Includes stories about Dublin life.

A dazzling book of short stories from one of modern fiction's greatest and most imaginative writers

Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise.

SMOKE AND MIRRORS will haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul

Including all of Hemingway's shorter fiction, this collection is introduced by the poet James Fenton. The stories touch on the same themes as his novels: war, love, the nature of heroism, renunciation and the writer's life. They are arranged chronologically.

A collection of nine short stories which includes a soldier's recollection of his meeting with a young girl, Esme, before being sent into combat.

Offers a mixture of arcana, popular literature, national myth, the nature of time and classical themes.

Presents stories and poems that probe to the depths of the human psyche. This book includes the detective story Murders in the Rue Morgue ; the disturbing classic, The Fall of the House of Usher and the horrifyingly claustrophobic, The Pit and the Pendulum .

A collection of author's stories, including Library of Babel .

A collection of all Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches, to longer, complete tales. Together, they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the depth of his thought. Some, like The Metamorphosis and The Judgement , are well-known; others are mere jottings.

A couple live and work in a caveman theme-park, where speaking is a punishable offence. A born loser attends a self-help seminar where he is encouraged to rid himself of all the people who are 'crapping in your oatmeal'. And, a male exotic dancer and his family are terrorised by their aunt who visits them with a message from beyond the grave.

With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social mores of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle.

In this dazzling collection, prize-winning short story writer Kelly Link takes the ordinary and makes it strange -- and the strange and makes it ordinary. Engaging, funny, eerie and magical, these nine stories prove Link to be an original and important talent.

Weaves characters, themes and language in 22 linked stories that evoke the complex density of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. The author is one of Granta's 20 Best Young American Writers.

Features stories of Sherlock Holmes.

Published for the first time in the VMC, the complete collected short stories of one of America's greatest living writers.

Problems involving a man with a twisted lip, a fabulous blue carbuncle and five orange pips tax Sherlock Holmes' intellect alongside some of his most famous cases, including A Scandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League.

'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose' OBSERVER

Beginning with a story about a second-rate film actress involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea who she was as an actress or is as a human being, this is a series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.