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Going To Meet The Man (James Baldwin)
'Few, it seems to me, have driven their words with such passion' Guardian

How our earliest experiences can shape our destiny is the theme that runs like a thread of revelation through these extraordinary stories. They explore the…
€ 15,⁹⁵
Love is Power or Something Like That (A. Igoni Barrett)
Where sex is a currency, or a weapon.

Where power ends in corruption, or violence.

Where the worst thing to happen is for the best, sometimes.
Where love is power, or something like that.

In these nine blistering stories cavort…
€ 22,⁶⁰
Sixty Stories (David Gates and Donald Barthelme)
This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered…
€ 19,⁹⁵
The Complete Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino)
Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks…
€ 13,³⁰
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Raymond Carver)
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare,…
€ 11,⁹⁵
Collected Stories (John Cheever)
John Cheever’s Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHI

This outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever shows…
€ 17,³⁰
The Awakening and Selected Stories (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire, edited with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert in Penguin…
€ 10,⁶⁵
Kiss Kiss (Roald Dahl)
In Kiss Kiss you will find eleven devious, shocking stories from the master of the unpredictable, Roald Dahl.

What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? What happens when a…
€ 11,⁹⁵
Don't Look Now and Other Stories (Daphne Du Maurier)
Collecting five stories of suspense, mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now and Other Stories includes an introduction by Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, in Penguin Modern Classics.

John…
€ 13,³⁰
Glittering City (Cyprian Ekwensi)
"Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night"'

Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the 'sensational city' of 1960s Lagos.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books…
€ 1,³⁵
Mavis Gallant Collected Stories
This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art.

With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail,…
€ 21,³⁰
The Nose (Nikolay Gogol)
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose.'

With this pair of absurd, comic stories Gogol indulges his imagination and delights…
€ 1,³⁵