Grace Paley This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection—a finalist for the National Book Award—demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for...

Franz KafkaThis volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative...

Lewis Carroll Classic tales, games, puzzles, wit and verse from the world of Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are now as much a part of every...

AB YehoshuaIronic, understated, masterly prose is the hallmark of A. B. Yehoshua's work. The ten stories collected here are representative of almost thirty years in his outstanding career. Some of...

Liao Yiwu The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain...

Joshua Ferris 'He reflected in future retrospect on the evening and foretold every gesture, every word. "I can't do it," he said. "I can predict everything that will happen from...

Shlomo Kalo With this collection of short stories, one of Israel's most controversial and polemnical writers is made available to the British and American reader for the first time. Writing...

Haruki Murakami When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A...

Helen DeWitt Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not be so fortunate. If some other young girl, with two million...

Ernest HemingwayIt has been said of Ernest Hemingway that half the writers of the twentieth century have tried to imitate him and the other half have tried not to. A...

Bruno Schulz The stories in these pages comprise all the surviving fiction of a man described by John Updike in the introduction as ‘one of the great transmogrifiers of the...

Frederik Pohl Here is a collection of short pieces about the many marvelous discoveries made by humankind using Heechee technology. Each piece includes illustrations by Kelly Freas. First published November...