Lorrie Moore Best Short Stories - April 2024

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]

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• Brand: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Birds of America: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

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• Manufacturer: Vintage

[The Best American Short Stories] [Author: Moore, Lorrie] [October, 2004]

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• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin

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]

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• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Best American Short Stories 2004 (The Best American Series)

The acclaimed annual short fiction series--this year featuring guest editor Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America--showcases the work of such notable authors as Annie Proulx, Sherman Alexie, Paula Fox, Thomas McGuane, Alice Munro, and Deborah Eisenberg, from a variety of acclaimed sources.

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• ISBN: 0618197346
• Brand: Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Best American Short Stories 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) to the collection. 

• ASIN: B01912QC5Y
• ASIN: B01912QC5Y
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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]

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• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary

A New York Times Critic's Top Pick of the YearThis essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among others, find Lorrie Moore turning her discerning eye on everything from Philip Roth to Margaret Atwood, from race in America to the shocking state of the GOP, from celebrity culture to the wilds of television, from Ste... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524732486
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• ISBN: 1524732486
• Manufacturer: Knopf

Bark: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

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• ISBN: 0385351712
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The World's Best Classic Short Stories

A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories, including: 'The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 'The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 'The Mezzotint' by M. R. James 'The Phantom Rickshaw' by Rudyard Kipling 'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy 'The Model Millionaire' by Oscar Wilde 'The Monkey's Paw' by W. W. Jacobs 'An Uncomfortable Bed' by Guy de Maupassant 'The Mortal Immortal' by Mary Shelley 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe 'Sredni Vashtar' by Saki 'The Nose' by Nicolai Gogol 'Regret' by Kate Chopin 'One Thousand Dollars' by O. Henry 'The Fly' by Katherine ... [Read More]

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• Manufacturer: Red Door Audiobooks

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

John Updike has selected enduring stories from the eighty-four annual volumes of THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, and the result is "a spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" (Entertainment Weekly). Available for the first time on compact disc, this extraordinary collection features a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the genre, along with authors reading from their own work. Containing twenty-two unabridged stories in all, the expanded audio edition includes a new story from THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1999 to round out the century.

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• ISBN: 0618093206
• Brand: Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (Vintage Contemporaries)

• ASIN: B0076PGEGG
• ASIN: B0076PGEGG
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. This celebrated volume gathers together her complete work -- four short collections of stunning stories about marriages, minor disasters, and moments of revelation. With her inimitable compassion and wit, Hempel introduces characters who make choices that seem inevitable, and whose longings and misgivings evoke eternal human experience. For readers who have known Hempel's work for decades and for those who are just discovering her, this indispensable volume contains all the stories in Reasons to Live, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Hom... [Read More]

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• ASIN: 0743291638
• ISBN: 0743291638
• Brand: Hempel, Amy/ Moody, Rick (INT)
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Homesick for Another World: Stories

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time"I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Pri... [Read More]

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• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

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

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• Rating: 5.0

The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore (Paperback)

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Birds of America : Stories

From the author of "Self-Help" comes this much-lauded collection of 12 stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter--and in the sheer beauty of their language. A marvelous collection.--"The Boston

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• Rating: 4.0

7 best short stories: Victorian Romance - eBook

The Victorian era is the perfect setting for a good love story. The romantic tales of the time could be sweet, dramatic or breathtaking - there are stories for all tastes! August Nemo selected seven stories with

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Best British Short Stories 2015 - eBook

“Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year …”Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover –

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The Best British Short Stories 2013 - eBook

The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh

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Like Life

A collection of short fiction explores the ever widening gulf between men and women and the paradoxical fear of and yearning for intimacy in characters whose lives are marked by disillusionment, misunderstandings, boredom, and lack

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• Rating: 4.375

Self-Help - eBook

"Brisk, ironic ... scalpel-sharp.... A funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories." --The New York Times Book ReviewIn these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a

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• Rating: 4.182

Self-Help

In nine captivating stories, the author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? probes the pleasures and pains of modern relationships, offering poignant yet wickedly funny advice on "How to Be an Other Woman", "How

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• Rating: 4.182

Like Life (Paperback)

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• Rating: 4.375

100 Years Of The Best American Short Stories by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor

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• Category: Fiction & Literature
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Best American Short Stories 1992 SIGNED Robert STONE Lorrie MOORE Thom JONES + 5

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• Price: 250 USD

Best American Short Stories 2004, Paperback by Moore, Lorrie (EDT); Kenison, ...

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The Best American Short Stories by Lorrie Moore (English) Paperback Book Free Sh

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100 Years of The Best American Short Stories - Hardcover By Moore, Lorrie - GOOD

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100 Years of the Best American Short Stories by Lorrie Moore: Used

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The Best American Short Stories by Moore, Lorrie Book The Fast Free Shipping

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Best American Short Stories 2004 by Moore, Lorrie

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Best American Short Stories 2004 by Moore, Lorrie

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The Best American Short Stories von Moore, Lorrie | Buch | Zustand gut

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