Selected Short Stories
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Selected Short Stories
By William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published The Sound and the Fury.
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Selected Short Stories
By SakiSelected Short Stories
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Selected Short Stories
By Rabindranath TagoreThe book contains an introduction elucidating the connections between the stories and Tagore's life, as well as the stories' relations to the European genres.
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Selected Short Stories
By D. H. LawrenceShe glanced repeatedly at her card, to see when she would dance again with Adams, half in desire, half in dread. Sometimes she met his steady, glaucous eye as she passed him in the dance. Sometimes she saw the steadiness of his flank as ...
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Selected Short Stories
By David Herbert LawrenceNot she , ' said Adams heartily . ' No girl with any spirit gets tired of dancing . - Have something else , Elsie . Come – sherry . Have a glass of sherry with us , Whiston . ' Whilst they sipped the wine , Adams watched Whiston almost ...
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Selected Short Stories
By Nathaniel HawthorneFeatured stories include "The Wives of the Dead," concerning reactions to loss; "The Gray Champion," a tale of the supernatural; and "Wakefield," in which a runaway husband can't quite let go.
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Selected Short Stories
By Rabindranath TagoreYet Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and in these stories he can be seen reaching beyond mere documentary realism towards his own profoundly original vision.
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Selected Short Stories: Rabrindranath Tagore
By Rabindranath TagoreThis collection of Tagore's short stories, translated into English is the first title in a major and prestigious project undertaken by the Oxford University Press in collaboration with Visva-Bharati to...
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Selected Short Stories
By O. HenryO. Henry's Selected Short Stories are known for their wit, wordplay, and surprise endings. Most of the stories are set New York City in the early years of the twentieth century and deal with the common people.
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Selected Short Stories
By Virginia WoolfYes, that seems to express the rapidity of life, the perpetual waste and repair; all so casual, all so haphazard' Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and ...
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Selected Short Stories
By William Wymark JacobsSelected Short Stories
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Selected Short Stories
By Guy de MaupassantA collection of the author's most characteristic stories portrays life in 19th-century France.
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Selected Short Stories
By Virginia WoolfWith Joyce and Eliot she has shaped a literary century' Jeanette Winterson Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the ...
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Selected Short Stories
By Leo TolstoyThis original collection, which features some of his most hard-to-find tales, will enchant longtime enthusiasts of Tolstoy's work as well as new readers.
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Selected Short Stories
By Rabindranath TagoreWritten during the 1890s, the stories in this collection recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officaldom and dehumanizing poverty.
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Selected Short Stories
By Thomas HardyIt reflects the experiences of a novelist who was at the height of his creative powers. The stories are thematically linked by a concern with the diverse problems of marriage.
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Selected Short Stories
By David Herbert LawrenceThis series provides a wide variety of reading material for all learners of English. The books are retold versions of popular classics and contemporary titles as well as specially written stories.
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Selected Short Stories
By Joseph ConradA selection of short stories including favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer, a thrilling psychological drama; An Outpost of Progress, a blackly comic prelude to Heart of Darkness; Amy Foster, a moving story ...
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Selected Short Stories
By John O'Hara"John O'Hara's fiction," wrote Lionel Trilling, "is preeminent for its social verisimilitude." Made famous by his bestselling novels, including BUtterfield 8 and Appointment in Samarra, O'Hara (1905-1970) also wrote some...
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Selected Short Stories: O. Henry
By O. Henry... the hand of a man with a German silver star on his lapel. "'Constable,' says I,'it's a fine night.' "'Have you got a city license,' he asks,'to sell this illegitimate essence of spooju that you flatter by the name of medicine?' "'I have ...