Collected Stories
10 best books like Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov): Subtly Worded, What Becomes, The Empire of Ice Cream, Sugar and Other Stories, Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, Selected Stories, Red Cavalry and Other Stories, The American Years, Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov, The Ant King, and Other Stories, Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings
A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov
Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely...
| Author | A.L. Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0224077872 |
..... of the broken hearted? Who had love that's now departed. And that is the theme of A.L. Kennedy's latest collection of short stories. Bleak, perhaps. But then you don't read A.L. Kennedy unless you can take her unflinching, precise, unsettling, razor sharp dissection of the pain that makes us human....
| Author | Jeffrey Ford |
| ISBN | 1930846398 |
Mixing the mundane with the metaphysical, the pairings of the everyday and the extraordinary in this collection of short fiction yield supernatural results—a young musician perceives another world while drinking coffee, a fairy chronicles his busy life in a sandcastle during the changing tide,...
| Author | A.S. Byatt |
| ISBN | 0679742271 |
It is always a little sad to reach the point where there is no more fiction to read by a favourite writer - let's hope she still has more to come. This was Byatt's first collection of stories, the last book she published before Possession, and although it lacks the thematic unity of most of her later story...
| Author | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 0140449078 |
Gogol's detailed, breathlessly sarcastic and mean spirited story telling is a joy to read.
Unfortunately some stories stop abruptly with no decent pay off for the gloriousness before it: The Carriage has an obvious and anti-climatic finale and The Government Inspector didn't finish as grandly...
| Author | Isaac Babel |
| ISBN | 0140449973 |
Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish...
| Author | Brian Boyd |
| ISBN | 0691024715 |
“...every dimension presupposes a medium within which it can act, and if, in the spiral unwinding of things, space warps into something akin to time, and time, in its turn, warps into something akin to thought, then, surely, another dimension follows.”
-Speak, Memory
Above...
| Author | Robert Chandler |
| ISBN | 0141442239 |
For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years In these folk tales, young women go on long and perilous quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese, and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical...
| Author | Benjamin Rosenbaum |
| ISBN | 1931520526 |
Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic.-Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms...
Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings
| Author | Mervyn Peake |
| ISBN | 0140046291 |
Brilliant, disturbing, fantastical and addicitive, Mervyn Peake at one time or another during his brief life touched on almost every literary form. For the aficionado and for the first-time reader, this selection of his less well-known works offers a treasure trove. It includes a wealth of short...
| Author | Émile Zola |
| ISBN | 0192836617 |
Zola is famous for his novels, especially the excellent Rougon-Macquart series, so I was a little bit nervous approaching a book of his short stories. Would Zola continue to impress or would he falter in this format? In my experience novelists aren't always good short story writers and vice versa; they...
| Author | Ludmilla Petrushevskaya |
| ISBN | 0141196211 |
'There once lived a woman who was so fat, she couldn't fit in a taxi, and when going into the subway she took up the whole width of the escalator'. Ludmilla Petrushevskaya has been acclaimed as one of Russia's greatest living writers. These five dreamlike and blackly comic stories, two of which are here...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0486278050 |
One of the world's greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) also wrote numerous excellent short stories, three of which are contained in this volume. "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1891) is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a splenetic complaint about the way in which society educates young...
| Author | Ethel Rohan |
| ISBN | 0615400930 |
**ARC (Advance Reading Copy) review by Mel Bosworth
An entire chocolate cake. A gallon of espresso. A liter of Jameson. For the average person, it’s probably not wise to consume any of these things in one sitting, regardless of how tempting it might be. Ethel Rohan’s debut collection Cut...
The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness
| Author | Lila Azam Zanganeh |
| ISBN | 0393079929 |
The protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift playfully dreamed of writing "A Practical Handbook: How to Be Happy." Now, Nabokov's own creative reader Lila Azam Zanganeh lends life to this vision with sly sophistication and ebullient charm, as she shares the delirious joy to be found in reading the...
| Author | J.G. Ballard |
| ISBN | 0007242298 |
First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of ‘Empire of the Sun’, ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell.
With eighteen novels over four decades – from ‘The Drowned World’ in 1962 to his final novel...
| Author | Vladimir Mayakovsky |
| ISBN | 1438211643 |
Vladimir Mayakovsky (July 19, 1893 - April 14, 1930) is one of the most recognized and celebrated poets of the Russian canon. One of the leaders of the Russian Futurism movement, which sought to capture the wonder of the fast-paced modern world and renounced the static art of the past, Mayakovsky completely...
The Zoo Where You're Fed to God
| Author | Michael Ventura |
| ISBN | 0671892223 |
i was just reading my delight of a book, readers' advisory service in the public library, and the chapter i was reading was the one on "appeal". basically, appeal is how you describe a book to a patron based on its salient elements: pacing, characterization, story line, frame/tone, and style. the idea...
| Author | Howard Waldrop |
| ISBN | 1931520186 |
"If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you."-George R. R. Martin The first paperback (and twentieth anniversary) edition of a landmark debut collection. Howard Waldrop's encyclopedic knowledge of superheroes, baseball players, world wars, long-dead film stars, Mexican wrestlers, pulp...
