ANTHOLOGIES

Million-Story City
“Marcus Preece believed in the transformative power of a well-wrought story.”
THE GUARDIAN

The Great Indian Tee and Snakes & Other Stories
“The Commonwealth Short Story Prize gives us a wonderful glimpse of the short story coming alive around the world.”
ROMESH GUNESEKERA
NOVELS

Another Man
"Superb. Croxford astutely explores the confrontation of ghosts when revisiting the past: not of others, but of the person we could have become.”
ANDRÉ ACIMAN, author of CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
NOVELLAS

The Machine Stops
“The Machine Stops is not simply prescient; it is a jaw-droppingly, gob-smackingly, breathtakingly accurate literary description of lockdown life.”
WILL GOMPERTZ, BBC

Bartleby, the Scrivener
"Melville stands unique in English Literature."
THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Dead
"Just about the finest short story in the English language."
THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Overcoat
"The greatest Russian story ever written."
VLADMIR NABOKOV
POETRY

The Prophet
'To read it was to transcend ordinary levels of perception, to become aware ... of a more intense level of being'
THE INDEPENDENT

Spirit & Other Poems
“In his ideals, in his movements and in his actions themselves, he stabbed, cut and smashed old notions.”
PROF. H. B. JASSIN
SHORT STORIES

In the Shadow of Death
“Beautiful, profoundly moving...”
JOANNA KAVENNA, author of THE ICE MUSEUM

Tofylis, or Marriage of Zosé
"...a veritable literary phenomenon."
THOMAS VENCLOVA, YALE UNIVERSITY

Independence Day & Other Stories
"Indonesia's greatest
fiction writer."
THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Death of Bagrat Zakharych & Other Stories
"[Vazha-Pshavela's] imagery has an elemental force."
OSIP MANDELSTAM

The Butterfly Man & Other Stories
"[Heinsaar] is haunted by the memory of a metamorphosis, or its imminence."
GEORGES-OLIVIER CHATEAUREYNAUD

The Necklace
"[Maupassant] wrote from the fullness of a compassionate heart."
JOSEPH CONRAD

The Garden Party & Other Stories
"I was jealous of her writing - the only writing I have ever been jealous of."
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The Rocking Horse Winner & Other Stories
"D. H. Lawrence was a genius; he is at the heart of English literature...pick up a Lawrence tale and the old magic begins working."
DORIS LESSING, NY REVIEW OF BOOKS

The Happy Prince & Other Stories
"[Wilde's] first authentic work... marks the beginning of his true creativity... Wilde's stories are splendid."
JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Gift of the Magi & Other Stories
"[O.Henry] came to New York, saw the city and wrote heartfelt stories of the life all about him. A man to remember - and revere."
ART YOUNG, THE NEW YORKER
