 | The Shell Collector: Stories
Release Date: January 4, 2011The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr’s debut collection take readers from the African Coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human condition in all its varieties—metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts—conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of the characters in these stories contend with hardships; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to ...
 |  | Anton Chekhov Later Short Stories, 1888-1903 (Modern Library)
Release Date: January 26, 1999" Chekhov is one of the few indispensable writers," said Susan Sontag. "His stories, which deluge us with feeling, make feeling more intelligent; more magnanimous. He is an artist of our moral maturity." This volume presents forty-two of Chekhov's later short stories, written between 1888 and 1903, in acclaimed translations by Constance Garnett and chosen by Shelby Foote. Among the most outstanding are "A Dreary Story," a dispassionate tale that reflects Chekhov's doubt...
|  | American Short Stories since 1945
Publication Date: August 23, 2001| ISBN-10: 0195131320 | ISBN-13: 978-0195131321Offering significantly more comprehensive and inclusive coverage than similar anthologies, this excellent and varied collection features seventy-nine of the best American short stories written between 1945 and the present. Taken together, these stories document the ever-changing reality of American life since World War II--who we are, where we have been, and where we might be going. Striving to make this anthology representative of all the literary voices of the period, editor John G. Parks includes work from...
|  | Nightmare Town: Stories
Release Date: September 12, 2000"Hammett's pioneering hard-boiled style has been much imitated, but the original--packs a wallop."--The New YorkerHere are twenty long-unavailable stories by the master who brought us The Maltese Falcon. Laconic coppers, lowlifes, and mysterious women double- and triple-cross their colleagues with practiced nonchalance. A man on a bender awakens in a small town with a dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts a brutal truth about her husband. Here is classic noir: hard-boiled descriptions to rival Hemingway, verbal exchanges punctuated with pistol...
|  | Madness of the Day
Publication Date: January 6, 1981Jacques Derrida writes (in Deconstruction and Criticism)of The Madness of the Day that it is "a story whose title runs wild and drives the reader mad.la folie du jour, the madness of today, of the day today, which leads to the madness that comes from the day, is born of it, as well as the madness of the day itself, itself mad..La folie du jour is a story of madness, of that madness that consists in seeing the light, vision or visibility, to see beyond what is visible, is not merely 'to have a vision' in the usual sense of the word, but to see-beyond-sight, to...
|  | The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation
Release Date: May 31, 2011NATIONAL BESTSELLERNow with an additional storyEvery now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman kicks up her heels and commits a small act of liberation. What would you do if you could shed the “shoulds” and do, say—and eat—whatever you really desired? Go AWOL from Weight Watchers and spend an entire day eating every single thing you want? Start a dating service for people over fifty to reclaim the razzle-dazzle in your life—or your marriage? Seek comfort in the face of aging, look for love in the midst of loss, find ...
|  | Rashomon and Other Stories
Publication Date: December 1999This fascinating collection gave birth to a newparadigm when Akira Kurosawa made famousAkutagawa's disturbing tale of seven peoplerecounting the same incident from shockinglydifferent perspectives.Writing at the beginning of the twentiethcentury, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbingstories out of Japan's cultural upheaval.Whether his fictions are set centuries past orclose to the present, Akutagawa was a modernist, writing in polished, superbly nuanced prosesubtly exposing human needs and flaws. "Ina Grove," which was the basis forKurosawa's classic film Rash...
|  | Ficciones (Esenciales) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: May 13, 2008| Series: EsencialesFicciones es una obra imprescindible en la literatura contemporánea que merece su lugar destacado en cualquier canon de la literatura universal. Aquí se reúnen dos libros de Borges: El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941) que incluye ocho relatos y Artificios (1944) con nueve cuentos. En esta colección, Borges nos lleva de viaje por un reino extraño, irresistible y profundamente resonante. Entramos en la temerosa esfera del abismo de Pascal, el laberinto de libros surrealista y a su vez literal y la iconogra...
|  | Ex-Boyfriend on Aisle 6
Publication Date: October 1, 2012"Don't be fooled by the lovely, lady-like voices that lure you into the twenty-two short stories in Susan Jackson Rodgers' Ex-Boyfriend on Aisle 6. It's hard not to be pulled into the deceptively charming female heads and start laughing along, relating to the frazzled divorced woman unhappy to bump into her ex-boyfriend, or the little girl innocently feeding birds outside by the pool. Then a devastating twist towards the end lurches your heart out and shocks you so much you have to go back to reread the beginning to see what the author had slyly slipped past ...
|  | The Magic Barrel: Stories
Publication Date: July 7, 2003Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Introduction by Jhumpa LahiriBernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggleing New York Jewish Painter Arthur Fidelman, roams amid the ruins of old Europe in search of his artistic patrimony); they tell of egg candlers and shoemakers, matchmakers, and rabbis, in a voice that blends vigorous urban realism, Yiddish idiom, and a dash of artistic ...
|  | Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories
Publication Date: September 1, 2002From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors. Lydia Davis once again proves in the words of the Los Angeles Times "one of the quiet giants in the world ...
|  | Language As Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method
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|  | Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories
Release Date: January 27, 2009Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed "The Monsters of Templeton" was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008, and critics hailed her as an enormous talent and a writer to watch. In "Delicate Edible Birds", she fulfils that promise. "Delicate Edible Birds" includes nine stories of vastly different styles and structures. "L. De Bard and Aliette" recreates the tale of Abelard and Heloise in New York during the 1918 flu epidemic; "Lucky Chow Fun" returns to Templeton, the setting of Groff's debut novel, for a contemporary account of what happe...
|  | Looking for Jake: Stories
Release Date: August 30, 2005What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Now from this brilliant young writer comes a groundbreaking collection of stories, many of them previously unavailable in the United States, and including four never-before-published tales–one set in Miéville’s signature fantasy world of New Crobuzon. Among the fourteen superb fictions are“Jack”–Following the events of his acclaimed novel Perdido ...
|  | Rise: Stories (Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction)
Publication Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction "Binder has gone so deeply, and with such mystical brilliance and loyalty, into her own world that she has brought mine to me in high relief. She both casts a spell and breaks it. To experience Rise is to experience wonder."--Laura Kasischke "In one of these amazing stories a character says to her husband, 'Why are you smiling? You're scaring me.' That's how I feel about Rise. There is a yearning so deep in each story, something beautiful and urgent, that the book glows. L. Annette Binder arrives wi...
|  | Bedtime Stories for Children You Hate
Publication Date: June 7, 2011Hate cute stories? Hate happy endings? Hate children? Not quite right in the head? If so, this deliciously twisted storybook is dedicated just to you. ...
|  | Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories
Release Date: October 1, 2010For more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio's All Things Considered listeners. Long awaited by her many fans, Nothing with Strings is the entire collection of these Thanksgiving stories, published together for the first time. With wit and charm, Bailey White writes about an almost-gone little town where a spoon player is a guardian angel, an old woman fears that John James Audubon is living in her attic, and a homely governess wins a baby bull in a raffle and loses her heart. It's the kind of place where H...
|  | Outer Banks Mysteries and Seaside Stories
Publication Date: October 1, 198513th Printing, 2000. Hardcover with dust jacket. Charles Harry Whedbee. Originally sold for $12.95. Jacket illustration by Debra L. Hampton. Pictorial on the jacket is a lighthouse John F. Blair, publisher, Winston Salem, NC. Illustrations by Mara H. Bagnal. Designed by Debra Long Hampton. Printed in the USA. Total 133 pages. Contains black and white illustrations. The pages are clean and without markings or tears. The spine is tight and straight. The book is almost like new, just the jacket has normal shelfwear. "Once again, the North Carolina Coast is the b...
|  | The Rider on the White Horse
Publication Date: June 16, 2009The Rider of the White Horse is a classic German novella, in which the individual wrestles with the mass, the man with the most elementary forces of nature. The scene of the novella is characterized with vividness in its setting of marsh and sea, it glorifies love, and at the same time it touches themes which deeply occupied Storm, such as the problem of heredity or the relation between father and son. Happiness is won, but it ends in tragedy. It is a man of sober intellect who tells the whole story - and yet, like human life itself, it stands out against a mys...
|  | Dead Certain
Release Date: June 29, 2004Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.Now the second is free.With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim again. But when her business partner, Derek England, is found with a bullet through the back of his head just hours after she left an incriminating message on his voice mail, Amanda finds herself in danger of becoming a victim of another sort.All the evidence points to Amanda as Derek’s killer, and Chief of Police Sean...
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