Collects the entire body of Kafka's short stories and parables, reflecting his concern for modern man's search for identity, place, and purpose
Much gratitude goes to those who commented on the English and who generally kept me alive and well: Corey Byrnes, Kathryn Crim, Andrea Gadberry, Hilary Kaplan, Erin Klenow, Adam Morris, Lucy Reynell, Yael Segalovitz, Zohar Weiman-Kelman ...
Richard wriggled in his seat , unresponsive to Dr. Sloane's tentative comments , overcome with boredom and unable not to show it . Dr. Sloane said , with casual suddenness , “ Would you like to take a walk with me , Richard ?
A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story.
This landmark gathering of Zora Neale Hurston's short fiction - most of which appeared only in literary magazines during her lifetime and some of which has never been published -...
The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust; from a "missing chapter" in the life of Charles Ryder, the nostalgic hero of ...
During his lifetime Vonnegut published fewer than half of the stories he wrote, his agent telling him in 1958 upon the rejection of a particularly strong story, "Save it for the collection of your works which will be published someday when ...
A complete collection of short stories by the noted humorist features Parker's best known tales, along with thirteen stories never previously collected.
She'd just get up and rush off into the bedroom and throw herself on the bed. So I didn't want another one of those scenes coming up that ... I knew that if I said I liked it, she'd ball my brains out. She'd shut down the typewriter, ...
"-William BoydNever before published in its entirety in America, with many stories new to American readers, The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard is a monumental achievement by one of our greatest literary geniuses.
The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson’s short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium.