Fifty Stories
| Author | : Kay Boyle |
| Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 644 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780811212069 |
Boyle, 50 Stories. An eloquent testament to the possibilities of living and writing.
Stories Revived
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Revived
| Author | : Cat Patrick |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2012-05-01 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0316202037 |
It started with a bus crash. Daisy Appleby was a little girl when it happened, and she barely remembers the accident or being brought back to life. At that moment, though, she became one of the first subjects in a covert government program that tests a drug called Revive. Now fifteen, Daisy has died and been Revived five times. Each death means a new name, a new city, a new identity. The only constant in Daisy's life is constant change. Then Daisy meets Matt and Audrey McKean, charismatic siblings who quickly become her first real friends. But if she's ever to have a normal life, Daisy must escape from an experiment that's much larger--and more sinister--than she ever imagined. From its striking first chapter to its emotionally charged ending, Cat Patrick's Revived is a riveting story about what happens when life and death collide.
A Month by the Lake & Other Stories
| Author | : Herbert Ernest Bates |
| Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780811210355 |
"If we set H. E. Bates's best tales against the best of Chekhov's," Graham Greene declared, "I do not believe it would be possible, with any conviction, to argue that the Russian was the finer artist." The sampler of H. E. Bates stories presented here shows the merit of that praise and displays the range and aspects of Bates's work from his first published story, "The Flame," to one of his very last, "The Song of the Wren." In his long and prolific literary career, Bates (1905-1974) produced twenty-five novels, a three-volume autobiography, nine books of essays, several plays and children's books, as well as his important and perhaps most enduring achievement, twenty-three collections of short stories. A Month by the Lake & Other Stories displays Bates's extraordinary talent for concisely getting at the heart of the matter. Whether he is dealing with romance in middle age (the title story), or the almost painful clarity of a child's world ("The Cowslip Field"), or encapsulating the disintegration and tragedy of a man and a house and the era and class they represent ("The Flag")-Bates's compassion for humanity remains constant. As Anthony Burgess remarks in his introduction, Bates "achieved such sovereignty of what literary land he inherited that he deserves the homage of our uncomplicated enjoyment... Bates's affection for ordinary people is one of his shining virtues. But he himself, as I knew, and as this compilation should make clear, was, is, far from ordinary." Book jacket.
The Rain Came Last & Other Stories
| Author | : Niccolò Tucci |
| Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780811211246 |
Born in 1908, Niccolo Tucci is the author of six books (three in Italian, three in English). He first became known in America for his articles and stories published in various leading periodicals--among them Partisan Review, Harper's, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. The Rain Came Last is the first collection of Tucci's English-language stories to be published. Mary McCarthy remarks in her introduction that the material Tucci delineates lies "somewhere between excruciated memory and 'happy' invention." He writes of his childhood and adolescence in the remote Tuscany countryside where his family lived, dislocated from its grand and opulent past. Later, in a different dislocation, Tucci's stories spring from his urbane and bohemian adult years in Manhattan, to which he emigrated in the 1930s. Very few other writers for whom English was not a native language have adopted and adapted it in so masterly and personal a fashion--Conrad and Nabokov among the rare exceptions. "He is," comments Mary McCarthy, "an international man, a very unusual thing, and it is that perhaps that has put and kept him in a class by himself."
Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories
| Author | : Herbert Ernest Bates |
| Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780811210881 |
Readers who have discovered the delights of the British master storyteller H.E. Bates will welcome this third collection. Gathered here are twenty stories written between 1938 and 1964 which are gems of human observation.
The Complete Works
| Author | : William Dean Howells |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Total Pages | : 33 |
| Release | : 2022-11-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. He was known for the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria. This edition includes: A Forgone Conclusion A Chance Acquaintance A Modern Instance A Pair of Patient Lovers A Traveler from Altruria An Open-Eyed Conspiracy Annie Kilburn April Hopes Dr. Breen's Practice Fennel and Rue Indian Summer Questionable Shapes Ragged Lady The Coast of Bohemia The Kentons The Lady of Aroostook The Landlord at Lion's Head The Leatherwood God The Minister's Charge The Quality of Mercy The Rise of Silas Lapham The Story of a Play Through the Eye of the Needle Their Wedding Journey A Hazard of New Fortunes Their Silver Wedding Journey The Flight of Pony Baker Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Boy Life Between the Dark and the Daylight The Daughter of the Storage and Other Things in Prose and Verse A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories Buying a Horse The Night Before Christmas A Counterfeit Presentment Bride Roses A Likely Story Evening Dress Five O'Clock Tea The Albany Depot The Elevator The Garotters The Parlor Car The Register The Sleeping-Car Poems Venetian Life Italian Journeys Roman Holidays and Others Suburban Sketches Familiar Spanish Travels A Little Swiss Sojourn London Films Seven English Cities Stories of Ohio Criticism and Fiction Literary Friends and Acquaintance Literature and Life My Literary Passions Imaginary Interviews and Other Essays Modern Italian Poets A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction The Man of Letters as a Man of Business Emile Zola Henry James Carl Schurz A Boy's Town Years of My Youth...
Selected Short Stories
| Author | : Henry James |
| Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2017-05-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 048682232X |
Tales include "Lord Beaupré," concerning a bogus engagement; "The Middle Years," recounting an author's reflections on his achievements; "The Real Thing"; "Georgina's Reasons"; and the ghost story "Sir Edmund Orme."
American Short Stories
| Author | : Fred Lewis Pattee |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 1925 |
| Genre | : Short stories, American |
| ISBN | : |
Stained Glass Elegies
| Author | : Shūsaku Endō |
| Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780811211420 |
The acclaimed short stories of the master Japanese writer.
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
| Author | : Henry James |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2008-04-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0192669214 |
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here - `Sir Edmund Orme', `Owen Wingrave', and `The Friends of the Friends' - `The Turn of the Screw' is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave, or victims of the governess's `infernal imagination', which torments but also entrals her? `The Turn of the Screw' is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease? Or is it simply, `the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read'? The texts are those of the New York Edition, with a new Introduction and Notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
