Now, on the night of the day when I'd read the report of Lee's death, when the house was quiet, my wife out play— ing bridge with the “girls,” I put on the tape. While I listened, I thought of a lot of things: Stuttgart, the weekend I'd ...
Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as one of America's greatest living writers. For more than sixty years he has stretched our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts...
This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that bring out the writer’s extraordinary range and intensity of vision.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Franz Kafka's imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in...
With a preface by Janice Bellow and an introduction by James Wood, this is a collection to treasure for longtime Saul Bellow fans and an excellent introduction for new readers.
It replicates the way that our thoughts of betrayal can metastasize and overwhelm us and breed ever more often imaginary ) betrayals . Each time I read this story , I sit in discomfort with these pages , reading cach " Ha !
This definitive anthology contains the previously unpublished story "Segue," her last work. In these stories Carol Shields combines the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels.
'This is the age for the short story.
Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself from across the whole of his career, brings together the best of his writing.
A complete collection of short fiction by the creator of Philip Marlowe includes stories such as "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," "The Pencil," and "English Summer."
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short-story collections—Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses—alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories ...
As a young writer living in Lahore during the time of the British Raj, Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was possessed by an enormous subject—India—and his genius for rendering its beauty and...
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 ...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl's stories for adults, the Collected Stories amply showcases his singular gifts as a fabulist and a born storyteller.Later known for...
Sam lifted his arms exasperated. ... “I know how to play the game,” he groaned slapping Sam back for good measure. ... Sam asked. “Electrical schematic,” Dylan explained rather simply. Sam glared across, his brother smiling.
... would that your numbers were not so burgeoning—by runaway population-growth in some places, demographic shifts in others —as to ... had he had reason to complain of the efficiency of the collection of his trash, both recyclable and ...
As Father, one of his most intriguing characters, declaims: “Matter has been granted infinite fecundity, an inexhaustible vital force, and at the same time, a seductive power of temptation that entices us to create forms.” This ...
Dan and Shelley took a quick lead cutting in front of Eddie and Ginny. Dan's black and white jacket with that bright green stripe had Ginny growling. The shady racers tried edging Dan and Shelley into the ice banks to the left, ...
Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mama's Funeral, and The ...
Including The Third Resignation and The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother, these stories illustrate Garcia Marquez's development as a writer. His early experimentation with...