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The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.
Author : John Updike
Publisher :
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
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The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1259 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat presents you the export product America is best known in the world of literature, the unique American short stories, ranging from satire, social injustice, horror, adventure and psychological turmoil. This edition includes: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Mark Twain) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Mark Twain) To Build a Fire (Jack London) A Piece of Steak (Jack London) An Odyssey of the North (Jack London) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Ransom of Red Chief (O. Henry) The Cop and the Anthem (O. Henry) A Retrieved Reformation (O. Henry) The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe) The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe) The Birthmark (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Rappacini's Daughter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Rip Van Winkle (Washington Irving) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) At the Mountains of Madness (H. P. Lovecraft) The Shadow over Innsmouth (H. P. Lovecraft) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce) Chickamauga (Ambrose Bierce) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Bernice Bobs Her Hair (F. Scott Fitzgerald) The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) Daisy Miller – A Study (Henry James) Bartleby the Scrivener (Herman Melville) Benito Cereno (Herman Melville) Desiree's Baby (Kate Chopin) The Open Boat (Stephen Crane) The Luck of Roaring Camp (Bret Harte) A White Heron (Sarah Orne Jewett) Out of Season (Ernest Hemingway) The Revolt of 'Mother' (Mary Wilkins Freeman) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton) Paul's Case (Willa Cather) The Abbot's Ghost (Louisa May Alcott) The Wife of His Youth (Charles W. Chesnutt) Barn Burning (William Faulkner) The Lost Phoebe (Theodore Dreiser)
Author : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 11,65 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 : John Updike
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 38,15 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").
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
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ISBN : 1442933127
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
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ISBN : 1442933119
Author : Milton Crane
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 27,81 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 : Andrew Sean Greer
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0358724392
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Science fiction, American
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Collection of 48 science fiction stories by Isaac Asimov.
Author : Candace Ward
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486111083
Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.