This wide-ranging anthology pays tribute to fathers young and old. At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer...

Scott... , Бакен Джон

Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two...

Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of...

The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month...

Rabelais... , Гюго...

In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and...

Duvan... , Anonymous

Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the...

Markham... , Смайли...

Horse Stories corrals two centuries of short fiction about the most majestic of domesticated animals. From writers old and new...

Stories of Motherhood gathers together more than a century of short fiction from a wide variety of authors in a literary...

Byatt A.... , Готорн...

As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence...

Paretsky... , Рэнкин Иэн

If every fiction is at heart a mystery, then the detective story is fiction distilled to its purest essence, combining the...

M... , Кальвино...

Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first...