Short books. Timeless stories. Meet the world’s most enduring storytellers with Brief Encounters, a collection of short novels and stories to read in a single sitting, or to savour over days. These are the authors and stories that have shaped literature across the world, made to be enjoyed by everyone. Buy the complete collection of all 52 Brief Encounters for £364 --- This bundle includes all 52 books in the Brief Encounters series: Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville Behind a Mask by Louisa May Alcott Bewitched by Edith Wharton The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges Cain by Jose Saramago The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino The Cat by Colette The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal The Dead by James Joyce Distant Star by Roberto Bolano Down by the Riverside by Richard Wright Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker The Dunwich Horror H.P. Lovecraft The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov Fighters & Martyrs by Ngugi wa Thiong'o Fire On The Mountain by Anita Desai First Light by Toni Cade Bambara A Gentle Spirit & A Faint Heart by Fyodor Dostoyevsky In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan The Invisible Girl by Mary Shelley Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf Lady Susan by Jane Austen Laura by Vera Caspary The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins Masks by Fumiko Enchi The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata Monkey Business by Kurt Vonnegut Mouse Folk by Franz Kafka The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Paradises Lost by Ursula K. Le Guin The Parasite by Arthur Conan Doyle A Parish Chronicle by Halldor Laxness Passing by Nella Larsen Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami The Poet by Yi Mun-Yol Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas Recitatif by Toni Morrison Sally Bowles by Christopher Isherwood Significant Moments by Margaret Atwood A Souvenir of Japan by Angela Carter Sunday's Children by Ingmar Bergman Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec The Third Man by Graham Greene An Undesirable Friend by Natsume Soseki Venus Smiles (and Other Vermillion Sands Stories) by J G Ballard We Were Forbidden by Jacqueline Harpman Woman of Genius by Simone de Beauvoir Young at the Time by Eileen Chang