Short Stories
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Franny and Zooey
by J D Salinger
Franny and Zooey is J. D. Salinger's third book, published as such in 1961, its two parts having originally appeared as a short story and a novella in The New Yorker in 1955 and 1957, respectively. Franny and Zooey, a sister and brother both in their 20s, are the two youngest members of the Glass family, which was a frequent focus of Salinger's writings. The action of both parts takes place over a long weekend in November 1955.
Interpreter Of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies is a 2000 collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year. The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between the culture they have inherited and the "New World" they now find themselves in.
The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist.
Her novel, The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, won the National Book Award in 1972. This collection of thirty-one short stories is a unique, tangible expression of O’Connor’s projected ideas of the southern United States in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Included in this collection are twelve stories that are only included in this collection and not in her two other compilations, Everything That Rises Must Converge... Read more about this item
Her novel, The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, won the National Book Award in 1972. This collection of thirty-one short stories is a unique, tangible expression of O’Connor’s projected ideas of the southern United States in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Included in this collection are twelve stories that are only included in this collection and not in her two other compilations, Everything That Rises Must Converge... Read more about this item
Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
The delightful tales of whales and cats and kangaroos and crabs – everything from how the camel got in a humph (and got his hump!) to how the alphabet was invented. Enchanting and funny, these fantastical stories continue to delight each and every generation.With an inspiring written, inspiring introduction by Jonathan Stroud, author of the Bartimaeus trilogy, Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling is one of the twelve wonderful classic stories being relaunched in Puffin Classics in March 2008.
Tales Of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination, stories by American author Edgar Allan Poe have been compiled by Padraic Colum into a thrilling collection focused on Poe’s suspenseful stories. The first edition compiled by Padraic Colum was published in 1908 by Geoffrey Newnes Ltd. and includes an introduction by Colum explaining his decision to exclude Poe’s poems, comedies, and essays from the collection. A later 1919 edition, published by George G. Harrap & Co., includes 24 full-page black and white plates...
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Where I'm Calling From
by Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in August of that year, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.About the ReaderPeter Riegert...
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Girl With Curious Hair
by David Foster Wallace
Girl with Curious Hair is a collection of short stories by David Foster Wallace, first published in 1989. Though they are not related, many of the stories share the theme of society's fascination with celebrity, some using real celebrities, including Alex Trebek, David Letterman and Lyndon Johnson, as fictional characters.
Drown
by Junot Diaz
Junot Díaz’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories. His highly-anticipated first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was greeted with rapturous reviews, including Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times calling it “a book that decisively establishes him as one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices.” His debut story collection, Drown, published eleven years prior to Oscar Wao, was also...
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The Stories Of John Cheever
by John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The Swimmer. " It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979; the paperback version won the American Book Award for Fiction in 1981.
Dubliners
by James Joyce
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.
Tales Of the South Pacific
by James A Michener
Tales of the South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize winning collection of sequentially related short stories about World War II, written by James A. Michener in 1946. The stories were based on observations and anecdotes he collected while stationed as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy on the island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides Islands (now known as Vanuatu). The skipper of PT-105 met Michener while stationed at the PT boat base on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway
First published in 1927, Men Without Women is an early Hemingway collection containing fourteen short stories that are beginning to show the normal Hemingway themes: war and it's casualties, the interactions between men and women, sports, and violence.
"Banal Story," "In Another Country," "The Killers," "Ten Indians," "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Undefeated," "Fifty Grand," "In Another Country," "Now I Lay Me," "A Canary for One," and more.
"Banal Story," "In Another Country," "The Killers," "Ten Indians," "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Undefeated," "Fifty Grand," "In Another Country," "Now I Lay Me," "A Canary for One," and more.
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
by Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by American author Flannery O'Connor. The Southern Gothic collection was first published in 1955 by Hartcourt, Brace and Company. The short stories explore O'Connor's grotesque view of life which is often realistic and ultimately hopeful. A Good Man is Hard to Find is her second published work and established O'Connor as a major voice in American literature. Short stories in the collection include "The...
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In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time is the first published collection of Hemingway's short fiction. The book collects several of the author's short stories about American life in the early 1920's, just after WWI. A few of these stories focus on the character Nick Adams.First published in Paris in 1924 by Three Mountains Press under the title in our time - in all lower case - the first state of this work was a set of 18 vignettes and numbered 32 pages in total. Only 300 copies were printed, but due to a printing...
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The Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury that explores the nature of mankind. While none of the stories have a plot or character connection with the next, a recurring theme is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of "the Illustrated Man", a vagrant with a tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets.
Civilwarland In Bad Decline
by George Saunders
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. A New York Times Notable Book "This book is a rare event: a brilliant new satirist bursting out of the gate in full stride, wildly funny, pure, generous—all that a great humorist should be."—Garrison Keillor "An astoundingly tuned voice—graceful, dark, authentic, and funny—telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times."—Thomas...
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Nightmares and Dreamscapes
by Stephen King
New to Pocket BooksâÈç Stephen King backlistâÈ'the short story collection containing the story "DolanâÈçs Cadillac," soon to be released as a feature film starring Christian Slater and Wes Bentley.With numerous unforgettable movies based on his short storiesâÈ'including Shawshank Redemption, 1408, and The Green MileâÈ'readers will be delighted to rediscover this classic collection, also released as a television mini-series and on DVD. Featuring twenty short horror stories, a television...
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The Golden Age
by Kenneth Grahame
Looking back to those days of old, ere the gate shut behind me, I can see now that to children with a proper equipment of parents these things would have worn a different aspect. But to those whose nearest were aunts and uncles, a special attitude of mind may be allowed. They treated us, indeed, with kindness enough as to the needs of the flesh, but after that with indifference (an indifference, as I recognise, the result of a certain stupidity), and therewith the commonplace conviction that your child...
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Short Stories Books & Ephemera
The Best Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham
by W. Somerset Maugham; Selected by John Beecroft
Modern Library: New York. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good lightly soiled and worn dust jacket.. 489 pp. Seventeen [17] stories. Jacket has 415 titles listed on the verso.
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$25.00
The Best Short Stories of 1918 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
by Edward J. O'Brien, Editor
Boston: Small Maynard & Co, 1919. Hardcover. Very Good in blue cloth with gold embossed titles with worn spine.. 441 pp. Index. Stories by Sinclair Lewis, Julian Street, Wilbur Daniel Steele, and many others.
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$45.00
Rare & Endangered Species: A Novella & Stories (SIGNED COPY)
by Bausch, Richard
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED. Hardcover, 257 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Spotless and tight copy. Record # 456195
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$20.00
Renz and Margritli, What Happened in Waldhausen & Meieli
by Spyri, Johanna translated by Helen B. Dole
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, reprint of c1931 ed. 351pp. blue cloth 8vo w/pictorial label: Good+/no dj. A nice copy of these stories by the Swiss writer Spryi (1827-1901), best known for "Heidi."
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$7.50
Cross Channel
by Julian Barnes
London: Cape, 1996. Hardcover/dust jacket. Used. This is a collection of ten short stories with a linking theme- the British in France through several centuries. It opens with a group of mercenary soldiers engaged in a punitive expedition against a Protestant village in southern France in the late 17th century, and closes with a journey on the antiquated Eurostar express to Paris in the year 2015. In between the British appear in their various guises- as a railway-builders in the 1840s, vineyard-owners...
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$34.15
The Illustrated Man
by Bradbury, Ray
New York, New York: Bantam Books, 1952. Book. Good +. Mass Market Paperback. 246 pp. White pictorial cover, light rubbing and reading bends. Light corner and edge wear. Red page ends. Red uncreased spine is rubbed at edges. No internal marks, pages browned. 1st paperback edition..
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$20.00
Masterpieces of Mystery- the Forties
by Queen, Ellery (Ed. )
Davis. As New. 1978. Hardcover. No defects of any kind, As New. Bound in red leatherette with bright gilt titles and decoration to covers and spine. . Twenty short mysteries, all published in the 1940s. Authors include Ellery Queen, Anthony Gilbert, Fredric Brown, Jorge Luis Borges, Ben Hecht, and Leslie Charteris, to name a few. A beautiful copy for the mystery lover. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 352 pages. E5 .
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$31.50
Black Cloud, White Cloud
by Ellen Douglas with illustrations by Elizabeth Wolfe
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Contains Douglas' short fiction, originally published in the 1960s and accompanied here by the vibrant black-and-white illustrations of Southerner Elizabeth Wolfe. Author's and Artist's Series.
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$35.00
IN CURE OF HER SOUL
by Stimson, Frederic Jessup
D. Appleton & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1906. Presumed 1st. Hardcover. We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo .
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$23.47
The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories (The World's Best Reading)
by Mark Twain
A fine hardcover first edition thus sans dust jacket as issued. Superior bindings, no interior writing. This is a high quality book published by Reader's Digest World's Best Reading. A set of these look great on a bookshelf. A lovely copy for a serious collector
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$20.00
PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS
by Kipling, Rudyard
NY: Doubleday, Page & Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1912. Reprint. Hardcover. We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Red cloth with gilding . Top edge gilt .
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$14.65
IN THE MIDST OF LIFE: TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS
by Bierce, Ambrose
New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, pp. 368 , In original decorated maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gilt. First printing of the enlarged edition of TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS (1891) Internally unmarked, clean pages, tight binding, some rubbing to the top of the spine. A far nicer copy than normally found. The enlarged edition adds three stories including the classic, "The Damned...
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€275.00
How to Breathe Underwater: Stories
by Orringer, Julie
NY: Knopf, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 222 pages. Lovely copy in brodart protected dust jacket. Like new. Record # 370747
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$20.00
Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories
by Jerome Charyn
New York: Liveright/Norton, 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Short stories.
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$25.00
Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (Uncorrected Proof)
by Bellow, Saul
Harper & Row, 1984. Trade Paperback. 294 pages. Uncorrected proof of Bellow's second story collection. Black and red ink notations on front cover else a fine copy in yellow wrappers (paperback) with publication information printed on the cover.
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$50.00
Further Joy
by John Brandon
San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2014. Hardcover. Fine. Short stories.
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$35.00
War Dances.
by ALEXIE, Sherman
New York: Grove Press, 2009. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Red paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award.
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$40.00
Stateway's Garden
by Jasmon Drain
New York: Random House, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition.
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$50.00
World We Live In, The
by Bromfield, Louis
Cassell and Company, Ltd. London et al., 1946. First printing. . Hard with Dust Jacket. Good+ in fair dust jacket. 12mo. 7 1/2".. Good+ in fair dust jacket. DJ creased and missing about five chips. Mild foxing to endpapers. 343pp.
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£6.00
Learning By Heart
by Livesey, Margot
Penguin Canada. Very Good. 1986. Paperback. 0140081577 . Trade Paperback. Tightly bound with an unmarked text, tanning to the interior page edges. Small black mark to the bottom edge, overall in Very Good condition. "The stories in 'Learning By Heart' are deceptively simple, bright images capturing the subtle nuances of all the kinds of connections people make with each other." ; 7.80 X 5 X 0.50 inches; 248 pages .
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CA$15.95
The Sewanee Review, Winter 2022, Vol. CXXX, Number 1
by Adam Ross, Editor
Sewanee: Johns Hopkins University Press for The University of the South, 2022. Softcover. Near Fine in color illustrated wraps which have a tiny bit of edgewear.. 8vo. 189 pp. Includes works by Matthew Olzman, Sigrid Nunez, Will Schutt, Christopher Spaide, Matthew Jeffrey Vegari, Jane Delury and Cally Fiedorek.
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$25.00
Einstein's Monsters
by AMIS, Martin
New York: Harmony Books, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
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$20.00
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
by Stephen King
Viking: New York, 1993. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Thick 8vo. 816 pp. Quarter blue cloth, black paper boards, stamped in gilt. Illustrated jacket by Rob Wood. nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in 1994.
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$150.00
Heavy Water and Other Stories
by AMIS, Martin
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. Signed by the author.
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$85.00
The Wonders of the Invisible World
by Gates, David
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1999 First edition hardcover in dust jacket. New/New
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$19.95
