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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe David Foster Wallace Reader
David Foster Wallace · 969 pages
"Wallace's explorations of morality, self-consciousness, addiction, sports, love, and the many other subjects that occupied him are represented here in both fiction and nonfiction. Collected for the first time are Wallace's first published story, "The View from Planet Trillaphon as Seen In Relation to the Bad Thing" and a selection of his work as a writing instructor, including reading lists, gram
The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories
Edited by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Story-makers -- Second Edition
Rudy Wiebe, Gabriel García Márquez, Philip Roth · 443 pages
Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories
James Thomas · 263 pages
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood · 1,775 pages
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Чак Паланик, Крис Картер, Деннис Уидмайер, Ричард Томас, Нил Кролики, Гейл Тауэлл, Тони Либхард, Майкл де Вито-мл., Тайлер Джонс, Фил Джордан, Ричард Леммер, Аманда Гауин, Мэтт Иган, Фред Вентурини, Брендон Тиц, Адам Скорупскас, Брайан Хоуи, Брайан Пиекос, Джейсон Файлан, Теренс Илс, Кит Бьюи, Гас М · 294 pages
Кто может написать так же, как Чак Паланик?А может, эти начинающие литераторы пишут даже лучше Паланика?Мастер лично отметил достижения молодых талантов, предоставив им место на своем фанатском веб-сайте в качестве дискуссионной площадки, и затем, отобрав лучших из лучших, смешал в палитре этого дебюта сатиру и хоррор, лирику и шок, курьез и мечту.Рассказы, представленные в этом сборнике, получили
The Best American Short Stories 2013
Elizabeth Strout, Heidi Pitlor · 308 pages
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Burnt Tongues
Amanda Gowin, Matt Egan, Fred Venturini, Brandon Tietz, Adam Skorupskas, Bryan Howie, Brien Piechos, Jason M. Fylan, Terence James Eeles, Keith Buie, Gus Moreno, Daniel W. Broallt, Neil Krolicki, Chris Lewis Carter, Tony Liebhard, Michael De Vito, Jr., Phil Jourdan, Richard Lemmer, Tyler Jones, Gayl · 329 pages
A collection of short stories from the transgressive fiction genre feature tales about taboo subjects from the horrific to the humorous with shocking imagery not soon forgotten.
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
Jeffrey Eugenides · 587 pages
A collection of love story excerpts from classic literary works, culled by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex, includes selections by such writers as Alice Munro, William Faulkner, and Milan Kundera, in a volume published to benefit the McSweeney literacy project 826 Chicago.
Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
David Foster Wallace, Ethan Canin, Andrea Lee, Raymond Carver, Paul Theroux, Claire Keegan, Lewis Robinson, Lynda Sexson, Daniel Lyons, William Trevor, Denis Johnson, Russell Banks · 182 pages
The Best American Short Stories of the Century
Katrina Kenison · 775 pages
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William
The Best American Short Stories 2003
Walter Mosley · 384 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/
40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz, Nathaniel Hawthorne · 470 pages
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
The Best American Short Stories 2015
T.C. Boyle · 346 pages
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Short Stories Since 1970
Lex Williford, Michael Martone · 672 pages
An updated edition of top-selected short fictional works features a spectrum of stylistically and culturally diverse U.S. and Canadian authors.
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter · 486 pages
Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children. This collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales, hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories, from countries all around the world from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones, crafty women and bad girls, enchantresses and midwives, rascal aunts and odd sisters.
Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century
Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Lamb, O. Henry, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde · 240 pages
The Best American Short Stories 2012
Alice Munro, Lawrence Osborne, Julie Otsuka, Edith Pearlman, Angela Pneuman, Eric Puchner, George Saunders, Taiye Selasi, Sharon Solwitz, Kate Walbert, Carol Anshaw, Jess Walter, Adam Wilson, Taylor Antrim, Nathan Englander, Roxane Gay, Mary Gaitskill, Jennifer Haigh, Mike Meginnis, Steven Millhause · 384 pages