The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories (Dunn Douglas)(Paperback)

The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories (Dunn Douglas)(Paperback)

Seventeen Scottish Short Stories (Aitken Brian)(Paperback)

A book of short stories with some personal memoirs about those on the margins of Scottish society who, though largely unseen, give a gritty texture, colour, pathos, humour and sometimes triumph to the Scottish nation. Their stories are relevant, poignant and timeless in theme and should be

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (Carol Oates Joyce)(Paperback)

In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many different, unexpected gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and

The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (Goossen Theodore W.)(Paperback)

This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the

The Oxford Book of French Short Stories (Fallaize Elizabeth)(Paperback)

This collection of French short stories in translation expands our idea of French writing by including new stories by women writers and by authors of Francophone origin. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, the collection opens with a rumbustious tale from the

The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories (Trevor William)(Paperback)

Ireland has been called a nation of story-tellers. 'Stories of one kind or another have a way of pressing themselves into Irish conversation, both as entertainment and as a form of communication,' writes William Trevor. 'For centuries they have been offered to strangers, almost as hospitality is:

Elegies (Dunn Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1985, these poems were written after the death of Douglas Dunn's first wife in March

New Selected Poems: Douglas Dunn (Dunn Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

A generous selection of poems from 'one of the most talented and interesting poets writing in English today' (Robert Nye). In a distinguished poetic career, Douglas Dunn has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book of the

The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories (Brown Stewart)(Paperback)

Some of the freshest, most vital, and diverse new literature written in the twentieth century has emerged from the Caribbean. And central to Caribbean literature is the short story, with its ties with the oral tradition. Now, The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, edited by Stewart Brown and

Noise of a Fly (Dunn Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (Rubin Jay)(Paperback)

A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, author of Killing Commendatore A Penguin Classics Hardcover This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese short story,

The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (Byatt A. S.)(Paperback)

From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy, through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and many others, The Oxford Book of English Short Stories encompasses comedy and tragedy, farce and

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle Sir Arthur Conan)(Paperback)

`The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,` a collection of twelve short stories by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle, is considered a milestone in the genre of detective fiction. With Sherlock Holmes's clever disguises and ability to solve even the most elusive mysteries, as well as Holmes's loyal

Short!: A Book of Very Short Stories (Crossley-Holland Kevin)(Paperback)

Persephone Book of Short Stories(Paperback / softback)

Penguin Book of American Short Stories (Cochrane James)(Paperback / softback)

Includes twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years that provide a multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the literature produced by this most exuberant of

Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (Bradbury Malcolm)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of the finest short stories from our best loved authors, including Samuel Beckett, Graham Greene, William Golding, Kingsley Amis, Doris Lessing, Muriel Spark, J G Ballard, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Rose Tremain, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift and Kazuo

Second Persephone Book of Short Stories(Paperback / softback)

Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories(Paperback / softback)

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (Cox Michael)(Paperback)

The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more

Uncommon Type: Some Stories (Hanks Tom)(Paperback)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, USA Today - A collection of 'first-rate' short stories (The New York Times) that explore--with great affection, humor, and insight--the human condition in all its foibles. A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern

The Short Stories of Langston Hughes (Hughes Langston)(Paperback)

The Short Stories of Langston HughesThis collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been

The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (Lynch Michael)(Paperback)

The Oxford Companion to Scottish History interprets history broadly, including archaeology, architecture, climate, culture, folk belief, geology, and the langauages of Scotland. It covers more than 20 centuries of history, including immigrants, migrants, and emigrants. It extends from Orkney and

Hawthorne's Short Stories (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin. Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of