Set in locales and time periods as varied as nineteenth century England, contemporary Spain, and postwar Alberta, these five stories and two novellas introduce us to characters whose obsessions occupy the borderlands between fantasy and reality.
This early work by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian was originally published in 1876 and we are now republishing it with brand new introductory biographies as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series.
"e;Hard times during the Depression and family sacrifices are treated with honesty and humor"e; in this YA book by the author of River of Earth (School Library Journal).
'Celtic Fairy Tales' is a collection of twenty-six classic stories from British isles, collected by Joseph Jacobs, and accompanied by the masterful black-and-white illustrations of John D.
The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky—director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky’s Dune, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabarons, and legend of Latin American literature.
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: an astounding collection of fifteen stories that are ';riveting in precision' (The Atlantic) and ';scintillating as the blade of a knife' (The Wall Street Journal).
The publication of "e;The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology"e; commemorates the tenth year of the Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series.
Sexy, smart and literatethese erotic stories are for readers who want to know the truth about womens sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth, with its surprises and twists and turns.
Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Governor-General's Award for fiction and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Caroline Adderson's short fiction collection travels far and wide.
In these twelve stories, Eugene McCabe plumbs the soul of the Irishborder counties, where confusion, divided loyalties, and conflict arepart of everyday life.
»Sicherheit ist nirgends« – diese Grunderfahrung der Wiener Moderne wird bei keinem anderen Autor so anschaulich und greifbar wie bei Arthur Schnitzler.
This volume makes available for the first time in English the work of a significant Indian nationalist author, Pandey Bechan Sharma, better known in India as "e;Ugra,"e; meaning "e;extreme.
Isolating these moments in his memory and attempting to analyze them much like a lens, he envisions "e;a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures only what is in front of the camera.
From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.
Mount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move.
Covering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written.
