Author: Maeve Binchy Maeve Binchy imagined a street in Dublin with many characters coming and going, and every once in a while she would write about one of these people....

Author: Maeve Binchy Maeve Binchy imagined a street in Dublin with many characters coming and going, and every once in a while she would write about one of these people....

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...

Anne Frank Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary...

Author: Rudyard Kipling First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. Most of the stories it includes had already appeared in the Civil and Military...

Charles J Finger Atmospheric woodcuts illustrate this Newbery Award–winning collection of 19 South American folktales. Charles J. Finger heard the tales firsthand from native storytellers, whose fables of talking animals,...

Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, Kinley MacGregor Dear Avon Books,Where are my heroes? Whenever I'm reading a book by one of my favorite authors I find I'm falling for the wrong...

Larry Dark From pyrotechnic eroticism to fading passion, 20 contemporary writers explore love in this irresistible collection. Contributors include Harold Brodkey, Laurie Colwin, Nadine Gordimer, Rachel Ingalls, William Kotzwinkle, Joyce...

Henry James With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story....

Nicole Krauss In this dazzling collection of short fiction, the National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love—“one of America’s most important novelists and an international...

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...

Dylan Thomas This unique edition presents the complete span of Thomas's short stories, from his urgent hallucinatory visions of the dark forces beneath the surface of Welsh life to the...