Book Description
This illustrated anthology spans more than a century and a half to introduce readers to 17 American literary gems.
Author : Chronicle Various Authors
Publisher : Creative Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781568462028
This illustrated anthology spans more than a century and a half to introduce readers to 17 American literary gems.
Author : Jesmyn Ward
Publisher : Best American Series (R)
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1328485382
A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor JesmynWard says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair."The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East, with real consequences, to an indigenous boy's gripping escape from his captors, this collection renders profoundly empathetic depictions of the variety of human experience. These stories are poignant reminders of the possibilities of fiction: as you sink into world after world, become character after character, as Ward writes, you"forget yourself, and then, upon surfacing, know yourself and others anew. The Best American Short Stories 2021 includes GABRIEL BUMP - BRANDON HOBSON - DAVID MEANS- JANE PEK - TRACEY ROSE PEYTON - GEORGE SAUNDERS - BRYAN WASHINGTON - KEVIN WILSON - C PAM ZHANG and others
Author : John Updike
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780395843673
Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment Weekly").
Author : Meg Wolitzer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 132876673X
The New York Times–bestselling author of The Interestings compiles a stunning anthology of literary short fiction with T.C. Boyle, Emma Cline and others. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome,” writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction to this volume. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you’ll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on a submarine, a contestant on America’s Funniest Home Videos, and a gay man desperate to be a father—unforgettable characters waiting for an outcome, burning with stories to tell. The Best American Short Stories 2017 includes entries by T.C. Boyle, Jai Chakrabarti, Emma Cline, Danielle Evans, Lauren Groff, Eric Puchner, Jim Shepard, Curtis Sittenfeld, Jenn Walter and others.
Author : Robert Shapard
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,11 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 : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547819226
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Author : Katrina Kenison
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618197330
Best-selling author Walter Mosley has selected the year's top fiction from voices well-known and new. Here several authors bring their stories to vivid life for a banner audio edition.
Author : Curtis Sittenfeld
Publisher : Best American Series (R)
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1328485366
New York Times best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld selects the twenty best short stories of the year.
Author : Milton Crane
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 1984-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553272942
A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon The Great Writers Melville James Dreiser Faulkner Hemingway Steinbeck McCullers The Little-Known Masterpieces Edith Wharton’s The Dilettante Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman Charles M. Flandrau’s A Dead Issue James Reid Parker’s The Archimandrite’s Niece
Author : Clarence C. Strowbridge
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486801187
Seventeen short masterpieces, chosen for their timeless relevance and enduring popularity, include works by Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, and 9 others. Large print edition.