The Best American Short Stories of the Century (Updike John)(Paperback)

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (Updike John)(Paperback)

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT

The Best American Short Stories (Boyle T. C.)(Paperback)

In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, 'The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we

Penguin Book of American Short Stories (Cochrane James)(Paperback / softback)

Includes twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years that provide a multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the literature produced by this most exuberant of

The Best American Short Stories 2021 (Ward Jesmyn)(Paperback)

A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward 'One of the most searing and singularly gifted writers working today' (Entertainment Weekly), Jesmyn Ward, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the

Complete Stories (Capote Truman)(Paperback / softback)

A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American

Honored Guest (Williams Joy)(Paperback)

Among the 'best American short stories of the past two decades' (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of our most acclaimed writers. In short stories 'so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race' (Vanity Fair), a masseuse breaks her rich client's

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (Carol Oates Joyce)(Paperback)

In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many different, unexpected gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and

The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 (Box C. J.)(Paperback)

A collection of the year's best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box. C. J. Box, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this

Hawthorne's Short Stories (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin. Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of

The Best American Short Stories 2021 (Ward Jesmyn)(Pevná vazba)

A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward 'One of the most searing and singularly gifted writers working today' (Entertainment Weekly), Jesmyn Ward, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the

Best American Noir of the Century (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

The Big Nowhere , LA Confidential and White Jazz. In his intoduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, 'noir is the most scrutinised offshoot of the hard-boiled school of

Granta Book Of The American Short Story - V. 1 (Ford Richard)(Paperback / softback)

An anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever and Raymond Carver (and forty others) demonstrating how much memorable power can lie in the briefest

The Best American Short Stories 2020 (Sittenfeld Curtis)(Pevná vazba)

Collected Stories (Cheever John)(Paperback / softback)

John Cheever's Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: The Best Stories of the American West (Johnson Dorothy)(Paperback)

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 (Adams John Joseph)(Paperback)

This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in the last year. By sending us to

We Seldom Talk about the Past: Selected Short Stories (MacKenna John)(Paperback)

We Seldom Talk About the Past is John MacKenna's first selected collection of short stories, from a career spanning over three decades. The stories selected come from four collections of short fiction, and represent a culmination of MacKenna's work in a form of writing he has made uniquely his own

The Best of Richard Matheson (Matheson Richard)(Paperback)

The definitive collection of terrifying stories by 'one of the greatest writers of the 20th century' (Ray Bradbury), edited by award-winning author Victor LaValle Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am

The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

This unique collection of Twain's essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author's vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog' and 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,' as well as some delightful excerpts from The

Collected Stories (Ozick Cynthia)(Paperback / softback)

Masterly collection of short stories by an American novelist at the height of her

The Runagates Club (Buchan John)(Paperback)

The Runagates Club (1928) was John Buchan's last collection of short stories, and is a classic of British interwar short

Complete Short Stories (Greene Graham)(Paperback)

The complete stories of a 20th century master of fiction Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence--this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including four previously uncollected stories, this new complete

The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (Wells H. G.)(Paperback)

The early short stories of an essential 20th century literary personage Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a

World to Come - Stories (Shepard Jim)(Paperback / softback)

The first collection of short stories by Jim Shepard - widely regarded to be one of the best living short story writers in America - to be published in the