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The First Forty-Nine Stories (Ernest Hemingway)
From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and…
€ 11,⁹⁵
The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson)
This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen…
€ 13,⁵⁰
Fen (Daisy Johnson)
Revisit the haunting debut short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Everything Under.

'Full of unabashedly, refreshingly angry women... In a year that made me furious, Daisy Johnson’s Fen was a howl I…
€ 11,⁹⁵
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door (Etgar Keret)
Etgar Keret is an ingenious and original master of the short story. Radical, witty and always unusual, declared a 'genius' by the New York Times, Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this bestselling collection.

A…
€ 13,³⁰
The Garden Party and Other Stories (Lorna Sage en Katherine Mansfield)
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and…
€ 11,⁹⁵
Wunderkind (Carson McCullers)
'A Wunderkind - a Wunderkind a Wunderkind. The syllables would come out rolling in the deep German way, roar against her ears and then fall to a murmur...'

Writing about outcasts, dreamers and misfits in the Deep South, Carson…
€ 3,⁹⁹
First Love, Last Rites (Ian McEwan)
Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.
€ 11,⁹⁵
The Elephant (Slawomir Mrozek)
The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirising life in Poland under a totalitarian regime. The family of a wealthy lawyer keep a 'tamed progressive' as a pet;…
€ 13,³⁰
Runaway (Alice Munro)
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**

The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection.

Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made…
€ 13,³⁰
Lance (Vladimir Nabokov)
'The illegible signature of teetering disaster'

Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would…
€ 1,³⁵
Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories (R. K. Narayan)
An enchanting collection from India's foremost storyteller, rich in wry, warmly observed characters from every walk of Indian life - merchants, beggars, herdsmen, rogues - all of whose lives are microcosms of the human experience…
€ 15,⁹⁵
Selected Stories (John O'Hara)
'This is fiction, but it has, for me, the clang of truth' John Updike

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY E. L. DOCTOROW

John O’Hara is widely credited with inventing the New Yorker short story, and remains the most-published short story…
€ 13,³⁰