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  • 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 Mann, Guy de Maupassant, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D. H. Lawrence, and ten other great writers.Prime examples of the classic short story, these enduring literary treasures will be invaluable to students ... [Read More]
    Best Classic Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0486447162
    • UPC: 800759447169
    • ASIN: 0486447162
    • ISBN: 0486447162
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • 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 character and voice.” These forty stories represent their eras but also stand the test of time. Here is Ernest Hemingway’s first published story and a classic by William Faulkner, who admitted in his biog... [Read More]
    Best Classic Short Stories

    • ASIN: B00QPI449E
    • ASIN: B00QPI449E
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • 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, begin with tales by Daniel Defoe ("The Apparition of Mrs. Veal," 1705), Benjamin Franklin ("Alice Addertongue," 1732), and Washington Irving ("The Devil and Tom Walker," 1824). Highlights from the nine... [Read More]
    Best Classic Short Stories

    • ASIN: B00U0B4PCI
    • ASIN: B00U0B4PCI
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

    Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, and scores ... [Read More]
    Best Classic Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0395843677
    • UPC: 046442843676
    • ASIN: 0395843677
    • ISBN: 0395843677
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

    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 fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.” The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper, a Twitter addict, and an Appalachian preacher—all characters and circums... [Read More]
    Best Classic Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0544582942
    • ASIN: 0544582942
    • ISBN: 0544582942
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

  • The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain (Modern Library Classics)

    This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation also includes darker works written in the author’s twilight years. These selections illuminate the depth of Twain’s artistry, humor, irony, and narrative genius.
    Best Classic Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0812971183
    • ASIN: 0812971183
    • ISBN: 0812971183
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • The Best Short Stories of all Time: Volume I (BEST SHORT STORIES classic series) (Volume 1)

    - 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.
    Best Classic Short Stories

    • ASIN: 1986180816
    • ASIN: 1986180816
    • ISBN: 1986180816
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

  • 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.
    Best Classic Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0553277456
    • ASIN: 0553277456
    • ISBN: 0553277456
    • Brand: Bantam Classics
    • Manufacturer: Bantam Classics

  • 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.”
    Best Classic Short Stories

    • ASIN: B07X5TZ44C
    • ASIN: B07X5TZ44C

  • Best Short Stories (Dover Large Print Classics)

    William Sydney Porter (1862–1910), better known as O. Henry, led a life similar to those of his own fictional characters. Convicted of embezzlement, he found inspiration in his prison experience for some of the characters who populate his ironic tales. The 16 choice selections in this volume — among them "The Ransom of Red Chief," "The Last Leaf," "The Voice of the City," and the classic, "The Gift of the Magi" — have endeared him to generations of readers. Large print edition.
    Best Classic Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0486424685
    • UPC: 800759424689
    • ASIN: 0486424685
    • ISBN: 0486424685
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • 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
    Best Classic Short Stories
    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 fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.” The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a

    • 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 over 100 years that tells the history of American short fiction. 30,000 first
    Best Classic Short Stories
    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 character and voice.” These forty stories represent their eras but also

    • UPC: 45056350
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

    From the early 1800s to the outbreak of World War II, this collection spans more than 100 years of literary history with 33 complete short stories by such timeless masters as Washington Irving, Mark Twain, Jack London, and William Faulkner.
    Best Classic Short Stories
    The best of American short fictionSpanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving * Nathaniel Hawthorne * Edgar Allan Poe * Herman Melville * Harriet Beecher Stowe * Bret Harte * Bayard Taylor * Rose Terry Cooke * Ambrose Bierce * Hamlin Garland * Mary E. Wilkens Freeman * Henry James * Charlotte Perkins Gilman * Sarah Orne Jewett * Grace Elizabeth King * Harold Frederic * Kate Chopin * Stephen Crane * Edith Wharton * Mark Twain * Jack London * F. Hopkinson Smith * Zona Gale * O.

    • UPC: 25951957

  • 7 best short stories: Classic Erotica - eBook

    Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of human sexual relationships which have the power to or are intended to arouse the reader sexually. Other common elements are satire and social criticism. The invention of printing, in the 15th century, brought with it both a greater market and increasing restrictions, like censorship and legal restraints on publication on the grounds of obscenity. Because of this, much of the production of this type of material became clandestine. August Nemo has selected seven classic tales of eroticism that are part of the history of human sexual culture: Daphnis and Chloe
    Best Classic Short Stories
    7 best short stories: Classic Erotica - eBook

    • UPC: 778120445

  • The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    Best Classic Short Stories
    The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    • UPC: 21019188
    • Rating: 4.25

  • Fifty Best American Short Stories: Classic Works b

    • UPC: 302476381814
    • Category: Nonfiction
    • Price: 4 USD

  • Best Short Stories (Dover Large Print Classics) - Paperback - VERY GOOD

    • UPC: 274210666515
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 6 USD

  • Best Short Stories of RING LARDNER (1957, hardback) * 24 classic American tales

    • UPC: 324032716077
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 18 USD

  • Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology by Andrew Barger

    • UPC: 160708820907
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 20 USD

  • The Best Short Stories (Classics Library) (Paperback)

    • UPC: 333315999364
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 8 USD

  • THE LAST LEAF - the classic short story by O. Henry, presented by classic-tales.net

    http://classic-tales.net This track is from CLASSIC TALES OF HOPE AND COURAGE: http://amzn.to/1nkKwUy Listen to more classic short stories and poems at http://classic-tales.net Image of "Branch wi...
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    TOLSTOY - The Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy - Short story audiobook - FAB

    The Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy - Short story audiobook - FAB "The Three Questions" is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1885 as part of the collection What Men Liv...
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    Reading Short Stories: Where To Start

    Hello, I’m Jen - I’m the author of the Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series, The Bookshop Book and The Hungry Ghost Festival. Click ‘Show More’ for more info on this video -- MY BOOKS: ...
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