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Short Stories (English)
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. American short story writers are well known throughout the world. The collection represents the best of the American short story writers from Edgar Allan Poe to Flannery O'Connor and John Cheever. These books tie in well with book and conversation clubs, as well as speaker programs on literary themes.
This collection contains: 21 books
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Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs (English)
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one...
Bloodchild and Other Stories (English)
A newly expanded edition of Octavia E. Butler's only collection of short stories. Butler graces...
Collected Stories (English)
"I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then...
Collected Stories of Carson Mccullers (English)
Carson McCullers—novelist, dramatist, poet—was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short...
Difficult Women (English)
A national bestseller from the "prolific and exceptionally insightful" (Globe and Mail) Roxane...
Franny and Zooey (English)
"Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation" ( New York Times ), J. D....
Great Short Works of Herman Melville (English)
Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of...
John Cheever - Collected Stories and Other Writings (English)
John Cheever's stories rank among the finest achievements of twentieth-century short fiction....
Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (English)
Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life...
Sixty Stories (English)
With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of...
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (English)
Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have...
The Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton (English)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may...
The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (English)
The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (English)
Porter's reputation as one of americanca's most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb...
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (English)
THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of...
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (English)
For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly...
The Complete Stories (English)
Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly...
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (English)
"Alexie's prose startles and dazzles with unexpected, impossible-to-anticipate moves. These are...
The Portable Jack London (English)
Alfred Kazin has aptly remarked that "the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he...
The Refugees (English)
From the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Refugees is...
