Short Stories (anthologies)
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
By: Jeffrey Eugenides
When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families,...
Published: Jan 2009
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 608
Legends of the Fall
By: Jim Harrison
The publication of this magnificent trilogy of short novels — Legends Of The Fall, Revenge, and The Man Who Gave Up His Name — confirmed Jim Harrison's reputation as one of the finest American writers of his generation. These absorbing novellas...
Published: Apr 1980
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 288
Tales of Ordinary Madness
By: Charles Bukowski
With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in...
Published: Jan 2001
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Snow Angels
By: Fern Michaels
Snow Angels' is written by Fern Michaels. The only way irresistibly handsome Olympic skier Max Jorgenson wants to spend Christmas is...alone. But when social worker Grace Landry stumbles into his log cabin during a snowstorm, an unexpected magic...
Published: Nov 2009
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 384
Heart Songs and Other Stories
By: E. Annie Proulx
Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before anthologized....
Published: Mar 1995
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 224
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life (Fiction)
By: Roald Dahl
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life is a collection of seven hilariously creepy Roald Dahl stories published in various magazines and collections in the '40s and '50s, and gathered here for the first time. With the classic Dahl mixture of charm and charmingly...
Published: Apr 1991
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 176
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
By: Eudora Welty
This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as...
Published: Feb 1982
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 648
Five Great German Short Stories (Dual-Language) (Dual-Language Book)
By: Stanley Appelbaum
5 outstanding selections from noble tradition: Heinrich von Kleist's 'The Earthquake in Chile,' E. T. A. Hoffmann's 'The Sandman,' Arthur Schnitzler's 'Lieutenant Gustl,' Thomas Mann's 'Tristan,' and Franz Kafka's 'The Judgment.' For each selection...
Published: Jul 1993
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 240
22 Jamaican Short Stories: A Selection of Prizewinning Short Stories
By: LMH Publishing
For professionals and amateurs alike, the Jamaican Cultural Development Commission's annual literary competition offers a rare opportunity for testing skills and reinforcing the literary aspects of Jamaica's cultural heritage. This anthology features...
Published: Dec 1987
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 208
A Relative Stranger: Stories
By: Charles Baxter
Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writers. These two books, set in the Michigan landscape that Baxter has made his own, display his...
Published: Sep 2001
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 223
Almost Touching the Skies: Women's Coming of Age Stories
By: Florence Howe
Almost Touching the Skies pays tribute to the diversity and vitality of American women writers through more than a century, and to the courage and resilience of young women through a compelling range of life experiences. Selected from the work of two...
Published: May 2000
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 272
Amsterdam: A Traveler's Literary Companion
By: Manfred Wolf
The best modern short fiction by writers from Amsterdam provides insight for travelersTravel to one of the most dynamic cities in the world in the company of its finest writers. The seventeen stories in this volume, many of which appear in...
Published: May 2001
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 238
Arguing With the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers (Jewish Women Writers)
By: Rhea Tregebov
From the shtetl to the New World, from failed revolutions in tsarist Russia to the Holocaust, these Yiddish tales illuminate a lost world from a woman's distinctive perspective. For decades, stories by Yiddish women writers were available...
Published: Mar 2008
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 128
Bats Out of Hell
By: Barry Hannah
Love and torment, lunacy and desire, tenderness and war — the stories in Bats Out of Hell provide a brilliant, dazzling odyssey into American life. Barry Hannah's reputation as a master of the short story, first established in 1978 with the...
Published: Mar 1994
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 400
Beach : Stories by the Sand and Sea
By: Lena Lencek
J. D. Salinger's 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish,' John Cheever's 'Goodbye, My Brother,' Doris Lessing's 'Through the Tunnel': These and dozens of other beloved stories share the beach as their setting. In fact, it is remarkable how many of the finest...
Published: Jun 2000
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 332
Best European Fiction 2010
By: Aleksandar Hemon
The start of the most ambitious editorial project in Dalkey Archive's history. Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so...
Published: Jan 2010
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 340
Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South
By: Shannon Ravenel
Since 1986, New Stories from the South has brought the best short fiction of the year to the attention of a national audience. The series has been called "the collection others should use as a model" (the Charlotte...
Published: Sep 2005
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 342
Black American Short Stories (American Century Series)
By: John Henrik Clarke
The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one...
Published: Jan 1993
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 448
Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology
By: Roberto Santiago
MANY CULTURES * ONE WORLD'Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call one another as a term of endearment, respect, and cultural affirmation; it is a timeless declaration that transcends gender and color. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin...
Published: Sep 1995
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 400
Classic Cowboy Stories: Eighteen Extraordinary Tales of the Old West (Classic)
By: Michael McCoy
Roping a buffalo, running off cattle rustlers, sitting out a winter storm in a cave-adventures like these were all part of everyday life for the cowboy. They're depicted here in stories that have stood the test of time, by writers whose words are...
Published: Jun 2004
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 344
Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
By: Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers--novelist, dramatist, poet--was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction. Here are nineteen stories that explore her signature themes: wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the...
Published: Sep 1998
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 416
Conjunctions: 54, Shadow Selves
By: Jonathan Carroll
The mirror is humankind's most duplicitous invention. When we look into it do we see ourselves or an other? If we see an other, is that other a lie or some complex extension of a truth we don't quite grasp? And when we set down the mirror and imagine...
Published: Jun 2010
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 364
Conversations With The Moon
By: Amy Neftzger
A collection of short stories whimsically told from the moon's point of view of life on earth. The moon shares stories that convey what he has learned about this planet, as well as his curiosity about it. The moon is a spectator to some of life's...
Published: Nov 2003
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 168
Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion
By: Barbara Ras
Table of ContentsNorthern Zone:Carmen Naranjo 'Believe It or Not'Jose Leon Sanchez 'The Girl Who Came from the Moon'Mario Gonzalez Feo 'Bucho Vargas, Healer and Medicine Man'San Jose and the Central Valley:Yolanda...
Published: Mar 1994
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 256
Daughters of Kerala: Twenty-Five Short Stories by Award-Winning Authors
By: Achamma C. Chandersekaran
Kerala, one of the smallest states in India, is located in the country's southwest corner. Known for its great beauty, religious diversity, and zero population growth, the region also boasts an exceptionally high literacy rate—reportedly above 91...
Published: Oct 2004
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 196
De Profundis and Other Writings
By: Oscar Wilde
I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A good part of that genius is evident in the essays and poems included in this volume. There is the intellectual genius of 'The Soul of Man under...
Published: Aug 1976
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 256
Echoes of the Ozarks
By: Louella Turner
Echoes of the Ozarks, Volume I, features the varied talents of the members of the Ozarks Writers League. The Ozarks-oriented short stories, essays, and poetry, cover a wide variety of subjects: spook lights, the memories that a flower's scent can...
Published: Nov 2005
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 168
Fifty Great American Short Stories
By: Milton Crane
A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John UpdikeThe Classic StoriesEdgar Allan Poe's Ms. Found in a Bottle, Bret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Sherwood Anderson's Death in the Woods, Stephen...
Published: Aug 1984
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 502
Fishing's Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories series)
By: Paul D. Staudohar
These 25 unforgettable fishing stories boast fast action, dramatic plot twists, and intriguing characters, from the sinister to the hilarious. Spanning the entire 20th century, they offer a bounty of fishing adventures: the solitary sportsman casting...
Published: Apr 2003
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 384
Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories
By: James Thomas
The eagerly anticipated anthology from the editors who coined the term 'Flash,' with stories by today's best fiction writers.After publication of the first Flash Fiction anthology over a decade ago, 'flash' became part of the creative writing...
Published: Aug 2006
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 237