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
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: 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
Oxford: Oxford University Press/Clarendon Press, 1921. Reprint. Hardcover. With essays by Hazlitt and DeQuincy. 1937 imprint. 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: 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
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
Random House, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Random House, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Wilmington, NC: Lookout Books, 2011. Claire Bateman and Emily Louise Smith (cover design). First Edition. Paperback. In this sumptuous offering, one of our premier storytellers provides a feast for fiction aficionados. Spanning four decades and three prize-winning collections, these twenty-one vintage selected stories and thirteen scintillating new ones take us..... More
New York: Mercury Press Inc., 1976. Chesley Bonestell (cover art). Softcover. Includes stories by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Ursula Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch and Marion Zimmer Bradley, among others. Contents include: Novella: The Ladies of Beetlegoose nine by R. Bretnor; Novelets: The Hertford Manuscript by Richard Cowper..... More
New York: Soho Press, 2015. Eighth Printing. Paperback. Before some Haitians tell a story, they ask, “Krik?” and their eager listeners respond, “Krak!” In this collection of short stories examining the lives, loves, and pains of ordinary Haitians, both in Haiti and the United States, Edwidge Danticat explores the distance..... More
New York: Davis Publications, Inc, 1968. Softcover. 27th Anniversary Issue with a complete short novel by Erle Stanley Gardner "The Jeweled Butterfly" More
New York: Davis Publications, Inc, 1968. Softcover. 11 new stories including a detective short novel complete Kelly Roos The "Watch Out!" Girls. More
New York: Davis Publications, Inc, 1968. Softcover. 10 new stories including new complete novlet by Stanley Ellin "The Last Bottle in the World" More
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