The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
9 best books like The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (F. Scott Fitzgerald): Selected Stories, First Love and Other Stories, Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings, A Good Fall, A Parisian Affair and Other Stories, The Death of Ivan Ilyich/Master and Man, Бородино, The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories
| Author | O. Henry |
| ISBN | 1593080425 |
O. Henry originated the humorous, energetic tale that ends with an ironic, even shocking twist. In "After Twenty Years," for example, two boys agree to meet at a particular spot exactly twenty years later. Both are faithful, but in the intervening years one boy has turned into a criminal, the other into...
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN | 0192836897 |
This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known `long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. These stories all display the elegance and clarity...
| Author | Daniil Kharms |
| ISBN | 1585677434 |
Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but the full breadth of his achievement is only in recent years, following the opening of Kharms' archives, being recognized internationally. In this brilliant translation by Matvei Yankelevich, English-language...
| Author | Ha Jin |
| ISBN | 0307378683 |
In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 ("Finely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone."—Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award–winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America.
With the...
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
| ISBN | 0140448128 |
Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes, and playboys; in the Normandy countryside; and on the French Riviera where Maupassant had lived, the thirty-four short stories in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant in French literature. They focus on the complexity...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0679642935 |
This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In Ivan Ilyich, a bureaucrat looks back over...
| Author | Mikhail Lermontov |
| ISBN | 5329010080 |
Lermontov is probably the second most revered poet in Russia after Alexander Pushkin. If Pushkin can be compared to William Shakespeare in scale of the impact he had on his native language, then I would say Lermontov is like John Keats, who had a bright, albeit brief literary career. Like Pushkin, Lermontov...
| Author | Isaac Babel |
| ISBN | 0393328244 |
Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to plays and film scripts" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times). Reviewing the work in The New Republic,...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0486278050 |
One of the world's greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) also wrote numerous excellent short stories, three of which are contained in this volume. "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1891) is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a splenetic complaint about the way in which society educates young...
