• 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

  • Great Russian Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

    Among the country's greatest artistic contributions, 20th-century Russian literature was revolutionary in its approach to realism, injecting characters with human weaknesses familiar to all. It also provided fodder for other such important concepts as existentialism and even passive resistance, which was rooted in the works of Tolstoy, and practiced resistance, which was rooted in the works of Tolstoy and practiced successfully by Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The 12 powerful short stories in this collection are excellent examples of writing by the foremost authors from Russia's Golden Age of... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 048642992X
    • UPC: 800759429929
    • ASIN: 048642992X
    • ISBN: 048642992X
    • Brand: Negri, Paul (EDT)
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • 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

  • Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book (English and Russian Edition)

    The story, or novella, as a literary genre has a much shorter history in Russia than in some Western countries, but it has nevertheless produced important works by some of the greatest names in Russian literature. This dual-language volume contains 12 such stories — memorable tales by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov, Gogol, Turgenev, Bunin, and other masters. Each selection is presented here in the original Russian with an excellent literal English translation on the facing pages.Also included are linguistic and cultural notes, a Russian-English vocabulary, study questions and more. In... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0486262448
    • UPC: 800759262441
    • ASIN: 0486262448
    • ISBN: 0486262448
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • 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 SHORT STORIES OF DOSTOEVSKY, Modern Library 293

    The Best Short Stories Of Dostoevsky, Modern Library 293 - With a writer of such great genius and such a vast output as Fyodor Dostoevsky it is perhaps natural that criticism should be concerned mainly with his larger works. And yet it is in Dostoevsky's smaller works that we find the highest expression of his creative power and profundity of thought. In these smaller works we find reflected as in a convex mirror the whole immensity of Dostoevsky's world, concentrated with gem-like brilliance and startling clarity. Here and there in Dostoevsky's great novels passages occur which reveal an inab... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B008SY4KRO
    • ASIN: B008SY4KRO
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • Collected Short Stories: Volume 3

    This third volume of Maugham’s stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI. Based on Maugham’s own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the be... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0140185917
    • ASIN: 0140185917
    • ISBN: 9780140185911
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Everyday Saints and Other Stories

    More than a million copies and several million electronic versions of this book have sold in less than a year. Everyday Saints is the English translation of the work that has soared at the top of the bestseller lists in Russia since its publication in late 2011. Winner of several national awards including "Book of the Year", its readership spans philosophical boundaries, from the devoutly religious to the vehemently atheist. Surpassing all competition many times over, it was voted the most popular book in Russia for 2012. Open this book and you will discover a wondrous, enigmatic, remarkably b... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0984284834
    • ASIN: 0984284834
    • ISBN: 0984284834
    • Manufacturer: Pokrov Publications

  • Selected Stories (Penguin Classics)

    D.H. Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten stories shows the variety of  his achievement as the works develop from an early realism towards myth and fairy tale, murder, and ghost stories.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0141441658
    • ASIN: 0141441658
    • ISBN: 9780141441658
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

    “Business Adventures remains the best business book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety; these notable and fascinating accounts are as relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life as they were when the events happened. Stories about Wall Street are inf... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00L1TPCKW
    • ASIN: B00L1TPCKW
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

  • Selected Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

    Although he is best known for his novels-several of which have been made into popular movies-E.M. Forster also published stories. This volume, which collects those stories published during Forster's lifetime, provides an opportunity for readers to discover these less familiar works. Rich in irony and alive with sharp observations on the surprises life holds, the stories often feature violent events, discomforting coincidences, and other disruptive happenings that throw the characters' perceptions and beliefs off balance.In their keen Introduction, David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell discuss Forste... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0141186194
    • ASIN: 0141186194
    • ISBN: 0141186194
    • Brand: Penguin Classics
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

    When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed."  "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry! . . . I still haven't recovered."More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a stunning new translation--from an award-winning team of translators--presents these stories in all their inventive, exuberant glory to English-speaking readers. For the first time, the best of Gogol's short fiction is brought together in a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0375706151
    • ASIN: 0375706151
    • ISBN: 9780375706158
    • Brand: Vintage Books
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Complete Short Stories (Penguin Classics)

    The complete stories of a 20th century master of fictionAffairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence—this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including four previously uncollected stories, this new complete edition reveals Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each of these forty-nine stories confirms V. S. Pritchett’s declaration that Greene is “a master of storytelling.” This Penguin Classics edition features an introduc... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0143039105
    • ASIN: 0143039105
    • ISBN: 0143039105
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Stories of Anton Chekhov

    Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life.   Considered the greatest short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. From characteristically brief, evocative early pieces such as “The Huntsm... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0553381008
    • ASIN: 0553381008
    • ISBN: 9780553381009
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • Five Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), a Russian physician, short-story writer, and playwright, wrote hundreds of stories that delved beneath the surface of Russian society, exposing the hidden motives of his characters and the ways in which prevailing social forces influenced their lives. This collection contains five of his most highly regarded stories, all from his maturity, and set in a variety of Tsarist Russian milieux.Included are "The Black Monk" (1894), "The House with the Mezzanine" (1896), "The Peasants" (1897), "Gooseberries" (1898), and "The Lady with the Toy Dog" (1899). In these... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0486264637
    • UPC: 800759264636
    • ASIN: 0486264637
    • ISBN: 9780486264639
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • 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

  • Best Russian Short Stories

    "Best Russian Short Stories" was initially published in 1917 and edited by Thomas Seltzer. The introduction praises the Russian sensibility for its "simplicity, naturalness, veraciousness." A collection of short fiction by Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Turgenev,

    • UPC: 53277768
    • Rating: 3.5

  • 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

  • Best Russian Short Stories

    Best Russian Short Stories

    • UPC: 822124567
    • Rating: 3.5

  • Best Russian Short Stories

    Best Russian Short Stories

    • UPC: 53002276
    • Rating: 3.5

  • Children of the Night : The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to Present

    In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a

    • UPC: 53328607

  • Best Russian Short Stories - eBook

    In this ebooK:THE QUEEN OF SPADES A.S. PushkinTHE CLOAK N.V. GogolTHE DISTRICT DOCTOR I.S. TurgenevTHE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING F.M. DostoyevskyGOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS L.N. TolstoyHOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS M.Y. SaltykovTHE SHADES, A PHANTASY V.G. KorolenkoTHE SIGNAL V.N.

    • UPC: 111489959

  • BEST RUSSIAN SHORT STORIES: CHEKHOV, PUSHKIN, DOSTOYEVSKY, TURGENEV, GOGOL AND MORE (ILLUSTRATED) - eBook

    IN THIS COLLECTION YOU WILL  FIND NINETEEN GREAT SHORT STORIES FROM PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA. SPEND DAYS READING WORKS BY THE MOST ACCLAIMED RUSSIAN WRITERS. INCLUDED IS AN IMAGE OF EACH AUTHOR.STORIES INCLUDED ARE: THE QUEEN OF

    • UPC: 326890757

  • BEST RUSSIAN SHORT STORIES - eBook

    This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: – THE QUEEN OF SPADES A.S.

    • UPC: 397167715

  • Best Russian Short Stories - eBook

    This book contain short russian stories such as the bet by A. P.Chekhov, the cloak by N.V. Gogol and many

    • UPC: 541741452

  • Best Russian Short Stories - FULL AudioBook - Literature - Russia - Fiction

    Best Russian Short Stories by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov - Full Audiobook

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