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Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories by James Thomas Paperback Book

How short can a story be and still truly be a story? This volume of 75 very short fictions, none more than 750 words in length, demonstrates that less can be more. Here are short pieces by masters such as Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, and Tim...

Publication Date: Jul 1992

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French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemia

by Joshua Clark

Branching across every genre, from mystery and romance to flash fiction and prose poetry, this anthology features the best works by living writers on the heart of New Orleans, with one previously unpublished by Tennessee Williams. Features Ellen...

Publication Date: Mar 2003

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French Short Stories 1 / Nouvelles Francaises 1: Parallel Text (Parallel Text)

by Various

Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French literature and life. Arranged in approximate order of...

Publication Date: Jun 1966

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French Short Stories 2: Parallel Text (Parallel Text, Penguin)

by Pamela Lyon

These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for both French and English language students. Among the...

Publication Date: Feb 1993

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French Tales

by Helen Constantine

Fiction is much more enlightening about a country and its people than are statistics, and if we want to find out and understand what a nation is really like, we must read its literature. In French Tales, Helen Constantine offers a panoramic view of...

Publication Date: Nov 2008

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Here in the World

by Victoria Lancelotta

"These elegant vignettes press us, face first, into our own needs, into the raw fact of the body's desires." New York Times Book Review . The women in Victoria Lancelotta's debut collection of stories live in the space between memory and...

Publication Date: Sep 2003

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Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land, Revised Edition

by Wesley Brown

The acclaimed multicultural fiction anthology, updated to include recent writers. Thirty-seven short stories from 1900 to the present, written by some of our best authors—African, Asian, European, Jewish, Middle Eastern, and Native...

Publication Date: Feb 2003

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Into the Widening World: International Coming-Of-Age Stories

by John Loughery

26 stories that explore universal rites of passage as well as culture-specific complexities of youth: Gordimer, Mrquez, Mukherjee, Okri, Lim, Mahfouz, Drabble, Wicomb, B. Wongar, et. al.

Publication Date: Oct 1994

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Italian Short Stories 1: Parallel Text Edition (Parallel Text, Penguin)

by Various

The eight stories in this collection, by Moravian, Pavese, Pratolina, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal rather than literary, and there...

Publication Date: May 1989

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Italian Stories: A Dual-Language Book

by Robert A. Hall

Eleven great stories in original Italian with vivid, accurate English translations on facing pages, teaching and practice aids, Italian-English vocabulary, more. Chronologically arranged stories by Boccaccio, Machiavelli, d'Annunzio, Pirandello and...

Publication Date: Jan 1990

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Italy: A Traveler's Literary Companion

by Lawrence Venuti

Some of Italy's best-known writers, including Luigi Pirandello, Natalia Ginzburg, Alberto Moravia, and Antonio Tabucchi, join Italy's rising literary stars to take the reader on a panoramic tour of both city and countryside, across the social...

Publication Date: Sep 2003

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Kolyma Tales

by Varlam Shalamov

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people...

Publication Date: Feb 1995

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McSweeney's At War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been so Scared (Quarterly Concern Issue 14)

by Dave Eggers

Issue 14 features a return of the hard-hitting journalism that has made McSweeney's our nation's preeminent source of Whys and Wherefores: Joshuah Bearman leads a daring investigation into the enigmatic Great Gerbil (Rhombomys Opimus) of central...

Publication Date: Sep 2004

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Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience

by Chandra Prasad

With a roster of acclaimed fiction writers, Mixed shatters expectations of what it means to be multiracial.Globally, the number of multiracial people is exploding. In 10 US states, the percentage of multiracial residents who are of school...

Publication Date: Aug 2006

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Modern Black Stories

by Martin Mirer

The stories in this collection reflect some aspect of the black experience in America.

Publication Date: Dec 1971

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More Sweet Tea

by Deborah Smith

Settle back into that comfortable chair and enjoy a second helping of poignant, humorous and nostalgic tales about how things used to be in the legendary South. From vindictive mules and small town marriage rituals that include a pig, to Grandma's...

Publication Date: Apr 2005

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Murder in La-La Land

by Lenore Carlson

A collection of twelve short stories selected from entries submitted to Sisters In Crime / Los Angeles for the 2010 Murder In LA-LA Land anthology.

Publication Date: May 2010

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New Stories from the South 2003: The Year's Best (New Stories from the South)

by Shannon Ravenel

Many famous writers later (James Lee Burke, Barbara Kingsolver, Larry Brown, Tony Earley, William Gay), Ravenel still combs through over one hundred journals and magazines, regional and national, large and small, in search of the most talented...

Publication Date: Jul 2003

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News from Nowhere and Other Writings

by William Morris

Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834 96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of...

Publication Date: Jan 1994

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Open City #12: Equivocal Landscape

by Open City

The most important new literary journal to emerge since Granta, Open City has published some of the best work by major writers and artists such as Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson, Jeff Koons, David Foster Wallace, Irvine Welsh, Terry Southern,...

Publication Date: Feb 2001

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Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil

by Nikolai V. Gogal

With the publication of 'The Overcoat' in 1842, Nicolai Gogol (1809–1852) inaugurated a new chapter in Russian literature, in which the underdog and social misfit is treated not as a figure of fun or an object of charity, but as a human being with...

Publication Date: Sep 1965

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PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010

by Laura Furman

A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010 brings to life a dazzling array of subjects: a street orphan in Malaysia, a...

Publication Date: Apr 2010

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Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories

by Randall Jarrell

An anthology illuminates storytelling as a fundamental human impulse and includes ballads, poems, parables, anecdotes, fairy tales, and legends alongside short works by such figures as Anton Chekhov, Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, and Leo Tolstoy....

Publication Date: May 2002

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Raven's Call: And More Northwest Coast Stories

by Robert James Challenger

This third collection of stories written by Robert James Challenger combines the timless appeal of Aesop's fables with the oral storytelling traditions of First Nations and other cultures. Each story will stimulate conversation about the moral woven...

Publication Date: Jan 2010

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Sail Away: Stories of Escaping to Sea

by Lena Lencek

Something happens when men and women put a plank between themselves and the water and set out on a voyage, whether for a day or a lifetime. Now Sail Away brings together the very finest writing about travel on water by a stellar crew of writers....

Publication Date: May 2001

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Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Attentive to the...

Publication Date: Jun 2008

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Separate Journeys: Short Stories by Contemporary Indian Women

by Geeta Dharmarajan

This collection, which gathers fifteen stories by contemporary Indian women representing the varied languages and regions of their subcontinent, is now available to an American audience for the first time. Western readers have come to recognize the...

Publication Date: Jan 2004

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Sex, Thugs, and Rock & Roll

by Todd Robinson

-My fingers can-t find the bullet holes. They-re there, because they brought me down.- Like a guitar riff sharp enough to slit a throat or the devil-s amplifiers shrieking through the lonely night, this bonanza of blood and brawn rings with the...

Publication Date: Jun 2009

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Soundtrack: Short Stories '90-'96

by Jessica Abel

Soundtrack collects the best of Jessica Abel's self-published Artbabe series, one of the most exciting comic books to emerge in the late-1990s. Abel's stories intuitive ear for dialogue and characterization have made Artbabe a hit among people of all...

Publication Date: Jul 2001

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Spanish Short Stories 2/Cuentos Hispanicos 2 (Parallel Text)

by Gudie Lawaetz

This second volume of short stories contains more diverse and lively writing from the Spanish-speaking world. Again much of it is from Latin America, Carlos Fuentes being Mexican, Norberto Fuentes Cuban, and the other writers having their roots in...