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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories
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Anais Nin · 260 pages
Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of
Jazz Age Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Patrick O'Donnell · 427 pages
Presents a collection of short stories from early twentieth-century author F. Scott Fitzgerald including "The Ice Palace," "May Day," "The Four Fists," and more.
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood · 207 pages
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
Guy de Maupassant · 322 pages
"Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes and playboys, in the Normandy countryside and on the French Riviera where Maupassant lived, the thirty-three contes in this new selection are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in French literature. They focus on the complexity of close relationships between lovers, as in the poignant fantasy 'A Parisian Affair'
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer · 208 pages
Wessex Tales
Thomas Hardy · 286 pages
A small short story collection - only five stories originally, though two more were added later. The usual Hardy themes were followed; class distinctions, marriage, the relationships between men and women and how they were viewed by society, etc.
Odessa Stories
Isaac Babel · 224 pages
'Everyone makes mistakes, even God.' In the original Odessa Stories collection published in 1931, Babel describes the life of the fictional Jewish mob boss Benya Krik - one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature - and his gang in the ghetto of Moldavanka, around the time of the October Revolution. Praised by Maxim Gorky and considered one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century Russ
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings
Alexander Pushkin · 209 pages
40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz, Nathaniel Hawthorne · 470 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
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter
Toba Tek Singh: Stories
Saadat Hasan Manto · 149 pages
Cuentos de Amor de Locura y de Muerte
Horacio Quiroga · 133 pages
Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway
Charles W. Chesnutt, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton · 560 pages
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [The birthmark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/
Decamerone
Giovanni Boccaccio · 574 pages
The Sebastopol Sketches
Leo Tolstoy
This collection comprises three short stories, all set in and around Sebastopol in Crimea, ‘Sebastopol in December’, ‘Sebastopol in May’ and ‘Sebastopol in August’. Collectively they pose a moving argument for the senselessness and brutality of war.
Selected Stories
Anton Chekhov · 467 pages
Called the greatest of short story writers, Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition.
The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker · 480 pages
Stories of God: A New Translation
Rainer Maria Rilke · 139 pages
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
L.M. Montgomery · 204 pages
"Further Chronicles of Avonlea have to do with many personalities and events in and about Avonlea, the Home of the Heroine of Green Gables, including tales of Aunt Cynthia, The Materializing of Cecil, David Spencer's Daughter, Jane's Baby, The Failure of Robert Monroe, The Return of Hester, The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily, Sara's Way, The Son of Thyra Carewe, The Education of Betty, The Selfle