Short Stories

per pagina

Sorteer op

Trilobites & Other Stories (Breece Pancake)
The stories in this collection nearly all take place in and around the mountain hollows of West Virginia: a world of cock-fighting, coal-mining, deer-stalking, sex, depression, drinking and death.

'It would be easy to allow his…
€ 11,⁹⁵
The Collected Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and prose, and The Collected Dorothy Parker includes an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin Modern Classics.

Dorothy…
€ 17,³⁰
Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LINDY WEST

When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfect isolation in the Amazon, they decide there simply must be men somewhere. How could these women survive without man's…
€ 11,⁹⁵
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories (Edgar Allan Poe)
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from…
€ 10,⁶⁵
Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Karen Russell)
An awkward teen with a terrible haircut has a reversal of fortune when he finds artefacts from the future lining a seagulls’ nest.

In a godforsaken barn, Presidents Eisenhower, John Adams and Rutherford B. Hayes are bemused to…
€ 13,³⁰
For Esmé - with Love and Squalor (J.D. Salinger)
A collection of nine exceptional stories from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye

'This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on…
€ 11,⁹⁵
Public library and other stories (Ali Smith)
A richly inventive new collection of stories from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet

'Smith is dazzling in her daring. Sheer inventive…
€ 11,⁹⁵
Reheated Cabbage (Irvine Welsh)
Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, Reheated Cabbage has all the classic Irvine Welsh ingredients

In Reheated Cabbage you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie and discover how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have…
€ 13,³⁰
The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Oscar Wilde)
These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include 'The Happy Prince', who was not as happy as he seemed; 'The Selfish Giant', who learned to love little children; 'The Star Child', who suffered bitter…
€ 2,⁶⁶
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami

This is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the…
€ 14,⁶⁵
The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future
A collection of six short stories imagines future lands with new technologies and beings, where in spite of advanced capabilities, people still must confront deeply human problems.
€ 18,⁹⁹
Selected Short Stories (Honoré De Balzac)
Twelve stories are representative of the tragic, melodramatic, sentimental, pathetic, and comic aspects of Balzac's art and testify to his keen sense of irony when observing the human condition.
€ 17,³⁰