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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library)
- ASIN: 0375756884
- ISBN: 0375756884
- Brand: Modern Library
- 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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Great Russian Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
- UPC: 800759429929
- ASIN: 048642992X
- ISBN: 048642992X
- Brand: Negri, Paul (EDT)
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Among the country's greatest artistic contributions, 20th-century Russian literature was revolutionary in its approach to realism, injecting characters with human weaknesses familiar to all. It also provided fodder for other such important concepts as existentialism and even passive resistance, which was rooted in the works of Tolstoy, and practice... [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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Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book (English and Russian Edition)
- UPC: 800759262441
- ASIN: 0486262448
- ISBN: 0486262448
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
The story, or novella, as a literary genre has a much shorter history in Russia than in some Western countries, but it has nevertheless produced important works by some of the greatest names in Russian literature. This dual-language volume contains 12 such stories — memorable tales by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov, Gogol, Turgenev, Bunin,... [Read More]
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The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library)
- 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 SHORT STORIES OF DOSTOEVSKY, Modern Library 293
- ASIN: B008SY4KRO
- Manufacturer: Modern Library
The Best Short Stories Of Dostoevsky, Modern Library 293 - With a writer of such great genius and such a vast output as Fyodor Dostoevsky it is perhaps natural that criticism should be concerned mainly with his larger works. And yet it is in Dostoevsky's smaller works that we find the highest expression of his creative power and profundity of thoug... [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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Everyday Saints and Other Stories
- ASIN: 0984284834
- ISBN: 0984284834
- Manufacturer: Pokrov Publications
More than a million copies and several million electronic versions of this book have sold in less than a year. Everyday Saints is the English translation of the work that has soared at the top of the bestseller lists in Russia since its publication in late 2011. Winner of several national awards including "Book of the Year", its readership spans ph... [Read More]
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Selected Stories (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0141441658
- ISBN: 9780141441658
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
D.H. Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten stories shows the variety of his achievement as the works develop from an early realism towards myth and fairy tale, murder, and ghost stories.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the Engli... [Read More]
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Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
- ASIN: B00L1TPCKW
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
“Business Adventures remains the best business book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic... [Read More]
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Selected Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
- ASIN: 0141186194
- ISBN: 0141186194
- Brand: Penguin Classics
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Although he is best known for his novels-several of which have been made into popular movies-E.M. Forster also published stories. This volume, which collects those stories published during Forster's lifetime, provides an opportunity for readers to discover these less familiar works. Rich in irony and alive with sharp observations on the surprises l... [Read More]
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
- ASIN: 0375706151
- ISBN: 9780375706158
- Brand: Vintage Books
- Manufacturer: Random House
When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry! . . . I still haven't recovered."More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world o... [Read More]
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Complete Short Stories (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0143039105
- ISBN: 0143039105
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
The complete stories of a 20th century master of fictionAffairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence—this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including four previously uncollected stories, this new complete edition reveals Graham Greene in a range of contrasti... [Read More]
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Stories of Anton Chekhov
- ASIN: 0553381008
- ISBN: 9780553381009
- Brand: Modern Library
- Manufacturer: Modern Library
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative l... [Read More]
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Five Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
- UPC: 800759264636
- ASIN: 0486264637
- ISBN: 9780486264639
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), a Russian physician, short-story writer, and playwright, wrote hundreds of stories that delved beneath the surface of Russian society, exposing the hidden motives of his characters and the ways in which prevailing social forces influenced their lives. This collection contains five of his most highly regarded s... [Read More]
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Collected Short Fiction (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
- ASIN: 0307594025
- ISBN: 0307594025
- Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
For the first time: the Nobel Prize winner’s stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author.Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham Award–winning Migu... [Read More]
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Blow-Up: And Other Stories
- ASIN: 0394728815
- ISBN: 0394728815
- Brand: Cortazar, Julio
- Manufacturer: Pantheon Books
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer’s intended victim . . . Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here—including “Blow-Up,” which was the basis for Michelangelo ... [Read More]
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Forty Stories (Vintage Classics)
- ASIN: 0679733752
- ISBN: 0679733752
- Manufacturer: Vintage
If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories. The abashed happiness of a woman in the prese... [Read More]
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A Sportsman's Notebook: Stories (Art of the Story)
- ASIN: 0062968475
- ISBN: 0062968475
- Manufacturer: Ecco
Twenty-five beautifully written stories, penned in exile, evocatively depicting life on a manor in feudal Russia and examining the conflicts between serfs and landlordsA Sportsman’s Notebook, Ivan Turgenev’s first literary masterpiece, is a sweeping portrayal of the magnificent nineteenth–century Russian countryside and the harsh lives of tho... [Read More]
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Red War (A Mitch Rapp Novel Book 15)
- ASIN: B07B3WJ9X7
- Manufacturer: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
This instant #1 New York Times bestseller and “modern techno-thriller” (New York Journal of Books) follows Mitch Rapp in a race to prevent Russia’s gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO.When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he’s determined to cling to power. His first task i... [Read More]
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