Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist & man of action. He is perhaps most famous for WHOM THE BELL TOLLS & A FAREWELL TO ARMS. But he was equally prolific as a writer of short stories which touch on the same themes as the novels: war, love, the nature of heroism, reunciation, & the writer's life. The present collection

Includes:: all Hemingway's shorter fiction arranged chronologically from ' Up in Michigan' (1923) to ' Old Man at the Bridge (1938) & contains stories not currently available in any other UK edition of Hemingway's work's

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The new expanded Everyman edition of Pushkin's prose fiction contains all his mature work. In addition to ' The Captain's Daughter' & ' The Tales of Belkin', the volume now

Includes:: many more short pieces & ' The History of Pugachev', a vivid account of an eighteenth-century Russian rebellion. Pushkin's prose tales are the foundation stones of Russian literature. They made possible the great achievements of Dostosvsky, Tolstoy & Chekhov. But they are also, of course, brilliant & fascinating in their own right. At this volume makes clear, Pushkins is one of the world's great story-tellers' direct, dramatic, tender, with the author 's voices always peruasively present. Paul Debreceny's highly acclaimed translation was first published in 1983. The Everyman edition is published to coincide with the Bicentenary of Pushkin's birth on 26th May 1999.

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Edited & with an introduction by Robert Phelps The hundred short stories collected here include such masterpieces as ' Bella-Vista', ' The Tender Shoot' & ' Le K-pi', Colette's subtle & ruthless rendering of a woman's belated sexual awakening. Shot through with the colours & flavours of the Parisian world & fertile French countryside, these short stories reverberate with the fine-spun desire, wit & psychological acuity that made Colette unique. ...

During the 1970s & the early 1980s Peter Ackroyd wrote countless book reviews & articles for the Spectator, on literature, film & a number of social & cultural issues. The collection offers a selection of these incisive & entertaining pieces, which established Ackroyd's reputation as a writer. Since 1986, Ackroyd has been chief book reviewer for The Times, & in this capacity he has reviewed some of the most important biographies & novels published over the last fifteen years. A selection of his Times reviews are included here. These reviews, & his articles for the Sunday Times display his characteristic attitudes to literature & art. They also throw interesting lights on his own work as a prize-winning novelist & biographer. The Collection also contains a number of Ackroyd's interesting & provocative lectures on ' The Englishness of English literature', ' London Luminaries & Cockney Visionaries' & ' William Black, a Spiritual Radical'. In addition, several essays on subjects such as Ackroyd's own writing & contemporary painters such as Frank Auerbach have been included. Finally, three of Ackroyd's short stories have been reproduced, one of which was his first published work of fiction. The Collection is a revealing & fascinating anthology of Ackroyd's ideas & preoccupations. As such, it is the ideal companion volume to his novels & biographies. With the exception of five pieces, none of the writing contained in this volume has ever been collected: The Collection also contains much previously unpublished material. ...

During the 1970s & the early 1980s Peter Ackroyd wrote countless book reviews & articles for the Spectator, on literature, ...

Withdrawn, uneducated & unloved, Frederick collects butterflies & takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house & calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone & desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices & contempt if she is understand her captor, & so gain her freedom. ...

Withdrawn, uneducated & unloved, Frederick collects butterflies & takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house & calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone & desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices & contempt if she is understand her captor, & so gain her freedom. ...

At the moment that Colonel Browne is standing in the shallow end of the swimming pool of the Hotel Alphenrose, preparing for his later afternoon dip, his daughter Charlotte, carrying a suitcase, is getting out of her car back in Engl&, preparing to rob the ancestral home. It is not just another day: it is the culmination of hundreds of days, hundreds of disappointments & misunderstandings, & thousands of very small lies.... .. . ...