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E. M. Forster Features two affecting short stories that combine the fantastical with the allegorical. This book includes "The Machine Stops" and "A Celestial Omnibus". | F. Scott Fitzgerald F Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams and tarnished hopes. This book features three tales of a fragile recovery, a cut-glass bowl and... |
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... |
Joseph Conrad Inspired by the author's own experiences at sea, this book tells a haunting tale about ill omens, the passing of time and the making of a man. | 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... |
Hans Fallada Drawing on the author's own history of addiction, this title features two stories: "A Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism" and "Three Years of Life". | 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... |
Paul Bowles Features three unbearably tense tales from sun-drenched and brutal climes that tell of vengeance, abandonment, violence and cruelty enjoyed and suffered, in a surreal realm of horror. This book includes:... | Shirley Jackson Her tooth, which had brought her here unerringly, seemed now the only part of her to have any identity. It seemed to have had its picture taken without her; it... |