Short stories
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Selected Short Stories
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner–also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Abs
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 1993
- ISBN10: 0679424784
- Language: English
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Look at the Birdie: Short Fiction
$17.00 Add to cart“Relentlessly fun to read.”–Dave Eggers – A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction
In this series of perfectly re- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0385343728
- Language: English
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You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down
$13.95 Add to cartAnatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love
& Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show
women oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories ab… [more below]- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 167
- Publish Date: May 17 2004
- ISBN10: 015602862X
- Language: English
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Even Greater Mistakes: Stories
$18.99 Add to cartIn her short story collection, Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders upends genre cliches and revitalizes classic tropes with heartfelt and pants-wettingly funny social commentary.
The woman who- Author: Anders, Charlie Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250766524
- Language: English
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Kew Gardens and Other Short Fiction
$8.94 Add to cart‘The ponderous woman looked through the pattern of falling words at the flowers standing cool, firm, and upright in the earth, with a curious expression. . .So heavy the woman came to a standstill opp… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 198838131
- Language: English
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Poirot Investigates: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Warbler Classics)
$10.95 Add to cartIn the world of Hercule Poirot, a movie star’s visit to London turns into a quest to recover a fabulous diamond, an ordinary dinner conversation about rented flats and houses leads to the discovery of
- Series: Hercule Poirot #3
- Author: Christie, Agatha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736062883
- Language: English
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Sing to It: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
ONE OF TIME‘S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in Ameri- Author: Hempel, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1982109122
- Language: English
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The Mountain: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartIn “a spectacular display of intelligence and feeling” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Paul Yoon’s collection of short stories ranges throughout the world–from the Hudson Valley to the Russian F… [more below]
- Author: Yoon, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1501154095
- Language: English
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century
$32.00 Add to cartSince the series’ inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all tim
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Updike, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0395843677
- Language: English
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Sentimental Tales
$16.95 Add to cartMikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Zoshchenko, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0231183798
- Language: English
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Miss Muriel and Other Stories
$17.99 Add to cart“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it
- Author: Petry, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0063260174
- Language: English
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The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries
$30.00 Add to cartEdgar Award winner Otto Penzler–“detective fiction’s best editor and champion” (The Washington Post)–returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society’s lords and … [more below]
- Author: Penzler, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 593311027
- Language: English
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The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
$22.95 Add to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life–lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, ar- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: De Balzac, Honore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1590176642
- Language: English
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The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Hemingway Library Collector’s Edition
$35.00 Add to cartThe fourth in the series of new annotated editions of Ernest Hemingway’s work, edited by the author’s grandson Se n and introduced by his son Patrick, this “illuminating” (The Washington Post) collect… [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 147678762X
- Language: English
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Self-Portrait with Ghost: Short Stories
$18.99 Add to cart“A knockout short story collection…Each one of these 10 dizzyingly immersive stories offers up a heady and visceral portrait of what ails us, from isolation and self-doubt, to unrequited love and re
- Author: Jin, Meng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0063160722
- Language: English
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Wrong: Stories
$16.00 Add to cartFor the last decade, Dennis Cooper has intrigued, shocked, and energized American writing. Whether described as the leading writer of the Blank Generation or the New Narrative or likened to Poe, Sade,
- Series: Cooper, Dennis
- Author: Cooper, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0802133673
- Language: English
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Ford County: Stories
$28.00 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.
Wheelchair-bound Inez G- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0385532458
- Language: English
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The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
$16.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling classic of a young woman’s journey in work, love, and life
“In this swinging, funny, and tender study of contemporary relationships, Bank refutes once and for all the … [more below]- Author: Bank, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140293248
- Language: English
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On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
$16.95 Read moreFeaturing stories by: Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Dorothy West, Rita Dove, Camille Acker, Toni Cade Bambara, Amina Gautier, Alexia Arthurs, Dana Johnson, Alice Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edwidge D
- Author: Edim, Glory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092351
- Language: English
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The Diary of Mr. Poynter: A Ghost Story for Christmas
$6.95 Add to cartWhile engrossed in an account of the death of a student obsessed with his own hair, a man leans down to absently pet his dog–oblivious of the true nature of the creature crouching beside him. This cl
- Series: Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories
- Author: James, M. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1771961252
- Language: English
