• Complete Stories

    Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically—"War," "Women," "Science," "Romance," "Work Ethic versus Fame and Fortune," "Behavior," "The Band Director" (those stories featuring Lincoln High's band director and nice guy George Hemholtz), and "Futuristic"—these ninety-eight stories were written from 1941 to 2007, and include those Vonnegut published in magazines and... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1609808088
    • ASIN: 1609808088
    • ISBN: 1609808088
    • Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press

  • Cat's Cradle: A Novel


    • ASIN: B000SEH13C
    • ASIN: B000SEH13C
    • Manufacturer: The Dial Press

  • Night Shift


    • ASIN: B001BANK2S
    • ASIN: B001BANK2S
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works

    “[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending.”—The Charlotte ObserverWelcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. Includes the following stories: “Where I Live” “Harrison Bergeron”“Who Am I This Time?” “Welc... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0385333501
    • ASIN: 0385333501
    • ISBN: 0385333501
    • Brand: Delta
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press

  • Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1950-1962 (LOA #226): Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / stories (Library of America Kurt Vonnegut Edition)

    Before winning international fame with Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut was a master of the drugstore paperback and the popular short story. This authoritative collection of his brilliant early work opens with Player Piano (1952), a Metropolis-like parable of breakneck technological innovation and its effect on those it robs of their livelihoods. The Sirens of Titan (1959), the interplanetary adventures of the world’s wealthiest and most despised man, is both a pulp-fiction space opera and a satire on the vanity of human striving. The confessions of a German-American dou... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1598531506
    • ASIN: 1598531506
    • ISBN: 1598531506
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

  • While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Foreword by Dave EggersThese previously unpublished, beautifully rendered works of fiction are a testament to Kurt Vonnegut’s unique blend of observation and imagination. Here are stories of men and machines, art and artifice, and how ideals of fortune, fame, and love take curious twists in ordinary lives. An ambitious builder of roads fritters away his free time with miniature trains—until the women in his life crash his fantasy land. Trapped in a stenography pool, a young dreamer receives a call from a robber on the run, who presents her with a strange propositio... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0385343744
    • ASIN: 0385343744
    • ISBN: 0385343744
    • Brand: Dial Press
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Vintage International)


    • ASIN: B004AP9W1O
    • ASIN: B004AP9W1O
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Breakfast of Champions: A Novel

    “Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York TimesIn Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.“Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.”—Publishers Weekly

    • ASIN: 0385334206
    • ASIN: 0385334206
    • ISBN: 0385334206
    • Brand: Dial Press Trade Paperback
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

  • Player Piano: A Novel

    “A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco ChronicleKurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.Praise for Player Piano“An exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma.”—Life “His blac... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0385333781
    • ASIN: 0385333781
    • ISBN: 0385333781
    • Brand: Dial Press
    • Manufacturer: The Dial Press

  • Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973: Cat's Cradle / God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions / Stories (Library of America, No. 216)

    Like Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a Midwestern everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose anger at the way things are was matched only by his love for the best that we can be. His cunningly relaxed delivery was so original, so finely calibrated, and so profound an articulation of the Sixties' spirit that many critics overlooked the moral seriousness behind the standup-comic craftsmanship. Capturing Vonnegut in pyrotechnic mid-career, this first volume of a projected three-volume edition gathers four of his most acclaimed novels. Cat's Cradle (1963) is a comedy of the... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1598530984
    • ASIN: 1598530984
    • ISBN: 1598530984
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

  • Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1987-1997 (LOA #273): Bluebeard / Hocus Pocus / Timequake (Library of America Kurt Vonnegut Edition)

    The definitive edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s fiction concludes with three brilliantly satirical novels of the 1980s and ’90s collected in one volume for the first time. Here are the final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success. now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent. In Hocus Pocus (1990), a freewheeling prison memoir by a Viet... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1598534645
    • ASIN: 1598534645
    • ISBN: 1598534645
    • Brand: LIBRARY OF AMER
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

  • The Heart Goes Last: A Novel

    Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin.     Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around—and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable,... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00RRT33EC
    • ASIN: B00RRT33EC
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (LOA #195): Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Cathedral / stories ... / other stories (Library of America)

    Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and '80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. Beneath his pared-down surfaces run disturbing, violent undercurrents. Suggestive rather than explicit, and seeming all the more powerful for what is left unsaid, Carver's stories were held up as exemplars of a new ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1598530461
    • ASIN: 1598530461
    • ISBN: 1598530461
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

  • White Noise


    • ASIN: B001R11CAI
    • ASIN: B001R11CAI
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A Novel

    “[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.”—The New York Times Book ReviewEliot Rosewater—drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation—is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is Kurt Vonnegut’s funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.“A brilliantly funny satire on almost everything.”—Conrad Aiken“[Vonnegut was] our finest black humorist. . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—Th... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0385333471
    • ASIN: 0385333471
    • ISBN: 0385333471
    • Brand: Dial Press
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

  • 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 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 Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    • UPC: 21019188
    • Rating: 4.25

  • 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: 616290935

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 2br02b by Kurt Vonnegut, Science Fiction, Literary

    The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B," referencing the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In this story, the title refers to the

    • UPC: 53038410
    • Rating: 4.25

  • 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

  • Kurt Vonnegut on how to write a short story

    "The Souvenir" a short story by Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories