Best Classic Short Story Collections - April 2024

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

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

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

The World's Best Classic Short Stories

A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories, including: 'The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 'The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 'The Mezzotint' by M. R. James 'The Phantom Rickshaw' by Rudyard Kipling 'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy 'The Model Millionaire' by Oscar Wilde 'The Monkey's Paw' by W. W. Jacobs 'An Uncomfortable Bed' by Guy de Maupassant 'The Mortal Immortal' by Mary Shelley 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe 'Sredni Vashtar' by Saki 'The Nose' by Nicolai Gogol 'Regret' by Kate Chopin 'One Thousand Dollars' by O. Henry 'The Fly' by Katherine ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00F64VT7S
• ASIN: B00F64VT7S
• Manufacturer: Red Door Audiobooks

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories

Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one.For more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he introduces each story with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it. As Entertainment Weekly said about ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00UDCI1AG
• ASIN: B00UDCI1AG
• Manufacturer: Scribner

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

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

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

#1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her “nerve and skill—as well as heart” (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year. Writing short stories takes “Skill. Discipline. Knowledge of the form while not being formulaic,” contends Louise Penny in her introduction. “In a short story there is nowhere to hide. Each must be original, fresh, inspired.” Originality is just what’s in store for readers of the twenty clever, creative selections in The Best American M... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544949099
• ASIN: 0544949099
• ISBN: 0544949099
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

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

Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms

Short offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive.Short offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive.Short prose forms are elusive to define--one writer's prose poem is another's flash fiction or brief essay. Rather than quibble, Short opts for inclusiveness. Here is a dazzling array: 100s of pieces (under 1250 words) from 24 Western cou... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00HUXQ7ES
• ASIN: B00HUXQ7ES
• Manufacturer: Persea

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Some selections simply can't be improved on, Oates admits, and she happily includes such time-honored works as Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." But alongside these often-anthologized tales, Oates introduces such little-known stories as Mark Twain's "Cannib... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0199744394
• ASIN: 0199744394
• ISBN: 0199744394
• Brand: Oxford University Press USA
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century

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

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

• ASIN: B000FC0UA8
• ASIN: B000FC0UA8
• Manufacturer: Scribner

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
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library Classics)

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 loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature. Among Dostoevsky's prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest Thief, whose tra... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008C80XA4
• ASIN: B008C80XA4
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

Gildan Mens Classic Short Sleeve T-shirt

Gildan Mens Cotton Tee. Our classic mid-weight crew t-shirt is the perfect choice for year-round. Pre-shrunk premium cotton stays comfortable wash after

• UPC: 46478966
• Model: G2000
• Color: Red
• Size: S
• Rating: 4.484

Gildan Big mens classic short sleeve t-shirt

Gildan Mens Cotton Tee. Our classic mid-weight crew t-shirt is the perfect choice for year-round. Pre-shrunk premium cotton stays comfortable wash after

• UPC: 46478837
• Model: G2000
• Color: Red
• Size: 2XL
• Rating: 4.729

Gildan Women Shirt Cotton Women Shirts Womens Value Shirts Best Womens Classic Short Sleeve T-shirt Blank All Color Black Shirts for Women White Shirt Grey Shirt

Wear these comfortable Gildan Women Shirts for every

• UPC: 561262765
• Color: Black
• Size: M

Best Nana Ever - Ladies Short Sleeve Classic Fit Tee

Air Waves LLC is a proven leader in the fast-paced e-commerce apparel industry. Fun graphics, quick turnarounds and quality customer service is what sets our company apart from others. Our broad design collection is sure

• UPC: 304145678
• Color: GrayHEATHER CHARCOAL
• Size: 2XL

Best Gigi Ever - Ladies Short Sleeve Classic Fit Tee

Air Waves LLC is a proven leader in the fast-paced e-commerce apparel industry. Fun graphics, quick turnarounds and quality customer service is what sets our company apart from others. Our broad design collection is sure

• UPC: 673020609
• Color: GrayHEATHER CHARCOAL
• Size: S

Little Critter Fall Storybook Collection: 7 Classic Stories (Hardcover)

A new paper-over-board storybook collection features seven of the best-loved autumn-themed stories starring Little Critter, including The Fall Festival, The Best Teacher Ever, Going to the Firehouse, The Best Show & Share, Snowball Soup, The

• UPC: 44373926

Best Korean Short Stories Collection 3

The popular series is back! Meet the very finest of Korean short stories. This compilation of 17 short stories bring you the essence of Korean literature, covering the early 1900's to the late 1900's. Also

• UPC: 582197770

Classic American Short Stories - Audiobook

Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the nineteenth/twentieth centuries are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a

• UPC: 394898667
• Rating: 3.0

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

Short Stories for Short People (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Short Stories for Short People Theories and elucidations advanced by wise com mentators. It would have been held to express systematically the growth of a sin or of a suspicion or of a

• UPC: 614372274

Railroaders The Best of the West 13 classic short stories about the men who

• UPC: 392258280907
• Category: 1900-Now
• Price: 5 USD