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The Collected Dorothy Parker
Author: Dorothy Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and...
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A unique collection bringing together acknowledged masterpieces from classic authors such as Chekhov and Gogol and a rich selection...
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' MARIO VARGAS LLOSA THE BOOK OF SAND was the...
Immigrant, Montana
Author: Amitava Kumar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's...
Homesick For Another World
Author: Ottessa Moshfegh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen 'Razor-sharp' Zadie Smith An electrifying, prizewinning short...
Island
Author: Alistair MacLeod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The collected stories by one of the greatest short-story writers in the world. These slow, beautiful stories - resolute...
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A collection of Kafka's greatest stories, including his famous tale of alienation, now in Penguin Black Classics This collection...
Horrorology: Books of Horror
Author: Clive Barker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In the Library of the Damned, hidden away amongst that vast depository of ancient wisdom, there exists a certain...
Exile and the Kingdom: Stories
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own...
Italian Folktales
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and...
Fear
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Roald Dahl collects fourteen classic tales of terror and suspense . . . Do you like feeling scared? Featuring...
Innocence
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Roald Dahl's tales of innocence, youth and guile . . . What makes us innocent and how do we...
Home Remedies
Author: Xuan Juliana Wang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang's funny and wise debut collection capture the unheard voices of a...
Saturday Lunch with the Brownings
Author: Penelope Mortimer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A mother and her young son arrive at a rental house in rural France only to find themselves locked...
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man
Author: Georges Bataille Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Three works of erotic prose fusing sex and spirituality, new to Penguin Modern Classics In these three works of...
Wild, Fearless Chests
Author: Mandy Beaumont Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 She is the explosion, the clamour, the thunder. She is the beat, the rage. She is every piece of...
Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Thirteen strangely wrought stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped...
First Person Singular: Stories
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A brilliant new collection of short stories from the unique mind of the internationally bestselling author of Men Without Women and...
After the Quake
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake Tales of upheaval and...
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This stylish edition of collected short fiction, celebrating the work of one of Australia's most loved authors, is now...
The Turning
Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Each of the overlapping stories in Tim Winton's The Turning centres on a transformation; together they form the bestselling...
Reality, and Other Stories
Author: John Lanchester Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Selfie-sticks with demonic powers. Cold calls from the dead. And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white,...
The Complete Short Fiction
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar...
Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Author: Ivan Turgenev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Turgenev s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of the author...
How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and...
Master and Man and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles...
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 "Each phase of life has its own love" In these four stories, Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) depicts desire...
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
Author: Guy de Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of...
The Garden Party and Other Stories
Author: Lorna Sage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Author: Katherine Mansfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this...
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk And Other Stories
Author: Nikolai Leskov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This volume contains five of his greatest short stories, including the matchless masterpiece Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the tale...
Selected Stories
Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten...
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics...
The Marquise of O -: And Other Stories
Author: Heinrich Kleist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no...
The Burrow: Posthumously Published Short Fiction
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. Translated by...
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A chilling new collection of Henry James's short stories exploring the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt. 'There had been...
Gothic Tales
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local...
Three Tales
Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and...
Selected Short Fiction
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of...
Selected Short Stories
Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes...
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Author: William Harvey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Offering unexpurgated translations of the best-loved tales, including such classics as 'Sindbad the Sailor', Tales from the Thousand and...
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A collection of eight of Chekhov's finest early stories. This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young...
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories 1896-1904 is an enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton...
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895
Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A collection of nine of Chekhov's short stories from the middle period of his life These stories from the...
Poor Folk and Other Stories
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain...
Dubliners
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day...
Little Birds
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Delta of Venus and Little Birds, Anais Nin's bestselling volumes of erotica, contain striking revelations of a woman's sexuality...
Delta of Venus
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Anais Nin's first incredible collection of erotic fiction In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade...