Alice Munro Best Short Stories - April 2024

Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (Vintage International)

A Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star TribuneHere is a selection of Munro’s most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from the last two decades, a companion volume to A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968–1994. These stories encompass the fullness of human experience, from the wild exhilaration of first love (in “Passion”) to the punishing consequences of  leaving home (“Runaway”) or ending a marriage (“The Children Stay”). And in stories that Munro has described as “closer to the truth than usual”—”Dear Life,�... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101872357
• ASIN: 1101872357
• ISBN: 1101872357
• Brand: Vintage Books
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Carried Away: A Selection of Stories (Everyman's Library)

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. With an Introduction by Margaret Atwood.Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of her earliest books, The Beggar Maid and The Moons of Jupiter, through her recent best-selling collection, Runaway. Here are such favorites as “Royal Beatings” in which a young gi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307264866
• ASIN: 0307264866
• ISBN: 9780307264862
• Brand: Munro, Alice/ Atwood, Margaret Eleanor (INT)
• Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexp... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375727434
• ASIN: 0375727434
• ISBN: 9780375727436
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Friend of My Youth: Stories

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. "[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

• ASIN: 0679729577
• ASIN: 0679729577
• ISBN: 0679729577
• Brand: Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Selected Stories

• ASIN: 0099541092
• ASIN: 0099541092
• ISBN: 0099541092
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Random House

Dear Life: Stories (Vintage International)

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV ClubIn story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to confront a blackmailer, an adulterous mother and her neglected children, a gui... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307743721
• ASIN: 0307743721
• ISBN: 0307743721
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Love of a Good Woman : Stories

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. In others time is telescoped: a young girl finds in the course of an evening that the mother she adores,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375703632
• ASIN: 0375703632
• ISBN: 0375703632
• Brand: Munro, Alice
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Alice Munro's Best: Selected Stories

In her lengthy and fascinating introduction Margaret Atwood says “Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. . . . Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones.”This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro’s growing body of admirers, what Atwood calls her “devoted international readership.” Long-time fans of her stories will enjoy meeting old favourites, where their new setting in this book may reveal new sides to what once seemed a familiar story; devoted followers may even dispute the exclusion of a specially-beloved story. R... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0771065205
• ASIN: 0771065205
• ISBN: 0771065205
• Brand: Douglas Gibson Books
• Manufacturer: Douglas Gibson Books

Too Much Happiness (Vintage International)

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories about the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. In the first story a young wife and mother, suffering from the unbearable pain of losing her three children, gains solace from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307390349
• ASIN: 0307390349
• ISBN: 0307390349
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

My Best Stories

 My Best Stories   is a dazzling selection of stories—seventeen favourites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were written, allowing even the most devoted Munro admirer to discover how her work developed. "Royal Beatings" shows us right away how far we are from the romantic world of happy endings. "The Albanian Virgin" smashes the idea that all of her stories are set in B.C. or in Ontario's "Alice Munro Country." "A Wilderness Station" breaks short story rules by transporting us back to the 1830s and then jumping... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143170392
• ASIN: 0143170392
• ISBN: 0143170392
• Manufacturer: Penguin Canada

Open Secrets: Stories

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada."Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679755624
• ASIN: 0679755624
• ISBN: 9780679755623
• Brand: Munro, Alice
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The View from Castle Rock

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet. A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversit... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400077923
• ASIN: 1400077923
• ISBN: 9781400077922
• Brand: Munro, Alice
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Runaway

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013This acclaimed, bestselling collection also contains the celebrated stories that inspired the Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta. Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munro’s hands, the people she writes about–women of all ages and circumstances, and their... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400077915
• ASIN: 1400077915
• ISBN: 1400077915
• Brand: Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Vintage Munro

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us again and again.” —Chicago Tribune In an unbroken procession of brilliant, revelatory short stories, Alice Munro has unfolded the wordless secrets that lie at the heart of all human experience. She has won three Governor General’s Literary Awards in her native Canada, as well as the Nati... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400033950
• ASIN: 1400033950
• ISBN: 1400033950
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The View from Castle Rock: Stories

Winner of the nobel prize in literaturethe worlds finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past from her ancestors view from edinburghs catle rock in the eighteenth century to her parents thwarted ambitions in ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s canada, munro effortlessly weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life

• ASIN: 0099497999
• ASIN: 0099497999
• ISBN: 9780099497998
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Vintage Books USA

The Best American Short Stories 2018

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

• UPC: 746152764

The Complete Short Stories of Saki (H. H. Munro) - eBook

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) was a British writer, whose witty works satirizing Edwardian society and culture led him to be known as a master of the short story. Munro, better recognized by the pen name

• UPC: 589014913
• Rating: 4.5

Selected Stories. Alice Munro

Books : Selected Stories (Vintage Classics)

• UPC: 521962401
• Rating: 3.0

The Best American Short Stories 2005

The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from

• UPC: 34682001
• Rating: 3.75

Carried Away : A Selection of Stories. Alice Munro

A dazzling selection of stories- 17 favorites picked by the author- ranging across her distinguished

• UPC: 490462783
• Rating: 4.25

The Complete Short Stories of Saki (H. H. Munro)

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) was a British writer, whose witty works satirizing Edwardian society and culture led him to be known as a master of the short story. Munro, better recognized by the pen name

• UPC: 15697530
• Rating: 4.5

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9781420938036

• UPC: 21019188
• Rating: 4.25

The Best American Short Stories 2017

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short

• UPC: 55971052
• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Short Stories 2018

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

• UPC: 616290935

The Best American Short Stories 2009

The oldest and bestselling Best American, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2009 will be selected by  Alice Sebold, author of the bestseller THE LOVELY

• UPC: 10976107
• Rating: 3.5