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The Oxford book of English short stories / by Byatt, A. S.(Antonia Susan),1936-2023.(CARDINAL)128537;

A mere interlude - Thomas Hardy /At Hiruharama - Penelope Fitzgerald /Beauty of the dawn shift - Rose Tremain /Behind the shade - Arthur Morrison /Blush - Elizabeth Taylor /Dead languages - Philip Hensher /Destructors -- Graham Greene /Dream cargoes - J. G. Ballard /Dream of winter - Rosamund Lehmann /Englishman's home - Evelyn Waugh /Enoch's two letters - Alan Sillitoe /Haunted House - Charles Dickens /Kiss - Angela Carter /Landlord of the Crystal Fountain - Malachi Whitaker /Little brother - Mary Mann /Man who loved Islands - D. H. Lawrence /My flannel knickers - Leonora Carrington /My story - John Fuller /Nuns at luncheon - Aldous Huxley /One the edge of the cliff - V. S. Pritchett /Relics of General Chasse: a tale of Antwerp - Anthony Trollope/Reverent Wooing of Archibald - P. G. Wodehouse /Sacristan of St. Botolph - William Gilbert /Solid geometry - Ian McEwan /Solid objects - Virginia Woolf /Some talk of Alexander - A. E. Coppard /Telephone - John Fuller /Toys of peace - Saki /Tragedy in green - Ronald Firbank /Tremendous adventures of Major Brown - G. K. Chesterton /Troll - T. H. White /Two doctors -- M. R. James /Under the knife - H. G. Wells /Waterfall - H. E. Bates /White night - Charlotte Mew /Widow's quilt - Sylvia Townsend Warner /Wireless - Rudyard Kipling /

Subjects: Fiction.; Short stories, English.;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7

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The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 / by Gallagher, Gary W.(CARDINAL)163162;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-375) and index.

Subjects: Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (August-November);

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The Best of modern humor / by Richler, Mordecai,1931-2001.(CARDINAL)508704;

Short humor by Stephen Leacock, Maurice Baring, H.L. Mencken, Damon Runyon, P.G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, Marianne Moore, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Groucho Marx, Frank Sullivan, J.B. Morton(Beachcomber), James Thurber, E.B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Stella Gibbons, Evelyn Waugh, A.J. Liebling, S.J. Perelman, Leo Rosten, Eudora Welty, Peter de Vries, Flann O'Brien (Myles na Gopaleen), John Cheever, Oliver Jensen, Saul Bellow, Jessica Mitford, Kingsley Amis, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Joseph Heller, John Mortimer, Jean Kerr, Truman Capote, Terry Southern.Thomas Berger, Russell Baker, Art Buchwald, Kenneth Tynan, Thomas Meehan, Stanley Elkin, Bruce Jay Friedman, Wilfrid Sheed, Donald Barthelme, V.S. Naipaul, Tom Wolfe, Philip Roth, Beryl Bainbridge, Woody Allen, Bruce McCall, Calvin Trillin, Dan Greenburg, Cyra McFadden, Alan Coren, Marshall Brickman, Alexander Theroux, Nora Ephron, Max Apple, Roy Blount,Jr., Veronica Geng, Garrison Keillor, Lisa Alther, Lynn Caraganis, Fran Lebowitz, Ian Frazier.

Subjects: American literature; American wit and humor.; American wit and humor; English literature; English wit and humor.; English wit and humor; Esprit et humour américains; Esprit et humour anglais;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9

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The Oxford book of English short stories / by Byatt, A. S.(Antonia Susan),1936-2023.(CARDINAL)128537;

-- A dream of winter / Rosamund Lehmann -- An Englishman's home / Evelyn Waugh -- The destructors / Graham Greene -- The waterfall / H.E. Bates -- The troll / T.H. White -- The blush / Elizabeth Taylor -- At Hiruharama / Penelope Fitzgerald -- My flannel knickers / Leonora Carrington -- Enoch's two letters / Alan Sillitoe -- Dream cargoes / J.G. Ballard -- Telephone / John Fuller -- My story / John Fuller -- The kiss / Angela Carter -- The beauty of the dawn shift / Rose Tremain -- Solid geometry / Ian McEwan -- Dead languages / Philip Hensher.Introduction / A.S. Byatt -- The Sacristan of St. Botolph / William Gilbert -- The haunted house / Charles Dickens -- Relics of General Chasse? : A tale of Antwerp / Anthony Trollope -- A mere interlude / Thomas Hardy -- Little brother / Mary Mann -- Two doctors / M.R. James -- Behind the shade / Arthur Morrison -- 'Wireless' / Rudyard Kipling -- Under the knife / H.G. Wells -- A white night / Charlotte Mew -- The toys of peace / Saki -- The tremendous adventures of Major Brown / G.K. Chesterton -- Some talk of Alexander / A.E. Coppard -- The reverent wooing of Archibald / P.G. Wodehouse -- Solid objects / Virginia Woolf -- The man who loved islands / D.H. Lawrence -- A tragedy in green / Ronald Firbank -- A widow's quilt / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Nuns at luncheon / Aldous Huxley -- Landlord of the crystal fountain / Malachi Whitaker -- On the edge of the cliff / V.S. PrichettA collection of less-known stories by well-known writers. In Thomas Hardy's A Mere Interlude, a bride on the eve of her wedding elopes with an old flame, while Graham Greene's The Destructors is on crime during the London Blitz.

Subjects: Short stories.; Short stories, English.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Arguably : essays / by Hitchens, Christopherauthor.(DLC)n 84159549 ;

Includes bibliographical references and index.All American. Gods of our fathers: the United States of enlightenment -- The private Jefferson -- Jefferson vs. the Muslim pirates -- Benjamin Franklin: free and easy -- John Brown: the man who ended slavery -- Abraham Lincoln: misery's child -- Mark Twain: American radical -- Upton Sinclair: a capitalist primer -- JFK: in sickness and by stealth -- Saul Bellow: the great assimilator -- Vladimir Nabokov: Hurricane Lolita -- John Updike: No way ; Mr. Geniality -- Vidal Loco -- America the Banana Republic -- An Anglosphere future -- Political animals -- Old enough to die -- In defense of foxhole atheists -- In search of the Washington novel -- Eclectic Affinities. Isaac Newton: flaws of gravity -- The men who made England: Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" -- Edmund Burke: reactionary prophet -- Samuel Johnson: demons and dictionaries -- Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide -- The dark side of Dickens -- Marx's journalism: the Grub Street years -- Rebecca West: things worth fighting for -- Ezra Pound: a revolutionary simpleton -- On "Animal Farm" -- Jessica Mitford's poison pen -- W. Somerset Maugham: poor old Willie -- Evelyn Waugh: the permanent adolescent -- P.G. Wodehouse: the honorable schoolboy -- Anthony Powell: an omnivorous curiosity -- John Buchan: spy thriller's father -- Graham Greene: I'll be damned -- Death from a salesman: Graham Greene's bottled ontology -- Loving Philip Larkin -- Stephen Spender: a nice bloody fool -- Edward Upward: the captive mind -- C.L.R. James: mid off, not right on -- J.G. Ballard: the catastrophist -- Fraser's Flashman: scoundrel time -- Fleet Street's finest: from Waugh to Frayn -- Saki: where the wild things are -- Harry Potter: the boy who lived -- Amusements, annoyances, and disappointments. Why women aren't funny -- Stieg Larsson: the author who played with fire -- As American as apple pie -- So many men's rooms, so little time -- The new commandments -- In your face -- Wine drinkers of the world, unite -- Charles, Prince of Piffle -- Offshore accounts. Afghanistan's dangerous bet -- First, silence the whistle-blower -- Believe me, it's torture -- Iran's waiting game -- Long live democratic seismology -- Benazir Bhutto: daughter of destiny -- From Abbottabad to worse -- The perils of partition -- Algeria: a French quarrel -- The case of Orientalism -- Edward Said: where the Twain should have met -- The swastika and the cedar -- Holiday in Iraq -- Tunisia: at the desert's edge -- What happened to the suicide bombers of Jerusalem? -- Childhood's end: an African nightmare -- the Vietnam syndrome -- Once upon a time in Germany -- Worse than "Nineteen Eighty-four" -- North Korea: A nation of racist dwarves -- The eighteenth brumaire of the Castro dynasty -- Hugo Boss -- Is the Euro doomed? -- Overstating Jewish power -- The case for humanitarian intervention -- Legacies of totalitarianism. Victor Serge: pictures from an inquisition -- André Malraux: one man's fate -- Arthur Koestler: the zealot -- Isabel Allende: Chile redux -- The Persian version -- Martin Amis: lightness at midnight -- Imagining Hitler -- Victor Klemperer: survivor -- A war worth fighting -- Just give peace a chance? -- W.G. Sebald: requiem for Germany -- Words' worth. When the king saved God -- Let them eat pork rinds -- Stand up for Denmark! -- Eschew the taboo -- She's no fundamentalist -- Burned out -- Easter charade -- Don't mince words -- History and mystery -- Words matter -- This was not looting -- The "other" L-word -- The you decade -- Suck it up -- A very, very dirty word -- Prisoner of shelves.Essayist Christopher Hitchens ruminates on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men, the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard, the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell, the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad, the enduring relevance of Karl Marx, and how politics justifies itself by culture--and how the latter prompts the former.

Subjects: Essays.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Arguably : essays / by Hitchens, Christopher,author.(CARDINAL)740242;

All American. Gods of our fathers: the United States of enlightenment -- The private Jefferson -- Jefferson vs. the Muslim pirates -- Benjamin Franklin: free and easy -- John Brown: the man who ended slavery -- Abraham Lincoln: misery's child -- Mark Twain: American radical -- Upton Sinclair: a capitalist primer -- JFK: in sickness and by stealth -- Saul Bellow: the great assimilator -- Vladimir Nabokov: Hurricane Lolita -- John Updike, part one: No way -- John Updike, part two: Mr. Geniality -- Vidal Loco -- America the Banana Republic -- An Anglosphere future -- Political animals -- Old enough to die -- In defense of foxhole atheists -- In search of the Washington novel -- Eclectic Affinities. Isaac Newton: flaws of gravity -- The men who made England: Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" -- Edmund Burke: reactionary prophet -- Samuel Johnson: demons and dictionaries -- Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide -- The dark side of Dickens -- Marx's journalism: the Grub Street years -- Rebecca West: things worth fighting for -- Ezra Pound: a revolutionary simpleton -- On "Animal Farm" -- Jessica Mitford's poison pen -- W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie -- Evelyn Waugh: the permanent adolescent -- P. G. Wodehouse: The Honorable Schoolboy -- Anthony Powell: An Omnivorous Curiosity -- John Buchan: Spy Thriller's Father -- Graham Greene: I'll be damned -- Death from a salesman: Graham Greene's bottle ontology -- Loving Philip Larkin -- Stephen Spender: a nice bloody fool -- Edward Upward: the captive mind -- C. L. R. James: mid off, not right on -- J. G. Ballard: the catastrophist -- Fraser's Flashman: scoundrel time -- Fleet Street's finest: from Waugh to Frayn -- Saki: where the wild things are -- Harry Potter: the boy who lived -- Amusements, annoyances, and disappointments. Why women aren't funny -- Stieg Larsson: the author who played with fire -- As American as apple pie -- So many men's rooms, so little time -- The new commandments -- In your face -- Wine drinkers of the world, unite -- Charles, Prince of Piffle -- Offshore accounts. Afghanistan's dangerous bet -- First, silence the whistle-blower -- Believe me, it's torture -- Iran's waiting game -- Long live democratic seismology -- Benazir Bhutto: daughter of destiny -- From Abbottabad to worse -- The perils of partition -- Algeria: a French quarrel -- The case of Orientalism -- Edward Said: where the Twain should have met -- The swastika and the cedar -- Holiday in Iraq -- Tunisia: at the desert's edge -- What happened to the suicide bombers of Jerusalem? -- Childhood's end: an African nightmare -- The Vietnam Syndrome -- Once upon a time in Germany -- Worse than "Nineteen Eighty-four" -- North Korea: A nation of racist dwarves -- The eighteenth brumaire of the Castro dynasty -- Hugo Boss -- Is the Euro doomed? -- Overstating Jewish power -- The case for humanitarian intervention -- Legacies of totalitarianism. Victor Serge: pictures from an inquisition -- André Malraux: one man's fate -- Arthur Koestler: the zealot -- Isabel Allende: Chile Redux -- The Persian version -- Martin Amis: lightness at midnight -- Imagining Hitler -- Victor Klemperer: survivor -- A war worth fighting -- Just give peace a chance? -- W. G. Sebald: requiem for Germany -- Words' worth. When the king saved God -- Let them eat pork rinds -- Stand up for Denmark! -- Eschew the taboo -- She's no fundamentalist -- Burned out -- Easter charade -- Don't mince words -- History and mystery -- Words matter -- This was not looting -- The "other" L-word -- The you decade -- Suck it up -- A very, very dirty word -- Prisoner of shelves.Essayist Christopher Hitchens ruminates on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men, the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard, the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell, the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad, the enduring relevance of Karl Marx, and how politics justifies itself by culture--and how the latter prompts the former.

Subjects: Essays.;

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An anthology of famous British stories / by Cerf, Bennett,1898-1971.(CARDINAL)128875; Cerf, Bennett,1898-1971.(CARDINAL)128875; Moriarty, Henry C.; Moriarty, Henry, C.;

Purple and fine linen / May Edginton. Mr. Oddy / Sir Hugh Walpole. A busman's holiday / Francis Brett Young. A sleeping draft / Weston Martyr. The Prussian officer / D.H. Lawrence. Fish are such liars / Roland Pertwee. A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier. The chink and the child / Thomas Burke. Life of Ma Parker / Katherine Mansfield. A day in a woman's life / Sheila Kaye-Smith. Rivers of Damascus / Donn Byrne. The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley. The cavalier of the streets / Michael Arlen. The old hunter / Liam O'Flaherty. The white cottage / L.A.G. Strong. The trapper's mates / Henry Williamson. The forty-third division / Ralph Bates. The eyes / Thomas Owen Beachcroft. The betting Scotchman / Anonymous. Bella Fleace gave a party / Evelyn Waugh.The country of the blind / H.G. Wells. Mary with the high hand / Arnold Bennett. The apple tree / John Galsworthy. Action / C.E. Montague. The valley of the beasts / Algernon Blackwood. Mrs. Packletide's tiger / Saki. The happy hypocrite / Max Beerbohm. The derelict / H.M. Tomlinson. Red / W. Somerset Maugham. The hammer of God / G.K. Chesterton. The kings of Orion / John Buchan. The stranger in the village / Sir Philip Gibbs. The higgler / A.E. Coppard. The western islands / John Masefield. The sword of Welleran / Lord Dunsany. The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster. The log of the "Evening Star" / Alfred Noyes. Jeeves and the song of songs / P.G. Wodehouse. Three lovers who lost / James Stephens. The dead / James Joyce.The pardoner's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer. The marvellous adventure of the sword / Sir Thomas Mallory. The apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe. The vision of Mirza / Joseph Addison. Asem, an Eastern tale / Oliver Goldsmith. The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott. The iron shroud / William Mudford. The gridiron / Samuel Lover. The house and the brain / E. Bulwer-Lytton. Con Cregan's legacy / Charles Lever. Rab and his friends / John Brown. The half-brothers / Elizabeth C. Gaskell. Sultan stork / William Makepeace Thackeray. A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens. Malachi's Cove / Anthony Trollope. The punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the Builder / George Meredith. The three strangers / Thomas Hardy. Story of a piebald horse / W.H. Hudson. Sire de Maletroit's door ; A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson.The story of Dr. MacLure / John Watson (Ian MacLaren). Faith / R. Cunninghame Graham. The clerk's quest / George Moore. The birthday of the infanta / Oscar Wilde. Youth / Joseph Conrad. The captain of the "Ullswater" / Morley Roberts. The adventure of the speckled band / A. Conan Doyle. The courting of T'nowhead's bell / Sir James Matthew Barrie. The babus of Nayanjore / Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Philippa's fox-hunt / E. Somerville and Martin Ross. The mezzotint / Montague Rhodes James. "Hey, diddle diddle, the cat..." / Eden Phillpotts. The adventure of the kind Mr. Smith / William J. Locke. The roll-call of the reef / Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch. That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison. The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs. The doll in the pink silk dress / Leonard Merrick. The drums of the fore and aft ; The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling. Red Hanrahan / William Butler Yeats.

Subjects: Short stories, English.;

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