Chekhov A Selected Stories

Антон Чехов был одним из величайших писателей-новеллистов русской литературы. В этой коллекции собраны двадцать пять его самых известных работ, в том числе "Толстый и тонкий", "Спать хочется", "Скрипка Ротшильда" и "Дама с собачкой" • Антон Чехов был мастером иронической точности. Его ясная, тонкая проза вызывает в воображении самых разных персонажей, будь то маленькие дети, спорящие из-за игры, случайно встретившиеся два старых школьных друга или влюбленные, вступающие в незаконную связь. Каждая история, поочередно трагическая, комическая и сатирическая, рисует яркую картину, которая надолго остается в памяти • Книга на английском языке • Anton Chekhov was one of Russian literature's greatest short story writers. This collection brings together twenty-five of his best known, including ‘Fat and Thin’, ‘Sleepy’, ‘Rothschild’s Fiddle’, and ’The Lady with a Dog’

Nikolai Gogol's short fiction, collected here as The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories, deeply influenced later Russian literature with powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Ronald Wilks, and an introduction by Robert A. Maguire • This volume includes a selection of Gogol's most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A hilarious and biting political satire, 'The Government Inspector' has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play ever written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers

Эдгар Аллан По был необычайно талантливым писателем. Его рассказ «Убийство на улице Морг» стал одной из первых детективных историй в литературе, а его тяга к поиску странностей человеческой натуры послужила вдохновением для многих видных людей, от Фрейда до Хичкока • В этот сборник вошли лучшие рассказы и новеллы Эдгара Аллана По, включая такие произведения, как «Колодец и маятник» и «Сердце-обличитель», а также некоторые скрытые бриллианты его творчества, полные интриги и напряжения • «Selected Stories», сборник избранных рассказов культового американского автора Эдгара Аллана По, станет отличным подарком для ценителей жанра хоррор • Книга на английском языке • Edgar Allan Рое was a writer of uncommon talent; in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hitchcock

Selected and with a New Introduction by Tessa Hadley • A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A teacher dreams of killing her pupil • Spanning the 1920s to the post-war years, this new selection brings Elizabeth Bowen's finest short stories together for the first time. Elegant and subtle, they showcase Bowen's ability to evoke ineffable emotions - grief, nostalgia, self-consciousness, dread - and combine remarkable psychological insight with vivid settings, from the countryside of Bowen's native Ireland to the streets of her London home after the Blitz • Encompassing characters from many walks of life and a vast array of moods, these are intricate journeys of domesticity and discovery, of the homely and uncanny, of the mind and body

Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written • This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable • This volume brings together the best of Munro's stories, from 1968 through to 1994. The second selected volume of her stories, 1995-2009 is also published by Vintage Classics

Covering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written • 'Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being' • The Times • Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight • Beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, written with emotion and empathy, these stories are nothing short of perfection. A masterclass in the genre, from an author who deservedly lays claim to being one of the major fiction writers of our time

The definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by Penelope Lively herself • Wry, compassionate and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience • In intimate tales of growing up and growing old, chance encounters and life-long relationships, Lively explores with keen insight the ways that individuals can become tangled in history, and small acts ripple through the generations • From new and never-before-published stories to forgotten treasures, Metamorphosis showcases the very best from a literary master

Ироничные, сострадательные и блистающие остроумием истории Пенелопы Лайвли проникают сквозь повседневность к бьющемуся сердцу человеческого опыта • В интимных рассказах о взрослении и старости, случайных встречах и отношениях длиною в жизнь Лайвли исследует, как отдельные люди могут запутаться в истории, а маленькие поступки передаются из поколения в поколение • От новых и никогда ранее не публиковавшихся рассказов до забытых сокровищ, сборник "Метаморфозы" демонстрирует все самое лучшее от литературного мастера • Книга на английском языке • Including new and never-before-published stories and forgotten treasures: the definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by the author herself • Wry, compassionate and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience

D.H. Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten stories shows the variety of his achievement as the works develop from an early realism towards myth and fairy tale, murder, and ghost stories • For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators

"Бестиарий. Избранные рассказы" - сборник мастерских рассказов в утонченном, мощном и захватывающем стиле Хулио Кортасара • Дом скорбящей семьи становится местом ужасающего вторжения. Расстроенный любовный треугольник, сведенный воедино разграбленным ацтекским идолом, перерастает в жестокость. Неспособность жильца остановить рвоту кроликами вдохновляет на личное признание • По мере того, как сон переходит в реальность, а реальность превращается в кошмар, на протяжении всех этих тридцати пяти историй остается неизменным одно: исключительная яркость воображения Хулио Кортасара • Книга на английском языке • A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style • 'Julio Cortazar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught and almost eerily affecting stories' Kevin Barry • A grieving family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion