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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
- ASIN: 0199744394
- ISBN: 0199744394
- Brand: Oxford University Press USA
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Some selections simply can't be ... [Read More]
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Short Stories: Five Decades (Phoenix Fiction)
- ASIN: B00BBPWB78
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed New Yorker short story writer and #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist. Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker’s fiction pages in the 1930s and ’40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned fr... [Read More]
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)
- UPC: 046442843676
- ASIN: 0395843677
- ISBN: 0395843677
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the b... [Read More]
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The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library (Hardcover))
- ASIN: 0679601228
- ISBN: 0679601228
- Brand: Modern Library
- Manufacturer: Modern Library
The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume. The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, the best work of America's ... [Read More]
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Hunting's Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories series)
- ASIN: 1556524749
- ISBN: 1556524749
- Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press
The drama, danger, and energy of the hunt are unsurpassed as inspiration for short-story writers, many of whom have been fine hunters themselves. This collection spans the full range of the 20th century and boasts many prize-winning authors and stories, including Wallace Stegner’s “The Blue-Winged Teal,” Thomas McGuane’s “Sportsmen,” an... [Read More]
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Best Short Stories (Dover Large Print Classics)
- UPC: 800759424689
- ASIN: 0486424685
- ISBN: 0486424685
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
William Sydney Porter (1862–1910), better known as O. Henry, led a life similar to those of his own fictional characters. Convicted of embezzlement, he found inspiration in his prison experience for some of the characters who populate his ironic tales. The 16 choice selections in this volume — among them "The Ransom of Red Chief," "The Last Lea... [Read More]
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The Best American Short Stories 2015 (The Best American Series ®)
- ASIN: 0547939418
- ISBN: 0547939418
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, “The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.” Boyle’s choices of ... [Read More]
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In the Unlikely Event
- ASIN: B00R04MDYA
- ISBN: 1101875054
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Best Short Stories of the Modern Age
- ASIN: 0449300587
- ISBN: 0449300587
- Manufacturer: Fawcett
The short-stroy form continues to be a rich and fertile vein of literary expression. Collected in this remarkable volume are twenty renowned writers of the modern age who brilliantly mastered the distinctive power and beauty of the form--each bringing his or her own unique vision to the page. This powerful collection includes the work of: Sherwood ... [Read More]
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The Best American Short Stories 2008 Pa (The Best American Series ®)
- UPC: 046442788779
- ASIN: 0618788778
- ISBN: 0618788778
- Manufacturer: Mariner
This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a “magnificent array” (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition “reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect” (Publishers W... [Read More]
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The Best American Short Stories 1980
- ASIN: 0395294460
- ISBN: 0395294460
- Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology
- ASIN: 0316380318
- ISBN: 0316380318
- Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Collects short stories by African American writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, and Alice Walker
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The Alchemist
- ASIN: B00U6SFUSS
- Brand: HarperOne
- Manufacturer: HarperOne
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
- ASIN: 0679745130
- ISBN: 0679745130
- Brand: Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive.The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As select... [Read More]
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100 Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
- UPC: 800759790210
- ASIN: 0486790215
- ISBN: 0486790215
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
"This is a wonderful collection of authors from America and around the world. Centuries are covered, making this a great resource for English teachers and any lover of literature." — Life Community ChurchThis treasury of one hundred tales offers students and other readers of short fiction a splendid selection of stories by masters of the form. Co... [Read More]
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The Best American Short Stories 1998 (The Best American Series ®)
- UPC: 046442875141
- ASIN: 0395875145
- ISBN: 0395875145
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Best American
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Illustrated edition
- ASIN: B076WS4QZB
- Manufacturer: Pottermore from J.K. Rowling
A specially designed Kindle in Motion edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill.This glorious new Kindle in Motion edition of Newt Scamander's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (considered a classic throughout the wizarding world) features an extraordinary array of magical creatures, from Acroma... [Read More]
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More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women
- ASIN: 0375714502
- ISBN: 0375714502
- Manufacturer: Pantheon
The second collection drawn together by editor Wendy Martin, these twenty-four exquisite examples of contemporary writing feature stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Mary Gaitskill, Alice Munro, Sandra Cisneros, and Lorrie Moore (to name a few).We Are the Stories We Tell is also available from Pantheon.
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Fifty Great Short Stories (Bantam Classics)
- ASIN: 0553277456
- ISBN: 0553277456
- Brand: Bantam Classics
- Manufacturer: Bantam Classics
50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous,... [Read More]
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The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction
- ASIN: 031233656X
- ISBN: 031233656X
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
For years, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short sto... [Read More]
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