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10 best books like The Afterlife and Other Stories (John Updike): The Unabridged William Shakespeare, Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, The Call of the Wild/White Fang/To Build a Fire, Faith Healer, Thirst, The Best American Short Stories 1997, A Handbook to Literature, Selected Tales and Sketches, The Granta Book of the American Short Story, Without a Hero

The Unabridged William Shakespeare
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ISBN0894716999
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...
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
AuthorJoel Chandler Harris
ISBN0140390146
Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of black American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881. Harris was a journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, and he produced seven Uncle Remus books. He wrote these stories...
The Call of the Wild/White Fang/To Build a Fire
AuthorJack London
The Call of the Wild—Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world," E. L. Doctorow wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The Call...
Faith Healer
AuthorBrian Friel
ISBN0571214584
When I was reading Faith Healer, this script got two distinctions from me: (1) being one of the most depressing things I have ever read, and (2) probably being the first play I've encountered where I actually wondered whether or not it would work on stage as well as it does on the page. I mean, it must work,...
Thirst
AuthorKen Kalfus
ISBN1571310185
A few quite good stories, reminiscent of Calvino and Borges, surrounded by some okay stories. And then I remembered, Calvino and Borges do a pretty good Calvino and Borges as well--so I'll read them instead. If you only read one story from this collection, though read "Night And Day You Are The One"

I'll...
The Best American Short Stories 1997
AuthorAnnie Proulx
ISBN0395798655
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...
A Handbook to Literature
AuthorWilliam Harmon
ISBN0130127310
It is a handy book that can be read for pleasure. However, the publisher really doesn't need to update it every 3 years to force poor students to buy the new editions. In this 10th edition the editor admitted there was little substantial he could add. In fact, he mentioned his children suggested three new...
Selected Tales and Sketches
AuthorNathaniel 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...
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...
Without a Hero
AuthorT. Coraghessan Boyle
ISBN0140178392
T.C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimed Greasy Lake. With these stories applauded by People magazine as "wickedly comical," he displays once again a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America today. Without a Hero zooms in on American phenomena...
All Around Atlantis
AuthorDeborah Eisenberg
ISBN0671024620
Deborah Eisenberg's deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with the dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit. In 'The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor, ' a messenger arrives to conduct...
Short Stories
AuthorTheodore Dreiser
ISBN0486282155
In his stories and in such landmark novels as Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) defied literary propriety and broke new ground in American fiction by focusing on life as it is, rather than as it ought to be. Sherwood Anderson, introducing a collection of Dreiser...
I : Six Nonlectures
AuthorE.E. Cummings
ISBN0674440102
The author begins his "nonlectures" with the warning "I haven't the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer." Then, at intervals, he proceeds to deliver the following:

1. i & my parents
2. i & their son
3. i & selfdiscovery
4. i & you & is
5. i & now...
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...
Collected Stories
AuthorSaul Bellow
ISBN0140292896
Saul Bellow's Collected Stories, handpicked by the author, display the depth of character and acumen of the Nobel laureate's narrative powers. While he has garnered acclaim as a novelist, Bellow's shorter works prove equally strong. Primarily set in a sepia-toned Chicago, characters (mostly men)...
Skinned Alive
AuthorEdmund White
Set in Europe and America, these eight stories (many of them autobiographical) explore the ways we make sense of personal experience: the workings of desire, in youth and later in life; the yearning for intimacy and love; the power of beauty and jealousy; and the unpredictable effects of illness and...
The Ghost Soldiers
AuthorJames Tate
ISBN0061436941
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate returns with his fifteenth book of poetry, an exciting new collection that offers nearly one hundred fresh and thought-provoking pieces that embody Tate's trademark style and voice: his accessibility, his dark humor, and his exquisite sense of the absurd.

Tate's...
Telling Tales
AuthorNadine Gordimer
ISBN0312424043
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...
Distortions
AuthorAnn Beattie
ISBN0679732357
Anne Beattie is one of that school of '70s and '80s writers who painted ordinary America with miniature-level detail, and who marked American realism's last bright point before its long, steady decline into mawkish middle-class self-obsession. Beattie's stories are, above all else, cold and sad...
The Baby in the Icebox and Other Short Fiction
AuthorJames M. Cain
ISBN0140070559
Two murderers, the head of their victim, and a frozen creek...
Lucky, the hobo, concocts the perfect alibi...
The tiger in the kitchen, the baby in the icebox...

These are the elements of three stories highlighted by the streamlined prose, concise plots, and unique voice that also...
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393065650
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth is one of Adrienne Rich's most unpredictable and evocative collections. In the folk/blues tradition behind "Rhyme," in the incantatory pattern of "Behind the Motel," in the voices from past and present in "Letters Censored, Shredded, Returned to Sender or Judged...
The Best American Short Stories 2000
AuthorE.L. Doctorow
ISBN0395926866
Despite increasing competition, this annual collection remains the place to find the most compelling short fiction published in the U.S. and Canada” (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY). To usher in the new millennium, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2000 brims with a rich variety of lyrical and wise stories about...
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970
AuthorJohn D'Emilio
ISBN0226142671
With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities supplies the definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the U.S. from 1940 to 1970....
Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner
AuthorRing Lardner
ISBN0684183633
Liked just about this whole collection. Just the five stories before the last two fell utterly flat for me, but there's still 300 pages worth of great stories here.

Despite the age of these writings, I was chuckling like a fool for most of them. Very masculine-oriented; even the stories that...
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