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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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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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.
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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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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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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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.
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.
Short Stories Books & Ephemera
The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios
by Martel, Yann
Orlando: Harcourt, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151010900 . An attractive first printing of the first US edition in Fine condition in equally Fine dust-jacket; Martel's collection of a novella and three short stories: The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios; The Time I Heard The Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto With One Discordant Violin, By The American Composer John Morton; Manners of Dying; The Mirror Machine ; 8vo; xii, 208, [4]...
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$22.89
The Stories of Stephen Dixon.
by DIXON, Stephen
New York: Henry Holt, 1994. Signed on the title page and dated 6.21.95 by Stephen Dixon. First edition / First printing. Gold cloth spine, gold paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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$100.00
A Fanatic Heart - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by O'Brien, Edna
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. Fine. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special Limited edition and true first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition. Unread Fine condition, SIGNED by author Edna O'Brien; In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, O'Brien pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Most of the stories are set in Ireland; the characters are farmers, doctors, and nuns, all with one thing in common: it is a desire...
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$51.05
Book of Guys, The: Stories By Garrison Keillor
by Keillor, Garrison
New York, NY, USA: Penguin Group, 1993. Book. Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with blue and cream boards and pictorial dust jacket, reprint, 508gms, 340 pages, tan endpapers. This book provides a collection of short fiction from Garrison Keillor based on the subject of men. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear and moderate page discolouration/spotting throughout. Boards and dust jacket are in good condition with...
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A$15.00
Cabbages and Kings
by Henry, O
London: Hodder & Stoughton. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Page edges browning. 1916. Reprint. Red hardback cloth cover. 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). 256pp. .
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£5.60
Daughter of Regals and Other Tales - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Donaldson, Stephen R
New York: Del Rey Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0345314425 . First edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition with a small amount of damp staining to boards along spine in alike dust-jacket with light edgewear, chipping, and creased front flap; Collection of stories that explore the lives of princes and princesses, their adventures, and the challenges they face.; 8vo; FSA .
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$22.89
On the Yankee Station - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Boyd, William
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0688031110 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in equally unblemished dust-jacket, signed and inscribed by author William Boyd on the title page; The author of A Good Man in Africa releases his first work of short fiction in On the Yankee Station. This compliation ranges from psychological thrillers to touching family dramas, and wartime soldiers to angsty teens; 8vo; [3-6]...
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$98.18
In The Penny Arcade - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Millhauser, Steven
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0394546601 . First edition/first printing in about Fine condition with slight sunning to board edges in Fine dust-jacket. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number and signature on front paste down; and his friends are constantly pitted against one another in games of chance...
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$48.68
East, West - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Rushdie, Salman
London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0224041347 . A beautiful first printing of the first edition, red cloth in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author Salman Rushdie directly on the title page; In his first collection of stories, Salman Rushdie looks at his two worlds, their intimacy and distance, their shared history, and the misunderstandings - comic and tragic - that separate and bind them. Rushdie...is a writer who...
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$55.07
Eva Luna
by Allende, Isabel
New York: Atheneum. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. 0689121024 . A handsome first printing of the first Atheneum in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Isabel Allende directly on the dedication page. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden; Chilean-American novelist Allende's Eva Luna is an exotic dance that beguiles and entices. The enchanted and enchanting account of a contemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed American...
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$56.93
Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Beattie, Ann
New York: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 067162220X . First edition/first printing, remainder marked, else Near Fine condition with some sunning to top edge in alike dust-jacket; Where You'll Find Me tells the story of a young girl, Iris, who is trying to find herself. Iris is loosely based on Beattie's own life, and the book includes many autobiographical elements.; Remainder; 8vo; FSA .
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$21.66
Working Men - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Dorris, Michael
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0805022961 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Working Men is a novel about the struggles of blue-collar workers in the United States. It tells the story of a group of workers who are forced to adapt to changing economic conditions and extreme labor shortages.; 8vo; FSA .
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$37.13
Some Days You Get the Bear: Short Stories - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Block, Lawrence
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0688108202 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Near Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket, both with a little edgewear. Signed by author Lawrence Block directly on the title page; This collection of short stories is about people and their relationships with bears. It is a very interesting book because it deals with different topics such as love, loss, and betrayal.;...
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$40.43
Here's Your Hat What’s Your Hurry - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by McCracken, Elizabeth
New York: Turtle Bay Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0679400265 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in equally unblemished dust-jacket, signed by author Elizabeth McCracken on the title page; A series of short fiction including a surprise visit from an aunt, a middle class son of a circus worker confronts his mother's pain, and a young woman who finds comfort in her skin through the creation of tattoos by her artist husband ; 8vo; [viii,...
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$106.43
The Burning House - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Beattie, Ann
New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394524942 . A Very Good+ first printing of the first edition, bottom tips bumped in Near Fine dust-jacket, signed and inscribed by author Ann Beattie directly on the title page; Ann Beattie's third collection of stories ; 8vo; [xii], 256, [4] pages; Signed by Author .
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$37.13
Cowboys are My Weakness - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Houston, Pam
New York London: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0393030776 . A just about Fine, unread first printing of the first edition, minor smudges in alike dust-jacket, signed by author Pam Houston directly on the title page; Houston's first collection of short stories. "Pam Houston's women know they should know better but they don't, and the result is a beautiful collection about sexual politics, old and new" -...
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$65.18
Trust Me - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0394558332 . An attractive first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author John Updike directly on the front free endpaper. De Bellis/Broomfield A115a; Twenty-two of Updike's short stories, displaying the essence of life seen through a master's eye. Titles include "Still of Some Use"; "Deaths of Distant Friends";...
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$59.17
Mosby's Memoirs & Other Stories - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Bellow, Saul
New York: The Viking Press, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Collected here are six short stories by Saul Bellow, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988. Each unique character tells his own story and proves once again that Bellows understands the mysteries and complexities of the human experience; 8vo .
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$48.73
A Night At The Movies - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Coover, Robert
New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0671617966 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in alike dust-jacket; In A Night At The Movies, the reader experiences the excitement of a movie theater from the inside. The novel follows the thoughts and actions of four people as they attend a movie: a young couple on a date, a mother and her young son, a group of friends, and an older man. These characters are drawn vividly, and the...
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$27.23
White People - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Gurganus, Allan
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 039458841X . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition with lightly bumped upper corner in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by author Allan Gurganus directly on the title page; This book examines the issue of white people in a society that is becoming more diverse. It looks at how white people can benefit from diversity and how they can contribute to a more inclusive society.;...
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$22.89
To Skin a Cat: Stories - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by McGuane, Thomas
New York: E. P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0525244603 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Fine condition with minor rubbing to extremities in alike dust-jacket; "To Skin a Cat assembles thirteen stories of astonishing range, both in approach and subject: a homicidal rancher, tank-town socialites, children facing mortality, good men and women frozen by life passing them, self-aggrandizing cads, publicity...
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$48.68
Jackson Street and Other Soldier Stories - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Miller, John A
Berkeley, CA: Orloff Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0964294931 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author John A. Miller directly on the title page; Jackson Street and Other Soldier Stories is a collection of short stories about soldiers. The stories are written in a simple, straightforward manner that is easy to read. The stories vividly describe the experiences of soldiers in war and the...
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$56.93
Cold Snap - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Jones, Thom
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0316473073 . A most attractive first edition/first printing in Fine condition with remainder mark to top edge, else Fine, in alike dust-jacket; When the temperature outside dips below 0 degrees Fahrenheit, the town of Clearview is plunged into a deep freeze. The citizens must band together to survive the wintry conditions.; Remainder; 8vo; FSA .
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$22.89
Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka (Modern Library, No. 283)
by KAFKA, Franz
New York: Modern Library, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Later printing. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. Introduction by Philip Rahv. Inside jacket lists 376 titles. School stamp, old price and owner name penned on front fly, spine slightly cocked, very good in a good only scuffed and worn dust jacket with price marked out on front flap, light stain on front panel, short chips on spine ends.
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$20.00
