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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 Short Stories of Mark Twain (Modern Library Classics)
- ASIN: B000XUDHNE
- Manufacturer: Modern Library
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Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century
- ASIN: 0440378648
- ISBN: 0440378648
- Manufacturer: Dell
Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination... [Read More]
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American Short Story Masterpieces: A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers
- ASIN: 0440204232
- ISBN: 0440204232
- Brand: 2049145481
- Manufacturer: Dell
This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mir... [Read More]
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The Best of Roald Dahl
- ASIN: 0679729917
- ISBN: 9780679729914
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
If Stephen King could write with murderous concision, he might have come up with "The Landlady," the story of a boarding house with an oddly talented proprietress and a small but permanent clientele. If Clive Barker had a sense of humor, he might have written "Pig," a brutally funny look at cooks and vegetarianism. And a more bloodthirsty Jorge Lu... [Read More]
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18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
- ASIN: 0440322278
- ISBN: 9780440322276
- Brand: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Manufacturer: Dell
A chilling compilation of some of Edgar Allen Poe's best-loved stories, edited by Vincent Price and Chandler Brossard and with an introduction by Vincent Price, including: The Black Cat - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque of the Red Death - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - The Premature Burial - Ms. Found in a Bott... [Read More]
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The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
- ASIN: 1400034825
- ISBN: 1400034825
- Brand: Marcus, Ben (EDT)
- Manufacturer: Anchor
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Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy)
- ASIN: 1786645459
- ISBN: 1786645459
- Manufacturer: Flame Tree Publishing
One of the greatest writers of the gothic fantastic, Poe’s dark, masterful stories inspired a generation of writers. With his macabre twists of fate and fascination with science and invention his work led to the detective stories of Sherlock Holmes, the weird horror of H.P. Lovecraft and the grim, tortured tales of Stephen King.
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Best Short Stories of Jack London
- ASIN: 0449300536
- ISBN: 0449300536
- Brand: London, Jack
- Manufacturer: Fawcett
"Raw and Raked, Wild and Free..."...that was the way Jack London saw life, and the more he lived it the more enamored of it he became. "All I saw," he once wrote, "was glamor of conquest, of scarlet adventure and yellow gold. ...The life was brave and wild, and I was living the adventure I had read so much about."Brilliant, poetic, swift with viole... [Read More]
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
- ASIN: B000UMN7C6
- Manufacturer: Amistad
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Fifty Great American Short Stories
- ASIN: 0553272942
- ISBN: 0553272942
- Manufacturer: Bantam Classics
A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon The Great Writers Melville James Dreiser Faulkner Hemingway Ste... [Read More]
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The Complete Stories (FSG Classics)
- ASIN: 0374515360
- ISBN: 0374515360
- Brand: Noonday Press
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Conv... [Read More]
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Hawthorne's Short Stories (Vintage Classics)
- ASIN: 0307741214
- ISBN: 0307741214
- Brand: Vintage Books USA
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin.Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of fable-like tales that make rich use of allegory and symboli... [Read More]
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Dark Tales
- ASIN: 0143132008
- ISBN: 0143132008
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson’s scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story “The Lottery” in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyt... [Read More]
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The Early Stories: 1953-1975
- ASIN: 0345463366
- ISBN: 0345463366
- Brand: Ballantine Books
- Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it can be said of any of our great American writers that they have been equally gifted in both long and short forms,” reads the citation compos... [Read More]
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The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: B004SS1MJI
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds
- ASIN: 0763695092
- ISBN: 0763695092
- Manufacturer: Candlewick
In a thrilling adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known works, acclaimed artist-adapter Gareth Hinds translates Poe's dark genius into graphic-novel format.It is true that I am nervous. But why will you say that I am mad?In “The Cask of Amontillado,” a man exacts revenge on a disloyal friend at carnival, luring him into catacombs below the ... [Read More]
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7 best short stories by Leonid Andreyev
- ASIN: 8577779734
- ISBN: 8577779734
- Manufacturer: Tacet Books
The literary work of Leonid Andreyev is populated with unfortunate characters who inspire compassion. Andreiev never managed to get rid of the traumatizing experiences of his past, and transmitted in his texts images of tragedy and bitterness through his vanquished characters, with a revolted, impetuous and torturously personal style. In general, A... [Read More]
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Collected Short Stories: Volume 3
- ASIN: 0140185917
- ISBN: 9780140185911
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
This third volume of Maugham’s stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI. Based on Maugham’s own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage... [Read More]
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Modern Irish Short Stories
- ASIN: 0140246991
- ISBN: 0140246991
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
A collection of 26 twentieth-century Irish short stories, including works by Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, and W.B. Yeats. “The features of this volume which separate it from other anthologies are the quality and breadth of its selections and the fine introduction by the editor.”—The Journal of Irish Literature “An excellent selection.... [Read More]
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