This collection contains some of the gems by Rabindranath Tagore, who undoubtedly put India on the literary map of the world. These stories hold the readers enthralled from the opening sentence itself, bringing the various characters to life in vivid detail.
In Collected Stories, playwright Donald Margulies explores the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from the biographical material of another person's life--particularly when that other person is also a ...
The little claim John Paul had staked on my arm asserted itself again, just as, with a huge thud, Mitchell climbed in the window. “Oh, don't get up,” he said. “I was just passing by.” “I'm really sorry, Mitchell,” Cinder said.
This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century.
- Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club. 12 previously uncollected stories by writer and teacher Marta Randall, including Lapidary Nights, The Dark Boy, Lzaro y Antonio, Big Dome, Sea Changes, On Cannon Beach, and Nebula ...
Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Award–winning author Shirley Hazzard’s short-story collections—Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses—alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories ...
From his first published story in the Paris Review in 1968, James Salter's work in the form has been universally acclaimed: five have appeared in O. Henry collections, 'Dusk and Other Stories' won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award, and more ...
Remarkable for its compression and cadences, his prose is nothing short of addictive. The Collected Stories is a landmark. "Leonard Michaels's stories stand alongside those of his best Jewish contemporaries -- Grace Paley and Philip Roth.
The Noble laureate has selected nearly 150 of his acclaimed stories, from his eight previous collections, offering abundant evidence of his mastery of the genre
With the publication of 1983's The Annunciation, Ellen Gilchrist established herself as a teller of charming, bittersweet tales of the modern South.
. . A fine writer and a distinguished book. "--The New Yorker "Eudora Welty is one of our purest, finest, gentlest voices and this collection is something to be treasured.