Small Fry by Anton Chekhov

Small Fry by Anton ChekhovUniversally acclaimed as the master of the short story form, Anton Chekhov begun his literary career as the author of brief tales and vignettes of Russian life when he was still a young medical student. Later rejected by the writer in the same self effacing way in which he repudiated some of his most celebrated works, the stories in this collection are not only a testament to the early promise of his genius, but deserve to be appreciated for their

surrender and consciousness

stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II

two-fisted exploration and groundbreaking research

offers an original perspective on this still controversial period: a prism through which the moral and personal costs of violence

they indicate significant variants and help explain obscure turns of phrase and allusions (frequently sourced to Beckett's notebooks)

But after committing an indiscretion and being expelled from his family home

and pieces together items whose comic and fanciful accounts evoke Flann O'Brien

'This selection of George Orwell's writing

Free to create a fresh identity for herself

A welcome ally in the fight against fake history' Eleanor Janega

to the extraterrestrial terror of 'The Call of Cthulhu'

Soon the two women's lives will become inextricably bound together as the legendary trial at Lancaster approaches