The Story Behind Glass

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Miss brill

Vanity and creeping loneliness permeate these three short stories by the modern master of the form

Il duro

Sketches of scorched landscapes, peasants and wild spirits from Lawrence's travels in early twentieth-century Italy

Circe and the cyclops

Ancient Greek myths from The Odyssey telling of battles with deadly beasts and a beautiful enchantress

As kingfishers catch fire

Considered unpublishable in his lifetime, the Victorian priest groundbreaking, experimental verse on nature's glory and despair

On murder considered as one of the fine arts

The provocative early-nineteenth-century essayist casts a blacky comic eye over the aesthetics of murder through the ages.

Aphorisms of love and hate

The iconoclastic German philosopher's blazing maxims on revenge, false pity and the drawbacks of marriage.

Traffic

The radical Victorian art critic's excoriating defence of dignity and creativity in a world obsessed by money.

A modest proposal

Swift's ferocious, landmark eighteenth-century political satire on how to solve a famine in Ireland

Things that disappear

Jenny Erpenbeck meditates on the disappearance and impermanence of things. Whether recalling the demolition of familiar places, the loss of a friendship, or a change in social attitudes, Erpenbeck's sharp intelligence, eye for telling detail, and her nuanced perspective on her country's history and her own writing lifeimbue these short pieces with lasting power.