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10 best books like Selected Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Nathaniel Hawthorne): The Best of Simple, Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories, Selected Short Stories, Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I, The Portable Faulkner, Detective Stories, The Best American Short Stories 1998, Galactic Empires 1, Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork, The Lottery and Other Stories; The Haunting of Hill House; We Have Always Lived in the Castle

The Best of Simple
AuthorLangston Hughes
ISBN0374521336
Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. In The Best of Simple, the author picked...
Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories
AuthorWashington Irving
ISBN0140367713
The legendary enchantment of Rip Van Winkle in the Kaatskill Mountains; the gruesome end of Ichabod Crane, who met the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow; the Spectre Bridegroom who turned out to be happily substantial; the pride of an English village and the come-uppance of the over-zealous Mountjoy...
Selected Short Stories
AuthorFranz Kafka
ISBN0679600612
Franz Kafka's enigmatic, deadpan, and deeply pessimistic stories are central to literary modernism. In 'The Metamorphosis', the estrangement of everyday life becomes corporealized when Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant bug and wonders how he is going to get to work on time. Kafka inverts the implied...
Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I
AuthorThomas Malory
ISBN1401307809
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...
The Portable Faulkner
AuthorWilliam Faulkner
In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, William Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility and obscene crimes. No single volume better conveys the scope of Faulkner's vision than The Portable...
Detective Stories
AuthorPhilip Pullman
ISBN0753451468
Young mystery fans will be enthralled by this compelling volume of classic detective fiction. Not even Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot can solve the dilemma of which one of these fifteen exciting and intriguing short stories to read first. The list of suspects - including such classic and contemporary...
The Best American Short Stories 1998
AuthorGarrison Keillor
ISBN0395875145
Best American Short Stories of 1998 is a collection of short stories selected by Garrison Keillor.

Stories read in random order, as part of the 2014 Deal Me In! Short Story Reading Challenge (bibliophilica.wordpress.com/deal-me-i...).

Wayne in Love - by Padgett Powell
I hated...
Galactic Empires 1
AuthorBrian W. Aldiss
Been a Long Time (Lafferty), The Possessed (Clarke), Protected Psecies (Fyfe), All the Way Back (Shaara), The Star Plunderer (Anderson), Foundation (Asimov), We're Civilized! (Clifton and Apostolides), The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal (Smith), The Rebel of Valkyr (Coppel), Brightness...
Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork
AuthorScott W. Hunt
ISBN0525468188
I can't believe it took me this long to read this book!! I loved it! Artist Scott Hunt provides 9 evocative charcoal drawings meant to inspire narration, and 18 authors for teens write short stories about them. There are two stories for each picture, proving that there is no "right" way to interpret a picture....
The Lottery and Other Stories; The Haunting of Hill House; We Have Always Lived in the Castle
AuthorShirley Jackson
ISBN0965011798
"The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse." Jackson's characters-mostly unloved daughters...
Tales of Henry James
AuthorHenry James
ISBN0393977102
"The Author on His Craft" again reprints James s critical essay "The Art of Fiction" and related passages from his notebooks, including a new passage on "In the Cage." "Criticism" has been entirely updated and includes ten new essays by critics who during the last twenty-five years have helped to establish...
Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN0393976416
This book (a Christmas gift from my in-laws) was an absolute pleasure to read, beginning to end. It was also challenging, and often difficult to understand. But it was never less than engrossing and endlessly fascinating.

This was my second time through Bartleby, a story I enjoyed reading...
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
AuthorRichard Ford
ISBN1847080251
In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story . It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in the words of The Washington Post —with stories by Eudora Welty,...
Bernice Bobs Her Hair: And Other Stories
AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN0451526112
This original collection includes the complete 1920 volume Flappers and Philosophers, as well as other early stories.

May day --
The jelly-bean --
Myra meets his family --
Babes in the woods --
The camel's back --
The lees of happiness --
The smilers --
The offshore...
Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto
AuthorAbraham Cahan
ISBN0486224279
"No American fiction of the year merits recognition more than this Russian's stories of Yiddish life. … [Mr. Cahan] is a humorist, and his humor does not spare the sordid and uncouth aspects of the character whose pathos he so tenderly reveals." — William Dean Howells


In Yekl, the central...
High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0060501197
An unprecedented collection of the best of Joyce Carol Oates's short stories combined with eleven new stories

No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates, and High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006 gathers stories from Oates's seminal collections, including...
The Criminal Mastermind Collection, Bks 1-3
AuthorEoin Colfer
ISBN0786848693


Now available in a gorgeous paperback box set--the first five books in the blockbuster best-selling Artemis Fowl series, starring everyone’s favorite criminal mastermind. An ingenious gift indeed
Artemis Fowl
Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius—and,...
The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
AuthorRick Beyer
ISBN0061626988
کتاب از ماجرایی در ۵۰۰ سال قبل میلاد شروع و به سال ۲۰۰۷ ختم می‌شود. بیشتر داستان‌های آن به موسیقی جز و راک برمی‌گردد و برای طرفداران این سبک‌ها، حتما جذاب...
Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss
AuthorKenneth Silverman
In the most comprehensive biography written about the great illusionist yet, author Ken Silverman, who has won both a Pulitzer and a Bancroft prize, draws on never-before-used scrapbooks, personal diaries, court transcripts and hundreds of unpublished notes and letters collected from around...
The Oxford Book of Short Stories
AuthorV.S. Pritchett
ISBN0192801910
V. S. Pritchett, one of our greatest short story writers, has chosen forty-one stories from nine countries written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years.

The United States, Great...
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories
AuthorBarbara Korte
ISBN0141442158
An illuminating anthology of World War I fiction by some of England's best- known writers

This new collection of short stories about World War I features works by such famous British authors as Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Buchan, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence,...
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