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In a series of hilariously dry fictional sketches, E F Benson introduces us to some of the more bizarre inhabitants of Mayfair's Edwardian high ... More

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Frequently reprinted with the same ISBN, but with slightly varying bibliographical details.

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As she delves into the minutiae of her characters' lives, Lively introduces the reader to slivers of the everyday world that are not always open to ... More

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"Monday or Tuesday" contains eight beautiful tales from the strange mind of Virginia Woolf, one of the 20th century's most innovative--and most ... More

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In her final book--published posthumously--Fitzgerald presents several very strange pasts, her narratives ranging from the 17th century to the late ... More

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Features "A Haunted House," "A Society," "An Unwritten Novel," "The String Quartet," "Blue & Green," "Kew Gardens," two more. An excellent entree ... More

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Audacious, original, clever, poignant -- these are just a few words that describe the writing of Nicola Barker, a talented, award-winning author ... More

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Misfits, freaks, perverts and outcasts populate the grisly world and strange, macabre tales of obsession, sex and death in Ian McEwan's short stories.

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A contemplative selection of twelve short stories from the celebrated author Donald Hall, Willow Temple focuses on the effects of divorce, adultery, ... More

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This is a selection of stories including "Summer Picnic" and "The Devoted" which epitemize the author's earlier work, as well as more recent stories ... More

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These stories create a world of oddity superimposed on an ordinary world. They include six controllers running the whole of London life in all its ... More

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Twenty-one distinguished stories, confirming Huxley s stature as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. A ... More

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Each story in Love Among the Haystacks appears in a new, authoritative text.

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Three revelatory novellas by a twentieth-century master The works collected here explore the profound effects on protagonists who embark on ... More

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St Mawr and Other Stories consists of the long novella St Mawr, two short stories 'The Overtone' and 'The Princess', and two unfinished stories 'The ... More

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This is a collection of stories by Fay Weldon, a writer concerned with sexual warfare. This anthology features oafish men, conniving women, blameless ... More

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's short stories are the marvelous, concentrated riffs of his comic genius, revealing in miniaturized ... More

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A collection of macabre short stories. Ian McEwan received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his collection of short stories entitled "First ... More

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This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. ... More

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Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf worked and reworked short story ideas, trying to enacapsulate her thoughts perfectly in a concise form, but ... More

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The short stories in this volume have perhaps the widest range of any in Conan Doyle's oeuvre, from a prediction of devastating submarine blockade, ... More

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Collected for the first time in a single volume: all of the short fiction by one of the 20th century's wittiest and most trenchant observers of the ... More

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The fourteen stories collected in this volume were written between 1913 and 1921.

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