Etgar KeretIn this collection of brilliant, bite-sized satiric tales, Israel's bestselling Etgar Keret chronicles the strange ironies that suffuse his characters' lives. Daring, illuminating, intense and poignant, these stories are...

Pam HoustonIn Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men...

Author: Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Kimberly KirbergerChicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff: Stories of Tough Times and Lessons Learned...

Edith Wharton   Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin,...

Edith WhartonJohn Durham, while he waited for Madame de Malrive to draw on her gloves, stood in the hotel doorway looking out across the Rue de Rivoli at the afternoon...

Author: DH Lawrence 'Love Among the Haystacks' is a powerful story of sibling rivalry and the destructive passion of sexual envy.

Elizabeth GeorgeIn these five tantalizing and original tales, George plumbs the depths of human nature--and human weakness--as only she can. From the chilling tale of a marriage built on an...

Thomas Mann Famous for his novels, Thomas Mann is more accessible through the shorter fictions which span his entire career. The most famous of these stories is one of the...

Tracy ChevalierThis collection of original stories by today’s finest woman writers takes inspiration from the famous line in Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel, Jane EyreA fixture in the literary canon,...

Deborah MoggachChanging Babies will delight both die-hard fans of Deborah Moggach's books and those readers new to her charm and wit. In it she writes of a woman who thinks...

Dick Francis   A superbly crafted collection of thirteen tightly plotted tales that treats readers to murder, mystery, and mayhem in the world of horseracing.

Edited by Tobias WolffThe thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they...