New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. First printing. Hardcover. A Life of Adventure and Delight delivers eight masterful stories from dazzlingly original and critically acclaimed author Akhil Sharma. Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is “a glowing work of art” (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of..... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2018. Ginny Tapley Takemori (tr.), New Pushkin Press Edition. Second Printing. Paperback. "I am still unable to leave the burnt-out ruins" Akiyuki Nosaka, 2014 In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2001. Trade Paperback. In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know..... More
New York: Vintage International, 2001. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman–is an insightful, honest book, “autobiographical in form but not in fact,” that chronicles a young girl’s growing up in rural..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes–the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart..... More
London: Vintage Books, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from..... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2019. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Exile lies at the root of our earliest stories. Charting varied experiences of people forced to leave their homes from the ancient world to the present day, The Heart of a Stranger is an anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction that journeys..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1996. Paperback. More
London: Fourth Estate, 2012. Reprint. Paperback. In the wise and beautiful second collection from the acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Light We Cannot See, "Doerr writes about the big questions, the imponderables, the major metaphysical dreads, and he does it fearlessly" (The New..... More
London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd / New Windmills, 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. Includes the following stories: A Knife with Sixteen Blades (from Autumn Term) by Antonia Frost; The Trouble with Donovan Croft (from The Trouble with Donovan Croft) by Bernard Ashley; Seymour's Century by Jan Mark; The Scar by Margaret..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2015. Joshua Cohen (intro), James Naughton (tr.). Paperback. The Little Town Where Time Stood Still contains two linked narratives by the incomparable Bohumil Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera has described as “Czechoslovakia’s greatest writer.” “Cutting It Short” is set before World War II in..... More
New York: Manor Books Inc., 1972. Third Printing. Paperback. Deft and funny, wicked and wise... Here is science fiction at its peak. C. M. Kornbluth was one of the great masters of the form: gathered here are his best short stories. This posthumous collection takes you on wild excursions past..... More
Hong Kong: WIPS Women In Publishing in Hong Kong, 2020. Paperback. An exciting collection of new fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, travelogue, commentary, humour and artwork and much more. The literary and artistic skills of over 50 members combine in our 19th and latest high quality issue. "Women..... More
New York: The Modern Library, 2003. Gabrielle Bordwin (cover design). Trade Paperback. With a Foreword by Isabel Allende Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Robert B Stepto, Jennifer Rae Greeson (eds). First Edition. Paperback. Fourteen conjure tales by one of America’s most influential African American fiction writers. This Norton Critical Edition of The Conjure Stories arranges the tales chronologically by composition date, allowing readers to discern..... More
New York: Anchor Books, 2010. Wesley Gott (book design), Abby Weintraub (cover design). First Anchor Books Edition. Paperback. A dazzling story collection from the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists, “one of the world’s great contemporary writers” (Barack Obama). In these twelve riveting stories, the..... More
New York: Berkley Books, 1986. Paperback. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Second Edition. Softcover. Presents representative short stories by twenty-nine major international authors to reflect the development, styles, and trends of modern literature. More
Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017. Edition with new introduction. Paperback. "Daniel Pinkwater is so obviously the funniest writer of children's books that he should be made a Living National Treasure," declared The Washington Post Book World. Young readers can join Pinkwater on a rollicking visit to his beloved New Jersey..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op. In his novels and stories, Dashiell Hammett created some of the most memorable characters--detectives, dames, and assorted miscreants--in twentieth-century fiction. It is nearly impossible to imagine modern American literature without Hammett. Vintage..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. Paperback Edition. Paperback. More
New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2014. Reprint. Paperback. Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing’s best collection of short stories, African Stories—a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer—is now back in print. This beautiful collection is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa..... More
Random House, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Random House, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. More
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