The Last Demon

from East Broadway. But I grew busier from day to day. The cafeteria closed. The neighborhood changed. Years have passed and I have never seen Esther again. Yes, corpses do walk on Broadway. But why did Esther choose that particular corpse? She could have got a better bargain even in this world.

Mini Modern Classics
    R YŪNOSUKE A KUTAGAWA
Hell Screen
    K INGSLEY A MIS
Dear Illusion
    D ONALD B ARTHELME
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby
    S AMUEL B ECKETT
The Expelled
    S AUL B ELLOW
Him With His Foot in His Mouth
    J ORGE L UIS B ORGES
The Widow Ching – Pirate
    P AUL B OWLES
The Delicate Prey
    I TALO C ALVINO
The Queen’s Necklace
    A LBERT C AMUS
The Adulterous Woman
    T RUMAN C APOTE
Children on Their Birthdays
    A NGELA C ARTER
Bluebeard
    R AYMOND C HANDLER
Killer in the Rain
    E ILEEN C HANG
Red Rose, White Rose
    G. K. C HESTERTON
The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
    J OSEPH C ONRAD
Youth
    R OBERT C OOVER
Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady
    I SAK D INESEN [K AREN B LIXEN ]
Babette’s Feast
    M ARGARET D RABBLE
The Gifts of War
    H ANS F ALLADA
Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism
    F. S COTT F ITZGERALD
Babylon Revisited
    I AN F LEMING
The Living Daylights
    E. M. F ORSTER
The Machine Stops
    S HIRLEY J ACKSON
The Tooth
    H ENRY J AMES
The Beast in the Jungle
    M. R. J AMES
Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book
    J AMES J OYCE
Two Gallants
    F RANZ K AFKA
In the Penal Colony
    R UDYARD K IPLING
‘They’
    D. H. L AWRENCE
Odour of Chrysanthemums
    P RIMO L EVI
The Magic Paint
    H. P. L OVECRAFT
The Colour Out of Space
    M ALCOLM L OWRY
Lunar Caustic
    K ATHERINE M ANSFIELD
Bliss
    C ARSON M CCULLERS
Wunderkind
    R OBERT M USIL
Flypaper
    V LADIMIR N ABOKOV
Terra Incognita
    R. K. N ARAYAN
A Breath of Lucifer
    F RANK O’C ONNOR
The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland
    D OROTHY P ARKER
The Sexes
    L UDMILLA P ETRUSHEVSKAYA
Through the Wall
    J EAN R HYS
La Grosse Fifi
    S AKI
Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse That Helped
    I SAAC B ASHEVIS S INGER
The Last Demon
    W ILLIAM T REVOR
The Mark-2 Wife
    J OHN U PDIKE
Rich in Russia
    H. G. W ELLS
The Door in the Wall
    E UDORA W ELTY
Moon Lake
    P. G. W ODEHOUSE
The Crime Wave at Blandings
    V IRGINIA W OOLF
The Lady in the Looking-Glass
    S TEFAN Z WEIG
Chess

a little history
    Penguin Modern Classics were launched in 1961, and have been shaping the reading habits of generations ever since.
    The list began with distinctive grey spines and evocative pictorial covers – a look that, after various incarnations, continues to influence their current design – and with books that are still considered landmark classics today.
    Penguin Modern Classics have caused scandal and political change, inspired great films and broken down barriers, whether social, sexual or the boundaries of language itself. They remain the most provocative, groundbreaking, exciting and revolutionary works of the last 100 years (or so).
    On the fiftieth anniversary of the Modern Classics, we’re publishing fifty Mini Modern Classics: the very best short fiction by writers ranging from Beckett to Conrad, Nabokov to Saki, Updike to Wodehouse. Though they don’t take long to read, they’ll stay with you long after you turn the final page.