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

The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the...

Scott... , Buchan...

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

Theocritus, Virgil

Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily,...

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

Florence’s world-famous Renaissance is brought to life in this anthology through the eyes of its most illustrious chroniclers....

Philip Hensher’s selection of stories reflects the ‘desperate modernity’ of Berlin as it make and remakes itself over a period of...

Casanova... , Троллоп...

The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers an array of dazzling...

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

Livy, Гиббон...

During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation and the spiritual core of a...

Henry O., Твен Марк

In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents...

Rabelais... , Гюго...

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

These autobiographical stories about growing up in small-town Pennsylvania are among John Updike’s best, and were the closest to...

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...

Kerouac... , О. Генри

Writers have always been uniquely inspired by New York City, and the classic stories collected here provide a kaleidoscopic...

Paretsky... , Рэнкин Иэн

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

These eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage...

M... , Calvino...

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