Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and Other Stories(1888) is an inscrutable, magical fairy tale collection that has filled readers of all ages with joy and wonder. Each story explores profound truths of love, morality, and suffering; yet there is a poignant beauty that shines through each of these remarkable and timeless tales. The opening story, "The Happy Prince" is set in a town full of suffering, where a little sparrow who had been abandoned by...

"In the wake of Hilary Mantel's ... conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood"--

Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki. Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts is one of Saki's best-known works. The majority of the volume's stories deal in some fashion with animals, providing the source for its title. The character of Clovis Sangrail, featured in earlier works by Saki, appears in several stories.

Essays on British and Irish authors of short stories written between 1945 and 2000 that are traditional in subject matter and technique, and cover social, political and economic changes that occurred during this time. The Irish contribution to short fiction in English is second to none. Short fiction in languages other than English also plays a significant role in the postwar British and Irish literary world, including the use of the working-class...

Essays on British short-fiction writers during the Romantic and the early and middle Victorian periods. Poets held sway during the first quarter of the nineteenth century, while writers of fiction, particularly novelists, gained greater influence in the Victorian period by innovatively combining personal observation and creative vision in addressing social, moral and aesthetic questions. A period marked by an increase in the amount of fiction appearing...

A young Chinaman in London's squalid Limehouse district hopes to spread the peaceful philosophy of his Eastern religion. He befriends a pitiful street waif who is mistreated by her brutal father. Nursing her back to health, tragedy results when an unspoken romance flowers between them.

"An anthology celebrating the witches and sorcerers of epic fantasy--featuring stories by George R. R. Martin, Scott Lynch, Megan Lindholm, and many more! Hot on the heels of award-winning editor Gardner Dozois's (Rogues, Old Venus) acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic. How could it be otherwise? For every Frodo, there is a Gandalf...and a Saruman. For every Dorothy, a Glinda...and a Wicked Witch of...

Focuses on British short-story writers whose works recorded the truth as they saw it, responding to such topics as marriage and relationships, slum conditions, working-class endeavors, and women's issues.