As this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Parker's talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick but lay bare the uncert...

Firmly established in her new home in the sleepy village of Sawrey, England, Beatrix Potter turns sleuth once again to investigate the suspicious death of local shepherd Ben Hornby, a kindly man with no apparent enemies, joining force...

Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The...

Six Christmas stories from the pages of Isaac Asimov's sci-fi magazine, along with two original tales, are presented here in a special holiday gift book that includes "Adaptation," "In Coppelius's Toyshop," and &qu...

The only comprehensive collection of short fiction by the internationally popular novelist available contains all thirty-six stories of romance and political intrigue from the three volumes 12 Red Herrings, A Twist in the Tale, and A ...

All the stories are told with the skill which the author has perfected over the years, narrated with meticulous precision in a voice that is unmistakably Ontarian in its lack of emphasis, its sly humor and willingness to live with a m...

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction: "The rural rootedness and gentle humour of R.K. Narayan with the literary sophistication and stylishness of Jhumpa Lahiri."—Financial Times Passing from the mannered d...

[O]f all [Byatt's] fictions, it now seems to me that it is the short stories that are most likely to endure....[M]y reaction to these stories is one of joy in their exhilaration, intelligence, boldness and inventiveness, and a sort of...

Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports ...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author hailed by The New Yorker as "a virtuoso of waking dreams" comes a dazzling new collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession. In Dangerous Laughter, Stev...

Troubled Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins of the L.A.P.D. finds two apparently disparate cases becoming one and centering on the fiendish psychiatrist, Doctor John the Night Tripper, as the two square off in a life or death struggle. ...

Through fiction of dazzling skill and astonishing emotional force, Siobhan Fallon welcomes readers into the American army base at Fort Hood, Texas, where U.S. soldiers prepare to fight, and where their families are left to cope after...

A new collection of stories from a writer at the height of her powers—a celebrated stylist admired for her caustic humor, freewheeling imagination, love of humanity and wicked powers of observation. This is a delightful grouping of ...

This collection of short stories by Chinese-born writer Ha Jin contains meditations on characters in the margin: a homosexual husband, counter help at an American fast-food restaurant, and a happy amnesiac satisfied in his new life. H...

A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite FrançaiseWritten between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Nemirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the d...

These 19 stories are often violent or are about people with violent pasts, including a teacher who seduces a disturbed boy, a woman whose ideal life is broken apart by the events of 9/11, and a pair of siblings who return to the scene...

Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen--Here is the effect of these two books,- wrote the Chicago Tribune: -A reader finishes them buzzing with awe--Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in...

A far-ranging collection of stories, first published in 1983, encompasses childhood memories, thoughts on the reality of parents growing old, exotic friends, mundane lives, unexpected loves, and the inner world of hidden places we hid...

This collection of 15 of Dave Eggers's stories includes some that have been highly acclaimed and several that have never been published before. 'Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance' is about a young man coping with his cousin'...

Robert Olen Butler served as a translator in Vietnam. In A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN, he draws on his experience with that country to write about about postwar Vietnamese TmigrTs in New Orleans, and the Americans whose lives ...

More diabolical tales of suspense. More nerve-jangling shocks.'The grand master of the plot twist' (Booklist) is back.... New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, who crafted first-rate thrills in the collected stories of Twi...

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. 'Power and haunting,' and 'nights of unrest' were typical reader responses. This collection, t...

By the #1 bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany and In Tuscany, Swan is a haunting novel set in the deep South -- a resonant tale of long-buried family secrets and mysteries brought suddenly to light.In her celebra...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as "one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years" (Baltimore Sun), with "prose as lu...

In conventional fiction, war heroes return home minus an arm or a leg--or, to take Hemingway's worst-case scenario, the family jewels. In Aimee Bender's deeply unconventional collection, however, an even more suggestive body part goe...

This collection brings together Dahl's finest work, illustrating his genius for the horrific and grotesque which is unparalleled. 'Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildne...

Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not a...

A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearIn these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like gi...

A series of stories whose shared themes of loss, discovery, and connections with others bind them together as a unified whole. The settings, mostly urban, include a newspaper office, a 1950s coffeehouse, and menacing, wild landscapes....

Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her reader...