"The greatest collection of short stories I've read by a long mile. Anderson writes with bluntness, but with a spectacular eye for detail. Highly influential on other writers."
"Only started getting into Gordimer, and this little collection shows why she is one of the twentieth century's masters of the short story. Moving, funny, disturbing, ultimately exhilarating."
"Probably the greatest short story collection of the C20th, and the place to get started with Joyce. Lovely vignettes of people trapped in a city of claustrophobic expectations and turbulence."
"I can't find sadly the collection I'm looking for, since it's currently out of print. Raja Rao has a stunning command of prose - worth checking his short stories if you find them in anthologies!"
"The best collection of Indian short stories written over the past fifty years. A rich pick from both those written in English and various regional languages."
"Be scared...be very scared! Sado-masochism, unhinged sexual desire, the weird, the absurd and the downright illegal/illogical all abide here - brilliantly rendered by Liksom's wicked sense of humour."
"All of the short stories in one volume - again, a twentieth-century great of the genre. Observant and very witty, able to give voice to those moments in life which go without."
"Saki would have been the ideal dinner guest, as if his character was to be determined by his literary work. Hilariously funny, and all within 3-4 pages?! It should be a crime."
"What more do I say? An acclaimed master. Maupassant could write in any genre, be it comedy, tragedy, farce etc... Particularly critical of the hypocritical attitudes of the middle-classes at the time."
"Definitely the best all-round collection of short stories out there. Amis, Woolf, Lawrence, Graves - whatever your age, your tastes, you're bound to find something for your literary palate here."
