Book Description
Presents over seventy short stories five pages long or less by such American authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Langston Hughes, and Raymond Carver, and includes authors' commentary on the genre.
Author : Robert Shapard
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780879052652
Presents over seventy short stories five pages long or less by such American authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Langston Hughes, and Raymond Carver, and includes authors' commentary on the genre.
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195092622
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author : John Updike
Publisher :
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.
Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1328465829
Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Author : John Freeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1984877828
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman In the past fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst of energy. The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story celebrates this avalanche of talent. This rich anthology begins in 1970 and brings together a half century of powerful American short stories from all genres, including—for the first time in a collection of this scale—science fiction, horror, and fantasy, placing writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Ken Liu, and Stephen King next to some beloved greats of the literary form: Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Denis Johnson. Culling widely, John Freeman, the former editor of Granta and now editor of his own literary annual, brings forward some astonishing work to be regarded in a new light. Often overlooked tales by Dorothy Allison, Percival Everett, and Charles Johnson will recast the shape and texture of today’s enlarging atmosphere of literary dialogue. Stories by Lauren Groff and Ted Chiang raise the specter of engagement in ecocidal times. Short tales by Tobias Wolff, George Saunders, and Lydia Davis rub shoulders with near novellas by Susan Sontag and Andrew Holleran. This book will be a treasure trove for readers, writers, and teachers alike.
Author : Paul Negri
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486114678
Features 19 gems in the American short-story tradition, including "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, plus stories by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Twain, others.
Author : Ben Marcus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804173540
In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between. Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with the most compelling new literary voices. Nothing less than the American short story renaissance distilled down to its most relevant, daring, and unforgettable works, New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom.
Author : Heidi Pitlor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0547819242
“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” — Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as “a new classic of American fiction.” Egan “possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart” (New York Times Book Review).
Author : Lorrie Moore
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547485859
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time --
Author : Peter S. Prescott
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393026191
Reflecting the fertile culture of the American experience, this collection of stories includes works by Raymond Carver, Jayne Anne Phillips, Ellen Gilchrist, Poe, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Kate Chopin, and other distinguished authors