Collected Stories

Reducere. My eyes, perversely shaken open, gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature could even imagine without panic, fear and physical exha...

M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also supe...

With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University. Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who h...

'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's'. Saki (H.H. Munro) stands along...

Reducere. Traversing a vivid landscape, from sunblasted hills and canyons to the nighttime streets of America s greatest cities, some of Louis L Amour s most...

The stories of Louis L'Amour are built around the dramatic moments when men and women cast their fears, doubts, and pasts behind them and plunge in...

There is no story more distinctly American than the western and no writer as great a master of the form as Louis L Amour. In this final paperback v...

Includes a lively introduction that explores James's conservative, donnish background and the character traits that contributed to the extraordinar...

Reducere. Classic short stories that expand the epic Legend of Drizzt(R) For years, the Legend of Drizzt has included short stories published in Forgotten Re...

Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most ...

Reducere. Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voice...

The sheltered Laura Sheridan gains a sense of class consciousness and injustice as she mixes with the staff preparing her family's garden party. Pu...

The only single volume edition to include all the tales featured in M.R James' 1931 }Collected Ghost Stories{. Includes a fascinating introduction ...

Reducere. I've been running role-playing games for thirty years, but am relatively new to playing them. Erica's rolled up dozens of characters, but has only ...

Masterly collection of short stories by an American novelist at the height of her powers

A collection of classic short stories from the author of }Wide Sargasso Sea{. Includes an introduction by Rhys's editor, Diana Athill.

Regarded as one of the finest American short story writers and admired by George Saunders, Susan Sontag and Salman Rushdie, this volume presents Pa...

The fourth volume of collected stories of the twentieth century?s greatest writer of science fiction

Introducing you to a host of extraordinary characters and communities, this book includes a collection of short stories written by Gabriel Garcia M...

A collection of tales that range from one man's honeymooning epiphany in "Hassan's Tower" to the journeying fantasies of "A Voyage to Cythera", and...

The first volume of the complete stories of the twentieth century's greatest SF author.

The third volume of the complete stories of the twentieth century's greatest SF author.

The final volume in the definitive collection of stories by the greatest science fiction writer of the twentieth century

'Shirley Hazzard is, purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in the English today' (Michael Cunningham). Now at last comes the first...

Reducere. Description"Intelligent, poignant, hilarious, and awesome. Keiler Roberts' comic, Powdered Milk takes an honest look into the world of pregnancy, p...

Two exquisite collections of stories and a Whitbread Award-winning novel brought together with an introduction from Alan HollinghurstPublisher: Pan...

Reducere. From the Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of THE TURTLE BOY, KIN, and JACK & JILL. Somewhere out west there is a town called Milestone. You will no...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIEAs well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her l...

A collection short stories, each of which brimming with astute observations and sharp wit that can captivate readers the world over. It explores th...

A collection of short fiction that is written by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.

'Characters all but leap off the page with believability in these marvellous stories of life (and death) in Belfast' Sunday TimesMelding his native...

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has long been recognized...

A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofictionPublisher: Canongate BooksAuthor(s): Co...

Available For The First Time In One Volume, The Very Best Of Mathews's Short Fiction; This expertly designed original paperback presents a comprehe...

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Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly ...

Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single ...

these stories help amplify Williams's tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the hum...

Never before available to readers in the UK, these brilliant and idiosyncratic short stories stand alongside the fictions of Borges, Beckett and Na...

Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer prize-winning novelist John Cheever show the power and range of one o...

"A welcome volume of stories from Russia's finest contemporary fiction writer, Mikhail Shishkin, full of his typical fusing of mysticism and modern...

Features seventy-nine stories such as: love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties...

Reducere. Discover where it all began... Never mate with humans. Never tell them of our existence. And never kill one of our own. For time immemorial, the Ol...

A Second Volume of the exceptional, though often neglected, fiction of Violet HuntViolet Hunt was a British author who was notable for her early fe...

DescriptionA Dream Come True collects the complete stories of Juan Carlos Onetti, presenting his existentialist, complex, and ironic style over the...

Edited and with an introduction by Robert PhelpsThe hundred short stories collected here include such masterpieces as 'Bella-Vista', 'The Tender Sh...

Reducere. Richard Matheson: collected stories vol. 3 is the last of a three volume set of Richard Matheson's collected stories. Volume three includes some of...

The new expanded Everyman edition of Pushkin's prose fiction contains all his mature work. At this volume makes clear, Pushkins is one of the world...

Included are classics of short-form fiction such as 'A Bear Hunt', 'A Rose for Emily', 'Two Soldiers' and 'The Brooch'. Faulkner's ability to compr...

New in Black Classics, and with an introduction by Ali Smith.

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of short fiction from Susan Sontag, the National Book Award-winning author of In America and Against Interpretation, and th...

Presents stories of abandonment and vengeance, in which extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions. A missionary is sent to a place so dista...

Keep Watching for Kingfishers is a collection of sermons preached in St Peter's Cathedral in Adelaide, South Australia. Jenny Wilson places the sto...

These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm...

Features twenty classic tales of Horace Rumpole in which he battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent Sou...

Deals with the complexities of relationships as well as the joys of children. This title contains the author's controversial story "Weddings and Be...

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A collection of stories such as: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hac...

Publisher: Little, BrownAuthor(s): Shirley HazzardPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 32Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturi...

Honey Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer's coming of age through disorienting, ...

Reducere. This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection--a finalist for the National Book Award--demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extr...

Reducere. Gangs, killers, and vampires. One war-torn detective is the only hope of survival for a crime-ridden orbiting city... Blade Runner meets Se7en in t...

Reducere. A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy Hugh ...

A New York Review Books Original "Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down." -Time Tatyana Tolstay...

Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime.Publisher: EverymanAuthor(s)...

Reducere. The complete supernatural fiction of a Victorian scholarThe second half of the nineteenth century was a golden age for supernatural fiction and suc...

Reducere. Porter s reputation as one of americanca s most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collectio...

Reducere. Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. This celebrated volume gathers together her complete work -- four short collections of stunning stories ...

Reducere. Strange tales from a Russian OccultistThe late nineteenth century saw a rise in the number of people who became interested in the occult and among ...