This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes the works of Anton Chekhov, Colette, Henry James, Herman Melville, and Leo Tolstoy. These collectible editions are the first single-volume publications of these classic tales, offering a closer look at this underappreciated literary form and providing a fresh take on the world's most celebrated authors. This brilliantly realised, morally ambiguous tale of a young writer and his encounter with 'The Master', an accomplished writer whom the young man has long idolised, is a humorous and devastating inquiry into the emotional price that an artist pays for his art.