Short Stories (single author)
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Complete Works and Other Stories
$19.95 Add to cartAugusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, the
- Series: Texas Pan American
- Author: Monterroso, Augusto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: January 01, 1996
- ISBN10: 0292751842
- Language: English
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Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories
$18.00 Read moreA new selection of Isaac Babel’s 26 most vital and beautiful stories, in acclaimed translations by Boris Dralyuk
Isaac Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature. Brashly- Series: Essential Stories
- Author: Babel, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 1782277811
- Language: English
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
$19.99 Add to cartA debut short story collection in the tradition of writers like Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, and George Saunders–strange, imaginative, and refreshingly original—now back in print as part of Ecco’s “Art
- Series: Art of the Story
- Author: Wilson, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0063041022
- Language: English
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The Lottery Winner
$10.99 Add to cartMary Higgins Clark, the bestselling “Queen of Suspense,” returns with Alvirah Meehan–one of her most beloved characters–in these six dazzling, intertwined, and thrilling tales of sleuthing and suspe… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Mary Higgins
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0671867172
- Language: English
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Fresh Complaint: Stories
$17.00 Read moreThe first collection of short fiction from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex.
Jeffrey Eugenides’s bestselling novels have shown him to be an astu- Author: Eugenides, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1250192722
- Language: English
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The Luck of the Fall
$24.95 Read moreIn The Luck of the Fall, characters get lost; they fall, but the falls shape their lives in ways that might even be called “lucky”–if luck is defined as survival, despite the scars left behind. They … [more below]
- Author: Daniels, Jim Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1611864674
- Language: English
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Detective Kay Hunter – Collected Short Stories Volume 1
$16.23 Add to cartDiscover three short stories featuring Detective Kay Hunter in this page-turning collection of crime thrillers.
Nowhere to Run
When a series of vicious attacks leaves the local running community in shoc
- Series: Detective Kay Hunter
- Author: Amphlett, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: August 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1915231620
- Language: English
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Dropped Calls
$25.95 Add to cartDropped Calls will ring like a lost phone and have you scrambling to pick up the call. Should water, food, and even the air we breathe become threatened? Providence assembles at the bugler’s call. Whe… [more below]
- Author: McGuiness, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798886934724
- Language: English
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Some of Tim’s Stories: Volume 2
$14.95 Add to cartShort Stories from the bestselling author of The Outsiders, plus exclusive interviews
A teenager when she first gained fame, now a seasoned writer, S. E. Hinton takes her trademark themes to a new lev
- Series: Oklahoma Stories & Storytellers #2
- Author: Hinton, S. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138351
- Language: English
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Only Wounded
$16.99 Add to cartIreland, home of legendary poets and storytellers, has been wracked by bloody sectarian violence over the last quarter century. Bombs and guns were, and once again are, the primary negotiation tools u
- Series: Stories of the Irish Troubles #1
- Author: Taylor, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0765335239
- Language: English
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Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf
$16.99 Add to cartP.G. Wodehouse often said that he wished he’d spent more time playing golf and less “fooling about writing stories and things.” Happily, the prolific and beloved satirist often took his pen to the gre
- Series: P.G. Wodehouse Collection
- Author: Wodehouse, P. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0618009272
- Language: English
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Dreamsongs, Volume I
$22.00 Add to cartEven before A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin had already established himself as a giant in the field of fantasy literature. The first of two stunning collections, Dreamsongs: Volume I is a rare… [more below]
- Series: Dreamsongs #1
- Author: Martin, George R. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0553385682
- Language: English
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Sicilian Stories: A Dual-Language Book
$16.95 Read moreWith his novels, short stories, and plays, Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) achieved renown in the Italian verismo (realist) school of writing. This outstanding selection of 12 short stories — most from th… [more below]
- Series: Dover Dual Language Italian
- Author: Verga, Giovanni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2002
- ISBN10: 486419452
- Language: English
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The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
$21.95 Add to cartIn a cruel twist of irony, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) is being recognized only after her death for her inestimable genius in her native land. With the savage humor of Waugh and the maca… [more below]
- Author: Highsmith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: December 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327728
- Language: English
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The Theory of Light & Matter
$21.00 Add to cartThese ten stories take us across the country–from rural Pennsylvania to Southern California to suburban Connecticut–and deep into characters struggling to find meaning in their day-to-day lives. The… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Porter, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0307475174
- Language: English
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Homeland: And Other Stories
$17.99 Read more“Extraordinarily fine. Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness toward her characters. . . . The title story is pure poetry.” –Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review
With the same wit and sensitivity
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 006227774X
- Language: English
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Eight Men
$19.99 Add to cart“[Wright’s] landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, of the human heart.” —James Baldwin
In these powerful stories, literary giant Richard Wright probes t
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Wright, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0061450189
- Language: English
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The Bar at Twilight
$17.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE
An incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longing
In fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential m
- Author: Tuten, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1954276036
- Language: English
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First Snow on Fuji
$16.95 Add to cartThe stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms … [more below]
- Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: October 12 2000
- ISBN10: 1582431051
- Language: English
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Twenty Stories
$20.00 Read moreThe selection of the best stories from a lifetime of fictions by the acknowledged master of his craft.
- Author: Driscoll, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985469714
- Language: English
