Collects short stories written by Edward Morgan Forster, including "The Celestial Omnibus," "The Machine Stops," and "The Story of the Siren."
This volume brings together the best of Munro's stories, from 1968 through to 1994. The second selected volume of her stories, 1995-2009 is also published by Vintage Classics.
"He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."
This is a book to read slowly, savouring each story. It deserves a place in every Canadian book-lover’s library.
Introduction by Francine Prose Mavis Gallant. behavior, divided by syntax and tradition; two environments to consider, one becalmed in a long twilight of nineteenth-century religiosity; two codes of social behavior; much practical ...
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A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the Mexican writer and MacArthur “genius” Cristina Rivera Garza. “One of Mexico’s greatest ...
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She must tell Dr. Campbell , she thought . First thing tomorrow morning , go to his office at 9 A.M. and tell him honestly . The rest of the day , and the evening , passed without incident . Mrs Burns came for her dress , and brought a ...
" After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories and eight from previous collections.
From Herbert Spencer, Social Statics (London: John Chapman, 1851) [Herbert Spencer (1820—1903), a British biologist, philosopher, and political theorist, coined the phrase “survival of the fittest” to apply Charles Darwin's arguments in ...