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The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
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Include books by the same authorThe Complete Short Stories
Evelyn Waugh · 595 pages
The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
Nikolai Gogol · 271 pages
Memories of the Future
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok; a kind soul dreams of selling "everything you need for suicide"; an absentminded p
Roman Fever and Other Stories
Edith Wharton · 238 pages
Contains: Roman fever -- Xingu -- The other two -- Souls belated -- The angel at the grave -- The last asset -- After Holbein -- Autres temps.
Flappers and Philosophers
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 211 pages
Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of short stories by America author F. Scott Fitzgerald, most famous for his novel The Great Gatsby. The collection was his first such publication and includes the stories "The Offshore Pirate", "The Ice Palace", "Head and Shoulders", "The Cut-Glass Bowl", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "Benediction", "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" and "The Four Fists."
The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor · 557 pages
There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collecti
Prague Tales
Jan Neruda, Michael Henry Heim · 454 pages
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 63 pages
The Lottery and Other Stories
Shirley Jackson · 304 pages
A haunting and powerful collection of stories from one of America's finest writers, with a new Introduction by Patrick McGrath. Eerie, unforgettable, and by turns terrifying and hilarious, Shirley Jackson's collection of stories plunges us into a unique, brilliantly etched world where the uncanny lurks in the everyday and where nothing is quite what it seems. In "The Lottery," Jackson's most famo
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
Sholem Aleichem · 330 pages
The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 304 pages
Contains 18 stories: Ambitious Guest [Birth-Mark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W) Celestial Railroad [Dr. Heidegger's Experiment](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455515W) Egotism, or, the Bosom Serpent Ethan Brand Gray Champion Great Carbuncle Lady Eleanore's Mantle Maypole of Merry Mount [Minister's Black Veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W) My Kinsman, Major Moli
The Collected Short Stories of Saki
Saki, Hector Hugh Munro · 512 pages
The Complete Stories
Zora Neale Hurston · 320 pages
"This landmark gathering of Zora Neale Hurston's short fiction - most of which appeared only in literary magazines during her lifetime and some of which has never been published - reveals the evolution of the talents of one of the most important African-American writers. Spanning the years from 1921, when Howard University's literary magazine published "John Redding Goes to Sea," to 1955, when Hur
The Short Stories
Langston Hughes · 309 pages
Langston Hughes was a master of many literary forms - poetry, plays, essays, novels, and memoirs. But it is as a short-story writer that his talents combined in an especially vibrant way: his gift for humor and irony, his love of the vernacular, his brilliance in depicting character, and his profound perceptions about American life. This new collection of forty-seven stories written between 191
Girls at War and Other Stories
Chinua Achebe · 123 pages
Girls at War and Other Stories reveals the essence of life in Nigeria and traces twenty years in the literary career of one of this century's most acclaimed writers. In this collection of stories, Chinua Achebe takes us inside the heart and soul of a people whose pride and ideals must compete with the simple struggle to survive. Hailed by critics everywhere, Chinua Achebe's fiction re-creates with
The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
Marquis de Sade · 330 pages
My Name is Aram
William Saroyan · 220 pages
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
Catharine and Other Writings
Jane Austen · 372 pages
Volume The First: -- Frederic and Elfrida -- Jack and Alice -- Edgar and Emma -- Henry and Eliza -- Adventures of Mr Harley -- Sir William Mountague -- Memoirs of Mr Clifford -- Beautifull Cassandra -- Amelia Webster -- Visit -- Mystery -- Three sisters -- Beautiful description -- Generous curate -- Ode to pity -- Volume The Second: -- Love and friendship -- Lesley Castle -- His