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Mary Shelley
The Invisible Girl

Three supernatural tales of longing and loss from the grand-dame of Gothic fiction, Mary ShelleyWhen a storm drives their boat towards the rocks, a group of sailors is saved by the light of a ruined tower…

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Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

Two literary giants take to the road on a comic journey - both chaotic, and completely unforgettableTired of the grind of work, two apprentices set out on a walking tour with no fixed plan, determined to …

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Yasunari Kawabata,
The Master of Go

Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

Luminous, suspenseful and serene, The Master of Go is a compelling portrait, quietly devastating of two men - and a whole society - facing defeat.Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its exec…

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Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea

Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

Hemingway's enduring story of resilience and solitude: One of the most powerful tales of courage and endurance ever writtenAn ageing fisherman sets out alone into the Gulf Stream, determined to prove that…

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Parasite

Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

Arthur Conan Doyle's tense, unsettlingly supernatural tale of obsession and controlAfter Austin Gilroy's fiancée is hypnotised, he finds himself drawn into the orbit of the woman responsible - Miss Penclo…

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Yi Mun-Yol,
The Poet

Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

The life of a poet becomes a parable of hope in Yi Mun-yol's searching novella of art, status and selfhood.With their family condemned as traitors, two young brothers are sent away in disguise to save the…

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Graham Greene
The Third Man

Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

Graham Greene's iconic thriller - a shocking tale of espionage and deceit, told from amongst the smouldering ruins of war-torn Europe.Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in post-war V…

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Georges Perec,
Things: A Story of the Sixties

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Georges Perec's cool, exacting portrait of a couple torn apart by consumer desireA young couple build their lives around the objects they long to own. From furniture to clothes to carefully imagined inter…

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J G Ballard
Venus Smiles (and Other Vermillion Sands Stories)

Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims.Out over the towering Coral D, sky artists paint the sky with clouds. A musical statue is broken down, …

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Jacqueline Harpman,
We Were Forbidden

Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

A startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, from the author ofI Who Have Never Known MenIn the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest, forbidden from ever leavi…

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Simone de Beauvoir,
Woman of Genius

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Two sisters must find their way in a world designed to confine them.Marcelle is the elder sister, a woman whose ambitions focus on becoming the companion of a 'man of genius'. Marguerite is the younger si…

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Eileen Chang,
Young at the Time

Brief Encounters, Vintage Classics

From one of the great Chinese authors of the twentieth century, these newly translated stories illuminate the most intimate matters of the human heartSince childhood, Ruliang has sketched the same face in…

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