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Stefan Zweig A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger... | Albert Camus She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of... |
Virginia Woolf Includes such stories as: "The Lady in the Looking Glass", "A Society", "The Mark on the Wall", "Solid Objects" and "Lappin and Lapinova". | Angela Carter Features fairy tales that conjure up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains, wily animals and incredible transformations. This book includes: "Bluebeard", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Puss in Boots", "The... |
Carson McCullers Includes the four stories: "Wunderkind", "The Jockey", "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland", "A Tree, A Rock and A Cloud". | P. G. Wodehouse A tale of bumbling Lord Emsworth, whose quiet life reading "The Care Of The Pig" and pottering among the flowers at Blandings Castle is shattered by an outbreak of lawlessness... |
Jean Rhys Contains such stories as: "La Grosse Fifi", "Vienne", "Tea with an Artist", and "Mixing Cocktails". They are all taken from a selection from The Left Bank in Penguin's edition of... | Ludmilla Petrushevskaya There once lived a woman who was so fat, she couldn't fit in a taxi, and when going into the subway she took up the whole width of the escalator. |
William Trevor Includes such stories as: "The Mark-2 Wife", "The Time of Year" and "Cheating at Canasta". | Eileen Chang There were two women in Zhenbao's life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn't that... |
R. K. Narayan Includes such tales as: "A Breath of Lucifer", "House Opposite", "The Watchman", "Another Community", "Like the Sun", "Uncle's Letters", "Fruition at Forty" and "Half a Rupee's Worth". | Primo Levi Whether describing the most beautiful poem ever composed or an invention gone horribly wrong, this title features eight stories that open up a rich, fantastical world of wonder, adventure and... |
Isaac Bashevis Singer Includes such stories as: "The Last Demon", "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" and "The Cafeteria". | Saul Bellow A novella, in which an ageing man writes an apology for his rudeness to a librarian thirty-five years earlier, unleashing a dazzling, rancorous comic riff on growing old, regret, rudeness... |
Jorge Luis Borges Features five stories about danger on the high seas, an ungracious teacher of etiquette and an encyclopaedia of an unknown planet. This book includes "The Widow Ching-Pirate", "Monk Eastman", "Purveyor... | Kingsley Amis 'I suppose it was conceited of me. But it was fun. And I felt like getting a bit of my own back on some of the people who'd conned and... |