Best Classic Short Stories - April 2024

The World's Greatest Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

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 & P," John Updike's most anthologized story and one of his most popular; "Borges and I," typical Jorge Luis Borges — imaginative, philosophical, and mysterious; as well as short masterpieces by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Thomas Man... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486447162
• UPC: 800759447169
• ASIN: 0486447162
• ISBN: 0486447162
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

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-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of characte... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00QPI449E
• ASIN: B00QPI449E
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

100 Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

"This is a wonderful collection of authors from America and around the world. Centuries are covered, making this a great resource for English teachers and any lover of literature." — Life Community ChurchThis treasury of one hundred tales offers students and other readers of short fiction a splendid selection of stories by masters of the form. Contributors from around the world include Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Saki, Luigi Pirandello, Kate Chopin, and Ring Lardner. The stories, which are arranged chronologically, b... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00U0B4PCI
• ASIN: B00U0B4PCI
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

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 best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest He... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0395843677
• UPC: 046442843676
• ASIN: 0395843677
• ISBN: 0395843677
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

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 love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.” The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention c... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544582942
• ASIN: 0544582942
• ISBN: 0544582942
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain (Modern Library Classics)

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 also includes darker works written in the author’s twilight years. These selections illuminate the depth of Twain’s artistry, humor, irony, and narrative genius.

• ASIN: 0812971183
• ASIN: 0812971183
• ISBN: 0812971183
• Brand: Modern Library
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

The Best Short Stories of all Time: Volume I (BEST SHORT STORIES classic series) (Volume 1)

- 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 Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant and Edgar Allan Poe.

• ASIN: 1986180816
• ASIN: 1986180816
• ISBN: 1986180816
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Fifty Great Short Stories (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, but all these stories have one point in common—the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction.

• ASIN: 0553277456
• ASIN: 0553277456
• ISBN: 0553277456
• Brand: Bantam Classics
• Manufacturer: Bantam Classics

Short Stories: SHORT STORY COLLECTION: The best 16 short story collections,16 classic and modern short story collections that should be on everyone's radar.a great start for anyone who wants to read

If you can't decide which new novel or nonfiction book to pick up, here's another idea: try reading a short story collection. Rather than focus on a singular narrative, these unique options weave together the voices of several writers, or focus on multiple stories by an author you know and love.“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.”

• ASIN: B07X5TZ44C
• ASIN: B07X5TZ44C

Best Short Stories (Dover Large Print Classics)

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 Leaf," "The Voice of the City," and the classic, "The Gift of the Magi" — have endeared him to generations of readers. Large print edition.

• ASIN: 0486424685
• UPC: 800759424689
• ASIN: 0486424685
• ISBN: 0486424685
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century

• ASIN: 0441011330
• ASIN: 0441011330
• ISBN: 0441011330
• Brand: Ace Books
• Manufacturer: Ace

50 Greatest Short Stories

50 Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the world's short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as 'The Gift of the Magi', 'The Lady with the Dog', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Rain' and 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', to name but a few. This outstanding and wide-ranging anthology of stories is a collector's item, designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the world's finest writing and for newer readers to be... [Read More]

• ASIN: 8129137259
• ASIN: 8129137259
• ISBN: 8129137259
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Rupa Publications

The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

• ASIN: B07NMJPD6T
• ASIN: B07NMJPD6T
• Manufacturer: RosettaBooks

Best Russian Short Stories

This collection of Russian short stories showcases some of the greatest minds of Russian literature and is sure to not let you down. Difficult, but enlightening, it is worth taking the time to read.

• ASIN: 1496092244
• ASIN: 1496092244
• ISBN: 1496092244
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Best Short Stories: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language German)

Students of German language and literature will welcome this dual-language edition of five stories by Franz Kafka (1883–1924). Considered one of the greatest modern writers, Kafka wrote tales that brilliantly explore the anxiety, futility, and complexity of modern life.The stories in this volume are "The Metamorphosis" (thought by many critics to be Kafka's most perfect work), "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor," and "A Report to an Academy." Along with the original German texts, Stanley Applebaum has provided accurate English translations on facing pages, affording stu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486295613
• UPC: 800759295616
• ASIN: 0486295613
• ISBN: 9780486295619
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

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

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories

An award-winning short-story writer introduces the stories she has selected from such authors as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Alexie, Roth, Updike, Oates and more, to present a decade-by-decade examination of the literary trends captured by this series

• UPC: 45056350
• Rating: 5.0

The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

From the early 1800s to the outbreak of World War II, this collection spans more than 100 years of literary history with 33 complete short stories by such timeless masters as Washington Irving, Mark Twain,

• UPC: 25951957

7 best short stories: Classic Erotica - eBook

Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of human sexual relationships which have the power to or are intended to arouse the reader sexually. Other common elements are satire and social criticism. The

• UPC: 778120445

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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• UPC: 21019188
• Rating: 4.25

The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories

This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-six of the very best of Mark Twain's short pieces. Compiled by Pulitzer Prize-winning Twain scholar and biographer Justin Kaplan, this volume features a new Afterword. Revised

• UPC: 25943438

The Very Best Classic Short Stories - Volume III - Audiobook

An comprehensive anthology of short

• UPC: 685391484

The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology - eBook

For the first time in one anthology, Andrew Barger has compiled the best werewolf stories from the period when werewolf short stories were first written. The stories are “Hugues the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of

• UPC: 756410460

Best Russian Short Stories - The Original Classic Edition - eBook

At first all the stories are just depressing. Some memorably so, others humorously so, others still just morosely so. Many are about poverty, vices, the lusts of money, fear of the cold, or loneliness, oppression,

• UPC: 455081808

Selected Tales and Sketches (the Best Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne)

"Selected Tales and Sketches" is a collection of the best short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Collected here are the following tales: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Minister's Black Veil, The May-Pole of Merry

• UPC: 6105733
• Rating: 5.0

Fifty Best American Short Stories: Classic Works b

• UPC: 302476381814
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 4 USD

Best Short Stories (Dover Large Print Classics) - Paperback - VERY GOOD

• UPC: 274210666515
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 6 USD

Best Short Stories of RING LARDNER (1957, hardback) * 24 classic American tales

• UPC: 324032716077
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 18 USD

Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology by Andrew Barger

• UPC: 160708820907
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 20 USD

The Best Short Stories (Classics Library) (Paperback)

• UPC: 333315999364
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 8 USD

Best Short Stories by Black Writers; The Classic Anthology from 1899 to 1967,...

• UPC: 352765284562
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 14 USD

Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849 : A Classic Werewolf Anthology, Paperba...

• UPC: 382641564665
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 17 USD

The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology by Andre

• UPC: 180787016683
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 20 USD

The Best Short Stories (Classic Thrillers) By Sapper

• UPC: 333521153116
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 5 USD

The Best Short Stories of Frank Norris Ironweed American Classics

• UPC: 352935174631
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 4 USD