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10 best books like The Gentle Grafter (O. Henry): Stories for Christmas, Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism, Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology, The Unabridged Mark Twain, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, Nightmare Abbey; Crotchet Castle, Legends of Charlemagne, Tales and Sketches, The Unabridged Jack London

Stories for Christmas
AuthorCharles Dickens
ISBN1879582414
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...
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...
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...
The Unabridged Mark Twain
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0914294547
1) A Burlesque Biography
2) The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
3) The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins
4) The Awful German Language
5) Life on the Mississippi
6) A Medieval Romance
7) Extracts from Adam's Diary
8) Eve's Diary
9) Roughing it
10) How to Tell a Story
11)...
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...
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
AuthorKevin Kerrane
ISBN0684846306
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...
Nightmare Abbey; Crotchet Castle
AuthorThomas Love Peacock
ISBN0140430458
Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist.

He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of the satirical novel of ideas, but his satire is too cheery and good-natured, his novel too rambling,...
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...
Tales and Sketches
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN0940450038
This Library of America volume offers what no reader has ever been able to find—an authoritative edition of all the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne in a single comprehensive volume. Everything is included from his three books of stories, Twice-told Tales (1837, revised 1851), Mosses...
The Unabridged Jack London
AuthorJack London
ISBN0894711245
THE UNABRIDGED JACK LONDON is a comprehensive collection of Jack London's sprawling, timeless fiction. Included here, in addition to his classic novels and short story collections, is a group of "uncollected" short stories, some of which have never appeared in book form. We have sought, wherever...
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,...
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction
AuthorStephen Crane
ISBN0553213555
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...
Plutus
AuthorAristophanes
ISBN1420927639
The story of 'Plutus' concerns Chremylus, a poor but just man, who accompanied by his body-servant Cario, consults the Delphic Oracle concerning his son, whether he ought not to be instructed in injustice and knavery and the other arts whereby worldly men acquire riches. By way of answer the god only...
The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis
AuthorPetronius
ISBN0140444890
Perhaps the strangest and most strikingly modern work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous...
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...
Small Avalanches and Other Stories
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0060012196
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...
Claudine and Annie
AuthorColette
ISBN0099422484
The stories that inspired the film Colette, out Jan 2019.

In this final novel in Colette's famous series it is Claudine's friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary.

Claudine is happily settled with her adored husband Renaud, spending her time giving wide and worldly...
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...
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