Short stories

Table of ContentsThe Painted Woman Your Honour The Fall of Joseph Timmins The Terrorist The Bladder Mackerel for Sale The Inquisition The Outcast Selling Pigs The Fireman's Death The Doctor's Visit The Struggle At the Forge Blackmail Colic A Note on the Author

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Book SynopsisIn this collection of stories, Bill Naughton portrays a selection of characters, including truck drivers, Irish itinerants and lamp lighters, in his inimitable pithy style. While each tale can be enjoyed on its own, together they provide a wonderful picture of post-war and a bygone era. With descriptions so graphic the characters could be based on real people, the lives, loves, hopes and disappointments of Naughton''s characters will keep you gripped till the last.Table of ContentsLate Night on Watling Street A Skilled Man Bit o'Skin Poison Pincher Taddy the Lamplighter The Key of the Cabinet The Bees Have Stopped Working Tom's Sister Boozer's Labourers Weaver's Knot Seeing a Beauty Queen Home A way from Home The Tell-tale Clock Cockney Mum Spiv in Love The Half-Nelson Touch The Little Welsh Girl

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Book SynopsisThe Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Mustard; the Barnum Museum, a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it; a bored dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman - and loses her to an imaginary man! - and a legendary magician so skilled at sleight-of-hand that he is pursued by police for the crime of erasing the line between the real and the conjured.Trade ReviewElegantly told, charming stories * New York Times *

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Book SynopsisBertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists of the 20th century whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera and, while exiled from Germany and living in the USA, such masterpieces as The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.Trade ReviewCasual wickedness, moral hypocrisy, determined self-interest - such are the familiar residents of Brecht's milieu . . .in this complete collection of his known finished stories . . . Chilling perfection. * Times Literary Supplement *Highly anecdotal, humourously accepting of the facts of life, like tales told by a clever seaman in a pub. * Guardian *These tales are the least known of Brecht's work, yet they underlie most of his major writings in other fields. Terse, mild-voiced, with piercing detail - a mine for short story addicts. * Observer *But whether Brecht is negotiating relationships, providing narrative attesting to a character’s humanity, or offering an anthropological approach to displacement or alienation, there is always a superior literary talent at work. His plots, characterizations, style, and language in these short stories prove Silberman’s point. Among other things, Brecht was a great and engaging storyteller. I’d even go so far as to say that many of the offerings in The Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht are equal to his works for the stage. -- Nathaniel Nesmith * American Theatre *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Bavarian Stories (1920-1924) Barvan gives up Story on a Ship The Revelation The Foolish Wife The Blind Man A Helping Hand Java Meier The Lance-Sergeant Message in a Bottle A Mean Bastard The Death of Cesare Malatesta The Berlin Stories (1924-1933) The Answer Before the Flood Conversation about the South Seas Letter about a Mastiff Hook to the Chin Müller's Natural Attitude North Sea Shrimps Bad Water A Little Tale of Insurance Four Men and a Poker Game Barbara The Good Lord's Package The Monster The Job Stories Written in Exile (1934-1948) Safety First The Soldier of La Ciotat A Mistake Gaumer and Irk Socrates Wounded The Experiment The Heretic's Coat Lucullus's Trophies The Unseemly Old Lady A Question of Taste The Augsburg Chalk Circle Two Sons Appendix Life Story of the Boxer Samson-Körner Editorial Notes The Principle Collections of Brecht's Short Stories Notes on the Individual Stories Index of Titles in German

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Book SynopsisChristopher Priest is one of the most acclaimed writers of both SF and literary fiction at work today. Here, for the first time in almost twenty years, is a collection of his short work. Largely previously uncollected, ranging from the horrific to the touching, the science fictional to the realist, these stories are a perfect demonstration of the breadth and power of Priest''s writing.Eleven stories are included, along with commentary and reflection from the author. Within these pages you will discover the stage magic-inspired horror of ''The Head and the Hand'', the timeslip accidents of ''futouristic.co.uk'', the impossible romance of ''Palely Loitering'' and the present-day satire of ''Shooting an Episode''.Christopher Priest is a genre-leading author of SFF fiction. His novel, THE PRESTIGE, won a number of awards and was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film directed by Christopher Nolan (TENET, INCEPTION) starring Hugh Jackman (THE GRTrade ReviewA fine collection from one of weird fiction's greats * SFX *

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