The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1
10 best books like The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1 (D.H. Lawrence): Stories for Christmas, Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism, Kiss, Kiss / Switch Bitch / My Uncle Oswald, Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, Legends of Charlemagne, The Wide Net and Other Stories, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction, Comrade Loves of the Samurai
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 1879582414 |
The first collected Edition of Dicken's contributions to the Christmas numbers of 'Household Words' and 'All the Year Round' was issued in the 'Charles Dickens' Edition of his works in 1871, under the general title of Christmas Stories from 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round'. The present Edition...
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...
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0965076474 |
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...
| Author | David Willis McCullough |
| ISBN | 0394540654 |
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,...
| Author | Clifton Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0395368057 |
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...
| Author | Kevin Kerrane |
| ISBN | 0684846306 |
This fascinating compilation of the journalist's art unites the reporter's magnificent eye for detail with the novelist's gift for storytelling. Featuring eyewitness accounts of war and social revolution, profiles of sports heroes and politicians, and eye-opening investigations into both...
| Author | Thomas Bulfinch |
| ISBN | 0028614771 |
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...
| Author | Eudora Welty |
| ISBN | 0156966107 |
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,...
| Author | Stephen Crane |
| ISBN | 0553213555 |
Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, finally printing it himself in 1893.
Condemned and misunderstood during Crane’s lifetime, this starkly realistic story of a pretty...
| Author | Saikaku Ihara |
| ISBN | 4805307714 |
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...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0060012196 |
When The Sky Blue Ball comes soaring over the fence, a high-school girl is confronted with the haunting memory of childhood. A jealous teen lets her cousin go off alone with a dangerous Capricorn, aware of the terrifying possibilities. A vulnerable young girl cunningly outwits a menacing stranger...
Perhaps, if he had known that Adele had stood at the gate on that unlucky night, where she had followed, lingering, to await the return of her brother and lover, wondering why they had chosen so tempestuous an hour and so black a spot to hold converse--if he had known that a sudden flash of lightning had revealed...
| Author | Gina Berriault |
| ISBN | 1887178384 |
"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...
The book that introduced me to Kafka in high school. Man, I was such a tool in college that there are actually photographs of me holding the door open for friends to enter Denny's with one hand, and a copy of this book in the other (whilst wearing a fucking leather jacket. and a do-rag. and a goatee.)
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| Author | John Updike |
| ISBN | 0394747631 |
It occurred to me while reading this book that a short story is not unlike a meme: the good ones are good because they give a taste of something quintessentially relatable. The parallel really ends there, considering a meme's goal is humor, and a good short story, while sometimes funny, digs for a little...
