In-house designer Jonathan Pelham, who oversaw the project, says bringing together such a diverse set of short stories was a “daunting task”. “The most trouble-free route would have been to opt for a ...

Nothing captures the existential angst that accompanies unfulfilling work as well as "Bartleby, the Scrivener," a short story written by Herman Melville in 1853, 150 years before the internet economy.

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Illustration by Jan Robert Dünnweller. Save this story. Save this story. How is it possible that an acclaimed twentieth-century master of the English short story, whose work was loved and ...

A brave hummingbird does what she can to fight a fire in Sascha Alper's new book. It was one of the last projects illustrator Jerry Pinkney worked on before he died. His son Brian finished it for him.

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Printed proof of an illustration for a 1946 edition of The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, published by ...