Fiction: Special Features

First published in 1969, Ray Smith's Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada remains as refreshing, innovative and important today as i...

While on a journey with his wife to Prague for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the grounds of a stately ho...

'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in...

This volume makes available for the first time in English the work of a significant Indian nationalist author, Pandey Bechan Sharma, better known i...

Do Midwesterners have a peculiar way of looking at the world? Is there something not quite right about the way they see things? For such a normal p...

Demonstrating the extraordinary versatility of African-American men's writing since the 1970s, this forceful collection illustrates how African-Ame...

The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, A...

Advance Praise for Dinner with Osama “Marilyn Krysl is one of our most gifted, quirky, and delightful storytellers—unpredictable, funny, and wildly...

This volume makes available for the first time in English the work of a significant Indian nationalist author, Pandey Bechan Sharma, better known i...

Previously unavailable in English, Salim Barakat’s Sages of Darkness depicts Kurdish life in the period of transition from a traditional tribal exi...

This volume includes "Daisy Miller", "Pandora", "The Patagonia", and "Four Meetings". ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics...

Including short stories from some of South Africa's best and most renowned writers (Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, and Alan Paton, to name only a f...

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's m...

In this sparkling collection of stories drawn from the surreal edge of life, playful irony vies with more poignant evocations of solitude, mortalit...

This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the ...

'When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.' With a bewildering blend...

'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.' A successful professio...

"Night Hunters, like the previous three Black Forest cases, is hard-hitting and tightly written" MARK SANDERSON, The Times Crime Club"Oliver Botti...

In the village of the ghost bells, the church chimes ring—even though the church has no bells. One of the neighbors wants to buy dreams—or is she a...

'Beautifully crafted and deceptively simple-seeming, these stories are like pieces of scattered light.' Ali Smith Following the widely acclaimed a...

Acclaimed poet Nilofar Shidmehr’s debut story collection is an unflinching look at the lives of women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contempora...

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's ...

Oprah.com raved that Asa Larsson's Rebecka Martinsson is a crime fighter who has all the needed gut insticts," and listed the series as "Mysteries ...

Nothing goes better with gooey s’mores and a glowing campfire than a ghost story. Vampires, werewolves, witches, Bloody Mary, the Wendigo, and othe...

The Korean War was a major event in American history. It marked an abrupt end to the euphoria Americans felt in the wake of victory in World War I...

Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants...

Fans of THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY will love this heartbreaking story about a teen girl who had everything until her mother dies unexpectedly leaving h...

'K. kept feeling that he had lost himself, or was further away in a strange land than anyone had ever been before' A remote village covered almost...