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In 1974, the Sellers family is transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in, the Glover household across the ...

Isabel Dalhousie, the insatiably curious Edinburgh sleuth and philosopher, takes on a case unlike any she’s had before: a six-year-old boy has been...

The O’Briens is an unforgettable saga of love, loss, and change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless patriarch and his splendid, trag...

Established in 1918 as a memorial to O. Henry, this annual literary tradition has presented a remarkable offering of stories over its seventy-seven...

“Widely regarded as the nation’s most prestigious awards for short fiction”—The Atlantic Monthly   The O. Henry Prize Stories 1990 gathers 20 of th...

“Widely regarded as the nation’s most prestigious awards for short fiction”—The Atlantic Monthly   The O. Henry Prize Stories 1992 gathers 20 of th...

So many great novels in the Western canon began as mere magazine stories. In this amazing collection, editor William Abrahams brings the best liter...

A superb collection of inventive, full-bodied stories representing the very best in American and Canadian fiction.Established early in the last cen...

For the past three decades, William Abrahams has  selected the O. Henry Award winners. Building on  a tradition that spans over three quarters of a...

Established in 1918 as a memorial to O. Henry, this annual literary tradition has presented a remarkable offering of stories over its 76-year histo...

A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. H...

An arresting collection of contemporary fiction at its best, these stories explore a vast range of subjects, from love and deception to war and th...

The seventy-ninth anniversary of this annual collection of short stories "widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction...

Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology gathers the twenty best new short stories published in the previous year. An Ancho...

"Widely regarded as the nation’s most prestigious awards for short fiction" (The Atlantic Monthly), an exciting selection of the twenty best short ...

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The ...

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The ...

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The ...

A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionFrom the moment Chief Justice Roberts botched Barack Obama's oath of office, the relationship between t...

On a sunny beach on the Italian Riviera, two thirtysomething women, Yvonne and Huda, relax by the sparkling sea. But despite the setting, as their ...

The most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one hundred years ago by Alexis de Tocqueville.Ale...

This book is based on talks by Ram Dass at the Menninger Foundation in 1970 and at the Spring Grove Hospital in Maryland in 1972. The text grew out...

From King Lear to the Tragedy of Carmen, from Marat/Sade to the epic Mahabharata, Peter Brook has reinvented modern theatre, not once but again and...

Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. ...