Short Stories

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allen Poe's mastery of both Gothic horror and the short story form. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by David...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450938Author Charlie MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

Excellent reading in either Spanish or English, the eight short stories in this collection by authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Camilo Jose Cela have been chosen for their readability and literary merit. Seven are from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999923808Author Michael RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Michael RosenPublisher Michael RosenWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 3mm

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDon't miss the brand new collection of never-before-seen ghostly tales from these eight authors plus four more. The Winter Spirits is out in October 2023 and available to pre-order now. 'You won't find a more thrilling ...

This Christmas, 'hand yourself over to be enchanted' (Guardian) by the English genius behind witchcraft classic Lolly Willowes.'Worth GBP9.99 for the book jacket alone (trust Faber) ... It's exquisite and shivery, just like the stories within ... By...

Collected Stories brings together many of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's spellbinding short stories, each brimming with a blend of the surreal, the magical, and the everyday that Nobel-Prize-winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez is known...

The Queen of Spades and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction showcasing Alexander Pushkin's application of Romantic sensibilities to uncompromising studies of human frailty. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by...

'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror 'Where power and feminist rage meet' Stylist______________________________A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen...

A seminal fiction collection that stretches from Gertrude Stein to Grace Paley, from Edith Wharton to Angela Carter, from Mae West to Margaret Atwood, from Zora Neale Hurston to Joyce Carol Oates. Add to this another ninety-two brilliant writers a...

A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers.'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror'Where power and feminist rage meet'...

Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary fiction from the world's most spoken language. These eight short stories, with parallel translations, offer students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without...

In Brevity, David Galef provides a guide to writing flash fiction, from tips on technique to samples by canonical and contemporary authors to provocative prompts that inspire powerful stories in a little space. Galef traces the genre back to its varied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993218361Author David WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Red Axe BooksPublisher Red Axe Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358212102Author Ursula K Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. Including a new story 'The School of...

The stories in this Norton Critical Edition maintain the connection and sequencing that Joseph Conrad saw among them. They are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a note on the texts and a preface. Also included are documents related to Conrad's...

The first edition of May's Short Story Theories (1976) opened with an essay entitled "The Short Story: An Underrated Art." Almost two decades later, the short story suffers no such slight. Publishers and critics have become increasingly interested in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646222018Author Sarah Lyn RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909254756Author Florence GoyetFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905583485Author Ali SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Comma PressPublisher Comma Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912328574Author Austin DonnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Orla Kelly PublishingPublisher Orla Kelly PublishingWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941040997Author Ursula K Le GuinFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 180mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888889406Author Bill HendersonFormat HardbackPage Count 550Imprint Pushcart PressPublisher Pushcart PressWeight(grams) 939gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374600990Author Susan CheeverFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland is the first book-length study of the great Victorian novelist's relationship with Ireland, the country which became his second home and was the location of his first personal and...

Contrary to the common view that cultural modernism is a broadly anti-mimetic movement, one which turned away from traditional artistic goals of representing the world, Rhythmic Modernism argues that rhythm and mimesis are central to modernist aesthetics...

James Ferguson's comprehensive overview of William Faulkner's short fiction is a systematic study of this body of work, which Faulkner produced over a period of forty years. Based on his reading of the manuscripts and typescripts of the stories, Ferguson...

D.H. Lawrence's Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective explores how literature thinks; more specifically, how the reading of fiction influences behavior. Lawrence writes passionately about our alienation from ourselves, from other people, and from the...

D.H. Lawrence's Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective explores how literature thinks; more specifically, how the reading of fiction influences behavior. Lawrence writes passionately about our alienation from ourselves, from other people, and from the...

Written originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has made obvious what was always clear to fans and literary scholars alike: that it is an essential human activity to read and retell epic stories of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984856036Author George SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

First published in 1971, this collection of short stories, set in the East End of London in the 1890s, offers a corrective to the view of nineties' literature as dominated by aestheticism, and shows how many late Victorian writers tried to break with...

Although the short story has often been called America's unique contribution to the world's literature, relatively few critics have taken the form seriously. May's collection of essays by popular commentators, academic critics, and short story writers...

This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary criticism, to offer new insights into the writer, his work and his legacy...

Written originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of 50 Shades of Gray has made obvious what was always clear to fans and literary scholars alike: that it is an essential human activity to read and retell epic stories of famous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013290244Author Florence GoyetFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618270856Author Will MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Altus PressPublisher Altus PressWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm

Shakespeare's last plays, the tragicomic Romances, are notoriously strange plays, riddled with fabulous events and incredible coincidences, magic and dream. These features have sometimes been interpreted as the carelessness of an of an aging dramatist...

Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland is the first book-length study of the great Victorian novelist's relationship with Ireland, the country which became his second home and was the location of his first personal and...