Short Stories
10 best books like Short Stories (Theodore Dreiser): The Unabridged William Shakespeare, Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way, Five Women, The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky, The Abominable Snowman, The Afterlife and Other Stories, The Best American Short Stories 1997, Selected Tales and Sketches, The Granta Book of the American Short Story, The Best American Short Stories 1998
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0894716999 |
The World of Shakespeare: The Complete Plays and Sonnets of William Shakespeare (38 Volume Library) By William Shakespeare Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmiller, General Editors Amazon.com Exclusive The Pelican Shakespeare is available in hardcover for the first time in one complete collection...
| Author | Tom Morris |
| ISBN | 0812695739 |
As every serious comic book reader can tell, superheroes aren't tackling just brutish villains; they're grappling with Big Questions.
In every adventure, Superman, Batman, the X-Men, and other extraordinarily empowered individuals are wrestling with problems of good and evil; ethical...
| Author | Robert Musil |
| ISBN | 1567920756 |
A combination of two of Musil's books: Drei Frauen (1924) (Three Women – a collection of three short stories) and Vereinigungen (1911) (Unions – a collection of two short stories).
The recent translations of The Man Without Qualities and Musil's Diaries have shown why the Austrian writer...
| Author | Maxim Gorky |
| ISBN | 0806510757 |
Maxim Gorky continues to be regarded as the greatest literary representative of revolutionary Russia. Born of the people, and having experienced in his own person their sufferings and their misery, he was enabled by his extraordinary genius to voice their grievances and their aspirations for a better...
| Author | R.A. Montgomery |
| ISBN | 1933390018 |
You and Carlos are on an expedition to the world's highest mountains in the remote kingdom of Nepal to search for the Yeti, otherwise known as the Abominable Snowman. Carlos arrives a few days early and goes missing from Everest base camp. A yeti sighting was reported nearby. Did he go after it? Or was Carlos...
| Author | John Updike |
| ISBN | 0449912019 |
To the hero of the title story of this collection, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: “A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig . . . each reed of thatch, each tiny daisy trembling in the grass.” All of these stories, each in its own way, partake of this glow, as life...
| Author | Annie Proulx |
| ISBN | 0395798655 |
The preeminent short fiction series since 1915, The Best American Short Stories is the only annual that offers the finest works chosen by a distinguished best-selling guest editor. This year, E. Annie Proulx's selection includes dazzling stories by Tobias Wolff, Donald Hall, Cynthia Ozick, Robert...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 1862071098 |
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...
| Author | Garrison Keillor |
| ISBN | 0395875145 |
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
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| Author | Nadine Gordimer |
| ISBN | 0312424043 |
Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared together in the same anthology. Their stories capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy, fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war in different continents and cultures. They are not...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0140043829 |
I don't agree with "the judgment of many" that Lawrence was at his best within the constrained discipline of the short story, that the shorter form restricted him from indulging in his notorious rambling & repetitions "which mar some of his longer works." In my opinion, the novel gave him the freedom...
| Author | Jules R. Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0312247656 |
A brief yet comprehensive introduction to the study of history, A Student's Guide to History discusses the discipline, reviews basic study, research, and writing skills, and describes the most common kinds of history assignments. Class tested and having seven editions, this text is a useful reference...
Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
| Author | Jack Canfield |
| ISBN | 1558747699 |
Being a writer can be a lonely and frustrating experience. The stories in this book-by a wide range of professional writers, novelists, journalists, freelancers, poets and screenwriters-will give readers insight into the human trials, tribulations and triumphs of writers, and writers a source...
| Author | Susan Sontag |
| ISBN | 0312420102 |
In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0803264038 |
This collection of Willa Cather stories—her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career—is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the...
All the Stories of Muriel Spark
Spanning her entire career to date, All the Stories of Muriel Spark contains four brand-new tales. Now in hand is every single one of her forty-one marvelous stories.
Ranging from South Africa to the West End, her dazzling stories feature hanging judges, fortune-tellers, shy girls, psychiatrists,...
| Author | William Maxwell |
| ISBN | 0679761020 |
It is rare for me to give a book of short stories 5 stars for the obvious reasons. Not every story is great, a few miss the mark entirely, and the rest fall somewhere in the middle. But in this case, EVERY SINGLE STORY was a mini masterpiece. A lot of them were about the same family, so there was continuity, and...
| Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0521402409 |
This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition includes the original nine stories selected by Fitzgerald for All the Sad Young Men, together with eleven additional stories, published between 1925 and 1928, which were not collected by Fitzgerald during his lifetime. This edition is based on extensive...
| Author | Hermann Broch |
| ISBN | 3518010921 |
Ο Μίλαν Κούντερα μεθερμηνεύει το νόημα του έργου «Οι Υπνοβάτες».
«Οι αξίες κρύβουν το πρόσωπό τους. Η τάξη, η αφοσίωση, η αυτοθυσία, αυτές οι λέξεις...
Love of Life (Short Story Collection)
| Author | Jack London |
| ISBN | 1425001378 |
A collection of eight short stories from American author, journalist, and social activist Jack London. Written during his 'Klondike' period, the title story 'Love of Life' follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra.
Contents:
- Love of Life
- The Story of Keesh
-...
| Author | Tennessee Williams |
| ISBN | 0811212696 |
Tennessee Williams’ Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams’ lifetime with previously unpublished or uncollected stories. Arranged chronologically, the forty-nine stories, when taken together with the memoir of his father that serves as a...
