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English
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"Wise and funny . . . [A] near-perfect collection."
-Entertainment Weekly
Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's shadowy past. A dinner party becomes the occasion for the dissolution...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
p. cm.
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English
Description
The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, five Hugo Awards and five Nebula Awards, the renowned writer Ursula K. Le Guin has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in The Birthday of the World, this gifted artist returns to these worlds in eight brilliant short works, including...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Before the critically acclaimed novels Await Your Reply and You Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon made a name for himself as a renowned writer of dazzling short stories. Now, in Stay Awake, Chaon returns to that form for the first time since his masterly Among the Missing, a finalist for the National Book Award. In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have...
Author
Series
Wyoming stories volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
283 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Read by: Francis Fisher, Bruce Greenwood, Campbell Scott.
48) Exhalation
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1985
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects nearly fifty short stories and sketches written over the course of Woolf's writing career and arranges them chronologically to offer insights into Woolf's development as a writer.
50) Bluebeard's egg
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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With the publication of the best-selling The Handmaid's Tale in 1986, Margaret Atwood's place in North American letters was reconfirmed. Poet, short story writer, and novelist, she was acclaimed "one of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herself the task of deciphering life in the late twentieth century."*
With Bluebeard's Egg, her second short story collection, Atwood covers a dramatic range of storytelling, her scope encompassing
...51) Nine stories
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Series
The Modern library of the world's best books volume 301
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Centennial edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"'...Here are nine of [J.D. Salinger's] stories, and one further reason that they are so interesting, and so powerful seen all together, is that they are paradoxes. From the outside, they are often very funny: inside, they are about heartbreak, and convey it; they can do this because they are pure...'" --
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Originally published pseudonymously in 1893, "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" follows the tragic tale of Maggie and her life in the harsh streets and tenements of the New York City Bowery district. Initially rejected by publishers for being viewed as too brutal and accurate in its descriptions of poverty and female sexuality, Stephen Crane published the work at his own expense. Following the success of Crane's novel "The Red Badge of Courage," this...
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Sharp-edged and fearless, mixing white-hot yearning with daring humor, Jamie Quatro's debut collection is a beautiful and disquieting portrait of infidelity, faith, and family. The hypnotically intimate, urgent stories in 'I Want to Show You More' are about lives stretched between spirituality and sexuality in the New American South. In narrative modes ranging from the traditional to the fabulist, these stories are interconnected explorations of God,...
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (7 hr., 18 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball...
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
527 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is, "hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons. This...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs...
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