The Varieties of History

Includes The Poor Folk, The Double and The Eternal Husband.

collection, russia, russian

Mother Earth

and other Stories

Boris Pilnyak

Mother Earth
Mahogany
Ryazan apples
Tale of the unextinguished moon
Forest dacha
Bridegroom cometh
Three

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Selected Stories

Konstantin Paustovsky

This selection was specially compiled by the author shortly before his death for publication in English. The re

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The Complete Novels

Franz Kafka

Kafkas characters are victims of forces beyond their control, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by autho

bohemian, collection, existentialism, realism

The Complete Romances of Voltaire

Voltaire

Philosophy

In 1694, Age of Enlightenment leader Francois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was born in Paris. Jesuit-educat

collection, enlightenment, romance, satire

The Vintage Turgenev

Volume 1

Ivan Turgenev

Turgenev has merits denied to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky that give him a secure place among the worlds supreme nov

collection, realism, russia

His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood

And Other Stories

Poppy Z Brite

Contains four short stories from Swamp Foetus:
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood, The Sixth Sentinel, Calcutta,

60s, collection, shortstories

Micromégas And Other Short Fictions

Voltaire

Micromegas is a 650-year-old, 39-kilometer-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak 1,000 languages and

collection, enlightenment, fantasy, french, philosophy, scifi

The Informers

Bret Easton Ellis

Set in Los Angeles, in the recent past. The birthplace and graveyard of American myths and dreams, the city har

collection, shortstories

Pulse

Julian Barnes

After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen sto

collection, shortstories

The Aristos

John Fowles

Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magu

aphorism, collection, essays, modern, philosophy, postmodern

The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

Nikolai Gogol

Four works by great 19th-century Russian author – The Nose, a savage satire of Russias incompetent bureaucrats;

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We Can Remember it For You Wholesale

The Collected Short Stories of Philip K Dick

Pilip K Dick

The Fifth and final part of the definitive set of the complete stories of the twentieth centurys greatest sf au

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The Cossacks

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

To read Tolstoys early sketch, The Raid, and his first novel, The Cossacks, is to enter the workshop of a great

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Lady With Lapdog and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov may be likened to his contemporaries, the pointilliste painters. Piece by piece, episod

collection, modernism, russia, russian, shortstories

The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy

This comprehensive anthology of Bertrand Russells writings brings together his definitive essays from the perio

collection, logic, pacifist, politics, socialism

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogols stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a

collection, fantasy, folktales, russia, russian, satire, shortstories

The Captain’s Daughter and Other Stories

Alexander Pushkin

Pushkins version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott, this final prose work also reflects his

collection, historical, romantic, russia, russian, shortstories

Selected Stories

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов, IPA: 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904

collection, russia, russian, shortstories

Droll Stories

Honoré de Balzac

Les Cent Contes drolatiques (French, The Hundred Facetious Tales) — known as Droll Stories — is a collectio

collection, comedy, folktales, french

The Best Stories of Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

Modern Library volume 98 edited by Saxe Commins.

collection, french, shortstories

Short Stories of De Maupassant

Guy De Maupassant

Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and effici

collection, french, shortstories

Solaris

Stanislaw Lem

When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful,

collection, film, polish, space

Droll Stories Volume 1

Honoré de Balzac

Balzac’s Droll Stories are one of the greatest achievements of the genius of comedy. For more than a century th

collection, comedy, folktales, french, shortstories

Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys

Will Self

The New York Times Book Review has called Will Self a defiant satirist with a peculiar mastery of the vocabular

collection, satire, shortstories, urbanism

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst t

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Heavy Water and Other Stories

Martin Amis

In this wickedly delightful collection of stories, Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern maste

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The Ebony Tower

John Fowles

The Ebony Tower is a series of novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In the title story, a jo

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Mondo Desperado

Patrick McCabe

From a farmers romance to his skin condition to one mans culinary relationship with Bruce Lee, it all happens i

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The Seeds of Time

John Wyndham

For the ten short stories collected here, John Wyndham turns his imagination to, among other subjects, body-sna

collection, scifi, shortstories

The Golden Man

Philip K Dick