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Small Avalanches and Other Stories

10 best books like Small Avalanches and Other Stories (Joyce Carol Oates): Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism, Kiss, Kiss / Switch Bitch / My Uncle Oswald, Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology, Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, Legends of Charlemagne, The Innocent Libertine, Don't Open This Book, Sixes and Sevens - The Complete Works of O. Henry - Vol. VII, The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1

Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism
AuthorMark Morford
The Daring Spectacle is award-winning San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate columnist and culture critic Mark Morford’s hilarious modern record of sex and media, politics and pop culture, love and lust, as told in ninety-two delectable parts—not including all the delicious photos and terrifying...
Kiss, Kiss / Switch Bitch / My Uncle Oswald
AuthorRoald Dahl
ISBN0965076474
For short stories that manage to be funny, sexy, and macabre all at one, here are Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch, two collections by "the absolute master of the twist-in-the-tale," says the Observers. My Uncle Oswald is a hilarious novel that follows the erotic exploits of the "the greatest fornicator of...
Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology
AuthorLouisa May Alcott
ISBN0385487223
1) The Rival Painters: A Tale of Rome
2) The Rival Prima Donnas
3) The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love
4) The Lady and the Woman
5) Love and Self-Love
6) Hope's Debut
7) Thrice Tempted
8) Perilous Play
9) M.L.
10) A Night
11) The Blue and the Gray, A Hospital Sketch

Selections...
Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America
AuthorDavid Willis McCullough
ISBN0394540654
For enthralling suspense and brilliant detection, there has never been a collection to match this one, with complete novels by Ross Macdonald and Ruth Rendell, a novella by Israel Zangwill, and sixteen short stories by the best mystery writers from England and America—Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton,...
The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection
AuthorClifton Fadiman
ISBN0395368057
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of...
Legends of Charlemagne
AuthorThomas Bulfinch
ISBN0028614771
Here are the world s most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for today s readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Though Bulfinch s has been heralded for more than a century, it has never...
The Innocent Libertine
AuthorColette
ISBN0374176825

Colette et le lion

La curiosité m'a mis ce petit roman dans les mains, et je l'ai dévoré d'une traite, avec le plus grand plaisir. Il est question de Minne, une jeune fille de bonne famille, qui, quoiqu'elle paraisse la plus rangée du monde, ne laisse pas d'être fascinée par le monde...
Don't Open This Book
AuthorMarvin Kaye
39 tales of weird fantasy, taboo science and souls in torment.

The Problem of the Country Mailbox by Edward D. Hoch
The Bargain by A.M. Burrage
The Sins of the Father by Carole Bugge
The Moving Finger Types by Henry Slesar
The Story of Obbok by Darrell Schweitzer
Revised...
Sixes and Sevens - The Complete Works of O. Henry - Vol. VII
AuthorO. Henry
ISBN1443781800
ENGLISH: In this collection of 25 stories by O.Henry, I liked three of them specially:

"Ulysses and the dogman" about a dog-walker who meets an old friend and says once too many "make it two."

"The duplicity of Hargraves" about a very special actor and an old southern major.

"The...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1
AuthorD.H. Lawrence
ISBN0140043829
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...
The Wide Net and Other Stories
AuthorEudora Welty
ISBN0156966107
These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the Old Natchez Trace region, the stories dip in and out of history and range from virgin wilderness to a bar in New Orleans. In each story, Miss Welty sustains the high level of performance that,...
Faeries (Magical Worlds of Fantasy)
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0451450612
Features:

ANDRE NORTON LORD DUNSANY POUL ANDERSON JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON THOMAS BURNETT SWANN JAMES HOGG LAFCADIO HEARN RICHARD McKENNA MARY E. WILKINS PHILIP K. DICK HENRY SLESAR HERMINIE TEMPLETON H. C. BAILEY JOHANN LUDWIG TIECK JOHN BUCHAN ROBERT F. YOUNG ISAAC...
Comrade Loves of the Samurai
AuthorSaikaku Ihara
ISBN4805307714
Ihara Saikaku é um autor japonês do séc. 17, na era Endo. Este livro contêm contos homoeroticos (nanshoku = amor entre homens) entre samurais, monges budistas e atores do teatro Noh. Muitos destes contos sao tragédias amorosas de fazer inveja a Romeu e Julieta, com personagens cometendo harakiri...
The Tomorrow-Tamer
AuthorMargaret Laurence
ISBN0771098944
The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories...
Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
AuthorGina Berriault
ISBN1887178384
"Things come and go. I figure they go more often than they come. Not much came my way but I lost more than I had. If you see what I mean." {from "The Overcoat"}

"How could a man change like that? His entire body aware of her, even the soles of his feet against her feet, and then be that person no more? And...
Gilligan's Wake
AuthorTom Carson
A kaleidoscopic novel about our last American century

A skipper plies the waters of the South Pacific, running ammunition and passing the time with navy buddies McHale and Jack Kennedy, remembering the sweet caress of Screw-Me Susie. A New York millionaire reunites with his prep school classmate...
Children of the Frost
AuthorJack London
ISBN0809565773
Children of the Frost is a collection of short stories first published in 1902.

Includes:

- The League of the Old Men
- In the Forests of the North
- The Law of Life
- Nam-Bok the Unveracious
- The Master of Mystery
- The Sunlanders
- The Sickness of Lone Chief
-...
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered"
AuthorJohn Updike
ISBN0345442016
In this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of Olinger Stories, the sandstone farmhouse of Of the Farm, the exurban New England of Couples and Marry Me, and Henry Bech’s Manhattan of artistic ambition and...
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