Sudden Fiction
Gathers seventy stories by Paley, Hannah, Barthelme, Cheever, Updike, Tallent, Carver, Boyle, Williams, Oates, Hemingway, and Malamud
Fiction
The Complete Works of O. Henry
Well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings
The Devil’s Dictionary
“Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.” Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time …
Fathers and Sons
One of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev’s finest work
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
Translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics
Scriblerus
Alexander Pope was, at one time, the world’s most celebrated poet. His trenchant satirical works – in which the foibles of all the critics, hacks and bad poets of his day are exploded – and his masterful heroi-comic poem The Rape of the Lock continue to inspire generations of writers and readers to this day. …
The Princesse de Cleves
Married to a loyal and faithful man, and the Duc de Nemours, a handsome man most female courtiers find irresistible