Bedtime Stories
The tales collected here in beautiful hardcover represent the essence of the storyteller’s art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire.
As Scheherezade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. In Bedtime Stories, great writers of the past two centuries explore the boundaries between the real and the unreal, between waking and dreaming. From the surreal night visions of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” to the unspeakable horror that haunts two little girls in A. S. Byatt’s “The Thing in the Forest,” from Washington Irving’s comical “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” to Ursula K. LeGuin’s sly perspective on Sleeping Beauty in “The Poacher,” these spellbinding stories transform the stuff of fables and…
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March 1, 2011
Heavenly Bodies
Imani Erriu
A Sweet Sting of Salt
Rose Sutherland
Cold
Drew Hayden Taylor
The Centaur's Wife
Amanda Leduc
Bunny
Mona Awad
Gun Island
Amitav Ghosh
Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi
House of Names
Colm Tóibín
White as Milk, Red as Blood
Franz Xaver von Schoenwerth Willow Dawson, illustrator, and Shelley Tanaka, translator
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Helen Oyeyemi
The Once & Future King
T. H. White
Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Brothers Grimm
The Hungry Ghosts
Shyam Selvadurai
Hamlet's Twin
Hubert Aquin
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice & Other Stories
Thomas Mann
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Monkey King
Wu Cheng'en; Edited and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Julia Lovell; Foreword by Gene Luen Yang
Emma
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Botchan
Natsume Soseki
Night Train to the Stars
Kenji Miyazawa