. Fish
    • 1972: “The Purple Shroud,” by Joyce Harrington
    • 1973: “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs,” by Harlan Ellison
    • 1975: “The Jail,” by Jesse Hill Ford
    • 1976: “Like a Terrible Scream,” by Etta Revesz
    • 1977: “Chance after Chance,” by Thomas Walsh
    • 1978: “The Cloud Beneath the Eaves,” by Barbara Owens
    • Edgar and Special Awards

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Dumped: An Anthology

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  • Published by:
    • Grove Press, 2003, USA.
  • Edited by: B. Delores Max

Description

Literature is full of lyrical odes to the glory of falling in love. But what of its opposite — the moment when it becomes clear that things are indisputably over? Dumped is a survey of every type of romantic crack-up, a group of stories full of the hilarity, wisdom, insight, and sometimes, yes, fierce revenges of some of the most memorable broken hearts in recent literature. Dumped sheds light on what can be the toughest part of human relations — whether newly elucidating the misery we’ve all endured, or merely reminding us that others have had it far worse — from the mother in Elizabeth Berg’s “Open House” absurdly attempting to tell her son his father has left, to the betrayed wife in Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to Slaughter,” who beats her husband to death with a leg of lamb, then cooks it for the police. With contributions from such notable authors as Will Self, Saul Bellow, Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Lorrie Moore, Dorothy Parker, Andre Dubus, and Tobias Wolff, as well as rising stars like Lucinda Rosenfeld and Steve Almond, Dumped spans every variety of romantic catastrophe and every possible response to it; from the wise to the hilarious, the bitter to the bittersweet. This book is the panacea for problems of the heart.

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Disenchantments – An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry

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  • Published by:
    • University Press of New England, 1985, USA.
  • Edited by: Wolfgang Mieder
  • Decorated with the black and white work of Hans Ruhl

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In the present anthology 101 fairy tale poems by 78 authors of English-speaking countries have been assembled for the first time. This collection is the result of more than a decade’s work, searching out these poems in books of poetry, poetry journals, and literary as well as cultural magazines. Only poems from [the 20th] century have been included since poems of the ninteenth century are often lengthy and usually just retell the fiary tale plot in rhymed form.

The poems in this collection are arranged into eleven chapters; the first two present a potpourri of poems that talk in general about the sense of fairy tales today and poems that react to various fairy tales or motifs. The remaining nine chapters deal with the most popular Grimm fairy tales, and they are arranged according to their sequence in the standard Grimm collection.

These poems are meant for adults just as the original fairy tales were told among adults to help them cope with the hardships, worries, and uncertainties of everyday life.

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Demonic Dangerous & Deadly

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  • Published by:
    • Dutton, 1983, U.K.
  • Edited by: Helen Hoke
  • Also contains:
    • “A Resumed Identity” by Ambrose Bierce
    • “Waxworks” by Robert Bloch
    • “Murder and Lonely Hearts” by Helen Nielsen
    • “The Tsantsa” by Maurice Sandoz
    • “Man Overboard!” by Winston Churchill
    • “So You Won’t Talk” by Manuel Komroff
    • “The Mistake” by Fielden Hughes
    • “Green Thoughts” by John Collier

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Death on Wheels

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  • Published by:
    • Souvenir Press, 1999, UK.
  • Edited by: Peter Haining

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