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Read these as and when I'm short of a longer novel. Quite brilliant and totally 'unexpected.' Stories of revenge, deception and cruelty. Well plotted. Keep you guessing. Leave you wanting more. More than can be said of many more modern writers' work
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"As it's a collection of short stories I'm not going to read it from cover-to-cover. I read the occasional story from the collection when I'm stuck for something to read, which isn't often as I have plenty to choose from in my extensive collection." — Aug 05, 2015 04:00PM
"As it's a collection of short stories I'm not going to read it from cover-to-cover. I read the occasional story from the collection when I'm stuck for something to read, which isn't often as I have plenty to choose from in my extensive collection." — Aug 05, 2015 04:00PM
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"I hated this. Couldn't get into it. Just awful, so didn't finish it." — Nov 25, 2020 09:48AM
"I hated this. Couldn't get into it. Just awful, so didn't finish it." — Nov 25, 2020 09:48AM
“I saw something nasty in the woodshed.”
― Cold Comfort Farm
― Cold Comfort Farm
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”
― Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
― Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
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“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
― The Merchant of Venice
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
― The Merchant of Venice
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