The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Little Clothbound Classics) by Carson McCullers
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love wit ...Show more
Blueberries by Ellena Savage
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Category: Short Stories
Blueberries could be described as a collection of essays, the closest term available for a book that resists classification; a blend of personal essay, polemic, prose poetry, true-crime journalism and confession that considers a fragmented life, reflecting on what it means to be a woman, a body, an arti ...Show more
Welcome to the Monkey House - Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Short Stories
A masterful collection of twenty-five short stories from the inimitable Kurt VonnegutA diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House, which gathers together twenty-five of Kurt Vonnegut's short stories from the 1950s and 1960s. Sh ...Show more
Common People by Tony Birch
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Category: Short Stories
In this unforgettable new collection Tony Birch brings alive a cast of characters from all walks of life. These remarkable and surprising stories explore the lives of common people caught up in the everyday business of living and the struggle to survive. From a young girl who is gifted to a middle-class ...Show more
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
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Category: Short Stories
A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's The De ...Show more
Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3 by Deborah Levy
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Category: Short Stories
Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' Following the international critical and commercial success of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and b ...Show more
A Vision of the World: Selected Short Stories by John Cheever
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Category: Short Stories
The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most important and influential short story writer. Selected and introduced by Julian BarnesThe first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most influential short story writer.SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JULIAN BARNESW ...Show more
Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
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Category: Short Stories
Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary m ...Show more
The Captain's Daughter - Essential Stories by Alexander Pushkin; Anthony Briggs (Translator)
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Pushkin Collection
A dazzling new collection of Pushkin's most fiction, in definitive translations by the acclaimed Anthony Briggs.
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women by Lyse Doucet; Lucy Hannah (editors)
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Category: Short Stories
"My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream"A woman's fortitude saves her village from disaster. A teenager explores their identity in a moment of quiet. A petition writer reflects on his life as a dog lies nursing ...Show more
Permafrost: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by SJ Norman
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Category: Short Stories
This brilliant collection of short fiction explores the shifting spaces of desire, loss and longing. Inverting and queering the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted. Though it ranges across themes and locations - from small-to ...Show more
The Best Japanese Short Stories Works by 14 Modern Masters Kawabata, Akutagawa and More by Lane Dunlop
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Category: Short Stories
An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)!Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation's changing social landscapes. Internationally renowned writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Ryunosuke Akutaga ...Show more