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Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, In...

Great English Short Stories

Young Goodman Brown And Other Short Stories

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. 'If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn't go looking for it; you need,...

Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. These are tales from the golden age of the great storytellers presenting evocative snapshots from that...

Excerpt from Short Stories Round a table lit with perfumed tapers sat seven joyous women bandying sweet talk. About them the noblest marble of the greatest masters gleamed white against walls of crimson stucco, and formed a con trast with the...

Short Stories

Short Stories

Short Stories

Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and confusion of life'. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more...

O título é completo em dois volumes, e compila uma série de histórias curtas e fechadas protagonizadas pelos personagens do mangá original. Na primeira edição, as aventuras ficam por conta da pequena Chibiusa, e as sailors Mars, Jupiter, Mercury e...

'This is a wonderful collection of authors from America and around the world. Centuries are covered, making this a great resource for English teachers and any lover of literature.' -- Life Community ChurchThis treasury of one hundred tales offers...

Great Short Stories By American Women

Collected Short Stories of Saki

This specially commissioned selection of Conrad's short stories includes favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer, a thrilling psychological drama; An Outpost of Progress, a blackly comic prelude to Heart of Darkness; Amy...

Popular and prolific, Anthony Trollope wrote 47 novels as well as dozens of short stories that provide fascinating insights into Victorian life, behavior, and morals. A careful observer of people and places, Trollope created realistic, unsentimental...

Spores is a collection of seventeen short stories. Whilst they cover a variety of themes there is more than a hint of the supernatural about some of them. They owe a little to the influence of MR James, master of the ghost story and also the weird...

'First time I've read a collection from Native American Writers. Won't be my last. Important collection that examines the contrast and sometimes conflict between Whites and Native Americans and also conflicts between full-blood and half-blood. Very...

Best Short Stories

Selected Short Stories

'To buy books would be a good thing,' observed Arthur Schopenhauer, 'if we also could buy the time to read them.' All devoted readers long for more time to spend with their books, and the next best thing to buying time is making the most of the...

Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings...

The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the development of her art. As diverse...

Wilde's short fiction includes such masterpieces as 'The Happy Prince', 'The Selfish Giant', 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' and 'The Canterville Ghost', as well as the daring narrative experiments of 'The Portrait of Mr. W. H.' and 'Poems in Prose'....

Great French Short Stories

Great American Short Stories

Compiled for the first time in book form, seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton's short story collection, Wild West.From rodeos to rustlers, from ranch life to the outlaw trail, Elmer Kelton's take on the human condition shows us life in...

The Best Short Stories

Great German Short Stories

Among the country's greatest artistic contributions, 20th-century Russian literature was revolutionary in its approach to realism, injecting characters with human weaknesses familiar to all. It also provided fodder for other such important concepts...

Fourteen short works of fiction by noteworthy American women authors offer entrancing tales of redemption, betrayal, tradition, and rebellion. Dating from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, these narratives range in mood from 'Heat,' Joyce...

Great Irish Short Stories

This anthology highlights the rich range of modern Italian fiction, presenting the first English translations of works by many famous authors. Contents include fables and stories by Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, and Cesare Pavese;...

Five Great Short Stories

As variegated as the American experience itself, this original treasury reflects the vibrant role of the short story in our national literature. Fourteen outstanding tales by famous American authors unfold in settings ranging from the decaying family...

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: 'Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!' He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was...

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. 'If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn't go looking for it; you need,...

Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary 'antenna for what is going on in the world' ('Chicago Tribune).' The collection boasts great variety from 'famous...

Katherine Mansfield's Selected Short Stories

The Overcoat And Other Short Stories

Excerpt from Daddy Jake the Runaway and Short Stories Told After Dark About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important...

The Kreutzer Sonata And Other Short Stories

'Ideal for students and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the literary works of an iconic American author. Very highly recommended.' 'The Midwest Book Review'Although better known today for his novels, in the 1920s F. Scott...

This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of 'The...