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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
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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: B00U0B4PCI
- ASIN: B00U0B4PCI
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Top 100 Motivational Stories: The Best Inspirational Short Stories And Anecdotes Of All Time
Some of the stories will make you cry others will make you smile, none will leave you indifferent. Are you ready to be empowered? For this book we scanned hundreds of motivational stories and anecdotes to bring you this collection of the top 100 inspirational short stories. The stories here will open your eyes and give you valuable insights regarding success, love, money, achievement, overcoming obstacles, relationships, hope, positive thinking, life, happiness, family, leadership, dreams, appreciation, uplifting, adversity, moving on, perseverance, inspiring words, encouraging, thoughts, fait... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1546394206
- ASIN: 1546394206
- ISBN: 1546394206
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Sticky Fingers: 12 Deliciously Twisted Short Stories (Sticky Fingers Collection Book 1)
Diverse, dark-humored, and deliciously bite-sized, this compelling collection of 12 short stories by JT Lawrence include:ESCAPEA suicidal baby knows he was born into the wrong life. He has to get creative to correct the mistake, much to his mother's horror.THE ITCHAn intense, uncontrollable, unexplainable itch lands the protagonist in a mental institution.BRIDGE GATEIn this poignant and charming short story, a daughter yearns to connect with her absent father through the letters they exchange. She's not put off by his pedantic corrections of her writing, despite the slow reveal that he is ... [Read More]
- ASIN: B01F6FAQZC
- ASIN: B01F6FAQZC
- Manufacturer: Fire Finch Press
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50 Greatest Short Stories
50 Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the world’s short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as ‘The Gift of the Magi’, ‘The Lady with the Dog’, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, ‘Rain’ and ‘Mrs Packletide’s Tiger’, to name but a few.This outstanding and wide-ranging anthology of stories is a collector’s item, designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the world’s finest writing ... [Read More]
- ASIN: B015RI7RN2
- ASIN: B015RI7RN2
- Manufacturer: Rupa Publications India
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THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF ALL TIME Volume 4
This outstanding collection features short stories by a variety of great authors. Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, writers include KATHERINE MANSFIELD, FRANZ KAFKA, RUDYARD KIPLING, NIKOLAI VASILIEVICH GOGOL, H.P. LOVECRAFT, WASHINGTON IRVING, EDGAR ALLAN POE, ANTON CHEKHOV, MARK TWAIN, HONORE DE BALZAC and HENRY JAMES.
- ASIN: B00F0X1T52
- ASIN: B00F0X1T52
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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
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The Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)
Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome,” writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you’ll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on ... [Read More]
- ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
- ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
- Brand: Unknown
- Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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
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Greatest Short Stories (Six Volume Set)
The wide selection of short stories in these six volumes illustates this variety of subject and treatment.
- ASIN: B000KOZNR6
- ASIN: B000KOZNR6
- Manufacturer: P. F. Collier & Son
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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, a Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue
Delving deep inside Wall Street, the authors show how the $6 billion hedge fund Greenlight Capital conducts its investment research. Witness feckless regulators, compromised politicians, and the barricades capital markets have erected against exposing misconduct
- UPC: 11595482
- Rating: 4.5
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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue - eBook
A revealing look at Wall Street, the financial media, and financial regulators by David Einhorn, the President of Greenlight CapitalCould 2008's credit crisis have been minimized or even avoided? In 2002, David Einhorn-one of the
- UPC: 811286351
- Rating: 4.0
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Agatha Christie: Best Reading Order for All Novels and Short Stories With Summaries & Checklist - eBook
Agatha Christie - Best Reading Order for All Novels and Short Stories With Summaries & Checklist.Includes all novels and short stories listed in best reading order as recommended by Agatha Christie, Ltd. The perfect companion
- UPC: 777492482
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7 best short stories by H. G. Wells - eBook
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography,
- UPC: 928462297
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Greatest Short Stories of All Time - Audiobook
A fine selection of short stories from around the world, including Tolstoy, Lawrence and
- UPC: 610791942
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Greatest UFO Sighting and Stories of All Time: (UFO Short Stories) - eBook
The UFO story originated not long after June 24, 1947, when many newspapers in the USA published the first sighting of the "flying saucer". The story told how nine very bright, disk-shaped objects were seen
- UPC: 346899693
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Saki: The Complete Novels and Stories [145 novels and short stories] - eBook
This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels
- UPC: 868635944
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All the Time in the World - eBook
From a master of modern American letters comes an enthralling collection of brilliant short fiction about people who, as E. L. Doctorow notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from their surroundings—people in some sort
- UPC: 984856932
- Rating: 3.0
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O. Henry's New York : The Immortality of a Great City Portrayed in Some of the Best Short Stories of All Time
O. Henry's New York: The Immortality of a Great City Portrayed in Some of the Best Short Stories of All
- UPC: 53697365
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O. Henry's New York : The Immortality of a Great City Portrayed in Some of the Best Short Stories of All Time
O. Henry's New York
- UPC: 53673329
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