
Bedtime Stories
As Scheherezade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storytelle...
View full detailsAs Scheherezade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storytelle...
View full detailsSpanning more than a century, this collection of stories reflects Berlin's rich and turbulent history, chronicling the creative ferment of the Weim...
View full detailsTwo centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripe--from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon R...
View full detailsChristmas Stories is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries--from Dickens and Tolstoy to John Updike and Alice Munr...
View full detailsBeginning with modern masters such as Sara Paretsky, Ruth Rendell, and Ian Rankin, this collection works its way back through the golden age of the...
View full detailsDog Stories rounds up a pack of vivid and colorful stories about man’s best friend by a wide range of great writers, from Mark Twain and Anton Chek...
View full detailsErotic Stories is a treasury of amorous tales from around the world, ranging from ancient Greek myths to modern stories of longing and lust. From t...
View full detailsFishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humor of Ru...
View full detailsThe chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave i...
View full detailsThis haunting coming-of-age story, based in part on James Baldwin's childhood in Harlem, is an American classic. Originally published in 1953, Go T...
View full detailsLondon has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll call of storytellers includes cultural giants like Shakespeare, Defoe...
View full detailsHere are nineteen stories from a rich array of writers, and here is every kind of romantic entanglement: from the raw, erotic passion of D. H. Lawr...
View full detailsParis Stories gathers classic stories about the City of Light by a wide range of writers across four centuries. Perhaps no other European city has ...
View full detailsThis novel, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Presenting a host of now-classic characters in ...
View full detailsRussian Stories rounds up marvelous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov...
View full detailsShaken and Stirred is an enticing literary cocktail of stories about drinking and making merry by great writers from the past two centuries. In thi...
View full detailsStories from the Kitchen is a one-of-a-kind anthology of classic tales showcasing the culinary arts from across the centuries and around the world....
View full detailsStories of Art and Artists gathers two centuries of classic stories from around the world. From Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Artist of the Beautiful”...
View full detailsStories of Fatherhood gathers more than a century of classic short stories about having, becoming, loving, and losing fathers. Frank O’Connor’s hil...
View full detailsStories of Motherhood gathers more than a century of literary celebrations of mothers of all ages. These short stories by a wide range of great wri...
View full detailsA gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the deep, of voy...
View full detailsThe sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Vene...
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