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Crackling Mountain and Other Stories features eleven outstanding works by Osamu Dazai, widely regarded as one of 20th-century Japan's most gifted writers.

A New York Times Notable Book.

The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky's genius for fusing caricature, irony, and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour.

A rich, reassuring, coming-of-age tale for the dreamer in us all.

John and Emily are a perfectly normal couple living in near-future suburban America, with plans to attend a perfectly normal Halloween party with Emily dressed in a perfectly normal android costume

Trois femmes, trois vies brisées, se retrouvent par hasard dans une maison isolée au cœur de l’Islande, loin de tout ce qu’elles ont connu.

Les sept nouvelles de Nous renaîtrons peut-être dressent des ponts entre l’humain et le végétal, et entre la vie et la mort.

This fast-paced novel takes the world to the brink of destruction when fundamentalist Islamic terrorists acquire nuclear materials, threatening global security and stability.

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story.

Short fiction examining the mysteries of human character, from a New York Times–bestselling author acclaimed as “among the best in American literature” (Kirkus Reviews).

The stories collected in Bear and His Daughter span nearly thirty years - 1969 to the present - and they explore, acutely and powerfully, the humanity that unites us.

Close to Spider Man marks the debut of an exciting new literary talent—a collection of connected stories whose female narrators seek out lives for themselves amidst the lonely, breathtaking landsca

Novelist and award-winning cookbook author Bharti Kirchner has written a sweeping family saga, a first-class fiction about forbidden love and family honor.

Common Bonds is an anthology of speculative short stories and poetry featuring aromantic characters.

Shakespeare called Othello "an extravagant and wheeling stranger/Of here and every where." In this exciting anthology, Caryl Phillips has collected writings by thirty-nine extravagant str