Short Stories

From the acclaimed writer Margaret Drabble here are her short stories, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her...

'At that moment the elephant shuddered and rose in the air. For a few seconds it swayed just above the ground but a gust of wind blew it upwards until...

William Burroughs' work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic,...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics for these ten tales for adults inspired by Dahl's experiences as a wartime fighter pilot During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in...

Fifty-two stories by Robert Graves in a new edition edited by his daughter Lucia, for the first time in Penguin Modern Classics The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty...

Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century- a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able...

This classic collection of short stories serves as the ideal introduction to Steinbeck's work. Set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and struggle...

Probably the greatest twentieth-century writer never to win the Nobel prize for literature. The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories...

'Funny and astute, Lewis has a keen eye for both the echoing loneliness and transcendent moments of connection in our increasingly atomised lives.' Marie Claire What happens when you reach...

'A work of gorgeous, enduring prose' - Washington Post 'Luminously elegiac stories... Complex and rueful... gives voice to internal struggles, catalogues of loss' - New York Times Book Review The...

Addictively strange and disturbing, Flowers From the Void is a collection of delectably uncanny tales. A reaper readies herself for her next gruesome assignment and a bereaved African witch prepares...

From the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic , comes a novella and three stories of immediate power and grace 'A superbly...

Hysterical historical comedy from the author of the award-winning and bestselling Mr Gum. Perfect for 7+ readers and fans of Horrible Histories, Roald Dahl and David Walliams. Time travel through...

From Joyce Carol Oates, one of America's most feted and critically acclaimed authors, a collection of mysterious, suspenseful and macabre tales. In her inimitable style, Oates takes the reader on...

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'- Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault, Death in Summer, After Rain, and Felicia's Journey all appeared on national bestseller lists - The Story of Lucy Gault was shortlisted for...

The book titled Love and Longing in Bombay by the author Vikram Chandra. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this brilliant collection of stories Lorrie Moore addresses herself to a contemporary emotional dilemma - the widening gulf between men and women, and the simultaneous yearning for and fear...

This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marks Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highly idiosyncratic guide to female existence: 'How...

The story-teller has always been an important figure in Welsh society, and this collection draws on a rich and varied literature to present twenty-five of the finest Welsh short stories...

Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H.P. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a...

A grand collection of Updike's inimitable early stories. Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories...

Will Self's third collection of short stories takes his readers straight into the distorting hall-of-mirrors that is his fictional world. In one story a Londoner finds his house underpinned by...

Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe is another warped window on the wibbly-wobbly world of fear and fun that Self - like some malevolent deity - has fashioned over...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Criminally clever' Daily Mail 'The perfect holiday treat' Guardian This collection of tales by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved characters: Dr...

Classic tales of the fantastic, creepy and weird, with a foreword from the award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo Del Toro Machen's weird tales of the creepy and...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library 'He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson ... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web...

An unsettling, shocking and very funny collection of short stories. The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their...

In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors-including Alice Walker,...

A BTS fan favorite! A WALL STREET JOURNAL STORIES THAT CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE PICK * E NTERTAINMENT WEEKLY 'S STAY HOME AND READ PICK * SALON 'S BEST AND...

A huge snake takes refuge under the body of anapping grandfather. A sixteen year old girl keeps three hundred head of cattletogether for a couple of weeks without loosing a...

The classic poems and spine-tingling stories of America's Gothic master, Edgar Allan Poe, now available in one horrifying volume. "It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my...

One of America's most influential and admired short story writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude...

'Superb' THE TIMES 'Joyous' THE OBSERVER The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of love - friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits,...

In these eleven stories, Rohinton Mistry opens our eyes and our hearts to the rich, complex patterns of life inside Firozsha Baag, an apartment building in Bombay. Here are Jaakaylee,...

Experience the exciting breadth of #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins's wild imagination and adventurous spirit in this anthology of his short masterworks, including a new full-length novella...

In this haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little...

The Queen of Spades is Pushkin's prose masterpiece, a gripping tale of avarice, obsession, madness and cards. This wonderful collection also includes the keenly and sympathetically observed story The Stationmaster...

Dogs may be man's best friend, but every friendship is different. Prepare to meet Nicholas, a gregarious Airedale whose arrival in a moneyed Long Island home unleashes complete and total...

Nachman of Bratslav, descended from the founder of the Hasidic movement, carved a unique path as a Jewish spiritual leader. Towards the end of his life, he lost his young...

Teffi's literary genius made her a star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. An extremely funny writer with a scathing critical eye, she was...

Set across Bombay and Calcutta, Amit Chaudhuri's stories range from a divorcee about to enter into an arranged marriage to a teengaed poet who develops a relationship with a lonely...