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.
In Collected Stories, playwright Donald Margulies explores the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from the biographical material of another person's life--particularly when that other person is also a ...
An elderly short story specialist befriends a young author who is hoping to take the literary world by storm.
In order to explore the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from biographical material of another person's life, playwright Donald Margulies creates two of the most vivid and moving fictional characters of ...
This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century.
- Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club. 12 previously uncollected stories by writer and teacher Marta Randall, including Lapidary Nights, The Dark Boy, Lzaro y Antonio, Big Dome, Sea Changes, On Cannon Beach, and Nebula ...
From his first published story in the Paris Review in 1968, James Salter's work in the form has been universally acclaimed: five have appeared in O. Henry collections, 'Dusk and Other Stories' won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award, and more ...
. . A fine writer and a distinguished book. "--The New Yorker "Eudora Welty is one of our purest, finest, gentlest voices and this collection is something to be treasured.
Remarkable for its compression and cadences, his prose is nothing short of addictive. The Collected Stories is a landmark. "Leonard Michaels's stories stand alongside those of his best Jewish contemporaries -- Grace Paley and Philip Roth.
The definitive collection of a twentieth-century master of the short story, whose unforgettable inventions revolutionized the form The short stories of Donald Barthelme, revered by the likes of Thomas Pynchon and George Saunders, are gems ...
The Green Grave and the Black Grave; At Sallygap; The Cemetery in the Demesne, Sunday Brings Sunday; The Long Ago; A Happy Death; The Sand Castle; The Small Bequest; A...