Best Contemporary Short Story Collections - April 2024

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

Short Stories: Five Decades (Phoenix Fiction)

A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed New Yorker short story writer and #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist. Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker’s fiction pages in the 1930s and ’40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as “The Eighty-Yard Run,” a tale of an American dream crippled on ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00BBPWB78
• ASIN: B00BBPWB78
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

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

The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library (Hardcover))

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 favorite storyteller.  They are tales in his most mellow, humorous, and ironic moods.  They give the full range and flavor of the man born William Sydney Porter but known throughout the world as O. Henry, one of the great masters of the short sto... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679601228
• ASIN: 0679601228
• ISBN: 0679601228
• Brand: Modern Library
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

Hunting's Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories series)

The drama, danger, and energy of the hunt are unsurpassed as inspiration for short-story writers, many of whom have been fine hunters themselves. This collection spans the full range of the 20th century and boasts many prize-winning authors and stories, including Wallace Stegner’s “The Blue-Winged Teal,” Thomas McGuane’s “Sportsmen,” and Lawrence Sargent Hall’s “The Ledge,” as well as Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” and riveting selections by David Quammen, Rick Bass, and E. Annie Proulx. A lighter side of the sport is provided in Irvin S. ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1556524749
• ASIN: 1556524749
• ISBN: 1556524749
• Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press

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 Best American Short Stories 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, “The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.” Boyle’s choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab ho... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547939418
• ASIN: 0547939418
• ISBN: 0547939418
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

In the Unlikely Event

• ASIN: B00R04MDYA
• ASIN: B00R04MDYA
• ISBN: 1101875054
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Best Short Stories of the Modern Age

The short-stroy form continues to be a rich and fertile vein of literary expression. Collected in this remarkable volume are twenty renowned writers of the modern age who brilliantly mastered the distinctive power and beauty of the form--each bringing his or her own unique vision to the page. This powerful collection includes the work of: Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekov, Joseph Conrad, Shirley Jackson, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Lionel Trilling, and many more.

• ASIN: 0449300587
• ASIN: 0449300587
• ISBN: 0449300587
• Manufacturer: Fawcett

The Best American Short Stories 2008 Pa (The Best American Series ®)

This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a “magnificent array” (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition “reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect” (Publishers Weekly).“We all live in and with and by stories, every day, whoever and wherever we are. The freedom to tell each other the stories of ourselves, to retell the stories of our culture and beliefs, is profoundly connected to the larger subject of free... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618788778
• UPC: 046442788779
• ASIN: 0618788778
• ISBN: 0618788778
• Manufacturer: Mariner

The Best American Short Stories 1980

• ASIN: 0395294460
• ASIN: 0395294460
• ISBN: 0395294460
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology

Collects short stories by African American writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, and Alice Walker

• ASIN: 0316380318
• ASIN: 0316380318
• ISBN: 0316380318
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

The Alchemist

• ASIN: B00U6SFUSS
• ASIN: B00U6SFUSS
• Brand: HarperOne
• Manufacturer: HarperOne

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive.The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679745130
• ASIN: 0679745130
• ISBN: 0679745130
• Brand: Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

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: 0486790215
• UPC: 800759790210
• ASIN: 0486790215
• ISBN: 0486790215
• Brand: imusti
• 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

Best Korean Short Stories Collection 대한민국 베스트 단편 소설모음집

Meet the very finest of Korean short stories. This compilation of 25 short stories bring you the essence of Korean literature, covering the early 1900's to the late 1900's. Also ideal for advanced Korean

• UPC: 365957756

The Best American Short Stories 2003

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals,

• UPC: 24757814
• Rating: 4.667

Best Korean Short Stories Collection 2 대한민국 베스트 단편 소설모음집 2

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 ideal for advanced Korean

• UPC: 813426023

Middle Unearthed : The Best Fantasy Short Stories 1800-1849

Before there was a lovable green ogre called Shrek and a bespeckled wizard named Harry Potter, there were the best fantasy short stories published in English during the first half of the nineteenth century. These

• UPC: 635749035
• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

A collection of fifty-five important pieces of short fiction of the twentieth century features masterworks by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, and other notable

• UPC: 743425
• Rating: 3.75

No More Man: Who Needs a Man When You can Have Your Best Friend? - Contemporary Lesbian Erotica Short Story - eBook

I am in love with my best friend. However, I cannot tell her because she is in a relationship; an abusive relationship. I am always there for her due to the fact that she does

• UPC: 468708672

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

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

Best American Catholic Short Stories : A Sheed & Ward Collection

This volume captures 20 of the best short stories from 13 American Catholic writers over the past 75 years. Spanning most of the 20th century, the stories in this collection deal with many of the

• UPC: 25647209