Reading Short Stories: Where To Start
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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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100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)
- ASIN: B00QPI449E
- Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-... [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 World's Best Classic Short Stories
- ASIN: B00F64VT7S
- Manufacturer: Red Door Audiobooks
A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories, including: 'The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 'The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 'The Mezzotint' by M. R. James 'The Phantom Rickshaw' by Rudyard Kipling 'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy 'The Model Millionaire' by Oscar Wilde 'The Monkey's Paw' by W. W. Jacobs 'A... [Read More]
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories
- ASIN: B00UDCI1AG
- Manufacturer: Scribner
Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one.For more than ... [Read More]
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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 Short Stories of Mark Twain (Modern Library Classics)
- ASIN: 0812971183
- ISBN: 0812971183
- Brand: Modern Library
- Manufacturer: Modern Library
This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation a... [Read More]
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Best American Mystery Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)
- ASIN: 0544949099
- ISBN: 0544949099
- Manufacturer: Best American Paper
#1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her “nerve and skill—as well as heart” (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year. Writing short stories takes “Skill. Discipline. Knowledge of the form while not being formulaic,... [Read More]
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The World's Greatest Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
- UPC: 800759447169
- ASIN: 0486447162
- ISBN: 0486447162
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; "A &... [Read More]
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Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms
- ASIN: B00HUXQ7ES
- Manufacturer: Persea
Short offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive.Short offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, an... [Read More]
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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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Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
- ASIN: 0441011330
- ISBN: 0441011330
- Brand: Ace Books
- Manufacturer: Ace
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The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
- ASIN: B000FC0UA8
- Manufacturer: Scribner
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Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)
- ASIN: 0544582942
- ISBN: 0544582942
- Manufacturer: Best American Paper
Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also lo... [Read More]
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library Classics)
- ASIN: B008C80XA4
- Manufacturer: Modern Library
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and... [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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The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 (The Best American Series ®)
- ASIN: 0544526759
- ISBN: 9780544526754
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, “I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that’s the case, I’ve got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later.” Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and visceral emotion of an Oscar-worthy Holly... [Read More]
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The Best Short Stories of all Time: Volume I
- ASIN: B005USA8FY
- Including a short biographies of authors This outstanding collection features short stories by a variety of great authors. Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, writers include James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Henri Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Jack London, Henri Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Oscar... [Read More]
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365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes
- ASIN: 1680524046
- ISBN: 1680524046
- Brand: Cottage Door Press
- Manufacturer: Cottage Door Press
Snuggle up with your favorite nursery rhymes and drift into the magical worlds of all your most treasured fairy-tale characters. This beautiful story-time treasury brings together the talents of illustrators from around the world, with well-loved stories and rhymes to delight and excite children. Find new stories and adventures to fill your imagina... [Read More]
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The Alchemist
- ASIN: B00U6SFUSS
- Brand: HarperOne
- Manufacturer: HarperOne
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