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The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection

10 best books like The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection (Clifton Fadiman): Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism, Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology, Shamans Through Time, St. Mawr/The Man Who Died, Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America, The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, Legends of Charlemagne, The Philosopher's Handbook: Essential Readings from Plato to Kant, The Innocent Libertine, Don't Open This Book

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...
Shamans Through Time
AuthorJeremy Narby
ISBN1585423629
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.

This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of...
St. Mawr/The Man Who Died
AuthorD.H. Lawrence
ISBN0394700716
These two brilliant novels are deservedly among Lawrence's most popular works. Both are at the same time exciting narratives and striking expressions of Lawrence's philosophy. St. Mawr is the story of a splendid stallion in whose vitality the heroine finds the quality that is lacking in the men she...
Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America
AuthorDavid Willis McCullough
ISBN0394540654
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,...
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...
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...
The Philosopher's Handbook: Essential Readings from Plato to Kant
AuthorStanley Rosen
ISBN0375720111
An ideal introduction for the casual reader and a beneficial reference for the student, The Philosopher's Handbook features the writings of some of the world's most influential philosophers. Based on the premise that all human beings are curious about their existence, Rosen's collection brings...
The Innocent Libertine
AuthorColette
ISBN0374176825

Colette et le lion

La curiosité m'a mis ce petit roman dans les mains, et je l'ai dévoré d'une traite, avec le plus grand plaisir. Il est question de Minne, une jeune fille de bonne famille, qui, quoiqu'elle paraisse la plus rangée du monde, ne laisse pas d'être fascinée par le monde...
Don't Open This Book
AuthorMarvin Kaye
39 tales of weird fantasy, taboo science and souls in torment.

The Problem of the Country Mailbox by Edward D. Hoch
The Bargain by A.M. Burrage
The Sins of the Father by Carole Bugge
The Moving Finger Types by Henry Slesar
The Story of Obbok by Darrell Schweitzer
Revised...
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,...
Faeries (Magical Worlds of Fantasy)
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0451450612
Features:

ANDRE NORTON LORD DUNSANY POUL ANDERSON JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON THOMAS BURNETT SWANN JAMES HOGG LAFCADIO HEARN RICHARD McKENNA MARY E. WILKINS PHILIP K. DICK HENRY SLESAR HERMINIE TEMPLETON H. C. BAILEY JOHANN LUDWIG TIECK JOHN BUCHAN ROBERT F. YOUNG ISAAC...
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...
The Best of Mystery: 63 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense
AuthorAlfred Hitchcock
ISBN0883656442
These 63 spine-tingling stories originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery magazine, and in the words of the master himself, they'll "make your blood run cold." Hitchcock coolly serves up cool cops, clever gangsters, bodies stuffed in trunks, kidnappings, adulterous affairs, murder,...
Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day
AuthorDonald Keene
ISBN0802150950
Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene’s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise introductions to the writers,...
The Gentle Grafter
AuthorO. Henry
O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). Porter's 400 short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings. He travelled to Austin in 1884, where he took a number of different jobs over the next several years, first...
A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings
AuthorLaurence Sterne
ISBN0199537186
Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to France and Italy he gets little further than Lyons...
Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
AuthorGina Berriault
ISBN1887178384
"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...
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