Short Story Collection Vol. 096

Nineteen stories, four literary heavyweights, one remarkable collection. This volume gathers rarely heard work from masters who defined the short form: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's sharper edge, Mark Twain at his most mischievous, Conrad Aiken's quiet devastation, and Katherine Mansfield in her delicate prime. The remaining fifteen pieces pull from the golden age of the form, each story a complete world in miniature. Some will make you laugh out loud on the train. Others will catch you off guard in the best possible way. What unites them is what short fiction does best: in a few pages, they crack open what novels take three hundred to attempt. This is the anthology for readers who want everything at once: humor, heartbreak, atmosphere, and the particular pleasure of watching a great writer do something precise and complete.