History of a Lonely Short Story

By Pjotr Smaad

Title Description

History of a Lonely Short Story

World Book Day, limited edition

History of a Lonely Short Story is the first title in the Quality Publishers trilogy, In the City-State of Books, a Short Story sets out on a quest to become meaningful. Along the way he encounters Galley Proofs, Elegies, a lying Myth Book, a Bible under padlock, and the shadowy Green Book who holds the stolen Incidents of an entire literary underclass. Part allegorical novel, part metafictional odyssey, History of a Lonely Short Story is a work ten years in the making - illustrated throughout in the tradition of Gustave Doré, and written with the wit and melancholy of a form that knows its own limitations better than any other.

Swift meets the Coen Brothers. An Allegory about Inequality.

History of a Lonely Short Story is the first title in the Quality Publishers trilogy, alongside Interview met AI Albert and Short Fuse by Huis in 't Veld - three works that together mark the debut of an independent English-language voice from the Netherlands.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1919475443
• ISBN13: 9781919475448
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Quality Publishers (Uitgeverij Kwaliteit
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary