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Trust Me
Short Stories
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take on a new urgency as earthquakes, illnesses, lost wallets, and deaths of distant... Read more >
Short Stories
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take on a new urgency as earthquakes, illnesses, lost wallets, and deaths of distant... Read more >
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El Aleph
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $15.00
“Uno de los artistas contemporáneos más memorables… La deuda que tenemos contraída con él quienes escribimos en español es enorme”. —Mario Vargas Llosa
Considerado uno de los escritores más influyentes del siglo XX en cualquier idioma, la obra de Jorge Luis Borges continúa inspirando a nuevas generaciones de lectores gracias al deslumbrante... Read more >
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $15.00
“Uno de los artistas contemporáneos más memorables… La deuda que tenemos contraída con él quienes escribimos en español es enorme”. —Mario Vargas Llosa
Considerado uno de los escritores más influyentes del siglo XX en cualquier idioma, la obra de Jorge Luis Borges continúa inspirando a nuevas generaciones de lectores gracias al deslumbrante... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
El Aleph
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Format: eBook, 216 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $9.99
“Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros”. —Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan y... Read more >
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Format: eBook, 216 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $9.99
“Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros”. —Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan y... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Ficciones
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $14.00
“Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros”. —Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan y... Read more >
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $14.00
“Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros”. —Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan y... Read more >
Ficciones
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $9.99
“Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros”. —Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan y... Read more >
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $9.99
“Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros”. —Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan y... Read more >
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Historia Universal de la infamia
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $9.99
“A veces creo que los buenos lectores son cisnes aun más tenebrosos y singulares que los buenos autores”. —Jorge Luis Borges
En su primer libro de ficción, Borges trabaja con biografías de ladrones y rufianes verdaderos; personajes traidores y a veces también heroicos. Aquí están, entre otros, Lazarus Morell, redentor de esclavos... Read more >
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $9.99
“A veces creo que los buenos lectores son cisnes aun más tenebrosos y singulares que los buenos autores”. —Jorge Luis Borges
En su primer libro de ficción, Borges trabaja con biografías de ladrones y rufianes verdaderos; personajes traidores y a veces también heroicos. Aquí están, entre otros, Lazarus Morell, redentor de esclavos... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Historia Universal de la infamia
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $14.00
“A veces creo que los buenos lectores son cisnes aun más tenebrosos y singulares que los buenos autores”. —Jorge Luis Borges
En su primer libro de ficción, Borges trabaja con biografías de ladrones y rufianes verdaderos; personajes traidores y a veces también heroicos. Aquí están, entre otros, Lazarus Morell, redentor de esclavos... Read more >
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $14.00
“A veces creo que los buenos lectores son cisnes aun más tenebrosos y singulares que los buenos autores”. —Jorge Luis Borges
En su primer libro de ficción, Borges trabaja con biografías de ladrones y rufianes verdaderos; personajes traidores y a veces también heroicos. Aquí están, entre otros, Lazarus Morell, redentor de esclavos... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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We Others
New & Selected Stories
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $16.00
“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”
—David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination.
Steven Millhauser’s fiction has consistently, and to... Read more >
New & Selected Stories
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $16.00
“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”
—David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination.
Steven Millhauser’s fiction has consistently, and to... Read more >
Who's Irish?
Stories
Written by Gish Jen
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2012
Price: $9.99
In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on America--with sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking results.
Life now is not what it was a generation ago, but... Read more >
Stories
Written by Gish Jen
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2012
Price: $9.99
In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on America--with sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking results.
Life now is not what it was a generation ago, but... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Dubliners
Written by James Joyce
Introduction by John Banville
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $10.00
Written by James Joyce
Introduction by John Banville
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $10.00
Introduction by John Banville
James Joyce was the singular figure of modernism, and to this day his grand vision looms large over contemporary literature and the entire Western canon. His stylistic innovations were revolutionary, yet nowhere is Joyce more accessible than in this volume of short stories, a brilliant collection...
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Summer Lies
Stories
Written by Bernhard Schlink
Translated by Carol Janeway
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $25.95
Stories
Written by Bernhard Schlink
Translated by Carol Janeway
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $25.95
From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make...
Read more >
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Summer Lies
Stories
Written by Bernhard Schlink
Translated by Carol Janeway
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $11.99
Stories
Written by Bernhard Schlink
Translated by Carol Janeway
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $11.99
From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make...
Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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We're Flying
Written by Peter Stamm
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $15.95
Following the publication of the widely acclaimed novel Seven Years comes a trove of stories from the Swiss master Peter Stamm. They all possess the traits that have built Stamm’s reputation: the directness of the prose, the deceptive surface simplicity of the narratives, and deep psychological insight into the existential dilemmas... Read more >
Written by Peter Stamm
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $15.95
Following the publication of the widely acclaimed novel Seven Years comes a trove of stories from the Swiss master Peter Stamm. They all possess the traits that have built Stamm’s reputation: the directness of the prose, the deceptive surface simplicity of the narratives, and deep psychological insight into the existential dilemmas... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
We're Flying
Written by Peter Stamm
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $12.99
Following the publication of the widely acclaimed novel Seven Years comes a trove of stories from the Swiss master Peter Stamm. They all possess the traits that have built Stamm’s reputation: the directness of the prose, the deceptive surface simplicity of the narratives, and deep psychological insight into the existential dilemmas... Read more >
Written by Peter Stamm
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $12.99
Following the publication of the widely acclaimed novel Seven Years comes a trove of stories from the Swiss master Peter Stamm. They all possess the traits that have built Stamm’s reputation: the directness of the prose, the deceptive surface simplicity of the narratives, and deep psychological insight into the existential dilemmas... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Ladies and Gentlemen
Written by Adam Ross
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
After his widely celebrated debut, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross now presents a darkly compelling collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.
A hotshot lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes to the rescue of his irresponsible, irresistible younger brother. An... Read more >
Written by Adam Ross
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
After his widely celebrated debut, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross now presents a darkly compelling collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.
A hotshot lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes to the rescue of his irresponsible, irresistible younger brother. An... Read more >
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Sorry Please Thank You
Stories
Written by Charles Yu
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $24.95
Stories
Written by Charles Yu
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $24.95
The author of the widely praised debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe returns with a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.
A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to...
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Sorry Please Thank You
Stories
Written by Charles Yu
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $11.99
Stories
Written by Charles Yu
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $11.99
The author of the widely praised debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe returns with a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.
A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by David Magarshack
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2012
Price: $9.99
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by David Magarshack
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2012
Price: $9.99
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Edited by Vincent Price and Chandler Brossard
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 4, 2012
Price: $6.99
A chilling compilation of some of Edgar Allen Poe's best-loved stories, edited by Vincent Price and Chandler Brossard and with an introduction by Vincent Price, including:
The Black Cat - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque of the Red Death - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - The Premature Burial... Read more >
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Edited by Vincent Price and Chandler Brossard
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 4, 2012
Price: $6.99
A chilling compilation of some of Edgar Allen Poe's best-loved stories, edited by Vincent Price and Chandler Brossard and with an introduction by Vincent Price, including:
The Black Cat - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque of the Red Death - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - The Premature Burial... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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The Southern Woman
Selected Fiction
Written by Elizabeth Spencer
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 27, 2012
Price: $11.99
Born in rural Carrollton, Mississippi, Elizabeth Spencer has been writing masterly stories and novellas about Southerners for more than half a century. The Southern Woman collects the best of Spencer’s shorter fiction and displays her range of place–the agrarian South, Italy in the decade after the Second World War, the gray-sky... Read more >
Selected Fiction
Written by Elizabeth Spencer
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 27, 2012
Price: $11.99
Born in rural Carrollton, Mississippi, Elizabeth Spencer has been writing masterly stories and novellas about Southerners for more than half a century. The Southern Woman collects the best of Spencer’s shorter fiction and displays her range of place–the agrarian South, Italy in the decade after the Second World War, the gray-sky... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch
Written by Richard Bausch
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2012
Price: $11.99
Richard Bausch is a master of the short story--and this selection brings together ten pieces which perfectly showcase his incisive wit, perception, and artistry. "He brings to life characters and situations as vivid and compelling as any in contemporary literature."--Michael Dorris, The Washington Post Book World. Read more >
Written by Richard Bausch
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2012
Price: $11.99
Richard Bausch is a master of the short story--and this selection brings together ten pieces which perfectly showcase his incisive wit, perception, and artistry. "He brings to life characters and situations as vivid and compelling as any in contemporary literature."--Michael Dorris, The Washington Post Book World. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Complete Short Stories
Written by Mark Twain
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: Hardcover, 744 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $28.00
Written by Mark Twain
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: Hardcover, 744 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $28.00
These sixty satirical, rollicking, uproarious tales by the greatest yarn-spinner in our literary history are as fresh and vivid as ever more than a century after their author’s death.
Mark Twain’s famous novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have long been hailed as major achievements, but the father of American literature also...
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Signs and Wonders
Written by Alix Ohlin
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $15.00
These sixteen stories by the much-celebrated Alix Ohlin illuminate the connections between all of us—connections we choose to break, those broken for us, and those we find and make in spite of ourselves. Read more >
Written by Alix Ohlin
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $15.00
These sixteen stories by the much-celebrated Alix Ohlin illuminate the connections between all of us—connections we choose to break, those broken for us, and those we find and make in spite of ourselves. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Signs and Wonders
Written by Alix Ohlin
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
These sixteen stories by the much-celebrated Alix Ohlin illuminate the connections between all of us—connections we choose to break, those broken for us, and those we find and make in spite of ourselves. Read more >
Written by Alix Ohlin
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
These sixteen stories by the much-celebrated Alix Ohlin illuminate the connections between all of us—connections we choose to break, those broken for us, and those we find and make in spite of ourselves. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Aerogrammes
and Other Stories
Written by Tania James
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $24.00
From the highly acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns (“Dazzling . . . One of the most exciting debut novels since Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”—San Francisco Chronicle; “An astonishment of a debut”—Junot Díaz), a bravura collection of short stories set in locales as varied as London, Sierra Leone, and the American... Read more >
and Other Stories
Written by Tania James
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $24.00
From the highly acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns (“Dazzling . . . One of the most exciting debut novels since Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”—San Francisco Chronicle; “An astonishment of a debut”—Junot Díaz), a bravura collection of short stories set in locales as varied as London, Sierra Leone, and the American... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
