Written in inimitable prose, these 65 stories span Nabokov's extraordinary life and career. Arranged chronologically to illuminate his development as a writer, the collection displays Nabokov's range of technical and formal inventiveness.
This landmark new collection brings together the best of the short stories of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and author of Lolita and Pale Fire.
Comprising stories from other volumes as well as never-before-published tales, this collection of short stories mixes wit with warmth.
A chronological arrangement of the noted American playwright's complete stories, published and unpublished, provides a veiled look at his life and concerns
Isaac Bashevis Singer's self-selected anthology of short fiction published in English from 1957 until 1981.
'So you have come back, dear sister, dear sister,' said Akkayya with such love that my grandmother was suddenly disarmed. ... Tell me only one thing: When I am dead and when you have burnt me, will you ever remember me?' She laughed.
This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century.
An elderly short story specialist befriends a young author who is hoping to take the literary world by storm.
Famous for his novels, Thomas Mann is more accessible through the shorter fictions which span his entire career. The most famous of these stories is one of the earliest.
Now collected for the first time in one volume and chosen by the author himself are the Nobel Prize winner's stories. "A feast . . . . One of the most rewarding collections of the year."--"San Francisco Chronicle."
Each indelible narrative in the Collected Stories is marked by Salter's great literary grace, his ability to show the subtleties of a character or situation with precision, and his equally assured ability to command reversals of fortune or ...
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 ...
In the words of W. B. Yeats, Frank O’Connor “did for Ireland what Chekhov did for Russia.” Anne Tyler, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, described his tales as “encapsulated universes.” This indispensable volume contains the best ...
In order to explore the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from biographical material of another person's life, playwright Donald Margulies creates two of the most vivid and moving fictional characters of ...
- 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 ...
The Green Grave and the Black Grave; At Sallygap; The Cemetery in the Demesne, Sunday Brings Sunday; The Long Ago; A Happy Death; The Sand Castle; The Small Bequest; A...
In these stories, we see Ozick defining herself and her literary territory. The stories may be read purely as evocations of Jewish experience, where time seems to have by-passed these characters.
A total of 42 stories that chronicle life and death in the South. This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds readers of his ability...
Collected Stories
The most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories brings together all the stories published in book form during her lifetime along with two additional volumes compiled after her death.