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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Franz Kafka's imagination so faroutstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition heinherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out inorder to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulouslynaturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these storiesrepresent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift ofmaking our problematic spiritual life palpable and real. Thisedition of his stories includes all his available shorter fictionin a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by GabrielJosipovici in ways that bring out the writer's extraordinary rangeand intensity of vision. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's short stories arethe marvelous, concentrated riffs of his comic genius, revealing inminiaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatestcomic writer of our century. We find in them Waugh's almostsuperhuman technical skill as a writer and his quicksilverattentiveness to the minutiae of human absurdity, as well as hisworldly knowledge, his tenderness, his perceptive compassion, andhis sophisticated, disabused, but nevertheless forceful idealism.The thirty-nine stories collected here include such smallmasterpieces as "Mr. Loveday's Little Outing" and "Scott-King'sModern Europe"; an alternative ending to Waugh's novel "A Handfulof Dust"; a "missing chapter" in the life of Charles Ryder, thehero of "Brideshead Revisited"; and two linked stories, remnants ofan abandoned novel that Waugh considered his best writing. Thisedition contains the original illustrations to "Love Among theRuins," as well as more than thirty graphics produced by the authoras an Ox

In his introduction to the The Best American Noir of theCentury, James Ellroy writes, “noir is the most scrutinizedoffshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It’s the long dropoff the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfectmisalliance. It’s the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams andthe precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes bad.”Offering the best examples of literary sure things gone bad, thiscollection ensures that nowhere else can readers find a darker,more thorough distillation of American noirfiction. James Ellroy and Otto Penzler, series editor of the annual TheBest American Mystery Stories, mined one hundred years ofwriting—1910–2010—to find this treasure trove of thirty-ninestories. From noir’s twenties-era infancy come gems like James M.Cain’s “Pastorale,” and its post-war heyday boasts giants likeMickey Spillane and Evan Hunter. Packing an undeniable punch,diverse contemporary incarnations include Elmore Leonard, Pa

“Every reader knows of writers who are likesecrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell theworld about. Millhauser is mine.” —David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential storiesacross three decades that showcase his indomitableimagination. Steven Millhauser's fiction has consistently, and to dazzlingeffect, dissolved the boundaries between reality and fantasy,waking life and dreams, the past and the future, darkness andlight, love and lust. The stories gathered here unfurl in settingsas disparate as nineteenth-century Vienna, a contemporaryConnecticut town, the corridors of a monstrous museum, and ThomasEdison's laboratory, and they are inhabited by a wide-ranging castof characters, including a knife thrower and teenage boys, ghostsand a cartoon cat and mouse. But all of the stories are united intheir unfailing power to surprise and enchant. From the earliest tothe stunning, previously unpublished novella-length tit

So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden SecondFoundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, buthe was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundationsought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she...? "Fromthe Paperback edition."

This selection covers the full range of Kipling's shortstories throughout his career, with the subject matter ranging fromthe Indian to the occult and from animals to domestic comedy.