Fiction - Historical

Stories of the American West by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South, “the best historical novelist of our time” (Patricia...

First published in 1925, the seven stories collected here revolve around the adventures of a lanky cowboy named Bill whose drifting takes him thr...

Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describ...

Early Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer Human Early Light offers three very different aspects of O...

A Pulitzer Prize Finalist: This collection of moving short stories is "a treasure trove of lush scene setting in faraway times and places" (Alexis ...

The timeless collection that introduced Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless Horseman Perhaps the marker of a true mythos is when the st...

It's the culture-changing summer of 1968. Upheaval is nationwide with protests and assassinations. Yet, in her hometown, a small Southern haven, de...

Discover stories that inspire a "great capacity for wonder" (New York Times) from the beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time: named one of the sprin...

"Luminous....Each [story] is rich and independent and beautiful and should draw Barrett many new admirers."—Publishers Weekly, starred review Ran...

Donoghue finds her inspiration for these wry, robust tales in obscure scraps of historical records: an engraving of a woman giving birth to rabbits...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents. ​ The fascinating ...

"A powerful assemblage of short stories exploring late-in-life angst through personal myth, cultural memory, and riffs on an empire scorched by its...

Three marvelously structured stories trace the intricate interdependencies of memory, experience, and the self.Wesleyan University Press has made a...

The Monster and Other Stories (1899) is a collection of short fiction by American writer Stephen Crane. "The Monster," a novella, was originally pu...

Dwight Wilson researched for more than a dozen years to ensure this brilliant historic fiction collection portrayed the very nuanced history of Afr...

Finalist, 2015 National Jewish Book AwardHonorable Mention, Sophie Brody Medal, American Library AssociationOne of the Jewish Book Council's "15 ...