Collects the author's short stories, a novella titled "Up Above the World," and a travel book first published in 1963.

Collects all of the author's fiction for the first time, including stories meant for "A Vocation and a Voice," a book canceled by her publisher in 1900.

In the wake of his receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer published several volumes of short stories in collections that mingled recent work with previously untranslated stories originally written in Yiddish decades earlier.

"James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" and called her "our greatest national treasure." Robert Lowell said, "I enjoy her poems more than anybody else's."" "This collection offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate and reticent, adventurous and perfectionist. It presents all the poetry that...

"A Maze of Death" (1970), is a thriller about a group of colonists forced to survive on a hostile new planet, and forced to not only confront one another, but also the nature of God. "VALIS" (1981) is the story of a man confronting a Vast Active Living Intelligence System. "The Divine Invasion" (1981) features an off-world colonist who is sent back to Earth, and into the middle of an apocalyptic war between Good and Evil, by a local alien. "The Transmigration...

Five science fiction classics of the 1950s in one volume.

Collects five crime novels of David Goodis all dealing with unfortunate people and dark doomed settings.