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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

For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards

For the Love is now a New York Times bestseller! Don't miss Jen's latest title, also a New York Times bestseller, Of Mess & Moxie.Best-selling author Jen Hatmaker is convinced life can be lovely and fun and courageous and kind. She reveals with humor and style how Jesus’ embarrassing grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, go to church with, don’t like, don’t understand, fear, compare oursel... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00QL9LFCG
• ASIN: B00QL9LFCG
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women

The second collection drawn together by editor Wendy Martin, these twenty-four exquisite examples of contemporary writing feature stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Mary Gaitskill, Alice Munro, Sandra Cisneros, and Lorrie Moore (to name a few).We Are the Stories We Tell is also available from Pantheon.

• ASIN: 0375714502
• ASIN: 0375714502
• ISBN: 0375714502
• Manufacturer: Pantheon

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive.The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679745130
• ASIN: 0679745130
• ISBN: 0679745130
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Water Dancer (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

• ASIN: B07NKMZT7T
• ASIN: B07NKMZT7T
• Manufacturer: One World

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

This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mirrors our age, our concerns, and our lives. Whether it’s the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Manson’s “Shiloh,” or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubus’s “The Fat Girl,” the 36 works included her probe issues that ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0440204232
• ASIN: 0440204232
• ISBN: 0440204232
• Brand: 2049145481
• Manufacturer: Dell

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

• ASIN: B003VS0NCI
• ASIN: B003VS0NCI
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

Short Stories: THE 10 BEST ADVENTURE SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS: Read the best adventure stories, Enjoy an epic read by travelling to distant lands and visualizing vivid landscapes with adventure

“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.”

• ASIN: B07XJCLFRP
• ASIN: B07XJCLFRP

Bonds of Love and Blood: Short Stories

Twelve stories of wayward travelers. Twelve stamps on the passport of the soul. Walter struggles to see past his disfigurement, but a trip to Thailand and a mysterious woman may challenge his quest for perfection. Married to a workaholic, Leslie is accustomed to solitude until her overbearing Indian mother-in-law turns her kitchen into a verbal battlefield. A woman looks for the perfect souvenir in the Turkish Bazaar and instead finds a passionate love affair. From ice storms in Maine to swimming pools in Vera Cruz, errant souls must grapple with past baggage to forge profound connections and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1732078734
• ASIN: 1732078734
• ISBN: 1732078734
• Manufacturer: Grand Canyon Press

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

The Silent Patient

• ASIN: B07D2C6J4K
• ASIN: B07D2C6J4K
• Manufacturer: Celadon Books

My Brother's Billionaire Best Friend

Amazon Top 15 BestsellerMabel "Maybe" Willis died a virgin at the very young age of twenty-four.She leaves behind her parents, Betty and Bruce, her brother, Evan, a laptop filled with one too many Jason Momoa memes, and a Kindle library with more books than one human being could ever finish in a lifetime.Cause of death: a text message.Okay. So, I didn't die.But I may as well have.One minute, I'm a woman trying to find her way in the world, and the next, I'm the sender of six of the most embarrassing text messages that have ever been sent in the history of time--or the cell phone. Whatever.We'r... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07VDGF14T
• ASIN: B07VDGF14T
• Manufacturer: Max Monroe LLC

God Is With You Every Day

It’s easier to face the day when you know God is with you.God Is With You Every Day is a brand-new 365-day devotional from Max Lucado, and his first new devotional since the creation of the Grace for the Moment® line. Max’s signature reassuring and encouraging voice, paired with the practical, relevant, and personal message that God is with you every day, makes a great way to start each day of the year.This devotional begins each week with a prayer and scripture, followed by six days of devotions and scripture for reflection. Weaving messages of comfort, grace, and encouragement, this b... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00ZRP74ZM
• ASIN: B00ZRP74ZM
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

Short Stories: SHORT STORY COLLECTION: The best 16 short story collections,16 classic and modern short story collections that should be on everyone's radar.a great start for anyone who wants to read

If you can't decide which new novel or nonfiction book to pick up, here's another idea: try reading a short story collection. Rather than focus on a singular narrative, these unique options weave together the voices of several writers, or focus on multiple stories by an author you know and love.“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.”

• ASIN: B07X5TZ44C
• ASIN: B07X5TZ44C

The Early Stories: 1953-1975

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction   A harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it can be said of any of our great American writers that they have been equally gifted in both long and short forms,” reads the citation composed for John Updike upon his winning the 2006 Rea Award for the Short Story. “Contemplating John Updike’s monumental achievement in the short story, one is moved to think of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, and perhaps William F... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345463366
• ASIN: 0345463366
• ISBN: 0345463366
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

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

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

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

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

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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• UPC: 21019188
• Rating: 4.25

The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard - eBook

First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of J. G. Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology,

• UPC: 750516487
• Rating: 4.5

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

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

Best Loved Short Stories

• UPC: 274148349168
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 3 USD

The World's 100 Best Short Stories Volume 4 LOVE 1927 Antique Vintage Book

• UPC: 173963955397
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 8 USD

The Worlds 100 Best Short Stories Volume 4 Love

• UPC: 233306310992
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 8 USD

Best-Loved Short Stories: Flaubert, Chekhov, Kipling, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Poe and

• UPC: 283810909479
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 14 USD

1927 Worlds Best Short Stories Vol 4 Love Funk Wagnall

• UPC: 114164228061
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 10 USD

Best Loved Short Stories by Henry, O.

• UPC: 143560228877
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 3 USD

THE WORLD'S ONE HUNDRED BEST SHORT STORIES Volume Four LOVE Grant Overton 1927

• UPC: 174173637875
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 4 USD

The World's One Hundred Best Short Stories Vol IV (4)- Love (1927)

• UPC: 324122593037
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 12 USD

THE WORLD'S ONE HUNDRED BEST SHORT STORIES Volume Four LOVE Grant Overton 1927

• UPC: 124136100397
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 3 USD

Best-Loved Short Stories : Flaubert, Chekhov, Kipling, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Poe...

• UPC: 353012528579
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 14 USD