Mini Modern Classics
The Gifts of War
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One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Margaret Drabble is an unmatched observer of postwar English lives, portraying social change, sexual liberation, landscape, class and the messy complications of human... Buy or find out more→
The Sexes
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Dorothy Parker captured early twentieth century American society like no one else could. She was a masterful observer of character, a witty, sharply exact composer of dialogue and a poignant reader of the subtleties of... Buy or find out more→
In the Penal Colony
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Features two stories, in which a traveller is shown the workings of an elaborate machine with a bloody purpose, and a son awakens unimagined resentments in his father. This book includes In the Penal Colony and The Judgement . Buy or find out more→
Moon Lake
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Moon Lake is the story of a summer camp in Mississippi, a surly lifeguard, a rebellious orphan girl, and the fateful day when they learn the secrets of life and death. Pulitzer Prize-winner Eudora Welty's extraordinary short... Buy or find out more→
The Door in the Wall
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Includes such stories as: The Door in the Wall , The Sea Raiders and The Moth . Buy or find out more→
Rich in Russia
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A collection of two short stories in which, the writer Henry Bech travels to Europe on a hapless cultural exchange, first to Russia, where he struggles to spend his money when everything - from his meals to his bugged hotel room -... Buy or find out more→
The Last Demon
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Includes such stories as: The Last Demon , Yentl the Yeshiva Boy and The Cafeteria . Buy or find out more→
Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse That Helped
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H.H. Munro, better known by his pen name, Saki, wrote wickedly comic satires of upper-class Edwardian life. These seven short stories are macabre and extremely funny: they include a cat that is regrettably taught to speak, a... Buy or find out more→
Through the Wall
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Part of Penguin Modern Classics , this book contains such stories as: Through the Wall and Anna and Maria . Buy or find out more→
La Grosse Fifi
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These four haunting stories from the author of Wide Sargasso Sea capture moments in the lives of European dilettantes, ingénues, businessmen, soldiers and artists at a time when the world was enjoying freedom after war. But... Buy or find out more→
Chess
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A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd – a man who will risk everything to win.... Buy or find out more→
The Cornet-player Who Betrayed Ireland
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Contains such stories as: The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland , Guests of the Nation , A Story by Maupassant , and First Confession . Buy or find out more→
A Breath of Lucifer
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Includes such tales as: A Breath of Lucifer , House Opposite , The Watchman , Another Community , Like the Sun , Uncle's Letters , Fruition at Forty and Half a Rupee's Worth . Buy or find out more→
Terra Incognita
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Includes the three stories: Terra Incognita , Spring in Fialta and The Doorbell . Buy or find out more→
Flypaper Mini Modern Classics
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Includes such stories as: Flypaper , Monkey Island , Fisherman on the Baltic , Sheep , As Seen in Another Light , Sarcophagus Cover , Monuments , The Paint Spreader , It's Lovely Here and The Blackbird . Buy or find out more→
Red Rose, White Rose
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In Eileen Chang's eloquent and evocative novella, Zhenbao is a devoted son, a diligent worker, and guarded in love. But when he meets a friend's spoilt, spirited, desirable wife, he cannot resist her charms, or keep their... Buy or find out more→
Wunderkind
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Writing about outcasts, dreamers and misfits in the Deep South, Carson McCullers was acclaimed for her sympathetic depictions of loneliness, the need for understanding and the search for love. These four masterly stories of... Buy or find out more→
The Colour Out of Space
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'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies dancing hellish sarabands over an accursed marsh (…)' H.P. Lovecraft was perhaps the greatest twentieth... Buy or find out more→
Magic Paint Mini Modern Classics
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Whether describing the most beautiful poem ever composed or an invention gone horribly wrong, this title features eight stories that open up a rich, fantastical world of wonder, adventure and cruel twists of fate, where nothing is... Buy or find out more→
Odour Of Chrysanthemums Mini Modern Classics
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Features two stories of fragile happiness and failed dreams. In this book, a tragedy forces a woman to acknowledge that she has never known her husband, and a man blinded in the First World War discovers an unexpected peace. It... Buy or find out more→
'They'
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Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novels and poetry, but his short stories reveal a far more sinister and macabre side to his imagination. In these three chilling and psychologically penetrating tales, Kipling portrays... Buy or find out more→
The Lady in the Looking Glass
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'People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.' 'If she concealed so much and knew so much one must prize... Buy or find out more→
Canon Alberic's Scrap-book
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'The lower jaw was thin - what can I call it? - shallow, like a beast's; teeth showed behind the black lips…' M. R. James is the master of the English ghost story, whose tales are inhabited not by ethereal spirits, but... Buy or find out more→
The Machine Stops
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'"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that."' E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two... Buy or find out more→
The Mark-2 Wife
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William Trevor has been acclaimed as the greatest contemporary writer of short stories in the English language, likened to Chekhov for his insights into human nature. These three tales of obsession, heartbreak, silent sorrow... Buy or find out more→
Hell Screen
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One of the towering figures of modern Japanese writing, Akutagawa's early career was distinguished by imaginative, beautifully crafted stories of medieval Japan, rich with period detail. These two stories include his great... Buy or find out more→
Dear Illusion
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A title that is part of the 50 original and exciting books of short stories, publishing in February to celebrate half a century of Penguin Modern Classics. Buy or find out more→
Him with His Foot in His Mouth
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'We were friends, somehow.But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy.All the while that he was making the gestures of a close and precious friend he was fattening my soul in a coop till it was ready for... Buy or find out more→
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby
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'I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too... Buy or find out more→
The Expelled
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A selection of four stories or 'nouvelles' that date from 1945. Buy or find out more→
Short Treatise On The Joys Of Morphinism Mini Modern Classics
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Drawing on the author's own history of addiction, this title features two stories: A Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism and Three Years of Life . Buy or find out more→
The Widow Ching-pirate
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'On days of combat, the crew would mix gunpowder with their liquor' Borges became famous as a writer of short stories that contained new realities: elaborately conceived, ingenious and gamesome précis of impossible... Buy or find out more→
The Delicate Prey
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'And then one day a solitary figure appeared, moving toward them across the lifeless plain from the west.One man on a camel… ' Paul Bowles's unforgettable short stories portray people facing hostile environments and the... Buy or find out more→
Bluebeard Mini Modern Classics
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Features fairy tales that conjure up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains, wily animals and incredible transformations. This book includes: Bluebeard , Little Red Riding Hood , Puss in Boots , The Sleeping... Buy or find out more→
Strange Crime Of John Boulnois Mini Modern Classics
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Includes: The Strange Crime of John Boulnois and The Blue Cross . Buy or find out more→
Youth
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Inspired by the author's own experiences at sea, this book tells a haunting tale about ill omens, the passing of time and the making of a man. Buy or find out more→
Romance Of The Thin Man And The Fat Lady Mini Modern Classics
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Paul stepped off the curb and got hit by a truck. He didn't know what it was that hit him at first, but now, here on his back, under the truck, there could be no doubt. Buy or find out more→
Babette's Feast
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'And it happened when Martine or Philippa spoke to Babette that they would get no answers, and would wonder if she had even heard what they said … Orshe would sit immovable on the three-legged kitchen chair, her strong hands in... Buy or find out more→
The Tooth
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Her tooth, which had brought her here unerringly, seemed now the only part of her to have any identity. It seemed to have had its picture taken without her; it was the important creature which must be recorded and examined and... Buy or find out more→
Beast In The Jungle Mini Modern Classics
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Tells the story of John Marcher, a man who, for as long as he can remember, has been obsessed by the feeling that some life-changing - even catastrophic - event lies in wait for him like a jungle animal. Then the tragic day... Buy or find out more→
Two Gallants
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James Joyce's naturalistic, unflinching portrayal of ordinary working people in his Dubliners stories was a literary landmark. These four stories from that collection offer glimpses of defeated lives – an unremarkable death, a... Buy or find out more→