Sayers----------------------------------------------LORD PETER WIMSEY STORIES:1. The Image in the Mirror 2. The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey 3. The Queen's Square 4. The Necklace of Pearls MONTAGUE EGG STORIES:1. The Poisoned Dow '082. Sleuths on the Scent3. Murder in the Morning4. One Too Many 5. Murder at Pentecost 6. Maher-shalal-hashbaz OTHER STORIES:1. The Man Who Knew How 2. The Fountain Plays MORE LORD PETER STORIES:1. The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers 2. The Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question 3. The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will 4. The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag 5. The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker 6. The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention 7. The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps that Ran 8. The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste 9. The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head 10. The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach 11. The Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No Face 12. The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba

    of the one hundred stories gathered here, thirty-one appear for the first time in English and another twenty-nine have been newly translated for this volume.

    This definitive collection brings together the finest of Sidney Joseph Perelman's comic writings, satires and parodies, from The Customer is Always Wrong and Boy Meets Gull to Is There an Osteosynchrondroitrician in the House? and The Pants Recaptured.

    For more than four decades, Doris Lessing’s work has observed the passion and confusion of human relations, holding a mirror up to our selves in her unflinching dissection of the everyday.From the magnificent ‘To Room Nineteen’, a study of a dry, controlled middle-class marriage ‘grounded in intelligence’, to the shocking ‘A Woman on the Roof’, where a workman becomes obsessed with a pretty sunbather, this superb collection of stories written over four decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s, bears stunning witness to Doris Lessing’s perspective on the human condition.

    These stories of other planets and galactic adventures show Arthur C Clarke at the peak of his powers: sometimes disturbing, always intriguing.

    This is the most complete and generous sampling of the first half of an indispensable American writer's career.

    (Nine of them also previously appeared in Nine Stories.)All were later reprinted within The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. Spring in Fialta --Forgotten poet --First love --Signs and symbols --Assistant producer --Aurelian --Cloud, castle, lake --Conversation piece, 1945 --"That in Aleppo once" --Time and ebb --Scenes from the life of a double monster --Mademoiselle O. --Lance.

    In "The Immortal Story," a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told sailors' tale into reality for a young man and woman. And in the magnificent novella Ehrengard, Dinesen tells of the powerful yet restrained rapport between a noble Wagnerian beauty and a rakish artist. Hauntingly evoked and sensuously realized, the five stories read and novella collected here have the hold of "fairy stories read in childhood . . . of dreams . . . and of our life as dreams" (The New York Times).

    

    Contents:1 · Honeymoon in Hell · nv Galaxy Nov ’50 36 · Too Far · vi F&SF Sep ’55 38 · Man of Distinction · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb ’51 47 · Millennium · vi F&SF Mar ’55 49 · The Dome · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug ’51 58 · Blood · vi F&SF Feb ’55 60 · Hall of Mirrors · ss Galaxy Dec ’53 67 · Experiment · vi Galaxy Feb ’54; Two Timer, gp 69 · The Last Martian · ss Galaxy Oct ’50 78 · Sentry · vi Galaxy Feb ’54; Two Timer, gp 80 · Mouse · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Jun ’49 91 · Naturally · vi Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep ’54; Double Whammy, gp 93 · Voodoo · vi Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep ’54; Double Whammy, gp 95 · “Arena” · nv Astounding Jun ’44 124 · Keep Out · ss Amazing Mar ’54 128 · First Time Machine · vi EQMM Sep ’55; Killers Three, gp 130 · And the Gods Laughed · ss Planet Stories Spr ’44 144 · The Weapon · ss Astounding Apr ’51 148 · A Word from Our Sponsor · ss Other Worlds Sep ’51 164 · Rustle of Wings · ss F&SF Aug ’53 170 · Imagine · pp F&SF May ’55

    Here Jarrell presents ballads, parables, anecdotes, and legends along with some of the finest work of Chekhov, Babel, Elizabeth Bowen, Isak Dinesen, Kafka, Peter Taylor, and Katherine Anne Porter. This wonderful anthology, with its celebrated introductory essay, enlarges and deepens our perception of the storyteller's art and its central place in the world of our feelings.1 • A Country Doctor • (1948) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Ein Landarzt 1918)36 • The Witch of Coös • (1923) • poem by Robert Frost47 • The Nose • (1957) • novelette by Николай Гоголь? (trans. of Нос? 1836) [as by Nicolai Gogol]85 • Fair Eckbert • (1913) • novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Der blonde Eckbert 1797)105 • The Three Hermits • (1907) • short story by Лев Толстой? (trans. of Три старца? 1886) [as by Lev Tolstoy]131 • The Fir Tree • juvenile • (1912) • short story by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Grantræet 1844)151 • The Red King and the Witch: A Gypsy Folk-Tale • (1889) • short story by Anonymous167 • Cat and Mouse in Partnership • [KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)? • 2] • (1897) • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft 1812) [as by The Brothers Grimm]170 • The Story of the Siren • (1920) • short story by E. M. Forster179 • The Book of Jonah • (1611) • short story by uncredited (trans. of ספר יונה? unknown)183 • The Bucket-Rider • [Der Kübelreiter] • (1933) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Der Kübelreiter 1921)213 • On Letting Alone • (1889) • short story by 莊子? (trans. of 在宥? unknown) [as by Chuang T'zu]216 • A Tale of the Cavalry • (1952) • short story by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (trans. of Reitergeschichte 1899)226 • The Mental Traveller • (1863) • poem by William Blake247 • The Porcelain Doll • (1920) • short story by Лев Толстой? (trans. of Фарфоровая Кукла? 1863) [as by Lev Tolstoy]252 • Byezhin Prairie • (1897) • short story by Иван Тургенев? (trans. of Бежин луг? 1851) [as by Ivan Turgenev]

    Translation by Mark Schafer, with introduction by Guillermo Cabrera-Infante

    “The quirkiness and grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work,...and a certain lovable nuttiness make this collection well worth reading” (Margaret Atwood). Translated by William Weaver, Peggy Wright, and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

    Why? Because it contains 25 of the best, hardest-to-find stories of the writer the Washington Post calls "one of the great living American short story writers," the unpredictable Harlan Ellison.Bold and uncompromising, Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-up Generation is a watershed moment in Harlan Ellison’s early writing career. Rather than dealing in speculative fiction, these twenty-five short stories directly tackle issues of discrimination, injustice, bigotry, and oppression by the police. Pulling from his own experience, Ellison paints vivid portraits of the helpless and downtrodden, blazing forth with the kind of unblinking honesty that would define his career. ContentsForeword (Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation) • (1961) • essay by Frank M. RobinsonIntroduction: The Children of Nights • (1975) • essayFinal Shtick • (1960) • short story Gentleman Junkie • (1961) • short story May We Also Speak? • (1961) • essay Daniel White for the Greater Good • (1961) • short story Lady Bug, Lady Bug • (1961) • short story Free with This Box! • (1958) • short story There's One on Every Campus • (1959) • short story At the Mountains of Blindness • (1961) • short story This Is Jackie Spinning • (1959) • short story No Game for Children • non-genre • (1959) • short story The Late, Great Arnie Draper • (1961) • short story High Dice • (1961) • short story Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center • (1961) • short story Someone Is Hungrier • (1960) • short story Memory of a Muted Trumpet • non-genre • (1960) • short story Turnpike • (1961) • short story Sally in Our Alley • (1959) • short story The Silence of Infidelity • non-genre • (1957) • short story Have Coolth • (1959) • short story RFD #2 • (1957) • short story by Harlan Ellison and Henry SlesarNo Fourth Commandment • (1956) • short story The Night of Delicate Terrors • (1961) • short story

    Admittedly Gummitch is an unusual kitten, with powers and abilities far beyond those commonly attributed to ordinary cats. (from review by William H. Stoddard, March 2009)

    Wodehouse was at work on his 97th novel. This unique writer of social comedy, with his outlandish humor and sharp caricatures of English types, was born in 1881 in Guildford, England. In novels and short stories, he created such memorable characters as Psmith and Jeeves, the archetypical Edwardian drone and his butler.The universality of his appeal is demonstrated in these six stories: "Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend," "Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit," "Ukridge's Accident Syndicate," "Mulliner's Buck U Uppo," "Anselm Gets His Chance" and "The Clicking of Cuthbert" (a golfer's delight).

    His parents don't say much about it. They seem to be worried about Dickie's performance.

    Each book in the series has been designed with today's young reader in mind. As the words come to life, students will develop a lasting appreciation for great literature.The humor of Mark Twain...the suspense of Edgar Allan Poe...the danger of Jack London...the sensitivity of Katherine Mansfield. Creative Short Stories has it all and will prove to be a welcome addition to any library.

    Nine Horrors and a Dream. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1958. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 120 pages.

    In "The Immortal Story," a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told sailors' tale into reality for a young man and woman. And in the magnificent novella Ehrengard, Dinesen tells of the powerful yet restrained rapport between a noble Wagnerian beauty and a rakish artist. Hauntingly evoked and sensuously realized, the five stories and novella collected here have the hold of "fairy stories read in childhood . . . of dreams . . . and of our life as dreams" (The New York Times).

    

    Now in hand is every single one of her forty-one marvelous stories. Ranging from South Africa to the West End, her dazzling stories feature hanging judges, fortune-tellers, shy girls, psychiatrists, dress designers, pensive ghosts, never-departing guests, and imaginary chauffers.Contents: - The Portobello Road- The Curtain Blown by the Breeze- The Black Madonna- Bang-Bang You're Dead- The Seraph and the Zambesi- The Twins- The Playhouse Called Remarkable- The Pawnbroker's Wife- Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse- 'A Sad Tale's Best for Winter'- The Leaf-Sweeper- Daisy Overend- You Should Have Seen the Mess- Come Along, Marjorie- The Ormolu Clock- The Dark Glasses- A Member of the Family- The House of the Famous Poet- The Fathers' Daughters- Open to the Public- Alice Long's Dachshunds- The Go-Away Bird- The First Year of My Life- The Gentile Jewesses- The Executor- The Fortune-Teller- Another Pair of Hands- The Dragon- The Girl I Left Behind Me- Going Up and Coming Down- The Pearly Shadow- Chimes- The Thing About Police Stations- Harper and Wilton- Ladies and Gentlemen- Quest for Lavishes Ghast- The Hanging Judge- The Snobs- The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life- Christmas Fugue- A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur

    Text from the Bbc play in 1958.This edition is the original play on its own and not part of an anthology

    These short fictions capture Rodoreda's full range of expression, from quiet literary realism to fragmentary impressionism to dark symbolism. Few writers have captured so clearly, or explored so deeply, the lives of women who are stuck somewhere between senseless modernity and suffocating tradition-Rodoreda's "women are notable for their almost pathological lack of volition, but also for their acute sensitivity, a nearly painful awareness of beauty" (Natasha Wimmer).

    Keuner is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and comments on politics, everyday life, and exile. From 1930 til his death in 1956, Brecht penned these ironic portraits of his times as he was "changing countries more often than shoes." An ardent antifascist, Brecht roamed across Europe just ahead of Hitler's armies—only to wind up poolside in Los Angeles and then interrogated by Senator Joe McCarthy's infamous committee.Bertolt Brecht wrote The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, The Life of Galileo, and many other plays. A major poet of the twentieth century, Brecht also wrote extensively on the theater. At war's end, Brecht became director of the renowned Berliner Ensemble in East Germany.

    Six rollicking, ribald ballads set in Maine.

    *Lost Horizon(Hilton) *The Verger(Maugham) *Jack Still(Marquand) *Return of the Rangers(Roberts) *Old Man at the Bridge(Hemmingway) *The Cyprian Cat(Sayers) *Call of the Wild(London) *She Went By Gently(Carroll) *Thru the Veil(Doyle) *The 3 Strangers(Hardy) *The Lady(Richter) *Sam Weller Makes His Bow(Dickens) *The King Waits(Dane) *Babylon Revisited(Fitzgerald)...AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!...Erskine, Day, Kanotr, Christie........

    Ranging from the poignant to the comical via the simply surreal, these selections include writing by Aldous Huxley, Martin Gardner, H.G. Wells, George Gamow, G.H. Hardy, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and many others. Humorous, mysterious, and always entertaining, this collection is sure to bring a smile to the faces of mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike.

    Comprehensive collection embracing the whole range of Negro folk expression.

    Maco, their renegade chief, had broken out of the white man’s jail and was on his way home. Army scout Keefe Calhoun had tracked Maco along the stage trail as far as Weymarn’s Crossing. And in that one-horse town Calhoun was about to find bad whiskey, a good woman, and a secret enemy who was cooking up a scheme to keep Maco free and make Calhoun dead.

    The title story is allegorical writing at its best and bears the stamp of the author's compulsive power. Other stories show her grasp of the conflict between dream and reality, and an acute awareness of human dignity constantly threatened by insensitive unkindness.

    The situation get stranger when his dog Towser finds a buried ship in the woods.- Winner of 1959 Hugo Award for Best NoveletteSubsequently published in a number of anthologies.

    LovecraftThe Graveyard Reader by Theodore Sturgeon

    There, anything is possible because just thinking makes it so. Charles Beaumont calls that place Yonder.“Opening this book constitutes a trip to Yonder. Come as you are – because where you’re going there are millions of things and people more bizarre-looking than you. Not only that, but they’ve got worse troubles – or maybe more fun…”

    Pitz (45-59).Poems of the City by Rachel Field, illustrated by Harvey Weiss (60-76).Shoemaker and the Elves by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, illustrated by Fritz Kredel (77-84).Child's World in ABC by Mary Warner Eaton, illustrated by Charlotte Steiner (85-108).Your Breakfast Egg by Benjamin C. Gruenberg and Leone Adelson, illustrated by Leonard Kessler(109-116).Life in the Arctic illustrated with photos (117-124).Saddler's Horse by Margery Williams Bianco, illustrated by Grace Paull (125-140).Dick Whittington and His Cat by James Baldwin, illustrated by Peter Spier (141-156).This Is Italy illustrated with photos (157-160).

    He, a nuclear physicist, visiting a numerologist in the hopes of furthering his career--to be famous. Was he so desperate for advancement that he would resort to the superstition, or worse fakery, of a numerologist? It was at his wife urgings and now the numerologist has told him that by changing one letter in his name all his dreams would come true. This story originally appeared in Star Science Fiction magazine in 1958. It later appeared in the story collection, Nine Tomorrows, with the title "Spell My Name With an S". Asimov's frustration with people misspelling his name as "Azimov" was the germ of the idea to the story.

    The ship is lost, the computers fail, and the captain’s brain must be burned out to retrieve his subconscious memory of the map home. Once his niece picks up his skills via a thought transfer, she is destined to become one of the greatest Go-Captains in history...

    A collection of short Czech and Finnish fairy tales spanning from the mid 19th century to early 20th century that focus on morality.

    Contains A Scandal in Bohemia; The Redheaded League; Musgrave Ritual; The Five Orange Pips; The Speckled Band; and The Final Problem.