Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. The present volume includes all his available shorter fiction in a new collection edited and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici. 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 than often thought. The extensive prefatory essay is an introduction not only to the stories but also to Kafka's work as a whole.
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Included in this volume are “The Member of the Wedding” and “The Ballad of the Sad Café,” novellas that Tennessee Williams judged to be “assuredly among the masterpieces of our language.” “McCullers patented the Southern ...
A chronological arrangement of the noted American playwright's complete stories, published and unpublished, provides a veiled look at his life and concerns
This collection brings them back into print, from the astonishing debut "Going PlacesS to the uncollected last stories.
A definitive compilation of short fiction by the two time Hugo Award winner ranges from his earliest works to his longer takes from the 1970s and 1980s and includes such classics as "The Ungoverned" and "THe Blabber.
This comprehensive collection of one hundred short stories by the French writer ranges from a short fable to a novella and includes such popular masterpieces as "Bella-Vista" and "The Tender Shoot."