From the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature -- perhaps our most beloved author -- a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories (1968-1994). By all accounts, no Nobel Prize in recent years has garnered the enthusiastic reception that Alice Munro's has, and in its wake, he...(展开全部)

Here is a selection of Munro’s most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from the last two decades, a companion volume to A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968–1994. These stories encompass the fullness of human experience, from the wild exhilaration of first love (in “Passion”) to the punishing consequences of leaving home (“Runaway”) or ending a marriag...(展开全部)

This collection of 100 of O Henry's finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of America's best and best-loved short story writers The variety of the stories is amazing; O Henry is as at home describing life south of the Rio Grande as he is chronicling the activities and concerns of 'the four million' ordinary citizens who inhabited turn-of-the-century New York....(展开全部)

A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style. 'Julio Cortazar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught and almost eerily affecting stories' Kevin Barry A grieving family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion. A frustrated love triangle, brought together by a plundered Aztec i...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the development of her art. As diverse in setting as in subject matter, these tales move from the gentle comedy of life in a small English country town in Dr Harrison's C...(展开全部)

威廉·特雷弗（1928—2016），爱尔兰著名作家，被视为当代英语文坛最杰出的短篇小说家之一。他生于爱尔兰一个中产阶级新教家庭，毕业于都柏林圣三一大学历史系，成为职业作家前，先后做过雕塑家、教师和广告公司文案撰写人。从1954年起，他和妻子移居英国。 特雷弗一生出版近四 十部长篇小说、短篇小说集、戏剧以及散文集。他的作品曾五次入围布克奖，四次获得欧·亨利奖，三次获得英国惠特布雷德奖，2008年，他获得爱尔兰图书奖终身成就奖，一度是诺贝尓文学奖热门人选。 2016年11月，特雷弗病逝于英格兰萨默塞特郡。

I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that.' In the captivating stories that make up "The Empty Family", Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility ...(展开全部)

威廉·特雷弗（1928—2016），爱尔兰著名作家，被视为当代英语文坛最杰出的短篇小说家之一。他生于爱尔兰一个中产阶级新教家庭，毕业于都柏林圣三一大学历史系，成为职业作家前，先后做过雕塑家、教师和广告公司文案撰写人。从1954年起，他和妻子移居英国。 特雷弗一生出版近四 十部长篇小说、短篇小说集、戏剧以及散文集。他的作品曾五次入围布克奖，四次获得欧·亨利奖，三次获得英国惠特布雷德奖，2008年，他获得爱尔兰图书奖终身成就奖，一度是诺贝尓文学奖热门人选。 2016年11月，特雷弗病逝于英格兰萨默塞特郡。

I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that.' In the captivating stories that make up "The Empty Family" Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility l...(展开全部)