<p><b>''Everyone who met him commented on the arresting power of Lawrence''s bright and sharp blue eyes, and the beard he later grew would be as red as a fox''s brush, but it was not his appearance that Ford was describing. It was his menace'' </b><br><br>Frances Wilson, from her Introduction to <i>The Man Who Loves Islands</i><br><u>------------------------------------------------</u><br><br><i>The Man Who Loved Islands</i> presents Lawrence''s skilled, intimate and lively portraits of humanity. In the title story a man buys a ninety-nine year lease on an island and finds himself cast off in its timeless world; in ''The Last Laugh'' a couple are confronted with uncanny spectral visions, and an eerie faceless laugh; in ''The Fox'' two women maintaining a farm feel the dark shadows of war, and a cunning creature threatens to destroy their livelihood. The stories in this collection are about what the characters know and do not know - about themselves, one another, and the circumambient u
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A brand new selection of Maupassant's finest stories, including an original preface by Joseph Conrad.
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<p><b>''I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps from the hour I was born''</b><br><br><br>A man goes mad because he is happy.<br><br>A civil servant behaves like a...
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This unique collection offers a perfect introduction to one of Russia's - and the world's - greatest writers.
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