Great American Short Stories, Paperback

This celebration of America's literary legacy, a companion volume to Dover's 100 Great Short Stories, offers students and other readers a superb se...

American journalist and satirist Ambrose Bierce is probably best known for his short stories about the American Civil War. The author's craft for s...

Trade paperback. Acclaimed stylist Ben Marcus offers brain-flipping short stories for our uncertain times, combining the emotional resonance of gre...

Love, ambition, and wealth take center stage in this collection of classic stories from the Jazz Age. Often described as the "Great American Novel,...

Reducere. Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in...

There is no story more distinctly American than the western and no writer as great a master of the form as Louis L Amour. In this final paperback v...

Reducere. The collected short work of an American master, including The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Stephen Crane died at the age...

Reducere. DescriptionO. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, is one of the most famous short story writers of all time, whose stories are known for ...

Reducere. DescriptionShort StoriesF. Scott FitzgeraldFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American novelist and short...

Reducere. This volume consists of 130 stories and short Dharma anecdotes selected from Nagarjuna's immense commentary on The Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra...

Reducere. DescriptionDEATH IS A PRIVATE EYE"The reason these stories are being published only now, rather than 40 or more years ago when they were first writ...

Reducere. In The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce defined "war" as "a by-product of the arts of peace." A Civil War veteran, Bierce had absolutely no illusi...

Reducere. Welcome to the 1770s, years of big hats, big wigs, and big ideas. You might have learned about the American Revolution in history classes, but this...

Reducere. A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote's life's work in the form he called his -great love, - The Complete Stories confirms Capot...

In his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays and essays, James Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the America...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable BookAn NPR Best Book of 2012These eight powerful stories, dazzling in their display of language and imagination, show a ce...

Reducere. DescriptionPublished a year after The Great Gatsby, this collection of nine short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald includes two of his most famous - ...

Reducere. In these stories of no more than 1000 words, well-known and emerging American authors spotlight crucial moments of change during coming-of-age. The...

Reducere. Set largely in rural Louisiana, Tim Gautreaux's masterful debut story collection follows men and women whose ordinary lives reach a point of ruptur...

DescriptionAvailable in English for the first time, a collection of deeply humane stories depicting marginalized populations by one of the greatest...

Reducere. The most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories brings together all the stories published in b...

Reducere. The short stories in this collection range across cultures and settings from the Great Plains to California, from Los Angeles' Chinatown to the Cen...

Reducere. "Original and arresting.... Jones's] stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers."--Washington Post "These 14 stories of Af...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Vincent Ben t was one of America's greatest storytellers, most famous for his witty and moving tribute to Ame...

Reducere. DescriptionTribal Screams is a compelling collection of fantasy and horror stories by Owl Goingback, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of 'Crota', E...

Reducere. DescriptionWith a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, the National Book Award-winning story collection that is one of the great...

Reducere. A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form.At times raucously hilariou...

Reducere. A collection of the last remaining unpublished and uncollected short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the iconic American writer of The Great Gatsby...

Reducere. The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, plus eighteen other stories by the beloved author ofThe Great G...

When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One ...

Reducere. Henry Fleming, a raw Union Army recruit in the American Civil War, is anxious to confirm his patriotism and manhood--to earn his ``badge of courage...

The graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. A collection of short stories themed...

Reducere. From Lassie to Old Yeller to Rin Tin Tin to Marley, dogs have stolen our attention and our hearts. In real life, our own pets are more than just ca...

Reducere. DescriptionMark Twain is best known as one of this country's finest humorists and novelists. As this collection confirms, he was one of our finest ...

DescriptionElena Poniatowska is recognized today as one of Mexico's greatest writers. Lilus Kikus, published in 1954, was her first book. However, ...

Reducere. The Widow's Guide to Edible Mushrooms features twelve short stories, mostly set in the American West, in which people struggle to define themselves...

Reducere. A pioneer of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) holds a place with Poe and King in the vanguard of great American horror writers. This anth...

Description"Easily ranks among the best fiction I've read this year." --David Abrams In prairie towns and backwaters, and in the big cities, people...

Reducere. This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws is a great addition to Western auth...

Reducere. DescriptionMontana remains a wilderness paradise with a relatively small human population. History here witnessed gold fever draw thousands of pros...

Reducere. Asterix is celebrating 60 sensational years as an international comics superstar, and in the first collected edition from Papercutz, the stories ar...

Reducere. "Good deal of fog this morning. I do not go out in the fog myself, " notes Adam in his diary, adding, "The new creature does. It goes out in all we...

Prior to writing and publishing LOST ON SKINWALKER RANCH, the story of a security guard by the name of Riley working on the property which lends it...

A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about Americans in Europe Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines: a young, i...

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Reducere. From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize--comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women...

Reducere. A good story is a good story wherever it comes from, and this place is full of them." - from "Charlie's Point of View" Playboy Magazine once called...