Steven Millhauser

Tells the story of Martin Dressler's rise from bellhop to builder of hotels and his plans to build the Grand Cosmo

The Tale of an American Dreamer

Martin Dressler

A new compilation of short fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler features thirteen tales, including "Cat 'n' Mouse," a reimagining of the conflict between cartoon rivals, along with stories grouped into three sections--Vanishing Acts, Impossible Architectures, and Heretical Histories. 15,000 first printing.

Thirteen Stories

Dangerous Laughter

"A new collection of sixteen stories that explore disturbing, magical, and delightful phenomena in everyday American life, and the deepest and darkest desires that we keep hidden from even ourselves"--

Stories

Voices in the Night

Disruptions

A collection of short works by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler considers the boundaries between real and fantasy life and features such protagonists as a knife thrower, ghosts and a cartoon cat and mouse.

New and Selected Stories

We Others

"A stunning paean to the power of imagination. . . . Certainly the work of one of our best writers at the top of his form. . . . So convincing that the most skeptical reader will be swept away."—San Francisco Chronicle

The Barnum Museum

On a hot summer night in Connecticut, the coming of the full moon transforms the lives of a young teenage girl, a failed writer living in his mother's attic, three adolescent male troublemakers, an elderly woman, and others. By the author of Martin Dressler. Reprint.

A Novella

Enchanted Night

Twelve fabulous stories from ¿the most inventive, wistful, sexy, and wryly comic writer of our time¿ (Washington Post), his first book since Martin Dressler. Unmistakably Millhauser, these stories range from the imaginative to the phantasmagoric, and all inhabit a strange world, part American, part European, wholly fantastic. From the terrifying opening tale of the knife-thrower, the consummate entertainer pushing his audience to collusion in the ultimate thrill to a fictional meditation on the far from innocent nightlife of teenage girls, these vividly told stories demonstrate once again why Steven Millhauser is one of the most acclaimed, and certainly one of the most distinctive, American writers of the age.

The Knife Thrower and Other Stories

The best friend of a child genius follows the gifted writer's brief career until his death at the age of eleven

The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright : a Novel

Edwin Mullhouse

Twenty-two science fiction short stories from acclaimed authors such as Steven Millhauser, Junot Diaz, Amiri Baraka, and Katherine Dunn.

22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature

Invaders

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler presents three exuberant novellas that crisscross the line between fancy and reality, including the tale of a gentle eccentric who constructs an elaborate alternative universe. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Three Novellas

Little Kingdoms

Explores the diverse faces and shapes of love in three novellas--"Revenge," a study of erotic love and betrayal, and two works, "An Adventure of Don Juan" and "The King in the Tree," which transform classic fables into original tales of romance.

The King in the Tree

The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser¿s gifts, from ¿August Eschenburg¿, the story of a clockmaker¿s son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supersedes that of the refined and beautiful, to ¿Cathay¿, a kingdom whose wonders include landscape paintings executed on the bodies of court ladies.

In the Penny Arcade

Barnum Museum

La principessa, il nano e la segreta del castello

Eike Schönfeld

short storys

Ein Protest gegen die Sonne

Home Run

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection The Wizard, the greatest inventor in history, can make anything. His machines capture light, motion, and sound. So what’s going on in The Box, the most secret, most mysterious room in the Wizard’s bustling labs? When the staff librarian decides to find out, he stumbles upon a new realm of invention and sensation that will leave the world irreparably changed. “The Wizard of West Orange” is Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser’s incantatory reimagining of Thomas Edison’s work, from the dazzling collection Dangerous Laughter. An eBook short.

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