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Classic Summer Stories, May 2026
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CLASSIC SUMMER STORIES
By: Becky Brown

Macmillan Collector's Library
May 2026
On Sale: May 26, 2026
336 pages
ISBN: 1035069490
EAN: 9781035069491
Kindle: B0GMKNKCKW
Hardcover / e-Book
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Novella / Short Story | Anthology

Boats, beaches, magic, mysteries and more abound in this sun-drenched collection of summer stories.

Two strangers embark on a feverish, dreamlike encounter abroad in Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Olive’. A man impulsively meets his first love in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Between Two Planes’. Willa Cather writes of sunset island explorations, and Virginia Woolf depicts the all-too-familiar drowsy garden nap. Yet summer idylls can be shattered: there’s a deadly fishing quarrel from Guy de Maupassant, a touch of malevolent fairy magic from Selma Lagerlöf and, of course, Sherlock Holmes finds himself under pressure to solve an unsettling murder on the Cornish coast.

From light humor to deep nostalgia, Italian resorts to rural Russia, each of these tales will transport you somewhere new. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, these pocket-sized editions are perfect for travel. This edition is compiled and introduced by anthologist Becky Brown.