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American Short Story Masterpieces
Author | : Raymond Carver |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989-04-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0440204232 |
This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mirrors our age, our concerns, and our lives. Whether it’s the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Manson’s “Shiloh,” or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubus’s “The Fat Girl,” the 36 works included her probe issues that give us that “shock of recognition” that is the hallmark of great art—wonderful, absorbing fiction that will be read and reread for decades to come.
American Short Story Masterpieces
Author | : Clarence C. Strowbridge |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486499138 |
An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Contents include "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," and "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.
The Temporary
Author | : Rachel Cusk |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2022-01-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250859840 |
Rachel Cusk’s second novel is a ruthless, surprising story of work, gender, and control. Ralph Loman is working in an unsatisfying job at a free London newspaper when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party. Her beauty ignites a blaze of excitement in his troubled heart. But Francine is ravenous for attention, driven by a thirst for conquest, and when Ralph tries politely to extricate himself, he finds he is bound by chains of consequence from which it seems there is no escape. In The Temporary, Rachel Cusk paints a merciless portrait of the cut and thrust of modern romance, work, and life.
The Essential Yusuf Idris
Author | : Denys Johnson-Davies |
Publisher | : American University in Cairo Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2009-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1617971677 |
Yusuf Idris (1927 91), who belonged to the same generation of pioneering Egyptian writers as Naguib Mahfouz and Tawfiq al-Hakim, is widely celebrated as the father of the Arabic short story. He studied and practiced medicine, but his interests were in politics and the support of the nationalist struggle, and in writing and his writing, whether in his regular newspaper columns or in his fiction, often reflected his political convictions. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature more than once, and when the prize went to Naguib Mahfouz in 1988, Idris felt that he had been passed over because of his outspoken views on Israel. In all, Yusuf Idris wrote some twelve collections of superbly crafted short stories, mainly about ordinary, poor people, many of which have been translated into English and are included, along with an extract from one of his novels, in this collection of the best of his work.
Modern Masterpieces of Short Prose Fiction
Author | : Alice Vinton Waite |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Short stories |
ISBN | : |
A Collection of Short Stories
Author | : Lemuel Arthur Pittenger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Short stories |
ISBN | : |
A Reader's Manifesto
Author | : B. R. Myers |
Publisher | : Melville House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Including: A response to critics, and: Ten rules for "serious" writers, the author continues his fight on behalf of the American reader, arguing against pretension in so-called "literary" fiction, naming names and exposing the literary status quo.
Modern Brazilian Short Stories
Author | : William L. Grossman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1974-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780520027664 |
Short Story Masterpieces
Author | : Ernest Hemingway |
Publisher | : Dell |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1954-03-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0440378648 |
Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time. A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence Barn Burning by William Faulkner The Sojourner by Carson McCullers The Open Window by Saki Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter The Boarding House by James Joyce Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway The Tree of Knowledge by Henry James Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty . . . and twenty-five more of the century’s best stories!