Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS

This enticing collection brings to life the magnificent Italian South, from Naples to Sicily, as seen through the eyes of literary greats from Ovid and Virgil to Elsa Morante and Elena Ferrante. Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia, and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil, and...

From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges to the mighty Mississippi—rivers of the world wind through this glorious anthology from the world's great writers. Rivers and streams play a magical part in our landscapes, our history, and our imagination. These stories sail along, taking us on journeys from mountain range through village, city, and countryside to the ports and...

Everyone loves a party! This beautiful hardcover gathers a glittering array of famous celebrations throughout classic literature—from Austen, Tolstoy, and Maupassant to Alan Hollinghurst, Edna O'Brien, Don DeLillo, and Jhumpa Lahiri. Momentous parties have long provided dramatic scenes in fiction, from Natasha's first ball in War and Peace to Lizzie meeting Darcy in Pride and Prejudice to J. Edgar Hoover...

African Stories is a Pocket Classics hardcover anthology featuring a collection of stories from Africa spanning centuries, compiled by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, Ben Okri. Award-winning writer Ben Okri, known for his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, has curated this comprehensive collection of classic African stories. The anthology brings together the voices of contemporary authors such as Jamal...

Music Stories is a beautiful hardback gift anthology of short stories about music by a remarkable array of literary greats, selected by Wesley Stace, who is both a musician and a writer. The book presents variations on a musical theme by a striking range of authors, among them Flaubert, Turgenev, Proust, Nabokov, Katherine Mansfield, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Amit Chaudhuri,...

A beautiful hardback gift book, containing the best in fishing stories by Hemingway, Annie Proulx, Kipling, and Carver, amongst others. The perfect little book for all lovers of quality nature writing. Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humour of Rudyard Kipling's "On Dry-Cow...

An enchanting anthology of tales by a surprising mix of classic and contemporary writers who have been inspired by trees. Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from Ovid to...

A beautiful and varied collection of stories by the best Scottish writers, past and present. Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis Stevenson, Eric Linklater, and Dorothy K. Haynes; side-splittingly funny stories from Alasdair Gray and...

For everyone who loves to read, a joyous bibliofest of stories about books and libraries (with authors, collectors, booksellers and even the odd publisher thrown in for good measure). Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting Books and Roses); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happened in Elizabeth McCracken's eccentric library...