From the author of the “sophisticated and erudite” Peculiar Ground (Boston Globe) comes a collection of classic, witty fables, elegantly updated for our modern times.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE'Dazzling' GUARDIAN'Blistering' THE TIMES'A delight' DIANA EVANS'Fiction written at the highest level' ANN PATCHETT'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMESAn electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.
Published to mark the centenary of Roald Dahl's (Welsh) birth, Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected breaks new ground by revealing the place of Wales in the imagination of the writer known as 'the world's number one storyteller'.
Between the ages of seventeen and twenty, Adrian Tomine self-published a series of "e;mini-comics"e;: small, hand-assembled booklets thta he wrote, drew, and distributed himself.
In this short story from the "e;stunning"e; collection More of this World, Maybe Another, a woman is about to marry a man she grew up with (Dorothy Allison, award-winning author of Bastard Out of California).
Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with ThreeBlind Mice and Other Storiesa classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis forThe Mousetrap, the longest running stage play in the history of the London theater.
Eight glorious stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, and hope and rejection from the acclaimed actor and ';supremely gifted writer' (The Sunday Times, London) Rupert Everett.
One of the defining texts of twentieth-century Catalan fiction, written by one of its most innovative and cherished writers, Salvador Espriu's Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth is a collection of thirty-four short stories in which the twists and turns of action, character, and place are as winding and sumptuous as the legendary maze of its title.
"e;Silver Pitchers: and Independence, a Centennial Love Story"e; is a 1888 collection of short stories by written by American author Louisa May Alcott.
A science fiction and tech-vision anthology about the coming era of transparency in the Information AgeDavid Brin, Hugo award-winning author of The Uplift War, presents Chasing Shadows, a collection of short stories and essays by other science fiction luminaries.
VOLUME ONE OF TWO'A huge, eye-opening, mind-blowing surprise' Lisa Tuttle, Guardian A genre-defining-and redefining-collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from across the globeIn The Big Book of Cyberpunk, award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin brings together over a hundred stories from more than twenty-five different countries.
One of France's most influential detective fiction authors, Gatson Leroux's most chilling and tragic tales of gothic horror are collected in this volume, including the masterful The Phantom of the Opera.
A stunning collection of new fiction previously published as The Decameron Project and originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic first spread across the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, Rachel Kushner, Colm Tibn, Charles Yu, and more.
Masterly new fiction from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureA startling new work: ten fictions, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world.
“Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros”.
These eight stories deal with ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, war and its aftershocks prominent among them, where the reality is often much more surreal than fiction.
Komik und Tragik der Beziehungen zwischen den Geschlechtern bilden den Reiz in den Erzählungen von Irene Prugger, die in "Nackte Helden und andere Geschichten von Frauen" versammelt sind; aber damit ist das Reservoir bei weitem nicht ausgeschöpft: Hier paaren sich nicht bloß Geschlechter, sondern Ironie und Gefühl, Witz und Aberwitz, Alltag mit ganz und gar nicht Alltäglichem, hier prallen Fantasie und Wirklichkeit aufeinander.
This collection of nine Lost Tribe of the Sith stories is for fans of the NewYork Times bestselling Fate of the Jedi series, as it features the origin storyof the tribe of Sith that play such a crucial role in those novels.
Love as violence, love as a curse, love as redemption, as suffering, as wisdom, as innocence, as delusion each story takes place on the night of 19 March 1929 and a character tries to understand or express love from his or her perspective: as dancer, lawyer, astronomer, mathematician, artist, actor, doctor, mirror-maker.
This new edition of Dracula, offering the complete text of the original book with more than 50 original illustrations in the form of horizontal and vertical panels, spot illustrations, and ornate borders by Becky Cloonan, will delight Dracula fans.
Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work in the world today.
A New York Times BestsellerThirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In the Tall Grass,” one of two stories cowritten with Stephen King and the basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.
