The American Short Story Handbook

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...

The American Short Story Cycle' spans two centuries to tell the history of a genre that includes both major and marginal authors, from Washington I...

Publisher: Penguin AdultAuthor(s): John FreemanNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 212 x 35Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory cha...

Drawing on examples from across the globe and throughout history, Andrew Kahn explores the key characteristics of the short story. He shows how its...

In print for the very first time, Long Story Short collects eight unmissable short stories from international bestseller, Jodi Taylor.

What makes for a good short story? Being short, you might think the storys structure would yield an answer to this question more readily than, say,...

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Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Salamishah TilletNumber of pages: 224Collection: Books About BooksPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 201 x 19Cover...

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In this sparkling debut, a home schooled math genius finds herself out of her element at a theatre summer camp and learns that life - and love - ca...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Roxane GayEditor: Heidi PitlorBest-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year's Best A...

Reducere. New York Times best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld selects the twenty best short stories of the year.New York Times best-selling author of five n...

A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn WardIn her introduction to The Best Ameri...

A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn WardIn her introduction to The Best Ameri...

The Holocaust Short Story is the only book devoted entirely to representations of the Holocaust in the short story genre. The book highlights how t...

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A fabulously confessional romp through the menopause; D'Souza tells us what it was like for her, and what it will be like for youPublisher: Short B...

This is the first volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Written by international experts, it seeks to overcome obstacl...

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Featuring fourteen essays from international experts, this Companion provides an accessible overview of English-language short fiction outside of N...

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Reducere. The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the boo...

Reducere. 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...

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DescriptionThe Short Story of the Bible takes the reader on a tour from Creation through Revelation. The book is a two-hour read and is purposefull...

Reducere. When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had i...

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Charles Dickens's happy childhood came to a sudden end when his father was jailed for debt. At the age of 12, young Charles was sent to work in a f...

Enter the world of Overwatch, the smash-hit from Blizzard Entertainment, in this five-story anthology chronicling some of the video game's most fas...

Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popul...

DescriptionThe American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodie...

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