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The Green Hat (Capuchin Classics) מאת Michael Arlen The Green Hat perfectly reflects the atmosphere of the 1920s—the post-war fashion for verbal smartness, youthful cynicism, and the spirit of rebellion of the "bright young things" of Mayfair. Iris Storm, femme fatale, races around London and Europe in her yellow Hispano-Suiza surround...

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Plain Tales from the Hills (Capuchin Classics) מאת Rudyard Kipling Set and published during the time of the British Raj, a time of subalterns and tea planters, the 40 stories in Plain Tales From The Hills are played out under an unforgiving sun, revealing the deceit, faithlessness, shallowness, despair, mistrust, hate, and petty jealousi...

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Tales of Sexual Desire: Father Sergius, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Devil (Capuchin Classics) מאת Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy wrote some of the most disquieting short stories the world has known—these three are no exception. Here, the duels and duality of man and woman are played out in tortured—and sometimes tragic—drama. Above all, the charac...

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The Hireling (Capuchin Classics) מאת L. P. Hartley Emotionally paralyzed by grief at her husband’s death, Lady Franklin, an eligible young widow, unburdens herself to Leadbitter—a gallant, hard-bitten ex-soldier who has invested his savings, and himself, in the car he drives for hire—as he takes her on a series of journeys. He in turn be...

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On Horseback and Other Stories (Capuchin Classics) מאת Guy de Maupassant At once uplifting and depressing, cynical and idealistic, humorous and thought-provoking, the one thing these stories have in common is that they each leave the reader with a new insight into the human condition. The title story examines contemporary Paris and Parisian society. In "T...

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The Voyage (Capuchin Classics) מאת Charles Morgan Set in the Charente country and the Paris music halls of the 1930s, The Voyage tells of the travails of one man’s quest for love—love for a woman, and love for France. Available once more to a modern readership, the story that is widely regarded as Charles Morgan’s finest...

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Green Dolphin Country (Capuchin Classics) מאת Elizabeth Goudge First published in 1944, this magnificent epic of love, courage, and selfless devotion set in the Channel Islands and New Zealand in the 19th century is written with Elizabeth Goudge’s inimitable feeling for the intricacies of human emotions. Though the book is fiction, and th...

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The Dark Flower (Capuchin Classics) מאת John Galsworthy Covering almost 30 years in the life and loves of Mark Lennan, The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18-year-old undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage girl...

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Juan in America (Capuchin Classics) מאת Eric Linklater Set in the year before the Wall Street crash, this book is a classic evocation of the final mania of prohibition, as seen through equally maverick British eyes. The character Eric Linklater devised to be his unreliable explorer was one capable of absorbing the enormity of the American experie...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Capuchin Classics) מאת A Conan Doyle Considered by many to be one of the greatest crime novels ever written, this tale is an absolute classic of the genre. After the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville—purportedly caused by a giant ghostly hound—Watson is sent by Sherlock Holmes to Devon to protect Sir Henry Baskerville,...

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Love in a Wych Elm and Other Stories (Capuchin Classics) מאת H. E. Bates Kent, the "Garden of England," provides the rustic setting for these poignant stories from the creator of The Darling Buds of May. Graham Greene liked to compare H. E. Bates with Chekhov, greatest of short story writers, thinking Bates the best writer of sh...

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Shirley's Guild (Capuchin Classics) מאת David Pryce-Jones In an otherwise quiet village, a little girl with red hair and freckles named Shirley inspires a chain of events that cannot be explained by reason or scientific enquiry. Parents, friends, and neighbors are convinced by Shirley—often in spite of themselves...

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Mr Perrin and Mr Traill (Capuchin Classics) מאת Hugh Walpole Many books have been written about the horror of boys’ public schools. Comparatively few, however, venture beyond the staff-room door to examine the suffering of masters as well as pupils. Of those that do, there is probably none that captures the wretchedness of their clo...

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The Conclave (Capuchin Classics) מאת Michael Bracewell The Conclave charts the first 30 years in the life of a suburban dilettante with aesthetic aspirations, who, in the 1980s, begins a lucrative career. The story roams from the edge of London to a well-heeled part of Bristol, and in doing so reveals a dis...

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Cashel Byron's Profession (Capuchin Classics) מאת George Bernard - Shaw George Bernard Shaw’s great novel follows Cashel Byron, a world-champion prizefighter, as he tries to woo wealthy aristocrat Lydia Carew without revealing his illegal profession. Lydia, portrayed as a moral and intelligent woman, is contrasted throughout with the ruffian and r...

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The Man Who Knew Everything (Capuchin Classics) מאת Tom Stacey Granville Jones is at the end of his life—once a famous, world-roving correspondent, now self-exiled on an island emirate in the Gulf, an old and forgotten man, long eclipsed by rising stars of television journalism. When the coup breaks it seems that Jones is the last to know. As this story ...