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...

Ernest Hemingway From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to...

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...

O Henry A young woman makes a drastic decision—and her husband has a Christmas surprise in return. A dying girl attaches her fate to that of a leaf. A writer...

Etgar KeretA birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in Mossad -- such...

Melissa BankGenerous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the...

Sir Arthur Conan DoyleEight stories of adventure and detection for the world's most famous sleuth.From the strange case of The red-Headed League to the extraordinary tale of The Engineer's Thumb,...

Jennifer WeinerJennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a...