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Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century

10 best books like Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (Robert Penn Warren): The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, The Pocket Book of Short Stories: American, English and Continental Masterpieces, Short Shorts, The Portable Faulkner, Best European Fiction 2010, The Granta Book of the American Short Story, Shakespeare Stories, Great Short Works of Herman Melville, The World Treasury of Science Fiction

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
AuthorRichard Bausch
ISBN0393926117
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction is a great place to start to get a sense for the landscape of the short story historically and across continents. Sure, you might take issue with some inclusions (Why this story? Why this author?) and some exclusions, but there is plenty here to learn from and get exposed...
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN0553212427
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.

Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
The Pocket Book of Short Stories: American, English and Continental Masterpieces
AuthorMorris Edmund Speare
A collection of 22 short stories by 22 masters of the short story: Ernest Hemingway; Stephen Vincent Benét; Dorothy Parker; Willa Cather; Sherwood Anderson; Katherine Mansfield; Thomas Mann; W. Somerset Maugham; Ring Lardner; Ivan Bunin; Saki (H.H. Munro); W.W. Jacobs; O. Henry; Anton P. Chekhov;...
Short Shorts
AuthorIrving Howe
ISBN0553274406
This is a fine collection of what Howe here, in the 80s, dubs "Short Short Fiction" and which was called "Microfiction" in the 90s and which we now call "Flash Fiction". I feel it's a useful collection for editors, like me, who are trying to get a handle on what constitutes valid standards for successful...
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...
Best European Fiction 2010
AuthorAleksandar Hemon
ISBN1564785432
Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writers brought to English-language literature was a wide variety of new ideas,...
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...
Shakespeare Stories
AuthorLeon Garfield
ISBN0395861403
By skillfully weaving his own prose with Shakespeare's language, Leon Garfield has refashioned twelve of the Elizabethan playwright's most memorable dramas into stories, capturing all the richness of the characters, plot, mood, and setting. This format will delight both those who know the great...
Great Short Works of Herman Melville
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN0060586540
Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction...
The World Treasury of Science Fiction
AuthorDavid G. Hartwell
ISBN0316349410
Table of contents

Introduction 1988 essay by David G. Hartwell
Harrison Bergeron 1961 story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Forgetfulness 1937 story by John W. Campbell Jr
Special Flight 1939 story by John Berryman
Chronopolis 1960 story by J.G. Ballard
Triceratops 1974 story...
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 - 1967
AuthorLangston Hughes
ISBN0316380318
Long before we even heard of great contemporary writers we get amazing, touching, slice-of-life and memoirs such as Alice Walker's "To Hell With Dying", Mary Elizabeth Vroman's "See How They Run" to Kristin Hunter's "An Interesting Social Study".

Here, Hughes showcases shorts from some...
50 Great American Short Stories
AuthorMilton Crane
A Splendid collection of 50 stories from Washington Irving's 'The Adventures Of A German Student' to John Updike's 'The Lucid Eye in Silver Town'.
Such classic stories as Edgar Allan Poe’s 'Ms. Found in a Bottle', Bret Harte’s 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat', Sherwood Anderson’s 'Death in...
Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave
AuthorEllen Sussman
ISBN0393064638
"I behave badly to set myself apart. To test myself. To push myself. To prove something. To shock someone....I behave badly because I can." That's how Ellen Sussman describes her deviant endeavors. To better understand them, she's invited 25 other bad girls to share their stories. Ann Hood lies, Mary...
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology
AuthorDavid Young
A treasure trove of unusual fiction spanning authors from Gogol and Kafka through Woolf and Nabokov to Calvino, Garcia Marquez, and Barthelme. A poet's companion, a student's delight, great bedside reading.


Magical Realist Fiction includes:


The nose by Nikolai Gogol
The...
American Short Story Masterpieces: A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers
AuthorRaymond Carver
ISBN0440204232
This highly Acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. With a bias toward realism editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language,...
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0312111037
This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Byrant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquex, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane...
The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN0689820879
A beautiful collection of bilingual poems and stories from Mexico, paired with paintings by Mexican artists.

“Remember, the tree is older than you are and you might find stories in its branches.”

So begins this wondrous collection of poems and stories from Mexico that invites...
The Seagull Reader: Stories
AuthorJoseph Kelly
ISBN0393930912
I have had a number of customers request one or another SEAGULL READER. Finally, I noticed that the store was returning THE SEAGULL READER: STORIES. Thinking this was a shame, I decided to buy one. I'm glad I did. It is what it says it is: An anthology "lightly supplemented by editorial apparatus."
These...
Treasury of American Poetry
AuthorNancy Sullivan
ISBN0880295139
The four centuries of poetry in this collection represent the growth and shaping of the American spirit. Nearly 800 masterpieces by 115 American poetics are included in this single volume beginning with Anne Bradstreet. Read the graceful love poetry of Emily Dickinson, the powerful voice of Walt...
On Grandma's Porch: Stories and True Facts about Growing up Southern in the Good Old Days
AuthorSandra Chastain
ISBN1935661213
On Grandma's Porch was a collection of short stories of memories that the authors had of their grandparents and growing up southern. The book was delightful. I like that it was short stories and I could sit down with the book for an hour at night after everybody had gone home and Mr. J was asleep and unwind...
The Fencepost Chronicles
AuthorW.P. Kinsella
ISBN0395446465
In The Fencepost Chronicles, Kinsella recounts 13 more wonderful stories featuring the delightfully crazy Frank Fencepost and his friend Silas Ermineskin -- as they cause a riot on a nude beach in Vancouver, chit-chat with the Queen (in her bedroom!) and manage a bankrupt baseball team.

Throughout...
Great Short Stories of the World: 71 of the Finest Stories Ever Written
AuthorReader's Digest Association
ISBN0895770083
Great short stories have been called "masterpieces in miniature," and here, carefully selected for your pleasure by the Editors of the The Reader's Digest, are more than seventy that are among the finest examples of the storyteller's art. Many stories are American and British, but the distinguished...
Doghouse Roses: Stories
AuthorSteve Earle
ISBN0618219242
Steve Earle does everything he does with intelligence, creativity, passion, and integrity. In music, these strengths have earned him comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, the ardent devotion of his fans, and the admiration of the media. And Earle does a lot: he is singer, songwriter, producer, social...
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
AuthorOtto Penzler
ISBN0307740897
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! is the darkest, the living-deadliest, scariest--and dare we say most tasteful--collection of zombie stories  ever assembled. It’s so good, it's a no-brainer.
 
There is never a dull moment in the world of zombies. They are superstars of horror and they are...
Here We Are in Paradise: Stories
AuthorTony Earley
ISBN0316199494
The most difficult part of writing short stories is creating fully-realized characters that a reading audience can immediately form a connection with. In this manner Earley has shown himself to be a master. This book is a series of short stories that mostly feature glimses of small town life. One of...
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