The film tie-in edition of the story by Annie Proulx, now a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway and Heath Ledger.

How did the rhinoceros get his wrinkly skin? Why won't cats come when they're called? How did one curious elephant with a nose for trouble change the lives of all elephants everywhere? This title includes eight stories which give answers to these and other intriguing questions. Each story is illustrated by a contemporary picture-book artist.

Presents three stories connected into one narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. This work is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances.

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

The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then, the earthquake struck. Satsuki has spent 30 years hating one man: a lover who destroyed her chances of having children, and who now lives in Kobe. Did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake?

A brilliant, savage, hilarious new collection of writings from David Sedaris - it's as if Garrison Keillor's evil twin meets Woody Allen'

A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him; and more. This work presents a collection of stories.

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.

The author's first collection of short stories set in the Sprawl, the landscape of Neuromancer . Cybernetics, biotech and the communication web are constant themes throughout.

Featuring the story of The Shawshank Redemption - from September 2009 a major play in London's West End, as well as one of the best films of all time.

A work by the author who twists everyday life into powerful, and sometimes terrifying fantasies: Turtles, Fingersmiths, The Mildenhall, Treasure, even the spooky story of the man who can see without eyes.

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.

*A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist.

In the title story of this collection of twelve, which established Carver's reputation as a master story teller, the hand of a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see.

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.

The classic collection of robot stories from the master of the genre. One of the Voyager Classics collection, now I, Robot is a major Fox movie starring Will Smith.

A collection of stories, set in the mid-west among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time.

A collection of stories whose lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways.

A collection of stories of seemingly ordinary people living extraordinary lives. It reveals how a single moment can change everything.

Features a man who finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming pale, silent and smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; and a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane. This work captures the complex forces that govern our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them.