Short Stories

Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval...

'This is the story of about the strangest thing that I've ever encountered, old art dealer that I am.' It is perhaps the finest art collection of ...

Huang Fan burst onto Taiwan's literary scene in the 1980s, publishing pointed urban portraits and political satires that captured the reading publi...

'I see her now - cousin Phillis. The westering sun shone full upon her, and made a slanting stream of light into the room within.' Elizabeth Gaske...

The sea realm has ever been mysterious: strange happenings upon it, an unfathomable abyss of The Great Unknown below. Before the scrutiny of scient...

Dream and Swine and Aurora, Deep in the Rubber Forest, Fish Bones, Allah's Will, Monkey Butts, Fire, and Dangerous Things-Ng Kim Chew's stories are...

Introducing a beautifully designed collection of twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over two hundred years of history....

Before schooling was widely available, for most people the classroom was at the fireside, the field and the country lane, where the bards told thei...

The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Vene...