Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Cubanisimo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature
By: Cristina Garcia
An anthology of modern Cuban literature presents a rich array of essays, novel excerpts, short stories, and poetry by Jose Marti, Reinaldo Arenas, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Nancy Morejón, Jose Lezama Lima, Lydia Cabrera, Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Rafael...
Published: Apr 2003
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 378
Dashing Diamond Dick and Other Classic Dime Novels
By: J. Randolph Cox
A one-of-a-kind compendium of popular fiction from a bygone era Dime novels —as fundamentally American as baseball and jazz—were an inexpensive and inexhaustible source of popular entertainment for millions of Americans in the...
Published: Jul 2007
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 400
Dead Before Dying
By: Deon Meyer
A brilliantly atmospheric new suspense novel from rising African thriller writer Deon Meyer about a detective racing to solve a terrifying series of murders. Someone in Cape Town has chosen a conspicuous murder weapon--a century-old German...
Published: Feb 2008
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 480
Dinaane: Short Stories by South African Women
By: Maggie Davey
A welcome addition to the series that showcases women's writing from around the world, this collection provides a snapshot of modern, post-apartheid South Africa. Landscape and climate, the political versions of weather, historical or current,...
Published: Jun 2008
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 250
Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing
By: Bell Gale Chevigny
A stunning collection of prison writing with singular voices and surprising tales."Doing time." For prison writers, it means more than serving a sentence; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity,...
Published: Nov 2011
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 384
Eirik The Red and Other Icelandic Sagas (Oxford World's Classics)
By: Gwyn Jones
Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include 'Hen-Thorir,' 'The Vapnfjord Men,' 'Thorstein Staff-Struck,' 'Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey,' 'Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew,'...
Published: Jul 1999
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 336
Electric Literature No. 6
By: Nathan Englander
Electric Literature's sixth anthology travels highways, the waters of New York's harbors, and the grooves of a burned out LP. In Matt Sumell's "OK," a son visits his stubbornly suicidal father at his flea infested home.In "Where We...
Published: Sep 2011
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 142
Electric Literature No.2
By: Colson Whitehead
In our Autumn 2009 anthology, Colson Whitehead charts the rise to fame of a truth-telling comedian. Stephen O'Connor transports us to a cabin in the woods, where a young woman attempting to finish her dissertation in solitude becomes increasingly...
Published: Oct 2009
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 122
Electric Literature: #1
By: Michael Cunningham
Electric Literature is just that, electric - five great stories that grab you. Our Summer 2009 debut anthology features the first published excerpt from Michael Cunningham's forthcoming novel. This issue also features new fiction by some of...
Published: Jun 2009
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 110
Encounters of Sherlock Holmes
By: George Mann
A brand-new collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from a variety of exciting voices in modern horror and steampunk, including James Lovegrove, Justin Richards, Paul Magrs, Guy Adams and Mark Hodder. Edited by respected anthologist George Mann, and...
Published: Feb 2013
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 400
Europe in Women's Short Stories from Turkey (Turkish Literature)
By: Gultekin Emre
P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormalTurkish women roam European cities, some by choice, and others by kismet, in the 23 short stories in this collection. From the lustful tourist escaping the realities of her own world and the...
Published: Oct 2012
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 200
Evergreen Review Reader: 1957-1966
By: Barney Rosset
Beckett, Kerouac, Ginsberg and more return in the classic pages of Evergreen Review!This selection from the first ten years of the Evergreen Review gives the full flavor of the energy, savvy, excitement, and gall that...
Published: Oct 2011
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 368
Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century (Immensee. Peter Schlemihl. Brigitta)
By: Theodor Storm
Theodor Storm: Immensee / Adelbert von Chamisso: Peter Schlemihl / Adalbert Stifter: Brigitta ---Theodor Storm (1817 - 88), poet and short-story writer, was born in Schleswig... As early as 1843 he had made himself known as a lyrical poet of the...
Published: Feb 2005
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 160
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition
By: Not Available
Presents a collection of the fantasy prose written in 2005, by some of the genre's greatest authors, and selected by Rich Horton, a contributing reviewer to many of the field's most respected magazines. This volume includes stories by Peter Beagle,...
Published: Jun 2006
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 320
FAUST 1
By: Ballantine
A stunning new collection of fiction inspired by the fantastic world of manga–and featuring artwork by the best in the business, including"Outerholic," by NISIOISIN (illustrated by CLAMP): CLAMP fans everywhere will appreciate the...
Published: May 2008
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 448
Faust 2
By: Faust
A brilliant anthology featuring manga-inspired fiction from today's best writers with artwork from top manga creators, including"ECCO," by Tatsuhiko Takimoto (illustrated by D.K): Is life nothing but a cruel joke? One young rebel...
Published: Jun 2009
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 448
Fiction on a Stick: New Stories by Minnesota Writers
By: Daniel Slager
Widely regarded as one of the most progressive and educated states in the nation, Minnesota boasts a rich literary tradition. Writers from Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald to Louise Edrich and Garrison Keillor have called it home. Like the rest...
Published: Dec 2008
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 296
Fidelity: Five Stories
By: Wendell Berry
Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do. . . . His sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian...
Published: Sep 1993
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 208
Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War
By: Matt Gallagher
These stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have offered...
Published: Feb 2013
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 256
Flesh to Flesh
By: Lee A. Hayes
From award-winning author Lee Hayes -- an erotic exploration into the lives of African-American gay men and their desires for love and acceptance.Unapologetically raw in its approach to the sexual lives and happenings of...
Published: Jun 2009
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 336
Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
By: Amnesty International Usa
Sixty years ago, the United Nations took a moral stand against human rights crimes and adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a proclamation of thirty rights that belong to us all, starting memorably with Article 1: "All human beings...
Published: Jan 2011
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 432
French Feast: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Traveler's Literary Companions)
By: William Rodarmor
If you don't mind, I'll talk while I'm setting the table for you. First, a warning: This book isn't the usual kind of book about food. It has no restaurant reviews, and very few recipes. You won't hear about that darling place in Dordogne, but you...
Published: May 2011
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 256
From the Memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski (German Classics)
By: Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was a German poet and author of prose. His "Reisebilder" (Travel Sketches), "Die Harzeise" (Journey through the Harz Mountains), and the volume of collected poems "Buch der Lieder" (Book of Songs) are classics of German...
Published: Aug 2008
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 100
German Short Stories 2 (Parallel Text, Penguin)
By: Various
The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional manner of Kluge's montage technique and the...
Published: Sep 1976
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 288
Ghost Pirates: And Other Tales of the High Seas
By: Tom McCarthy
Ghosts. Pirates. Put the two together and you’ve got a winning combination of the most exciting stories ever written. IIt's enough to make anyone say, 'Shiver me timbers'--with delight.The spirits of Davy Jones's locker have a long and...
Published: Apr 2007
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 224
Girlfriends
By: Anita Bunkley
Through Think and Thin p Money problems. Kid problems. Man problems. Even when the going gets toughest, you've still got your friends. You may not always see eye to eye, but your friends are beside you through it all--health and sickness, marriage...
Published: Jul 1999
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Girls Who Score: Hot Lesbian Erotica
By: Ily Goyanes
Even though they may not get a lot of action on the field after high school and college, girl jocks always manage to see a lot of action off the field. Because female athletes have an easy confidence about them, a natural nonchalance, and usually a...
Published: Aug 2012
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 242
Gotham Writers' Workshop Fiction Gallery: Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School
By: Alexander Steele
A collection of short fiction selected by members of New York's acclaimed creative writing school presents works that range from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," to "A Romantic Weekend by Mary Gaitskill, to...
Published: Aug 2004
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 356
Granta 100 (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
By: William Boyd
The 100th issue of Granta, guest edited by the acclaimed British novelist William Boyd, features original work by many of the writers who have helped to make it the most widely read literary magazine in the world Contributors include Martin Amis,...
Published: Jan 2008
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 320
Granta 102: The New Nature Writing (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
By: Jason Cowley
For as long as people have been writing, they have been writing about nature. But nature—as we know it—is changing. Economic migration, overpopulation, and climate change are transforming the natural world into something unfamiliar. As our...
Published: Aug 2008
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Pages: 256