Short stories
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Family Happiness: Stories
$12.00 Add to cartRussian writer Leo Tolstoy is probably best known to the Western world for his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but during his long lifetime Tolstoy wrote numerous shorter works to fill ma
- Series: Harper Perennial Classic Stories
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0061773735
- Language: English
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Kilometer 101
$17.95 Read moreA new collection of short fiction and nonfiction by a Russian master of bittersweet humor, dramatic irony, and poignant insights into contemporary life.
The town of Tarusa lies 101 kilometers outside- Author: Osipov, Maxim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376865
- Language: English
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Recitatif: A Story
$18.00 Add to cartA beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison.
In this 1983 short story–the only short story Morrison ever wrote–we meet Twy- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 059355664X
- Language: English
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The Other Ones
$19.95 Add to cartIn “The Net,” a girl and her mother arrive at their secluded cabin on a frozen lake to find their fishing net has been attacked, a massive hole ripped through the middle. After the net has been mended
- Author: Fournier, Jamesie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1772274216
- Language: English
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Other Worlds: Pilgrims, Peasants, Spirits, Saints
$17.95 Read moreStories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of the most essential twentieth-century writers of short fiction and essays.
Though best known for her co- Author: Teffi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375397
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
$20.00 Add to cartA landmark collection of stories–nearly half appearing in English for the first time–selected and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri
A Penguin Classic When Jhumpa Lahiri decided to re- Author: Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0241299853
- Language: English
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Boston Noir 2: The Classics
$15.95 Read more“The contributor list is delightfully quirky . . . The collection’s unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston’s Byzantine worlds of race and class-as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus’s tale o
- Series: Akashic Noir
- Author: Lehane, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: November 06, 2012
- ISBN10: 1617751367
- Language: English
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Everyday People: The Color of Life–A Short Story Anthology
$17.99 Add to cart“A delight and highly recommended.” —Booklist
“Showcases the truth and fullness of people of color.” —Book Riot In the tradition of Best American Short Stories comes Everyday People: The Color of- Author: Baker, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1501134949
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story
$49.58 Add to cartThis Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
- Author: Collins, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: May 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1009292846
- Language: English
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I’ll Give You a Reason: Stories
$16.95 Add to cartThe vibrant stories in I’ll Give You a Reason explore race, identity, connection, and belonging in the Ironbound, an immigrant neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. A young widow goes on her first date … [more below]
- Author: López, Annell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1558613129
- Language: English
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The Neorealist in Winter: Stories
$18.95 Read moreEleven short stories following Italian characters exploring life in an era of media oversaturation.
Salvatore Pane’s The Neorealist in Winter is a collection of eleven short stories that explore what- Author: Pane, Salvatore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1637680783
- Language: English
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Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels
$18.95 Add to cartThe last work of fiction from acclaimed author Kevin McIlvoy, Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels showcases McIlvoy’s artistic dedication to the irreal, the carnivalesque, to ghost stories, fai
- Author: McIlvoy, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 173366193X
- Language: English
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The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction
$12.00 Add to cartAmerican Indian stories have fascinated the world for all the right reasons: vigor, depth, subtlety, brightness. In the 1960s a brilliant renaissance began. Out of it came such gifted writers of ficti… [more below]
- Author: Velie, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 161
- Publish Date: October 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0803296142
- Language: English
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My World-And Welcome to It
$18.99 Add to cartThe world of Thurber is splendidly sampled in these thirty stories, sketches, and articles that range from the wildest comedy to the serious business of murder. Animal courtship, maids, Macbeth, baseb… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: March 19 1969
- ISBN10: 0156623447
- Language: English
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Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories
$17.00 Add to cartHorror legend Ray Russell’s haunting and macabre stories, including “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written” (Stephen King), with a foreword by acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Horror
- Author: Russell, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0143129317
- Language: English
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Love and Other Wounds: Stories
$18.99 Add to cartIn the hard-edged tradition of Hubert Selby Jr., Daniel Woodrell, and Donald Ray Pollock, and with the fresh, complex humanity of Breaking Bad and Reservoir Dogs, a blistering debut collection that un
- Author: Harper, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 006239438X
- Language: English
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The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008
$18.99 Add to cart“Culled from 30 years as one of America’s most distinctive fictional voices . . . 36 affecting and inventive stories that dance around the Faulknerian world she’s created. . . . Within these stories t
- Author: Erdrich, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0061536083
- Language: English
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The Book of Cthulhu: Tales Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft
$15.99 Read moreTales of tentacles, terror, and madness from the publisher who brought you Wastelands, The Living Dead, and Brave New Worlds
First described by visionary author H. P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu mythos en- Author: Lockhart, Ross E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1949102645
- Language: English
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It Gets Even Better: Stories of Queer Possibility
$19.99 Add to cartThese stories are about identity, relationships, and community. They’re about hope, acceptance, affirmation, and joy. And most of all, in a time when uncertainty feels inescapable and overwhelming, th
- Author: Oliveira, Isabela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1736618202
- Language: English
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We Imagined It Was Rain
$16.95 Add to cartHailed by ZZ Packer as “a master of tone, detail, and imagery,” Andrew Siegris’s debut collection, We Imagined It Was Rain, is a love song to Tennessee. These loosely connected stories are imbued with… [more below]
- Author: Siegrist, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1938235886
- Language: English
