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

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

The Persephone Book of Short Stories

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

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

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

Great Modern Stories

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

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