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A Bad Business - Essential Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Slater Pasternak (Translator); Maya Slater (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A collection of six thrilling short stories by this classic Russian writer, in a fresh translation and stunning new edition.
Every Day Is To-Day - Essential Writings by Gertrude Stein; Francesca Wade (Selected by, Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein's most enrapturing and essential short writings--a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful works Between the French-flapped covers of this elegant paperback collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the ...Show more
I Would Prefer Not To - Essential Stories by Herman Melville
Category: Short Stories | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.
Lives and Deaths by Leo Tolstoy ; Boris Dralyuk
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
Fresh translations of Tolstoy's richest shorter works by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk.
Love and Youth - Essential Stories by Ivan Turgenev ; Nicolas Slater (Translator)
Category: Short Stories | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
This collection, in a lyrical new translation by Nicolas Slater, places Turgenev's great novella First Love alongside a selection of his classic stories. From the evocative rural scenes of 'Bezhin Meadow' and 'Rattling Wheels', to the pathos and humanity of 'The District Doctor' and 'Biryuk', these are ...Show more
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment - Essential Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Brian Karetnyk (Translator)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' - Haruki Murakami
Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories by Bruno Schulz
Category: Fiction | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A stunning new collection featuring fresh translations of Bruno Schulz's 15 most captivating short stories, in a beautiful Pushkin Collection editionIncludes a new translation of a recently discovered story, believed to be the first-ever published work by this legendary cult writerThe stories in this co ...Show more
Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories by Isaac Babel
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
'Compact, irreverent, enigmatic, savage and tender... it is impossible to look at the world the same way after reading Babel... one of the enduring jewels of 20th-century Russian literature' - Financial Times Isaac Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature. Brashly conver ...Show more
Strange Bliss: Essential Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Category: Short Stories | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A beguiling new selection of Katherine Mansfield's finest stories, focused on her mysterious, complex portrayals of relationships between women. Katherine Mansfield was one of the true pioneers of the short story. Her style shifts subtly between the comic and the tragic, as calm surfaces are punctured ...Show more
The Coral Merchant - Essential Stories by Joseph Roth ; Ruth Martin (Translator)
Category: Short Stories | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
New translations of the six greatest short stories by Joseph Roth, collected in a beautiful edition Joseph Roth's sensibility--both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane--produced some of the most distinctive fiction of the twentieth century. This collection of his most ess ...Show more
The Looking-Glass - Essential Stories by Machado de Assis; Daniel Hahn (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
'If Borges is the writer who made Garcia Marquez possible then it is no exaggeration to say that Machado De Assis is the writer who made Borges possible' - Salman Rushdie
The Siren's Lament - Essential Stories by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Bryan Karetnyk (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasy