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Diana Secker Tesdell
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Christmas Stories
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2007
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11 editions
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New York Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)
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2011
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4 editions
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Cat Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)
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2011
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3 editions
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Stories of the Sea
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2010
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2 editions
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Bedtime Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)
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2011
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6 editions
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Dog Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)
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2010
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8 editions
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Stories from the Kitchen (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)
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2015
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3 editions
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Love Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)
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2009
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6 editions
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Stories of Art and Artists (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)
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2014
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5 editions
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Stories of Motherhood (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)
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2012
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2 editions
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“But the development of events on that Saturday night 鈥� that fascinated me; I felt that I had had a glimpse of the shameless, marvellous, shattering absurdity with which the plots of life, though not of fiction, are improvised." 鈥� from 鈥淎n Ounce of Cure鈥� by Alice Munro”
― Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories
― Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories
“There was a rough stone age and a smooth stone age and a bronze age, and many years afterward a cut-glass age. In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young
men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents鈥攑unch-bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, wine-glasses, ice-cream dishes, bonbon dishes, decanters, and vases鈥攆or, though cut glass was nothing new in the nineties, it was then especially busy reflecting the dazzling light of fashion from the Back Bay to the fastnesses of the Middle West."
--from "The Glass-Cut Bowl" by F. Scott Fitzgerald”
― Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories
men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents鈥攑unch-bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, wine-glasses, ice-cream dishes, bonbon dishes, decanters, and vases鈥攆or, though cut glass was nothing new in the nineties, it was then especially busy reflecting the dazzling light of fashion from the Back Bay to the fastnesses of the Middle West."
--from "The Glass-Cut Bowl" by F. Scott Fitzgerald”
― Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories
“In crises of this sort the Dyckmanns had usually found it effective to stare into space, encouraging the long pause that might fetch the witty words, 'Well, dear, we must go.' But the Bairds were on an entirely different wavelength, and this was the fault of the Dyckmanns. With the removal of the bottles it had been the mutual impulse of the Bairds to shoot out the door, but their second thought was that they must not... (from "Dinner on the Rocks" (1954) by Dawn Powell)”
― Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories
― Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories
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