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Razor-sharp, glittering tales exploring marriage, fame and female friendship, from the Sunday Times bestselling author. In this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels, as she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends. In ‘The Patron Saints of Middle Age,’ a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In ‘A for Alone,’ a married artist embarks on a project intended to disprove the so-called Mike Pence Rule, which suggests that women and men can’t spend time alone together without lusting after each other. And in ‘Lost but Not Forgotten,’ Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel Prep a new window into the world of her beloved character Lee Fiora, decades later, when Lee attends an awkward school reunion. Witty, confronting and full of tenderness, Sittenfeld peels back layer after layer of our inner lives, keeping us riveted to the page with her utterly distinctive voice.

<b>'One of the literary greats of the twentieth century' Margaret Atwood</b><br/><br/>Ursula Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In her last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined.<br/><br/>The collected best of Ursula's blog, <i>No Time to Spare</i> presents perfectly crystallised dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it.<br/><br/>Ursula Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: 'If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.'<br/><br/>On cultural perceptions of fantasy: 'The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is "escapism" an accusation of?'<br/><br/>On breakfast: 'Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime.'

<b>This handsome hardback edition presents Friedrich Nietzsche's classic philosophical work, <i>On the Genealogy of Morals</i>, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges.</b><br/><br/>In this daring and insightful work, Nietzsche lays bare the hypocrisies at the foundations of our ideas of morality. Considering ideas of good and evil, guilt and conscience, and law and violence along the way, <i>On the Genealogy of Morals </i>takes the reader on a journey through the history of value systems in three masterful essays.<br/><br/> His insights are sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes provocative, but always demonstrate the workings of an exceptional mind. Together, this collection of essays makes up one of the most powerful works of modern philosophy that seeks to do nothing less than unravel the mysteries of human nature.<br/><br/> This deluxe<b> pocket-sized gift edition</b> contains the <b>classic translation by H. P. Paull,</b> and is presented with an<b> embossed cover design</b>,<b> ivory pages</b>, <b>beautifully designed endpapers</b> and <b>gold</b> <b>gilded page edges.</b> Part of the <i>Arcturus</i> <i>Ornate Classics</i> series, this book makes wonderful gift for any lover of classic literature.<br/><br/><b>ABOUT THE SERIES: </b><i>Arcturus Ornate Classics</i> are beautiful pocket editions of iconic literary works from across history. Presented with striking foil cover embossing, gilded page edges, and deluxe ivory paper, these editions make the perfect gift for lovers of classic literature.

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