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Essays in this set are organised into three categories: "Theories, Themes & Types", "History of Short Fiction", and "Short Fiction Around the World". New overviews include "Experimental Short Fiction", "Twenty-first Century Short Fiction", and "Spanish Short Fiction".

Examines writers from a wide range of different countries, including Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges, China's Ha Jin, India's Salman Rushdie, and Russia's Alexander Puskin. New writers include Japan's Haruki Murakami, and Jamaican Michelle Cliff.

Discusses major writers from many different regions of Europe. The 66 essays include such writers as Franz Kafka, Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Homer, Miguel de Cervantes, Dante, and Anais Nin.

Includes Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Alice Munro, and Roald Dahl. New writers to this edition are David Malouf, Kazuo Ishiguro and Anne Enright.