• The Best American Short Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. “As soon as you complete a description of what a good story must be, a new example flutters through an open window, lands on your sleeve, and proves your description wrong,” writes Anthony Doerr about the task of selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. The year’s best stories are a diverse, addictive group exploring everything from America’s rich rural cul... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1328484246
    • ASIN: 1328484246
    • ISBN: 1328484246
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven

    For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the eleventh volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil GaimanKim NewmanStephen KingLinda NagataLaird BarronMargo LanaganAnd many others With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the cr... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1597809721
    • ASIN: 1597809721
    • ISBN: 1597809721
    • Brand: Night Shade
    • Manufacturer: Night Shade

  • 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

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

    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

  • 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 O. Henry Prize Stories 100th Anniversary Edition (2019) (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

    Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology gathers the twenty best new short stories published in the previous year. An Anchor Books Original.The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019--continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence--contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. The winning writers are an impressive mix of celebrated names and new, emerging voices. Their stories evoke lives both near and distant, in settings ranging from Jamaica, Houston, and Hawaii to a Turkish coal mine and a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0525565531
    • ASIN: 0525565531
    • ISBN: 0525565531
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker

    In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of "20 Under 40"―the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories by this stellar group of writers over the course of the summer. They are now collected for the first time in one volume.The range of voices is extraordinary. There is the lyrical realism of Nell Freudenberger, Philipp Meyer, C. E. Morgan, and Salvatore Scibona; the satirical comedy of Joshua Ferris and Gary Shteyngart; and the genre-bending tales of Jonathan Safran ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0374532877
    • ASIN: 0374532877
    • ISBN: 0374532877
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • 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

  • PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019

    The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction selected by Danielle Evans, Alice Sola Kim, and Carmen Maria Machado"Prominent issues of social justice and cultural strife are woven thematically throughout 12 stories. Stories of prison reform, the immigrant experience, and the aftermath of sexual assault make the book a vivid time capsule that will guide readers back into the ethos of 2019 for generations to come . . . Each story displays a mastery of the form, sure to inspire readers to seek out further writing from these adept authors and publications." ―BooklistWho are th... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1948226340
    • ASIN: 1948226340
    • ISBN: 1948226340
    • Manufacturer: Catapult

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction.  For Jonathan Lethem, “crime stories are deep species gossip.” He writes in his introduction that “they’re fundamentally stories of power, of its exercise, both spontaneous and conspiratorial; stories of impulse and desire, and of the turning of tables.” The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 has its full share of salacious intrigue, guilt, and retribution. The twists and bad decisions pile up when a thief picks the wrong target or a simp... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1328636097
    • ASIN: 1328636097
    • ISBN: 1328636097
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories


    • ASIN: 1400034825
    • ASIN: 1400034825
    • ISBN: 1400034825
    • Brand: Marcus, Ben (EDT)
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Sapience: A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories

    What kind of life will we find in the depths of Europa’s oceans? What kind of life will we allow an AI with human level intelligence? The ten stories in Sapience: A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories explore these questions and many more.In the near future, humanity builds a colony on Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter. They tunnel into the ice to explore the dark oceans beneath the moon's surface, searching for signs of extraterrestrial life. What they find will change them forever, setting humanity on a path to the stars. But the old conflicts and hatreds of Earth are not so easi... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 173366260X
    • ASIN: 173366260X
    • ISBN: 173366260X
    • Manufacturer: Lunarian Press

  • No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Get ready for the ultimate Jack Reacher experience: a thrilling new novella and eleven previously published stories, together for the first time in one pulse-pounding collection from Lee Child. No Middle Name begins with “Too Much Time,” a brand-new work of short fiction that finds Reacher in a hollowed-out town in Maine, where he witnesses a random bag-snatching but sees much more than a simple crime. “Small Wars” takes readers back to 1989, when Reacher is an MP assigned to solve the brutal murder of a young officer found along an isolated forest road in... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0399593594
    • ASIN: 0399593594
    • ISBN: 0399593594
    • Manufacturer: Dell

  • 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

  • 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

  • Little Back Room : A Collection of Short Stories

    Little Back Room begins with the sojurn of country teacher Cinderella Marvelous Green. "Teacher Green has arrived in one piece, praise God and God Save the Queen." The book continues with the short story, Shape

    • UPC: 446432286

  • 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 Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories - eBook

    In recent years, Singaporean literature has begun experiencing a sea change, with the short story form enjoying a renaissance. As a result, an explosion of short fiction with a Singaporean flavour has been produced to

    • UPC: 762613962

  • The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories - eBook

    The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two gathers twenty-four of the finest stories from Singaporean writers published in 2013 and 2014, selected from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and

    • UPC: 465624686

  • The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories - eBook

    The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Three gathers the finest Singaporean stories published in 2015 and 2016, selected by guest editor Cyril Wong from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies

    • UPC: 655131561

  • I Am : A Collection of Inspiring Short Stories for Teenage Girls

    Inspiring and uplifting, "I Am" is a collection of short stories for teenage girls. It can be tough being the new kid at school or always feeling fat or having a sibling who is smarter

    • UPC: 53345363

  • 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

  • The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald : A New Collection

    Gathers more than forty Fitzgerald stories and provides brief background information on each

    • UPC: 376625
    • Rating: 4.5

  • The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated by Harry Clarke with an Introduction by Edmund Clarence Stedman)

    Some of the most popular horror and mystery stories of all time are collected together here in "The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe." A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess

    • UPC: 53009038

  • 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

  • Officially The Best: 2012 Short Story Collection by Michael Ruiz (English) Hardc

    • UPC: 381520524290
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 30 USD

  • A Better Way to Die: Collected Short Stories by Paul Cornell (English) Paperback

    • UPC: 361708093179
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 29 USD

  • A Collection of Byron's Best Short Stories: An Omnibus of Shorts by Byron Walter

    • UPC: 150711125713
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 19 USD

  • The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Stor

    • UPC: 293368088702
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 9 USD

  • The Best Short Stories - Kipling (Wordsworth Collection) (Paperback)

    • UPC: 233330403186
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 9 USD

  • Collection of 50 Best Written Short Stories: Best Seller by J.A. (English) Paper

    • UPC: 191198658105
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 13 USD

  • The Best of H. P. Lovecraft - A Collection of Short Stories (Fantasy and Horror

    • UPC: 383429118195
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 52 USD

  • The Best of Me: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems by Kristen M. Fusaro (En

    • UPC: 160709285799
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 9 USD

  • The Best American Catholic Short Stories: A Sheed & Ward Collection by Daniel Mc

    • UPC: 361385404600
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 20 USD

  • The Better Sort (a Collection of Short Stories) by Henry James (English) Paperba

    • UPC: 392694426384
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 23 USD

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