The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County & Other Stories
“The headwater of American fiction.”
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
In the Shadow of Death
“Beautiful, profoundly moving…”
JOANNA KAVENNA, author of THE ICE MUSEUM
Independence Day & Other Stories
“Indonesia’s greatest fiction writer.” NEW YORK TIMES
The Necklace
“[Maupassant] wrote from the fullness of a compassionate heart.”
JOSEPH CONRAD
The Overcoat
“The greatest Russian short story ever written.”
Vladimir Nabokov