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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
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Include books by the same authorThirteen Stories
Eudora Welty · 243 pages
Here is a baker’s dozen of Welty’s very best, including: “The Wide Net,” in which a pregnant wife threatens to drown herself, despite fear of the water, and a communal dragging of the river turns into a celebratory fish-fry; “Petrified Man,” revealing the savagery of small-town gossip; “Powerhouse,” Welty’s prose answer to jazz improvisation and the emotional heart of the blues; and “Why I Live at
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
The Garden Party and Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield · 255 pages
Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back were smothered. You could not see where they ended and the paddocks and bungalows began. The sandy road was gone and the paddocks and bungalows the other side of it; there were no white dunes covered with reddish grass beyond them; there was not
The Society of the Crossed Keys
Stefan Zweig · 266 pages
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman. Following the death of her husband, a middle-aged Englishwoman travels through Europe to escape loneliness and boredom. One evening during her stay at the French Riviera, while enjoying the atmosphere of the Monte Carlo Casino, she becomes mesmerized by the obsessive gambling of a young Polish aristocrat. This fateful encounter leads to passion, despair an
Complete Stories
Clarice Lispector · 672 pages
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever · 693 pages
The Lady in the Looking Glass
Virginia Woolf · 112 pages
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
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger · 208 pages
First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.
Seven Japanese Tales
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki · 298 pages
Going to Meet the Man
James Baldwin · 235 pages
"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
William Faulkner
The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories
Ivan Bunin · 224 pages
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 253 pages
Providing a dramatic portrait of American manners and mores during the 1920s and 1930s, a collection of ten stories probes the false security of wealth, the emotional sterility fostered by technology, and the fragile nature of human existence.
Collected Stories
Tennessee Williams · 574 pages
Selected Short Stories
Rabindranath Tagore · 322 pages
Love in a Fallen City
Eileen Chang · 321 pages
"Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction - tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when Chang was still in her twenties, these stories combine a contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with a lyricism that ech
Five Great Short Stories
Anton Chekhov · 94 pages
Contains; Дама с собачкой Дом с мезонином Крыжовник Мужики Чёрный монах
Little Birds
Anais Nin · 153 pages
Thirteen explorations of sexual variants feature rivals for the same lover, husbands with exotic tastes and frustrated wives, a celebrated prostitute, a sixteen-year-old waif striving to surpass her mother, and other adventurers.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
William H. Gass · 206 pages
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
First Love and Other Stories
Ivan Turgenev · 298 pages