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Everyman's library volume 346
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's shortstories. Now, for the first time, all three collections are gathered together inone handsome volume. One of the most acclaimed authors writing today, JeffreyArcher is a dazzling storyteller. A master of character and suspense, he has agift for the unexpected plot twist that has catapulted all three of his shortstory collections--A Quiver Full of Arrows, A Twist in the Tales,...
Language
English
Description
The Granta Book of the African Short Story introduces a group of African writers described by its editor, Helon Habila, as 'the post-nationalist generation'. Introducing a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent - from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya - Habila has focused on younger, newer writers, interspersed with some of their older, more established peers, to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa....
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This book is a collection of beloved stories that have comprised an important part of the fabric of our culture, from the earliest days of our nation to the twentieth century. Some of the stories, such as Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," and James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," have been long regarded as literary...
Publisher
Rizzoli Electa, a division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Talented emerging fiction writers find inspiration in one of the most famous paintings in New York's Frick Collection: Ingres's Comtesse d'Haussonville (1845). Following the successful literary musings on art at the Frick, The Sleeve Should Be Illegal and Cocktails with a Curator, this anthology of newly commissioned texts from graduate students in New York University's Creative Writing Program pays homage to one of the institution's most celebrated...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Circus
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A blisteringly original and wickedly funny collection of stories about the strange worlds that women inhabit and the parts that they must play. A sense of otherworldly menace is at work in the fiction of Nicole Flattery, but the threats are all too familiar. SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME tells the stories of women slotted away into restrictive roles: the celebrity's girlfriend, the widower's second wife, the lecherous professor's student, the corporate employee....
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Claire Messud described Erin McGraw's last collection of stories as zat once laugh-out-loud funny and utterly serious, [exploring] life's profundity through its details.y This is even more true with McGraw's new collection, Joy. In these very short stories, narrators step out of themselves to explain their lives to us, sometimes defensively, sometimes regretfully, other times deceitfully. Voices include those of the impulsive first-time murderer,...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Jhumpa Lahiri decided to read exclusively in Italian, a language she had studied for many years, her life as a reader - and writer - took a surprising turn. Complete immersion in this rich literary heritage brought fresh insight and unexpected freedom. This collection brings together forty writers that have shaped her love of the Italian language and profound appreciation for its literature. More than half of the stories featured in this volume...
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Language
English
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Description
"In ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece--the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen--the gift of life. After marrying her, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own and yearns for independence. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, Galatea is locked away under the constant supervision...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
One of our greatest living writers offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction. Joyce Carol Oates' collection of 56 tales combines classic works by writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Allan Poe with many "different, unexpected" gems, inviting readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
"Includes 53 stories spanning evolution of short fiction in Brazil as well as Hispanic America across a broad range of writing from colonial era and 19th century to modern favorites such as Lugones, Quiroga, Lima Barreto, Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, Ribeyro, Castellanos, Lispector, Ferré, and Monterroso, in versions by distinguished translators. An essay by the editor traces evolution of the genre. Brief headnotes for each period and author and a short...
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love...
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