Short Story International
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 9781555730475
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 9781555730475
Author : Alan Ziegler
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780892554324
Short offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive.
Author : James Thomas
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393352420
A dazzling new anthology of the very best very short fiction from around the world. What is a flash fiction called in other countries? In Latin America it is a micro, in Denmark kortprosa, in Bulgaria mikro razkaz. These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph-length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate in nightclubs. Flash has always—and everywhere—been a form of experiment, of possibility. A new entry in the lauded Flash and Sudden Fiction anthologies, this collection includes 86 of the most beautiful, provocative, and moving narratives by authors from six continents, including best-selling writer Etgar Keret, Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah, Korean screenwriter Kim Young-ha, Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, and Argentinian “Queen of the Microstory” Ana María Shua, among many others. These brilliantly chosen stories challenge readers to widen their vision and celebrate both the local and the universal.
Author : Robert Shapard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 1989-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393306135
Gathers stories by Julio Cortazar, Margaret Atwood, Colette, Heinrich Boil, Jorge Luis Borges, Doris Lessing, and Isak Dinesen.
Author : Robert Shapard
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 34,46 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 : William Patten
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Page : 402 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Short stories
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Author : Florence Goyet
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1909254754
The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing - particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagawa Ry?nosuke - Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.
Author : James Thomas
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393328028
An anthology of bite-sized tales represents the work of some of today's best fiction writers and includes Rick Moody's definition of an armoire, Lydia Davis's sojourn into the world of cats, and Dave Eggers's exploration of narrow escapes. Original.
Author : Lauri Kubuitsile
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2010
Category : African fiction (English)
ISBN : 1920397310
The bed, dressed in hand sewn quilt or threadbare blanket, may in and of itself be memorable, but it is what happens in the bed - the sex and lovemaking, the dreams, the reading, the nightmares, the rest, giving birth and dying - which give 'bed' special meaning. Whether a bed is shared with a book, a child, a pet or a partner, whether lovers lie in ecstasy or indifference, whether 'bed' relates to intimacy or betrayal, it is memories and recollections of 'bed', in whatever form, which have triggered the writing of these thirty stories by women from southern Africa. Well known writers Joanne Fedler, Sarah Lotz, Arja Salafranca, Rosemund Handler and Liesl Jobson will delight, but you will discover here new writers from Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia, each with a unique voice as they cast light on the intimate lives of women living in this part of the world and the possibilities that are both available to and denied them. The BED BOOK of short stories - some quirky and tender, others traumatic or macabre - is the perfect companion to take to bed with you, to keep you reading long into the night.
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Page : 180 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 1978
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ISBN : 9780931142031