Best Short Short Stories Of All Time - April 2024

The Best Short Stories of all Time: Volume I

- 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: B005USA8FY
• ASIN: B005USA8FY

A Short History of Nearly Everything

One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Ban... [Read More]

• ASIN: 076790818X
• ASIN: 076790818X
• ISBN: 076790818X
• Brand: Bryson, Bill
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes

Snuggle up with your favorite nursery rhymes and drift into the magical worlds of all your most treasured fairy-tale characters. This beautiful story-time treasury brings together the talents of illustrators from around the world, with well-loved stories and rhymes to delight and excite children. Find new stories and adventures to fill your imagination every night before bedtime with 365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes. Sweet Dreams! Quick and short stories or rhymes allows adults to adjust how many stories and how much time to spend reading every day Bond with your child through family story time... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1680524046
• ASIN: 1680524046
• ISBN: 1680524046
• Brand: Cottage Door Press
• Manufacturer: Cottage Door Press

The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown

“Wonderful." —Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesCelebrating the 20th anniversary of storytelling phenomenon The Moth, 45 unforgettable true stories about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best ever told on their stagesCarefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth, and adapted to the page to preserve the raw energy of live storytelling, All These Wonders features voices both familiar and new. Alongside Meg Wolitzer, John Turturro, Tig Notaro, and Hasan Minhaj, readers will encounter: an astronomer gazing at the surface of Pluto for the first time, an Afghan refu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101904402
• ASIN: 1101904402
• ISBN: 1101904402
• Brand: CROWN ARCHETYPE
• Manufacturer: Crown Archetype

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

• ASIN: B00A735JPG
• ASIN: B00A735JPG
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

The Wedding Trap (Second Service, Book 1)

Beth Bradley has a problem. Everyone is expecting her successful music executive boyfriend, Charlie, to be her date for her best friend’s wedding. There’s one hitch: Charlie doesn’t exist. Unless she can think of something fast, she’s headed for the most humiliating weekend of her life.Alex Tanner has a problem. The former Navy SEAL's search for a double agent lands him at the Kensington Hotel, and he needs a cover to finish the job. When the sexy maid of honor blackmails him into pretending to be her lover, he thinks he's been handed the solution.Except Beth has a way of stumbling int... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00DRFQRIO
• ASIN: B00DRFQRIO
• Manufacturer: Adrienne Bell

Fatal Starts: Two Gripping Jess Kimball Thrillers with Heart Pounding Suspense to Keep You Awake All Night (The Jess Kimball Thrillers Series Book 11)

Bestselling JESS KIMBALL SUSPENSE THRILLER SERIES Begins Here. Special Edition. Special Price. Limited time. From award-winning New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI in this special combined edition of the first novel and first novella in the highly addictive Jess Kimball Thrillers Series.Introducing Jess Kimball, the relentless heroine you'll really love. Jess is on a mission only she believes in, only she can complete. Her son was stolen. She wants him back. While she searches, she's on your side.Jess is a fiery woman, driven by her own past to fight for crime victims t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00A9JQIM6
• ASIN: B00A9JQIM6
• Manufacturer: AugustBooks

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue

A revealing look at Wall Street, the financial media, and financial regulators by David Einhorn, the President of Greenlight Capital Could 2008's credit crisis have been minimized or even avoided? In 2002, David Einhorn-one of the country's top investors-was asked at a charity investment conference to share his best investment advice. Short sell Allied Capital. At the time, Allied was a leader in the private financing industry. Einhorn claimed Allied was using questionable accounting practices to prop itself up. Sound familiar? At the time of the original version of Fooling Some of the People ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0470481544
• ASIN: 0470481544
• ISBN: 0470481544
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Wiley

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, 1929-1964: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America

The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929 and 1964.  This book contains 26 of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know, more intimately than anyone else, what the criteria for excellence in the field should be.  The authors chosen for the Science Fiction Hall Fame are the men and women who have shaped the body and heart of modern science fiction; their brilliantly imaginative creations continue to inspire and astound new g... [Read More]

• ASIN: B077YMK615
• ASIN: B077YMK615
• Manufacturer: Blackstone Audio

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg,  now available as a beautifully packaged paperbackFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062316117
• ASIN: 0062316117
• ISBN: 9780062316110
• Brand: Harper Perennial
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

- Over 11 million copies sold- #1 New York Times Bestseller for 8 years running- Now celebrating its 25th anniversary Simple ideas, lasting loveFalling in love is easy. Staying in love—that’s the challenge. How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life?In the #1 New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages, you’ll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman’s proven approach to showing and receiving love ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 080241270X
• ASIN: 080241270X
• ISBN: 080241270X
• Brand: Moody Publishing
• Manufacturer: Northfield Publishing

The Underground Railroad: A Novel

#1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeOne of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, HuffPost, Esquire, Minneapolis Star TribuneCora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345804325
• ASIN: 0345804325
• ISBN: 0345804325
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Things They Carried

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.   The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.  Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618706410
• UPC: 046442706414
• ASIN: 0618706410
• ISBN: 0544309766
• Brand: Tim O Brien
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF ALL TIME Volume 3

- 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 HERMAN MELVILLE, F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, HENRY JAMES, MARK TWAIN, E. M. FORSTER, ANTON CHEKHOV, JOSEPH CONRAD, D. H. LAWRENCE, AMBROSE BIERCE.

• ASIN: B00BRMYT84
• ASIN: B00BRMYT84

Normal People: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from Sally Rooney, the author of Conversations with Friends and “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan).   COMING TO HULU IN 2020 • “Fresh and accessible . . . There is so much to say about Rooney’s fiction—in my experience, when people who’ve read her meet they tend to peel off into corners to talk.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times   At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He�... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1984822179
• ASIN: 1984822179
• ISBN: 1984822179
• Manufacturer: Hogarth

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

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9781420938036

• UPC: 21019188

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 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: 4.5

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

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

Best Russian Short Stories - eBook

For centuries, critics and fans alike have extolled the virtues of the Russian masters of fiction, with many ranking them among the foremost literary artists the world has ever produced. This volume collects finely crafted

• UPC: 699648974
• Rating: 3.5

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 Best Short Stories of Mark Twain - eBook

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

• UPC: 466072779

The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain

Collects several of Mark Twain's short stories, including "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," "Political Economy," and "Extracts from Adam's

• UPC: 2368996
• Rating: 3.0