Best Short Story Collections 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

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 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 World's Greatest Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

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

Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century

• ASIN: 0441011330
• ASIN: 0441011330
• ISBN: 0441011330
• Brand: Ace Books
• Manufacturer: Ace

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

• ASIN: 0399226907
• ASIN: 0399226907
• ISBN: 0399226907
• Brand: Penguin
• Manufacturer: Philomel Books

Goodnight Moon

• ASIN: 0694003611
• UPC: 038332606522
• ASIN: 0694003611
• ISBN: 0694003611
• Brand: Harper Festival
• Manufacturer: HarperFestival

I Love You to the Moon and Back

The sun rises, and a bear and cub begin their day together. They splash in the water, climb mountains, and watch the shimmering sky. They show their love by touching noses, playing chase, and of course, hugging. A sweet, gentle rhyme, perfect for sharing with a special little one!

• ASIN: 1589255518
• ASIN: 1589255518
• ISBN: 1589255518
• Brand: Tiger Tales
• Manufacturer: Amelia Hepworth

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

Mastering the Art of French Cooking (2 Volume Set)

The perfect gift for any follower of Julia Child—and any lover of French food. This boxed set brings together Mastering the Art of French Cooking, first published in 1961, and its sequel, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two, published in 1970.Volume One is the classic cookbook, in its entirety—524 recipes. “Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere,” wrote Mesdames Beck, Bertholle, and Child, “with the right instruction.” And here is the book that, for nearly fifty years, has been teaching Americans how.Mastering the Art of French Cooking is for both seasoned cooks ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307593525
• UPC: 884689164723
• ASIN: 0307593525
• ISBN: 9780307593528
• Brand: Knopf
• Manufacturer: Knopf

The Giving Tree

• ASIN: 0060256656
• UPC: 038332606249
• ASIN: 0060256656
• ISBN: 0060256656
• Brand: Harper Collins Publishers
• Manufacturer: Harper & Row

The House on Mango Street

Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous – it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.

• ASIN: 0679734775
• ASIN: 0679734775
• ISBN: 9780679734772
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

What If Everybody Did That?

If you drop just one soda can out the window, it’s no big deal ... right? But what if everybody did that? What if everybody broke the rules ... and spoke during story time, didn’t wash up, or splashed too much at the pool? Then the world would be a mess. But what if everybody obeyed the rules so that the world would become a better place? Using humorous illustrations rendered in mixed media, these questions are answered in a child-friendly way and show the consequences of thoughtless behavior.

• ASIN: 0761456864
• ASIN: 0761456864
• ISBN: 0761456864
• Brand: Cavendish Square Publishing
• Manufacturer: Two Lions

Principles: Life and Work

#1 New York Times Bestseller “Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving.” —The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made mor... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501124021
• ASIN: 1501124021
• ISBN: 1501124021
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Bob Books, Set 1: Beginning Readers

Teach a child letter sounds with Bob Books Set 1! With four letters in the first story, children can read a whole book. Consistent new sounds are added gradually, until young readers have read books with all letters of the alphabet (except Q). Short vowels and three-letter words in simple sentences make Bob Books Set 1 a fun confidence builder. With little books, come big success. (TM)

• ASIN: 0439845009
• ASIN: 0439845009
• ISBN: 0439845009
• Brand: Scholastic
• Manufacturer: Scholastic

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 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
• Rating: 4.25

Tales from Rattlesnake Gulch : A Collection of Humorous Short Stories

Tales from Rattlesnake Gulch give a collection of tales told solely for the entertainment of the reader. They are told by an old man with a twinkle in his eye. He never tells the truth

• UPC: 222312764

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

A collection of fifty-five important pieces of short fiction of the twentieth century features masterworks by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, and other notable

• UPC: 743425
• Rating: 3.75

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 Korean Short Stories Collection 대한민국 베스트 단편 소설모음집

Meet the very finest of Korean short stories. This compilation of 25 short stories bring you the essence of Korean literature, covering the early 1900's to the late 1900's. Also ideal for advanced Korean

• UPC: 365957756

The Life and Day Dreams of a Nine Year Old : A Collection of Short Stories; Some Real, Some Fiction

The Life and Day Dreams of a Nine Year Old: A Collection of Short Stories; Some Real, Some

• UPC: 53040159

The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe : (the Fall of the House of Usher, the Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales)

This volume contains a collection of some of the best short stories ever written by Edgar Allan Poe. A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these classic short stories. Contained within

• UPC: 33814580

Black American Short Stories : A Century of the Best

Features pieces by Charles W. Chestnut, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, and

• UPC: 465452
• Rating: 5.0