Last Tales

Author	Peter Høeg
ISBN	0140279733

These stories, which vary in theme but all bear the mark of Peter Hoeg's graceful and thoughtful prose, are set in eight separate corners of the world. On this fateful night, a young mathematician encounters Joseph Conrad during a train ride through the war-torn Congo in "Journey into a Dark Heart; "...

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	V.S. Pritchett
ISBN	0812972945

Introduction by JEREMY TREGLOWN

"In his daily walks through London," notes Jeremy Treglown in his Introduction to this collection, "Pritchett watched and listened to people as a naturalist observes wild creatures and birds. He knew that oddity is the norm, not the exception." This finely...

Author	Hans Scherfig
ISBN	8700143561

Two men, former schoolmates, disappear, and one appears to have committed suicide. Later, a strange man shows up in a rural town...

I can't remember where I found this book, but likely I picked it up due to the striking linocut print on the cover, made by the author, who was a painter and a naturalist...

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Elspeth Huxley

This sequel to THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA continues the story of Elspeth Huxley's childhood in Kenya. British settlers, called to serve in WW I, return to their neglected farms and ranches. For Tilly and Robin it is back to the struggle. For their daughter, now 11, it is back to the ponies, lessons at home,...

Author	Jayne Anne Phillips
ISBN	0375702849

Jayne Anne Phillips has always been a master of portraiture, both in her widely acclaimed novels and in her short fiction.  The stories in Fast Lanes demonstrated the breadth of her talent in a tour de force of voices, offering elegantly rendered views into the lives of characters torn between the...

Author	John Crowley
ISBN	0380731061

A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable, Little, Big, to his New York Times Notable Book, The Translator. Now, for the first time, all of his short fiction has been collected...

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Claude Lalumière

Finished Objects of Worship (2009) by Claude Lalumière the other day on the way to work. Objects of Worship is a collection of 12 short stories. Describing them as strange would be an understatement. This collection abounds with zombies, superheroes and gods.

About the only other contemporary...

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John O'Hara

“John O’Hara’s fiction,” wrote Lionel Trilling, “is preeminent for its social verisimilitude.” Made famous by his bestselling novels, including BUtterfield 8 and Appointment in Samarra, O’Hara (1905–1970) also wrote some of the finest short fiction of the twentieth century.

First...

Author	Pierre Andrézel
ISBN	0141186437

Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted, and London is a hostile place for two young girls without a home. Bound together by poverty, grief and their shared years at school, they set out to make a future for themselves in new surroundings. They are adopted by the austere, puritanical Reverend...

Author	Nancy Kress
ISBN	1596067217

Nancy Kress, winner of multiple awards for her science fiction and fantasy, ranges through space and time in this stunning collection. Anne Boleyn is snatched from her time stream--with unexpected consequences for two worlds. A far-future spaceship brings religion to a planet that already harbors...

Author	Judith Thurman
ISBN	0312135254

A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Her magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established Isak Dinesen as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.

With...

Author	Clark Ashton Smith
ISBN	1597800325

The Last Hieroglyph is the fifth of the five volume Collected Fantasies series. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts. The Last Hieroglyph includes,...

Author	Lucy A. Snyder
ISBN	1935738771

Lucy A. Snyder's latest collection features a spellbinding mix of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Her stories will carry you away to the sinister heart of the Deep South, the mind-bending reaches of outer space, and the terrifying desolation of Carcosa.

As the follow-up to the Bram...

Author	Penelope Fitzgerald
ISBN	0618154507

Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most highly-regarded writers on the English literary scene. Apart from Iris Murdoch, no other writer has been shortlisted so many times for the Booker Prize. Her last novel, The Blue Flower, was the book of its year, garnering extraordinary acclaim in Britain, America...

Author	Doris Lessing
ISBN	0452257042

The seventeen stories in this, the finest collection of Doris Lessing's short fiction, all share the same assured mastery of insight and compassion. They may be set in Africa, England, Germany, or France; their themes may range from the sexual dilemma of a too-attractive woman to the perilous initiation...

Author	Ambrose Bierce
ISBN	1426477236

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...

Author	Björn Larsson
ISBN	8870910970

"Un venditore ambulante di sogni”, così si definisce Marcel, il capitano di lungo corso che, manovrando la sua nave tra le tempeste con la stessa eleganza con cui fa rotta tra gli incontri della vita, passa nel suo perenne errare di porto in porto perturbando cuori e destini. Quattro sono i porti in...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864) was one of America’s most famous writers. Best known for the classic book The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne also wrote many other well known books and short stories including The House of the Seven Gables and Young Goodman Brown. Hawthorne’s writing centers around...

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Tanya Huff

Explore uncharted territory in this collection of heroic fantasy shorts from Tanya Huff. Annotations provide background and insight on each story. Peppered with Huffs trademark tongue-in-cheek wit and the brilliant, funny, wise, ruthless heroines that have made her famous, this is a collection...

Author	August Strindberg
ISBN	0670337609

هذه قراءة من عام 2009، تذكرتها حين قرأت عن قصيدة هاينريش هاينه "العاشق العذري" في مقدمة مسرحيته المنصور، و قد مرت معي مسبقا هذه القصيدة في هذه المجموعة القصصية...