Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: this collection of the 100 finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. Wide in scope, both beautiful and vast, this is the perfect present for any fiction lover.
Here are Man Booker Prize winners and Nobel Laureates, Victorian sentimentalists and twenty-first century wits, national treasures and rising stars.
Featuring an all star cast of authors including Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Angela Carter, Charles Dickens, Roberto Bolano, Roald Dahl, Don deLillo, Penelope Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, Ian McEwan, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Saki, John Updike, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Wolf, THAT GLIMPSE OF TRUTH is the biggest, most handsome collection of short fiction in print today.