Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Brian Aldiss, who died in 2017, was best known for his science fiction - and in particular for a short story optioned by Stanley Kubrick, which would, under the direction of Steven Spielberg, become the film A.I. 'Sadness is just happiness in reverse,' says someone in a story within the story, 'We humans have to put up with it.'

Her story was this: she had been an orphan, her mother probably a whore. That's true of what brought her here too: was she IRA, or did she just take risks for the sake of a friend? Julia O'Faolain paints a portrait of young Irish girls and their unseverable connection, showing solidarity in places politics cannot reach.

A compact and portable guide, including comprehensive plot summaries and character profiles from fifteen of Twain's most essential works

Treasury of 5 shorter works includes title piece plus The Battle of the Books, A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit and The Abolishing of Christianity in England.

Life can be seen from a many different viewpoints and perspectives. Each of us sees the world around us slightly differently from anyone else, either by experience, compassion, knowledge or ignorance.

Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett's first book, More Pricks Than Kicks.

Features three unbearably tense tales from sun-drenched and brutal climes that tell of vengeance, abandonment, violence and cruelty enjoyed and suffered, in a surreal realm of horror. This book includes: "The Delicate Prey", "A Distant Episode", and "The Circular Ruins"

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart. The author's writing confronts the great philosophical dilemmas of our time with piercing clarity.

Includes: "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois" and "The Blue Cross".

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.

There were two women in Zhenbao's life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn't that just how the average man describe a chaste widow's devotion to her husband's memory - as spotless, and passionate too? Maybe every man has had two such women - at least two.

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".

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".

Contains such stories as: "La Grosse Fifi", "Vienne", "Tea with an Artist", and "Mixing Cocktails". They are all taken from a selection from The Left Bank in Penguin's edition of "Tigers Are Better Looking".

Includes such stories as: "The Last Demon", "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" and "The Cafeteria".