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The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The story centres around the torments end
The Lifted Veil
Goerge Eliot
Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George
Three Sketches from a Hunters Album
Ivan Turgenev
Early stories from a master of Russian literature. When first published in book form in 1852, Turgenevs remarka
The Murders In The Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham s Magazine in 1841. It ha
A Visitation of the Plague
Daniel Defoe
One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin s 60th anniversary. All the titles are extrac
Now Remember
Vladimir Nabokov
Memories of a rapturous Russian Childhood. Vladimir Nabokov is one of the giants of twentieth century literatur
Etiquette For Renaissance Gentlemen
Baldesar Castiglione
A classic quidebook for noblemen. Upon its publication in 1528, Castigliones handbook was considered something
The Black Monk
And Peasants
Anton Chekhov
In ancient times a happy man grew at last frightened of his happiness — it was so great — and to propitiate t
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,
The Pleasures and Pains of Opium
Revelations of ecstacy and torment
Thomas de Quincey
Thomas De Quincey began taking opium in 1804. For him it was the key to Paradise, as he experienced visions of
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
Pulse
Julian Barnes
After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen sto
Ghost of Chance
William S Burroughs
Ghost of Chance is an adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark
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;
collection, fantasy, folktales, russia, russian, shortstories
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
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
The Squabble
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogols short story is a sublime work of tragi-comedy. In it, he brilliantly ridicules the Ukrainian pas
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
The Black Arab and Other Stories
Mikhail Prishvin
Mikhail Prishvin was born in the family mansion of Krutschevo in Oryol Governorate (now in Stanovlyansky Distri
The Best Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
Modern Library volume 98 edited by Saxe Commins.
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
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
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
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
Mondo Desperado
Patrick McCabe
From a farmers romance to his skin condition to one mans culinary relationship with Bruce Lee, it all happens i
The Seeds of Time
John Wyndham
For the ten short stories collected here, John Wyndham turns his imagination to, among other subjects, body-sna
The Golden Man
Philip K Dick
Heres a chance to read not just one but fifteen stories created by one of the most popular science fiction writ