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Miss Brill: Short Story

Katherine Mansfield

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Everyday Use

Alice Walker · 229 pages

Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women's voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, "Everyday Use" anticipate

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Dubliners

James Joyce · 226 pages

James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation

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The Invisible Collection/Buchmendel

Stefan Zweig · 96 pages

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The Ballad of the Sad Café

Carson McCullers · 160 pages

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Miguel Street

V.S. Naipaul · 176 pages

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Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories

Isaac Bashevis Singer · 208 pages

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Goodbye to Berlin

Christopher Isherwood · 256 pages

The sequel to Mr. Norris Changes Trains, this is another semi-autobiographical account of Isherwood’s experiences in pre-war Berlin. The author leads the reader on a thoroughly entertaining tour through the seedier side of a particularly decadent time in that city’s history.

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The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever · 693 pages

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The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91

Anton Chekhov

The steppe -- Panpipes -- The kiss -- Verochka -- The name-day party -- A dreary story -- Gusev -- The duel.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 41 pages

In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of Fitzgerald's most memorable stories.

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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Norman Maclean · 234 pages

Collection of three Western stories, featuring the title piece about the relationship between a father and his two sons, bound together by love and fly fishing.

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The Pastures of Heaven

John Steinbeck · 241 pages

A series of short stories connected by a moral, hardworking, compassionate family that moves into a rural California valley and, while meaning well, pretty much destroys the lives of the characters in each story. Fascinating read that pits eccentric, creative diversity against the American ”moral" ideal.

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The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros · 110 pages

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for he

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Men Without Women

Ernest Hemingway · 160 pages

A collection of short stories, including three or four regarded as among his best. The subjects are varied, with In Another Country about a member of the Ambulance Corps in Italy during WW1, The Killers a taut crime thriller about two hit-men and The Undefeated about a bullfighter in Spain.

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The Complete Stories

Truman Capote · 328 pages

"Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, Random House presents

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Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

Sholem Aleichem · 330 pages

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The Postmaster

Rabindranath Tagore

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Lucy Gayheart

Willa Cather · 231 pages

Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town existence and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world.

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Almost Famous Women: Stories

Megan Mayhew Bergman · 281 pages

A collection of stories that explores the lives of talented, gutsy women throughout history. Now Megan Mayhew Bergman resurrects these women, lets them live in the reader's imagination, so we can explore their difficult choices. Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity--she raced speed boats or was a conjoined twin in show business; a reclusive painter

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Doce cuentos peregrinos

Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 222 pages

Analyse : Contes A l'image des histoires qui les animent, ces vagabonds sont d'étranges pèlerins, tous latino-américains, projetés aux quatre coins d'une Europe insolite, en des aventures où la magie et l'humour sont articulés par ce que Gabriel Garda Marquez considère comme essentiel à la construction de cet ouvrage : la perspective du temps." Je crois avoir ainsi réussi le livre de contes qui

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