Tony Cahill, Editor The Soul of Travel What's it like to be there? For ten years, Travelers' Tales has answered this question through collections of the best travel writing by...

Guy De Maupassant This collection reflects Maupassant's remarkable diversity, with stories that vary in theme and tone, and range from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. Boule de Suife,...

Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Eugenides's novels explore themes of adolescence, self-discovery, familial love, and modern America. This short story collection, which includes two previously unpublished tales, features characters living through personal...

Anita Desai Anita Desai, in a succession of fine novels and short story collections written over almost 40 years, was one of the first writers from the sub-continent to introduce...

Amos Oz The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate. In these...

Harper's English Classics The stories in this impressive collection have been chosen for the challenge they offer the reader and the variety of language used. December 1, 1999 by Thomas...

David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book...

Vishnu Sharma Once there lived a learned brahman named Vishnu Sharma. Upon the king’ s request to make his sons ‘ masters of the art of practical life’ , he...

Julian Barnes In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Julian Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old.The characters in The Lemon Table are...

Lauren Groff The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind—becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as...

Sam Cohen "Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny" (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists—almost all of whom...

Walter Mosley (Series Editor) Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume,...