Best Modern Short Stories - April 2024

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library)

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: 0375756884
• ASIN: 0375756884
• ISBN: 0375756884
• Brand: Modern Library
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

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 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

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 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 Dostoevsky (Modern Library)

Offers a collection of the Russian author's shorter fiction that features both his best known works and less familiar writing, including early sketches that reveal the development of his style and his understanding of psychology.

• ASIN: 0679600205
• ASIN: 0679600205
• ISBN: 0679600205
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

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

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: 0547485859
• ASIN: 0547485859
• ISBN: 0547485859
• Brand: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

This expanded edition features the best-loved short stories from the 20th century as well as new tales from some of the 21st century’s most iconic names in fiction. No other sport has inspired as many great writers as baseball has, and this exceptional anthology brings together 34 short stories about the nation’s favorite pastime. The stories span several decades and are written by some of America’s favorite writers, including Zane Grey, James Thurber, Robert Penn Warren, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Michael Chabon, among others. Many of the stories are about the game itself, while others ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1613743769
• ASIN: 1613743769
• ISBN: 1613743769
• Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press

Best American Short Stories 07 Pa (The Best American Series ®)

In his introduction to this volume, Stephen King writes, “Talent does more than come out; it bursts out, again and again, doing exuberant cartwheels while the band plays 'Stars and Stripes Forever' . . . Talent can’t help itself; it roars along in fair weather or foul, not sparing the fireworks. It gets emotional. It struts its stuff. In fact, that’s its job.”Wonderfully eclectic, The Best American Short Stories 2007 collects stories by writers of undeniable talent, both newcomers and favorites. These stories examine the turning points in life when we, as children or parents, lovers or... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618713484
• UPC: 046442713481
• ASIN: 0618713484
• ISBN: 0618713484
• Manufacturer: Best American

The Best of Simple: Stories (American Century)

Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. In The Best of Simple, the author picked his favorites from these earlier volumes, stories that not only have proved popular but are now part of a great and growing literary tradition.Simple might be considered an Everyman for black Americans. Hughes himself wrote: "...these tales are about a great many people--although they are stori... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374521336
• ASIN: 0374521336
• ISBN: 0374521336
• Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

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 1998 (The Best American Series ®)

• ASIN: 0395875145
• UPC: 046442875141
• ASIN: 0395875145
• ISBN: 0395875145
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American

The Best American Short Stories 2001 (The Best American Series)

This year’s Best American Short Stories is edited by the critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, whose latest book is Prodigal Summer. Kingsolver’s selections for The Best American Short Stories 2001 showcase a wide variety of new voices and masters, such as Alice Munro, Rick Moody, Dorothy West, and John Updike. “Reading these stories was both a distraction from and an anchor to the complexities of my life — my pleasure, my companionship, my salvation. I hope they will be yours.” — Barbara Kingsolver

• ASIN: 0395926882
• UPC: 046442926881
• ASIN: 0395926882
• ISBN: 0395926882
• Manufacturer: Best American

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

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

Best Short Stories of the Modern Age

Stylistic and thematic trends in the development of the short story are demonstrated in major works by twenty outstanding writers from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Sargeant

• UPC: 441345
• Rating: 4.0

The Doll: Short Stories (Virago Modern Classics) (Paperback)

Books : The Doll: Short Stories (Virago Modern Classics)

• UPC: 746604310
• Rating: 4.214

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

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 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

American Short Story Masterpieces : A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias

• UPC: 446464
• Rating: 5.0

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

Modern Classics Flappers and Philosophers : The Collected Short Stories Of F Scott Fitzgerald

Books : Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection)

• UPC: 191344328

Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky Modern Library hardcover David Magarshack 7 s/s

• UPC: 283631619159
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 12 USD

Best American Humorous Short Stories 1945 Modern Library #87 HC/DJ R.N. Linscott

• UPC: 254544720147
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 14 USD

1925 Best Russian Short Stories - by Thomas Seltzer Modern Library- cloth cover

• UPC: 114030948313
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 6 USD

Modern Library #87 "Best American Humorous Short Stories" C. 1945 HC Book

• UPC: 352774638689
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 10 USD

Best Russian Short Stories - Random House Modern Library - 1925 - HC - VG+ *****

• UPC: 193324281389
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 18 USD

THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF O. HENRY Vintage Modern Library Hardcover Dust Jacket

• UPC: 174169720118
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 14 USD

The Best Short Stories of Bret Harte - Modern Library #250 1947

• UPC: 174218100427
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 15 USD

Best American Humorous Short Stories BOOK Modern Library HC Good Condition

• UPC: 133367040703
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 15 USD

Best Short Stories of the Modern Age, 1962, MMPB, Poe, Joyce, Faulkner, Kafka ++

• UPC: 223949714897
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 3 USD

BEST AMERICAN HUMOROUS SHORT STORIES Modern Library c.1945 HC

• UPC: 183740332692
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 12 USD