This is a collection of the very best of William Faulkner's short stories. Included are classics of short-form fiction such as 'A Bear Hunt', 'A Rose for Emily', 'Two Soldiers' and 'The Brooch'. Faulkner's ability to compress his epic vision into narratives of such grace and tragic intensity defines him as one of the finest and most original writers America has ever produced.
An elderly short story specialist befriends a young author who is hoping to take the literary world by storm.
These expertly told tales, with their addictive plot twists and vividly drawn characters, are both galvanizing as literature and wonderfully entertaining.
Including The Third Resignation and The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother, these stories illustrate Garcia Marquez's development as a writer. His early experimentation with...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl's stories for adults, the Collected Stories amply showcases his singular gifts as a fabulist and a born storyteller.Later known for...
Introduces readers to the author's shorter works, spanning his entire writing career, including "The Nine Billion Names of God," "Nemesis," "The Sentinel," and "The Songs of Distant Earth."
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg contains twenty-seven short stories by "a contemporary master" (New York Times).
A chronological arrangement of the noted American playwright's complete stories, published and unpublished, provides a veiled look at his life and concerns
The stories, which range from tiny fragments to substantial narratives, have been arranged both to illuminate one another and to illustrate Kafka's evolution as a writer - which, as Professor Josipovici shows, is more complex and radical ...
As a young writer living in Lahore during the time of the British Raj, Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was possessed by an enormous subject—India—and his genius for rendering its beauty and...
This collection allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield's work from the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, through the luminous recollections of her childhood in New Zealand, and through the mature, ...