Penelope Mortimer

19 books

Best Horror Stories by John Keir Cross

Best Horror Stories

Best Horror Stories #1

John Keir Cross

398 pages • first pub 1957 (editions)

fiction horror short stories dark slow-paced
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers by Lucy Scholes

A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers

Pushkin Press Classics

Lucy Scholes

272 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction classics short stories challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Handyman by Penelope Mortimer

The Handyman

Penelope Mortimer

198 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction literary reflective slow-paced
The Persephone Book of Short Stories by E.M. Delafield, Penelope Fitzgerald, Mollie Panter-Downes, Helen R. Hull, Frances Towers, Irène Némirovsky, Susan Glaspell, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Pauline Smith, Dorothy Whipple, Diana Gardner, Norah Hoult, Diana Athill, Penelope Mortimer, Phyllis Bentley, Georgina Hammick, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Berridge, Kay Boyle, Malachi Whitaker, Shirley Jackson, Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Spencer, Betty Miller, Margaret Bonham, Angelica Gibbs

The Persephone Book of Short Stories

E.M. Delafield, Penelope Fitzgerald, Mollie Panter-Downes, Helen R. Hull, Frances Towers, Irène Némirovsky, Susan Glaspell, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Pauline Smith, Dorothy Whipple, Diana Gardner, Norah Hoult, Diana Athill, Penelope Mortimer, Phyllis Bentley, Georgina Hammick, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Berridge, Kay Boyle, Malachi Whitaker, Shirley Jackson, Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Spencer, Betty Miller, Margaret Bonham, Angelica Gibbs

477 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction classics short stories challenging informative slow-paced
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer

The Pumpkin Eater

Penelope Mortimer

185 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced
Saturday Lunch With The Brownings And Other Stories by Penelope Mortimer

Saturday Lunch With The Brownings And Other Stories

Penelope Mortimer

190 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

fiction short stories reflective slow-paced
About Time by Penelope Mortimer
About Time
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Penelope Mortimer

About Time

Penelope Mortimer

missing page info • first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction biography emotional reflective medium-paced
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Penelope Mortimer

250 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Great Modern Stories by Ronald Frame, Joanna Trollope, Angela Huth, William Boyd, Alan Sillitoe, George Mackay, Barry Unsworth, A.S. Byatt, Frederic Raphael, Doris Lessing, Rosie Thomas, Helen Simpson, Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, Penelope Mortimer, Fay Weldon, Ludovic Kennedy, Edwina Currie, Douglas Hurd, Haruki Murakami, Ruth Rendell, Patrick O'Brian

Great Modern Stories

Ronald Frame, Joanna Trollope, Angela Huth, William Boyd, Alan Sillitoe, George Mackay, Barry Unsworth, A.S. Byatt, Frederic Raphael, Doris Lessing, Rosie Thomas, Helen Simpson, Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, Penelope Mortimer, Fay Weldon, Ludovic Kennedy, Edwina Currie, Douglas Hurd, Haruki Murakami, Ruth Rendell, Patrick O'Brian

missing duration info • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction short stories mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Home by Penelope Mortimer

The Home

Penelope Mortimer

231 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective medium-paced