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Tales of the Celestial Kingdom
Author: Sue Lynn Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! Return to the realm of gods and legends, magic and romance. Praise for the...
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,...
Wednesday's Child
Author: Yiyun Li Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Any new book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration' Sigrid Nunez 'One of our finest living authors' New York...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Book of Witches
Author: Jonathan Strahan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 An array of original stories from around the world bring a new and exciting twist to one of the most beloved...
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...
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...
Zero-Sum
Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Oates's imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll's' Rose Tremain Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes...
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...
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...
Runaway by Alice Munro
Author: Alice Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Newly re-jacketed for a new generation, the bestselling collection by the greatest short story writer in the world and...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Short Stories
Author: Diana Gabaldon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before short stories from the bestselling author of the Outlander...
Fen: Stories
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Author: Daisy Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A singular debut that "marks the emergence of a great, stomping, wall-knocking talent" (Kevin Barry) Daisy Johnson's Fen, set in the...
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...
Dance of the Happy Shades
Author: Alice Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a...
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...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume One
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Enter the sinister, twisted world of Roald Dahl- whether you're young or old, you'll never want to leave. Roald...
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...
Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories
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Author: Deborah Eisenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams's solo fishing trip in Michigan's...
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...
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...
Punishment: The gripping international bestseller
'Cool, meticulously crafted and mordantly amusing' Irish Times 'A chilling insight into a flawed justice system' Daily Mail A young lawyer puts aside her sense of justice to succeed at...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 832 Whether you're young or old, once you've stepped into the brilliant, troubling world of Roald Dahl, you'll never be...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Nature of Middle-earth
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
Author: Lyse Doucet Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 "My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those...
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...
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...