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The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson (Penguin classics)
Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old whiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and …
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Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old whiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and …

Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old whiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and …

In September 1913, Mieczysław Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort …

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.
1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in …

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a …

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a …


First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving …


There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine.
Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in …

A book about a flower thing

A book about a flower thing

On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the …