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Funniest Stories

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Cat O' Nine Tales

Cat O' Nine Tales

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A Permanent Member of the Family

A Permanent Member of the Family

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Author: Russell Banks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A collection of short stories from the contemporary American master whom the New York Times declared "the most compassionate fiction writer...
EDGE: I HERO: Toons: Robin Hamster

EDGE: I HERO: Toons: Robin Hamster

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Author: Steve Barlow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 Take on the role of a cartoon hero in this fully interactive, wacky, choose-your-own-destiny adventure story. The Sheriff of Snottingham is...
Broken Rules and Other Stories

Broken Rules and Other Stories

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The Deportees

The Deportees

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The Collected Stories

The Collected Stories

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Fen: Stories

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...
Virgin and Other Stories

Virgin and Other Stories

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Author: April Ayers Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 One of The Irish Times Best debuts of 2017 One of New York Magazine's 45 New Books to Read This...
Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories

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...
Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

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Author: Susan Vreeland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Girl in Hyacinth Blue tells the story of an imaginary painting by Vermeer, and the aspirations and longings of those whose...
Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe

Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe

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The House of Untold Stories: 50 Unexpected Tales

The House of Untold Stories: 50 Unexpected Tales

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Author: Peter Chiykowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 An orphanage for wayward stories. A labyrinth of secrets. A home on the border of reality...Open each door to find a...
Runaway

Runaway by Alice Munro

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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...
Dance of the Happy Shades

Dance of the Happy Shades

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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...
Collected Short Stories Volume 1

Collected Short Stories Volume 1

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Author: W. Somerset Maugham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The first volume of collected short stories, written by a master of the form This classic collection of...
Daddy

Daddy

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Author: Emma Cline Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The stories in Emma Cline's stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines...
Grand Union

Grand Union

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Author: Zadie Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth In...
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Short Stories

Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Short Stories

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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...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two

The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two

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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...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume One

The Complete Short Stories: Volume One

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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...
Fabulous

Fabulous

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Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Not since Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new. Not since...
Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti 'One of...
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

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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

The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

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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

Immigrant, Montana

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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

Homesick For Another World

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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

Island

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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

Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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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...
Exile and the Kingdom: Stories

Exile and the Kingdom: Stories

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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

Italian Folktales

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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

Fear

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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

Innocence

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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

Home Remedies

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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

Saturday Lunch with the Brownings

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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

My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

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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

Wild, Fearless Chests

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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

Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories

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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

First Person Singular: Stories

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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

After the Quake

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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

Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

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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

The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories Cla

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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...
Reality, and Other Stories

Reality, and Other Stories

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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

The Complete Short Fiction

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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

Sketches from a Hunter's Album

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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

How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories

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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

Master and Man and Other Stories

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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

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

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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...