Everyman: Erotic Stories

At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer tells of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first child's birth, and from ...

Publisher: EverymanAuthor(s): VariousNumber of pages: 400Collection: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICSPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 123 x 188 ...

Kipling began these stories in Vermont, to amuse his daughter when they were living in his wife's home town. The comic explanations, such as "how t...

Russian Stories rounds up marvellous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turge...

Whether set against the open ocean or tiny mountain streams, in ancient China, tropical Tahiti, Paris under siege, or the vast Canadian wilderness,...

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Rome Stories explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a Renaissance sculptor, 18th-century tourists, America...

Scott Fitzgerald's "The Bridal Party, " Joy Williams's "The Wedding, " and Lorrie Moore's "Thank You For Having Me", encompass comic wedding mishap...

Salman Rushdie's dazzling novel The Enchantress of Florence takes inspiration from the city's gilded Renaissance past, while Mary McCarthy's master...

Rich and various in mood and background - the settings range across England and France - these stories powerfully convey the uncompromising insight...

The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment, and its crowning achievement was Voltaire's "Candide". It follows the worldwide encounter...

Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, 'has always been a city of desperate modernity', both in terms of urban architect...

Stories from the Kitchen is a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, by a rich variety of authors from Dickens, Chek...

In an interview, Updike once said, "If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories." They follow the life of one characte...

The only complete collection of shorter fiction by the undisputed master of detective literature, assembled here for the first time in one volume, ...

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

Publisher: EverymanAuthor(s): Thomas MannNumber of pages: 920Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 209 x 132 x 46Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmec...

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

This selection covers the full range of Kipling's extraordinary short stories throughout his career. Above all, they convey a wonderful sense of li...

In 1956 John Updike wrote a short story about newly-weds Joan and Richard Maple. Gathered here for the first time in hardcover - and with the addit...

Publisher: EverymanAuthor(s): Guy de MaupassantTranslator: Marjorie LaurieNumber of pages: 408Collection: Everyman's Library CLASSICSPublication da...

Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre influenced Baudelaire and French symbolism, Freudian analysis, the detective novel and the Hollywood film. H...

From Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Artist of the Beautiful" and Albert Camus's "The Artist at Work" to Bernard Malamud's "Rembrandt's Hat" and Aimee B...

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...

Publisher: EverymanAuthor(s): W. Somerset MaughamNumber of pages: 848Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 212 x 135 x 50Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Together with many celebrated stories - including THE PRUSSIAN OFFICIER, THE VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY, ST MAWR and ODOUR OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS - there are ...

Roald Dahl is well known as a master of the macabre and the unexpected in the tradition of Saki. This volume includes the stories in chronological ...

A brilliant and much admired novelist, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) surpassed herself as a writer of short fiction: 'the supreme genius of her time'...

In these three sea stories, based on his own experience, Conrad invests his portraits of mundane steamers and their crews with epic qualities of fo...

Primarily known as a dramatist, Chekhov also wrote short stories. This selection of his work includes "The Swedish Match", "Easter Eve", "Mire", "O...

This selection of stories by Katherine Mansfield has been chosen by Claire Tomalin and emphasize the stronger, feminist side of her writing rather ...

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