This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” to the bitter vision of humankind in “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” to the delightful hilarity of “Is He Living or Is He Dead?” Surging with Twain’s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of–in the words of H. L. Mencken–“the father of our national literature.”

    This collects "Sonny's Blues", "The Rockpile" and "Previous Condition", all taken from Going to Meet the Man (Penguin, 1991).

    The compassion, simplicity, and gentle humor with which he treats the poignant quest of a hapless civil servant for the return of his stolen overcoat—and the fantastic yet realistic manner in which he takes revenge on his nemesis, the Very Important Person—mark "The Overcoat" as one of the greatest achievements of Gogol's genius.The five other "Tales of Good and Evil" in this superb collection demonstrate the broad range of Gogol's literary palette in his short fiction: the fantastic, supernaturally tinged "The Terrible Vengeance," the comic portraiture of "Ivan Fydorovich Shponka and His Aunt," the tragic moral realism of "The Portrait" and "Nevsky Avenue," and the rampaging satire and absurdism of his send-up of Russian upper-class stupidity, "The Nose." The stories offer the reader the perfect introduction to the imaginative genius of Gogol, which was to flower so triumphantly in his masterpiece, 'Deal Souls'.

    Contents:· The Dead Past · nv Astounding Apr ’56 · The Foundation of Science Fiction Success · pm F&SF Oct ’54 · Franchise · ss If Aug ’55 · Gimmicks Three [“The Brazen Locked Room”] · ss F&SF Nov ’56 · Kid Stuff · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep ’53 · The Watery Place · ss Satellite Oct ’56 · Living Space · ss Science Fiction Stories May ’56 · The Message · vi F&SF Feb ’56 · Satisfaction Guaranteed [Susan Calvin (Robot)] · ss Amazing Apr ’51 · Hell-Fire · vi Fantastic Universe May ’56 · The Last Trump · ss Fantastic Universe Jun ’55 · The Fun They Had · ss The Boys and Girls Page Dec 1 ’51; F&SF Feb ’54 · Jokester · ss Infinity Science Fiction Dec ’56 · The Immortal Bard · vi Universe May ’54 · Someday · ss Infinity Science Fiction Aug ’56 · The Author’s Ordeal · pm Science Fiction Quarterly May ’57 · Dreaming Is a Private Thing · ss F&SF Dec ’55

    Harrington's washing --Red --Mr. Know-all --The alien corn --The book-bag --The round dozen --The voice of the turtle --The facts of life --Lord Mountdrago --The colonel's lady --The treasure --Rain --P. & O.

    They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; "The Caryatids," an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy's spell; and three tales of winter, including "Converse at Night in Copenhagen," a drunken, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.

    It was first published in October 1957 by Bantam Books (catalogue number A1672) and already reprinted a month later. It includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared given in parentheses):"Pilgrimage to Earth" (Playboy 1956/9; also known as "Love, Incorporated")"All the Things You Are" (Galaxy 1956/7)"Trap" (Galaxy 1956/2)"The Body" (Galaxy 1956/1)"Early Model" (Galaxy 1956/8)"Disposal Service" (Bluebook 1955/1)"Human Man's Burden" (Galaxy 1956/9)"Fear in the Night" (Today's Woman 1952)"Bad Medicine" (Galaxy 1956/7)"Protection" (Galaxy 1956/4)"Earth, Air, Fire and Water" (Astounding 1955/7)"Deadhead" (Galaxy 1955/7)"The Academy" (If 1954/8)"Milk Run" (Galaxy 1954/9)"The Lifeboat Mutiny" (Galaxy 1955/4)

    A Selection from The Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges

    Purdy sent copies of these first two books to writers he thought highly of, including the English poet Dame Edith Sitwell. She enthusiastically recommended Purdy's work to an English publisher, Gollancz, who published and distributed Purdy's books in England. Purdy's works were launched in the United States in 1957 in one volume, Color of Darkness: Eleven Stories and a Novella which also includes two new stories as the first offerings in the book. Contents include 1) Color of Darkness 2) You May Safely Gaze 3) Don't Call Me By My Right Name 4) Eventide 5) Why Can't They Tell You Why 6) Man and Wife 7) You Reach For Your Hat 8) A Good Woman 9) Plan Now To Attend 10) Sound of Talking 11) Cutting Edge 12) 63: Dream Palace.

    Although he is best known today for his scripts for television and film, including several classic episodes of The Twilight Zone, Beaumont is being rediscovered as a master of weird tales, and this, his first published collection, contains some of his best. Ranging in tone from the chilling Gothic horror of "Miss Gentilbelle," where an insane mother dresses her son up as a girl and slaughters his pets, to deliciously dark humor in tales like "Open House" and "The Infernal Bouillabaisse," where murderers' plans go disastrously awry, these seventeen stories demonstrate Beaumont's remarkable talent and versatility. This new edition of The Hunger and Other Stories, the first in more than fifty years, includes a new introduction by Dr. Bernice M. Murphy, who argues for reevaluation of Beaumont alongside the other greats of the genre, including Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, and Richard Matheson.Contents:Miss Gentilbelle • (1957) The Vanishing American • (1955)A Point of Honor • (1955) Fair Lady • (1957) Free Dirt • (1955) Open House • (1957)The Train • (1957) The Dark Music • (1956) The Customers • (1957)Last Night in the Rain • (1956)The Crooked Man • (1955) Nursery Rhyme • (1957) The Murderers • (1955) The Hunger • (1955) Tears of the Madonna • (1957) The Infernal Bouillabaisse • (1957)Black Country • (1954)

    Thurber," "Get Thee to a Monastery" and "The Moribundant Life, or Grow Old Along with Whom?""His writings will be a document of the age they belong to." --T.S. Eliot

    But if, by chance, an insider led you to the White Hart on a Wednesday night, you would have found yourself in the midst of a select gathering or writers, editors, scientists and interested laymen—drinking, swapping odd bits of information, and, like as not, listening to Harry Purvis' memorable stories. A scientist by profession, Harry Purvis has had or heard about some of the most astonishing experiences—like the story of the carnivorous orchid that was used in a murder plot, or the one about the military computer that was converted to pacifism. There's SILENCE PLEASE, involving a spurned lover and a device that was supposed to destroy sound; and BIG GAME HUNT, in which an ambitious researcher becomes so wrapped up in his latest projest—controlling animal behavior with electrical impulses— that he overlooks one tiny important detail. Such stories may challenge your powers of logic and strain your imagination. Yet even if you doubt their veracity, they're guaranteed to provide you with hours of SF reading. Baron Munchausen, step aside.Contains: Silence Please; Big Game Hunt; Patent Pending; Armaments Race; Critical Mass; The Ultimate Melody; The Pacifist; The Next Tenants; Moving Spirit; The Man Who Ploughed the Sea; The Reluctant Orchid; Cold War; What Goes Up; Sleeping Beauty & The Defenestration of Ermintrude

    The Address

    In three groupings, "Expedition to the Earth," "Tales from the White Hart," and "Reach for Tomorrow," the selections include such memorable tales as "Encounter at Dawn," "The Sentinel," "Armaments Race," "Jupiter Five" and "Time's Arrow."

    The plot involves an attempt to explore the surface of the planet Jupiter using remote-controlled artificial life-forms. It focuses on the feelings of a disabled man who operates an artificial body. The story was published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine by its editor John W. Campbell.The Science Fiction Writers of America selected Call Me Joe for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two.

    Contents:• Induction • The Jewels in the Forest • Thieves' House • The Bleak Shore• The Howling Tower• The Sunken Land• The Seven Black Priests• Claws from the Night

    Chekhov. Contents 1. Death of a Clerk2. Chameleon3. The Mask4. Woe5. Vanka6. Antagonists7. Dull Story (From an Old Man's Note-book)8. The Grasshopper9. Ward No. 610. The House With the Mansard (An Artist's Story)11. Yonich12. The Man Who Lived in a Shell13. Gooseberries14. The Lady With the Dog15. In the Gully16. The Bride

    "Ghost V" is a clever parody of the problem-solving story of the 1940s, as well as a highly entertaining psychological tale, all done with a very light touch.

    But to those who may have escaped the pull of his imagination, here are some examples of the singular Ellison talent. Stories and essays in which:the terrifying specter of Jack the Ripper walks again, in a tale so relentlessly uncompromising in its examination of the nature of evil, you will not soon be able to shake off its spell.a stranger who may have come from Hell strips the veil of hypocrisy from a town's placid existence, exposing, with awful consequences, the evil underneath.gods for today--the rock god ad the machine god--are described in terms even the most devout will find compelling and strangely disturbing.

    The stories in this volume run the gamut of his thirty years of writing, from his earlier romantic pieces to his later more satiric ones. At the heart of his writing is O'Faolain's great love for Ireland, its people and traditions seen in both their tragic and comic aspects. Yet, written with an enormous compassion and incisive humor, the stories of Sean O'Faolain speak not only for the Irish, but for all humanity through all time.

    Illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink drawings by Jacob Landau.

    CoppardPalace of Sleep by Anna KavanThe Woman At Seven Brothers by Wilbur Daniel SteeleA Journey by Edith WhartonThe Proof by John MooreThe Turn of the Tide by C.S. Forester

    Apple Names the Children, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Best Loved Singing Games, Lollypops and Automobiles and how they are Made, Our Neighbors in Space, Jerry and the Pony Express, and This is Holland.

    Satirical stories deal with superstition, bureaucracy, propaganda, appearance and reality, courtship, marriage, class structure, and education

    

    A collection of novels, novelettes, and short storiesMurder in the Calais Coach (Murder on the Orient Express)-Agatha Christie"The Case of the Crimson Kiss"-Erle Stanley Gardner"The Treasure Hunt"-Edgar Wallace"Maigret's Christmas"-Georges Simenon"Puzzle for Poppy"-Patrick Quentin"The Secret"-Mary Roberts Rinehart"The Incautious Burglar"-John Dickson Carr"The Lamp of God"-Ellery Queen"The Case of the White Elephant"-Margery Allingham"Rear Window" ("It Had to Be Murder")-William IrishJourney into Fear-Eric Ambler

    With equal wit and sensitivity, he reflects the depression of hard times in London, where people live in cold, damp basements, hustling for survival.

    Bertram Chandler]; SHORT STORIES: A Brief History of the Revolution [David Lunde & James Sallis]; Full Commitment [Robert S. Martin]; ARTICLES: SF In the Sun [Frederik Pohl]; Eugen Sanger and the Rocket-propelled Airplane [Willy Ley]

    (First of eight volumes) All known sources for Shakespeare's complete works, compiled by Geoffrey Bullough, late Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College, London.As well as absorbing introductory notes on each play, Bullough discusses what sources may have given Shakespeare his ideas, ranging from commonly known stories to popular scholarly texts of his era, examining how much information we have about the connection between these works and Shakespeare's.Volume I contains sources of:The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, The Merchant of Venice.

    Narrated by a young boy named Andy, the story follows the Duvitch family, Croatian immigrants whose physical appearance the narrator immediately marks as both "foreign" and poor. Though sicknesses typical of the period (typhoid, whooping cough, measles) and dire poverty afflict the family, they remain kind, optimistic, and surprisingly generous.The townspeople, however, have trouble looking beyond appearances. They harangue the Duvitch siblings, taunting them for everything from "the leaf, lard and black bread sandwiches they ate for lunch" to the "rag pickers’ clothes" they wear to school.After the narrator Andy and his brother Tom poison some fish the Duvitches have caught, making them inedible, their father forces the boys to confess and administers punishment, part of which is facing their victims and owning up to their crime. "Father" goes a step further that ultimately eases the tension around the entire community. "It is high time," Tom and I heard Father say calmly, sanely, to Mother around noon next day when we woke up, "for this senseless feeling against the Duvitches to stop and I'm willing to do still more to stop it. Tonight we are having supper with them."In time, the townspeople gradually accept the new arrivals, and the story ends on a note of unexpected generosity."On a cold snowy afternoon in winter Mr. Duvitch stopped at our house and presented Father (who had enormous hands, much bigger than any of the Duvitches') with a handsome pair of leather mittens, lined with fur, which had a slightly acrid ashy odor. 'No doubt one of the boys resurrected them from a heap of ashes in the dump,' remarked Father, drawing on the mittens, which fitted perfectly. 'Why should I value them any the less? Who would have dreamed that the Duvitches would have so much more to offer us than we have to offer them?'"The story was so popular, it was dramatized in a 1959 television episode of the Loretta Young Show.

    When Arnold does not respond to this event emotionally, his family assumes that he must be some sort of "monster."

    Sayers, and others.