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10 best books like The Portable Chekhov (Anton Chekhov): Collected Stories, The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader, Great Short Works of Herman Melville, Night & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature, The Portable Blake, Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov, Master and Man and Other Stories, The Portable Walt Whitman, Selected Writings, The Awakening and Other Stories

Collected Stories
AuthorFrank O'Connor
ISBN0394710487
The definitive collection of short stories by a master of the form and one of Ireland’s most celebrated authors

This indispensable volume contains the best of Frank O’Connor’s short fiction. From “Guests of the Nation” to “The Mad Lomasneys” to “First Confession” to...
The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
AuthorGeorge Gibian
ISBN0140151036
The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of...
Great Short Works of Herman Melville
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN0060586540
Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction...
Night & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature
AuthorRobert Irwin
ISBN0385721552
Spanning the fifth to sixteenth centuries and societies that range from Afghanistan to Spain, this anthology is a testament to the astonishing grandeur and variety of classical Arabic literature. Here are excerpts from dozens of works–both renowned (The Qur’an, The Thousand and One Nights)...
The Portable Blake
AuthorWilliam Blake
ISBN0140150269
This has additions. Better collection than other editions on my shelf.

The wild winds weep,
And the night is a-cold;
Come hither, Sleep,
And my griefs enfold! . . .
But lo! the morning peeps
Over the eastern steeps,
And the rustling beds of dawn
The earth do scorn....
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
AuthorRobert Chandler
ISBN0141442239
For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years In these folk tales, young women go on long and perilous quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese, and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical...
Master and Man and Other Stories
AuthorLeo Tolstoy
ISBN0140449620
The stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy’s artistic prowess displayed over five decades— experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humor and compassion. “The Two Hussars,” inspired by his time in the army, contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited...
The Portable Walt Whitman
AuthorWalt Whitman
ISBN0140150781
When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the work,...
Selected Writings
AuthorGérard de Nerval
Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855), a contemporary of Poe, De Quincey, Gogol, and Heine, introduced into French literature a mode of writing rooted in German romanticism yet already recognizably modernist in its explorations of the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness,...
The Awakening and Other Stories
AuthorKate Chopin
ISBN0199536945
Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna...
Great Short Works
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0060727861
Selected works of humour and criticism by a revered American master.

Beloved by millions, Mark Twain is the quintessential American writer. More than anyone else, his blend of scepticism, caustic wit and sharp prose defines a certain American mythos. While his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry...
Great Short Works
AuthorStephen Crane
ISBN0060726482
The collected short work of an American master, including The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.

Stephen Crane died at the age of 28 in Germany. In his short life, he produced stories that are among the most enduring in the history of American ficiton. The Red Badge of Courage...
A Relative Stranger: Stories
AuthorCharles Baxter
ISBN0393322203
Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writers. These two books, set in the Michigan landscape that Baxter has made his own, display his unparalleled gift for revealing the unexpected in everyday...
Hiding Out
AuthorJonathan Messinger
ISBN0977199231
The publishing of this book is an occasion to celebrate. There are many wonderfully sincere, humbling moments in each of these stories. Many of them involve characters stuck in dream worlds filled with obstacles they struggle to overcome during waking life. Rich, seductive things happen to these...
White People
AuthorAllan Gurganus
ISBN0375704272
In these eleven stories, Allan Gurganus--author of the highly acclaimed Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All--gives heartbreaking and hilarious voice to the fears, desires and triumphs of a grand cast of Americans.

Here are war heroes bewildered by the complex negotiations of family...
Gallatin Canyon
AuthorThomas McGuane
ISBN1400041562
A superb collection of stories--his first in twenty years--from one of our most acclaimed literary figures, whom "The New York Times Book Review" has called "a writer of the first magnitude."
Place exerts the power of destiny in these ten stories of lives uncannily recognizable and unforgettably...
Kitchen Essays
AuthorAgnes Jekyll
ISBN1906462038
First published in The Times (London) during the 1920s, Kitchen Essays explains the proper way to make Lobster Newburg while offering fascinating insight into the social history of England.Agnes Jekyll felt that cooking should fit the occasion and temperament and states that “a large crayfish...
The Norton Book of Classical Literature
AuthorBernard Knox
ISBN0393034267
Preface
Introduction
Greece
Homer
Hesiod
The archaic lyric & iambus
Archilochus (7th century B.C.)
Tyrtaeus (7th century B.C.)
Alcman (late 7th century B.C.)
Hipponax (middle 6th century B.C.)
Alcaeus (late 7th century-middle 6th century B.C.)...
The Burning House
AuthorAnn Beattie
The now-classic, utterly unique voice of Ann Beattie is so dry it throws off sparks, her eye endowed with the emotional equivalent of X-ray vision. Her characters are young men and women discovering what it means to be a grown-up in a country that promised them they'd stay young forever. And here, in shapely,...
Best Russian Short Stories
AuthorThomas Seltzer
A very comprehensive anthology of the Russian short stories in the English language, which gives a fair notion of the achievement in that field. Contains over 20 stories written by various Russian authors, including, "The Gentleman from San Francisco" by 1933 Nobel Prize winner Bunin, and stories...
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