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The Man Who Wanted to Smell Books: Selected Short Stories (Canongate Classics Book 7) by Elspeth Davie, Giles Gordon is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland's finest and most underrated short-story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionate, but no less penetrating eye for the beauty and the strangeness of the daily human condition. This wide-ranging collection of the very best of Elspeth Davie's short fiction offers an important reassessment of a wonderful writer.
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Elspeth Davie, Giles Gordon
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781841952000
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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