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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 Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories Cla
Author: Henry Lawson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his...
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...
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...
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...
Dark Tales
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories...
Bad Behavior
Author: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The bestselling 1988 collection of short stories exploring the inner lives of men and women, ambiguity and unease in...
The Collected Short Stories
Author: Jean Rhys Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Some of Jean...
Numbers in the Dark
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career,...
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and...
Just an Ordinary Day
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'. An anxious...
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments,...
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Author: Raymond Carver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The American Chekhov' Sunday Times With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In...
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story
Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years. We are living in...
A Lucky Man
Author: Jamel Brinkley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Full of subtle poignancy ... each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social...
Catapult: Short stories from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of History of Wolves
Author: Emily Fridlund Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 'A powerhouse of a first story collection notable for its temerity and its skilled combination of humour and insight'...
Dogs: Stories and Poems
Author: Mark Bryant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky)...
Strange Weather
Author: Joe Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Four short novels from the author of THE FIREMAN and HORNS, ranging from creepy horror to powerful explorations of...
Ayiti
Author: Roxane Gay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, AYITI is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In AYITI, a married...