Short Stories

An entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Europe's most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics...

Raw, lyrical and blazing with intensity, these short stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man.'He ...

The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general avai...

Louise Stern's stories are peopled with brave young girls, out to party, travel the world, go a little bit wild. The one thing that marks them out ...

Things You Should Know is a collection of dazzling stories by one of the most talented and daring young American writers, whose distinctive narrati...

Vasantha is a van driver for hire, ferrying aid workers, returning exiles, and tentative entrepreneurs across the battle-scarred landscapes of Sri ...

In elegant, precise prose Donald Antrim crafts funny, tender stories of men and women disorientated by love, loss, and bouts of sorrow. An unfaith...

A boy eats his way to self-discovery while another must battle the reality-brandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. Meanwhile, an aerobics...

Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their...

A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage mostl...

Rich in characters both whimsical and deeply poignant, humorous and real, the stories of Goli Taraghi have made her one of the worlds most beloved ...

The stories in this Norton Critical Edition maintain the connection and sequencing that Joseph Conrad saw among them. They are accompanied by expla...

Tim Love's By All Means is a collection of short stories that find people in transit; between places, relationships, states of mind and different l...