The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War. ...

A modern fable for people of all ages that touches on the power of kindness, generosity, compassion, and community --Dust jacket flap.

Regarded as one of the finest American short story writers and admired by George Saunders, Susan Sontag and Salman Rushdie, this volume presents Paley's collected works. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark...

The stories in this work were originally published in Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The New Yorker, and Story Magazine --Title page verso.

Accounts by veterans of the struggle in the 1920s and early 1930s to continue Lenin's revolutionary course, and by leaders of the opposition movement of the 1970s.

A collection of stories which includes Home, a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; Victory lap, a tale about an inventive abduction attempt, and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the...