Are you brave enough to read four of Poe's famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don't read this book late at night.

A Penguin Classic

First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here are the O. Henry Prize-winning story “The Murder”; “The Chrysanthemums,” perhaps Steinbeck’s most challenging story, both personally and artistically; “Flight,” “The Snake,” “The White Quail,” and the classic tales of “The Red Pony.” With an introduction and notes by John H. Timmerman.

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.

“也许每一个男子全都有过这样的两个女人，至少两个。娶了红玫瑰，久而久之，红的变了墙上的一抹蚊子血，白的还是"床前明月光"；娶了白玫瑰，白的便是衣服上沾的一粒饭黏子，红的却是心口上一颗朱砂痣”。因为《红玫瑰与白玫瑰》这句话成了脍炙人口的名言……本书收录了张爱玲1944年的中短篇小说作品。

The stories in Zima Blue represent a more optimistic take on humanity's future, a view that says there may be wars, there may be catastrophes and cosmic errors, but something human will still survive.

Best-selling writer Neil Gaiman’s M is for Magic is his first collection for readers of all ages, in the tradition of such Ray Bradbury classics as R is for Rocket and S is for Space.
In M is for Magic, readers will be enchanted by a neighborhood cat that fights a nightly battle to save his family from evil, a hardboiled nursery rhyme story, and many other delights as only Neil Gaiman can provide.
Table of Contents:
* The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds
* Troll Bridge
* Don’t Ask Jack
* How to Sell the Ponti Bridge
* October in the Chair
* Chivalry
* The Price
* How to Talk to Girls at Parties
* Sunbird
* The Witch’s Headstone
* Instructions

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time. In the early story 'Family Happiness', Tolstoy explores courtship and marriage from the point of view of a young wife. In 'The Kreutzer Sonata' he gives us a terrifying study of marital breakdown, in 'The Devil' a powerful depiction of the power of sexual temptation, and, in perhaps the finest of all, 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich', he portrays the long agony of a man gradually coming to terms with his own mortality.

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Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.
Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.
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This story of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Brownings life. Introduction by Trekkie Ritchie.

“韩国八零后天才女作家”金爱烂累积五年的八段人生
《你的夏天还好吗？》是金爱烂的第三部短篇小说集，共收入八篇作品。书中形形色色的人物大多面临绝境，赤裸裸地暴露在现实之中，却试图寻找渺茫的希望。尤其值得一提的是，其中五篇作品聚焦于三十岁左右的年轻女性，细腻地描摹了她们在爱情、友情、婚姻、工作等方面的心理状态，或许会激起中国女性读者的共鸣。作为韩国文坛*有代表性的女作家，金爱烂赢得了大量读者的喜爱，很大程度上归功于作品主人公的力量。

Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. And in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence. At once chilling and beguiling, and written in prose of lacerating beauty, In Between the Sheets is a tour de force by one of England's most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease.

Three stories and two poems written and read by the author.<br />01. Daughter of Owls<br />02. Instructions<br />03. The Price<br />04. The Sea Change<br />05. The Facts In The Case of The Departure Of Miss Finch

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things—which includes a never-before published American Gods story, “Black Dog,” written exclusively for this volume.
In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. Trigger Warning includes previously published pieces of short fiction—stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013—as well “Black Dog,” a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods, exclusive to this collection.
Trigger Warning explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Here is a rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion. In Adventure Story—a thematic companion to The Ocean at the End of the Lane—Gaiman ponders death and the way people take their stories with them when they die. His social media experience A Calendar of Tales are short takes inspired by replies to fan tweets about the months of the year—stories of pirates and the March winds, an igloo made of books, and a Mother’s Day card that portends disturbances in the universe. Gaiman offers his own ingenious spin on Sherlock Holmes in his award-nominated mystery tale The Case of Death and Honey. And Click-Clack the Rattlebag explains the creaks and clatter we hear when we’re all alone in the darkness.
A sophisticated writer whose creative genius is unparalleled, Gaiman entrances with his literary alchemy, transporting us deep into the realm of imagination, where the fantastical becomes real and the everyday incandescent. Full of wonder and terror, surprises and amusements, Trigger Warning is a treasury of delights that engage the mind, stir the heart, and shake the soul from one of the most unique and popular literary artists of our day.

A free ebook-only edition of Neil Gaiman's short story 'How To Talk To Girls At Parties' and an exclusive preview of the new THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, a novel about memory and magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us - available in June 2013. 'How To Talk to Girls At Parties' was previously published in FRAGILE THINGS

A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . . </p>
In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters . . . </p>
In a Hugo Award-winning short story set in a strangely altered Victorian England, the great detective Sherlock Holmes must solve a most unsettling royal murder . . . </p>
Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams-;and nightmares . . . </p>
In a Locus Award-winning tale, the members of an excusive epicurean club lament that they've eaten everything that can be eaten, with the exception of a legendary, rare, and exceedingly dangerous Egyptian bird . . . </p>
Such marvelous creations and more-;including a short story set in the world of The Matrix, and others set in the worlds of gothic fiction and children's fiction-;can be found in this extraordinary collection, which showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance as well as his terrifyingly entertaining dark sense of humor. By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most unique writers of our time. </p>

（李银河独家授权，并亲自校订全稿。王小波、李银河定情之作！“从《绿毛水怪》开始，他拥有我，我拥有他。”）

王小波用他短暂的生命给世间留下了丰厚的遗产。有人欣赏他杂文的讥诮反讽，有人享受他小说的天马行空，有人赞扬他激情浪漫，有人仰慕他特立独行。在这些表象的背后，他一生最珍贵的东西，是对自由的追求。本书收录王小波的经典中篇小说，小说出入于历史，现实，未来，在不同时空中反思了权力和乌托邦带给人的伤害，小说奇特的想象和反讽的使用带有作者独特的印记。

出版于1891年的《阿瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行和其他故事》是一部由奥斯卡·王尔德创作的奇异短篇小说集，包括《阿瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》《坎特维尔的幽灵》《没有秘密的斯芬克斯》和《模范百万富翁》，《W.H先生的画像》是后来增补进去的。《王尔德奇异故事集》是其中文简体全译本。这些故事写于1887年至1891年，是王尔德创作能力的巅峰时期。故事以其幽默、反转、荒诞、微悬疑、微惊悚、微浪漫剖析了维多利亚时代的现实问题，同时也探讨了人性的美与丑，探索着自我的复杂与矛盾。坐实了王尔德“故事大师”的美誉。
被手相师预言可怕命运的年轻勋爵……
始终洋溢着难以描述的神秘感的女子……
在英国古堡里游荡了几百年的阴森鬼魂……
乐于扮成可怜乞丐的百万富翁……
为了证明对某种理论的绝对信仰献出生命的漂亮男人……
惊奇又温暖，悲伤又治愈，荒唐又魔幻，异想天开又耐人寻味。

A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments.
Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world.
These stories explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way to stop someone from choking; from a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch, to what to do with inherited relics such as World War II parade swords.
They feature beloved cats, a confused snail, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, philosopher-astronomer-mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, a cabal of elderly female academics, and an alien tasked with retelling human fairy tales.
At the heart of the collection is a stunning sequence that follows a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love—and what comes after.
The glorious range of Atwood's creativity and humanity is on full beam in these tales, which by turns delight, illuminate and quietly devastate.