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The first volume of collected short stories, written by a master of the form This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of...

Dark and whimsical tales from one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark...

This stylish paperback edition of Helen Garner's collected short fiction celebrates the work of one of Australia's most loved authors. These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing,...

From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a gemlike collection of unforgettable short stories in which nothing is quite what it seems... Discover...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MATRIX and FATES AND FURIES 'Magnificent . . . Lauren Groff is a virtuoso' Emily St John Mandel 'A blistering collection . . . lyrical...

Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before short stories from the bestselling author of the Outlander series. Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before...

An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen 'Razor-sharp' Zadie Smith An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year...

From award-winning crime writer Margaret Hickey comes a collection of captivating short stories celebrating the Australian countryside. Margaret Hickey's Rural Dreams takes a look at life outside the big smoke,...

The stories in Emma Cline's stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines of power between men and women, parents and children, past and...

Roald Dahl's tales of innocence, youth and guile . . . What makes us innocent and how do we come to lose it? Featuring the autobiographical stories telling of Roald...

Roald Dahl collects fourteen classic tales of terror and suspense . . . Do you like feeling scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahl these terrible tales...

Roald Dahl's tales of war, conflict and strife . . . In war are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl's...

The complete Jack Reacher short stories from the number one bestseller Lee Child. \"Including a new novella, the clever, twisty tales reveal that even 13-year-old Reacher was a force to...

'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti 'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during...

'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary 'Kafka is important...

The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north-west London lives...

A beautiful new jacket treatment, part of Penguin's reissue programme of Dahl's adult titles What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her...

A bestselling collection of short stories from the American master storyteller Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this...

From the queen of domestic horror, this is a masterpiece of domestic comedy Shirley Jackson's 1953 classic about life with her husband and four children in rural Vermont is one...

A selection of Lafcadio Hearn's brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out...

A collection of Kafka's greatest stories, including his famous tale of alienation, now in Penguin Black Classics This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works...

Thirteen strangely wrought stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to....

Each of the overlapping stories in Tim Winton's The Turning centres on a transformation; together they form the bestselling Australian collection of the last three decades. Tim Winton's characters are...

One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his best Lawson transcends the very bush, the very outback, the very...

- Brilliant, daring, and demonstrating a jaw-dropping versatility of voice and point of view, The Boat is an extraordinary work of fiction that takes us to the heart of what...

New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich,...

A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery' An anxious devil, a malicious old woman and a mid-century Jack the Ripper;...

A Russian heir to Charles Dickens, Leskov is one of the great, underrated voices of nineteenth-century Russia An outsider from the literary establishment of his day, Nikolai Leskov is one...

A chilling new collection of Henry James's short stories exploring the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of...

First new translation since publication of Albert Camus's story collection The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country...

One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' MARIO VARGAS LLOSA THE BOOK OF SAND was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in...

'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York Times A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers's...

A tour de force of passion and desire from Anais Nin, the master of erotic literature -- now a major series on Sky Atlantic Combining startling lyricism with what often...

Contains ten stories- The Two Hussars; Strider; A Prisoner in the Caucasus; God Sees the Truth But Waits; What Men Live By; Neglect a Spark; Two Old Men; How Much...

This volume includes Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Devil and Father Sergius. The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows...

A unique collection bringing together acknowledged masterpieces from classic authors such as Chekhov and Gogol and a rich selection from less familiar writers. From the reign of the Tsars in...

A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural...

Three stories that form Flaubert's last complete work and reveal him as a master of the short story form. First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions...

A collection of nine of Chekhov's short stories from the middle period of his life These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career show him exploring complex, ambiguous and...

A collection of some of Dostoyevsky's finest short stories With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds...

A collection of von Kleist's haunting, unsettling stories In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this...

Dickens' experimental and thrilling short stories This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with...

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** The brilliant new collection of stories by the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**...

A collection of fifteen stories, evoking the voices and lives that teem in Joyce's vision of his native city EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SCARLETT BARON AND...

'The American Chekhov' Sunday Times With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed...

An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of...

Newly re-jacketed for a new generation, the bestselling collection by the greatest short story writer in the world and winner of the Man Booker International Prize. The matchless Munro makes...

'An excellent story-teller, intense and skilful in planning and bringing off his effects' Daily Telegraph In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live,...