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10 best books like Collected Stories (Saul Bellow): In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, The Collected Stories, The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Collected Stories, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, The Early Stories, The Collected Stories, The Granta Book of the American Short Story, Night Soul and Other Stories, Essential Stories

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
AuthorTobias Wolff
ISBN0880014970
Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff, are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious...
The Collected Stories
AuthorWilliam Trevor
ISBN0140232451
The Collected Stories - a stunning volume of William Trevor's unforgettable short stories

William Trevor is one of the most renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for...
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN0374517886
The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, Gimpel the Fool, in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern...
Collected Stories
AuthorFrank O'Connor
ISBN0394710487
The definitive collection of short stories by a master of the form and one of Ireland’s most celebrated authors

This indispensable volume contains the best of Frank O’Connor’s short fiction. From “Guests of the Nation” to “The Mad Lomasneys” to “First Confession” to...
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
AuthorHarold Brodkey
ISBN0679724311

Harold Brodkey (1930 – 1996) is a major twentieth-century American writer of highly polished, highly poetic fiction first published in The New Yorker, Esquire and other magazines over a thirty years span, 1960s through the 1990s. Published as part of the 1980s Vintage Contemporaries series,...
The Early Stories
AuthorJohn Updike
ISBN0141016086
Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression in a small Pennsylvania town. There follows tales of life away from home, student days,...
The Collected Stories
AuthorRichard Yates
ISBN0312420811
Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic...
The Granta Book of the American Short Story
AuthorRichard Ford
ISBN1862071098
The Granta Book of the American Short Story is a selection of the best works of American short fiction published in the last 50 years. Stories featured here include “A Day in the Open” by Jane Bowles; “Blackberry Winter” by Robert Penn Warren; “O City of Broken Dreams” by John Cheever; “The...
Night Soul and Other Stories
AuthorJoseph McElroy
ISBN1564786021
Best known for his complex and beautiful novels—regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo—Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over the course of his career that now, collected at last, serve as an ideal introduction...
Essential Stories
AuthorV.S. Pritchett
ISBN0812972945
Introduction by JEREMY TREGLOWN

"In his daily walks through London," notes Jeremy Treglown in his Introduction to this collection, "Pritchett watched and listened to people as a naturalist observes wild creatures and birds. He knew that oddity is the norm, not the exception." This finely...
The Collected Stories
AuthorElizabeth Bowen
ISBN1400096561
Widely known for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction.

This collection brings together seventy-nine magnificent...
The Stories of Richard Bausch
AuthorRichard Bausch
ISBN0060956224
A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven...
The Collected Stories
AuthorDeborah Eisenberg
ISBN0312429894
Since 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing “exquisitely distilled stories” which “present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life” to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings...
We Others: New and Selected Stories
AuthorSteven Millhauser
ISBN0307595900
“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”
—David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase...
Soulstorm
AuthorClarice Lispector
Clarice Lissssssspector. It's on the back of the tongue, the name of the authoress from the wilds of Russia to Brazil. Soulstorm is a collection of stories about lives of her and her others. Her voice that was baby talk as we all learn to walk, and Russian and Portugese. A self concious translator Alexis...
The Collected Stories
AuthorLeonard Michaels
ISBN0374126542
Leonard Michaels was a master of the short story. His collections are among the most admired, influential, and exciting of the last half century. The Collected Stories brings them back into print, from the astonishing debut Going Places (1969) to the uncollected last stories, unavailable since they...
The Complete Stories
AuthorBernard Malamud
ISBN0374525757
BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-86) is considered a modern master of the short story, ranked with Chekhov and Isaac Babel. The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud brings together all of Malamud's published stories--from the classic early story "The Magic Barrel," in which he refashioned the American short...
Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)
AuthorRaymond Chandler
ISBN1857152573
The only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades.

When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing...
The Stories of Paul Bowles
AuthorPaul Bowles
ISBN0061137049
The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry—possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at Tecaté," a Protestant...
The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories
AuthorSteve Almond
ISBN1565125290
Steve Almond, the man whose candy jones fueled the bestseller Candyfreak, returns with a collection of stories that both seals his reputation as a master of the modern form and risks getting him arrested. The cast of characters in The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories includes a wealthy family certain...
The Collected Stories
AuthorJohn McGahern
ISBN0679744010
This is the first set of short stories I've read by McGahern. Most were excellent. One dragged ("Peaches"), one was extremely disturbing ("Lavin") but many others left you wanting more, like a good short story should.
While McGahern was a great writer in general, I love the way the guy wrote about...
A Capote Reader
AuthorTruman Capote
ISBN0141185309
'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing . . .' Truman Capote began writing at the age of eight, and never looked back. A Capote Reader contains much of the author's published work: his brilliant...
The Stories of Heinrich Böll
AuthorHeinrich Böll
ISBN0810112078
This volume collects sixty-three stories and novellas written by Heinrich Böll between 1947 and 1985. It brings together selections from Böll's earlier collections and some previously unpublished work. The chronological organization represents the entire span of Böll's career, from the...
Stories
AuthorKatherine Mansfield
ISBN0679733744
Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Her characters...
Dusk and Other Stories
AuthorJames Salter
ISBN0865473897
Ah, Salterland! Where it’s always 196—. Where Town is a gleaming oak bar, Country a superb yet forsaken woman who drinks a little too much (and has a good chance of dying in a riding accident), and Europa a precocious gamine who is really down for anything, you just have to ask. I wouldn’t want a woman...
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