Edited by James Cochrane This collection offers twenty-one stories from the literature of America, a nation which has always been particularly at home in this form, and which has produced...

Dorothy Parker The Penguin Dorothy Parker contains stories and poems published collectively in 1944; late uncollected stories, articles and reviews; and the contents of Constant Reader (her New Yorker book reviews) - in...

Primo Levi The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection...

Edited by Alice K Turner "Playboy" has always been about breaking the rules. So has science fiction. Is it any wonder that the two have enjoyed such a long, exciting,...

Cardinal EditionA collection of 22 short stories by 22 masters of the short story: Ernest Hemingway; Stephen Vincent Benét; Dorothy Parker; Willa Cather; Sherwood Anderson; Katherine Mansfield; Thomas Mann; W....

J.M. Coetzee The Pole tells the story of Witold Walczykiewicz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist, who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his...

Alice Munro WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2013A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents' confounding yet deep bond. The accidental...

Author: Maeve Binchy In this extraordinary collection of stories, the New York Times-bestselling author of Evening Class and This Year it Will Be Different once again reveals her incomparable understanding...

Maeve Binchy In this extraordinary collection of stories, the New York Times-bestselling author of Evening Class and This Year it Will Be Different once again reveals her incomparable understanding of...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr...

Arthur Conan Doyle'Holmes,' I cried. 'Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?'Missing,...

Nathaniel HawthorneSet in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not...