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The Granta Book of the American Short Story: Volume 2
$17.95 Add to cartRichard Ford, one of the finest American novelists and short-story writers, introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta Books published in 1992.
It became the definitive
- Author: Ford, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 786
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1847080405
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
$34.99 Add to cartThese Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of lonelines… [more below]
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Stafford, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529930
- Language: English
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Girl with Curious Hair
$18.99 Add to cartGirl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace’s remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily “real,” almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lynd… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback Fiction
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393313964
- Language: English
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The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories
$5.00 Read moreHere are sixteen of the best stories by one of America’s most popular storytellers. For nearly a century, the work of O. Henry has delighted readers with its humor, irony and colorful, real-life setti… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Henry, O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0486270610
- Language: English
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The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories
$10.00 Add to cartHenry Fleming, a raw Union Army recruit in the American Civil War, is anxious to confirm his patriotism and manhood–to earn his “badge of courage.” But his dreams of heroism and invulnerability are s… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Crane, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0143039350
- Language: English
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41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition
$7.95 Add to cartIncluding his most famous works, such as “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Furnished Room,” this collection of forty-one O. Henry short stories demonstrates his extraordinary technical genius.
“There ar- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Henry, O.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0451530535
- Language: English
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Complete Stories
$20.00 Add to cartAs this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Dorothy Parker’s talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Parker, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437212
- Language: English
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The Ways of White Folks
$17.00 Add to cartA collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in the 1920s and ’30s.
One of t… [more below]- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: September 12 1990
- ISBN10: 0679728171
- Language: English
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Elbow Room
$8.99 Read moreA beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find … [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James Alan
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0449213579
- Language: English
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Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, “Rabbit Remembered”
$18.00 Add to cartIn this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of Olinger Stories, the sandstone farmhouse of Of the Farm, the exu
- Author: Updike, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 27, 2001
- ISBN10: 0345442016
- Language: English
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High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006
$24.00 Add to cartNo other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author’s seminal collections and includ
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0060501200
- Language: English
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Saul Bellow: Collected Stories
$23.00 Read moreA collection of treasured stories by the unchallenged master of American fiction
A Penguin Classic Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as one of America’s greatest writers.- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Bellow, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0143107259
- Language: English
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The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe
$38.95 Add to cartThe Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe stands as the most comprehensive edition of Thomas Wolfe’s short fiction to date. Collected by Francis E. Skipp, these fifty-eight stories span the breadth o… [more below]
- Author: Wolfe, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 19 1989
- ISBN10: 0020408919
- Language: English
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Birds of America: Stories
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR – From the bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs A collection of twelve stories that’s “one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of huma… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Moore, Lorrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 12 2010
- ISBN10: 307474968
- Language: English
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American Childhood: A Photographic History
$36.00 Read moreA remarkable collection of over 200 stunning photographs of children–from the Civil War era to the present–that captures the ever-changing experience of childhood throughout American history.
Did Am- Author: Brewster, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1501124889
- Language: English
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Popo’s Lucky Chinese New Year
$18.99 Add to cartWhen her Chinese grandmother comes to visit, a young Chinese-American girl learns of and participates in the customs and beliefs celebrating an authentic Chinese New Year.
- Author: Loh-Hagan, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1585369780
- Language: English
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Little Women: The Complete Novel, Featuring the Characters’ Letters and Manuscripts, Written and Folded by Hand
$42.50 Add to cartThis special edition invites fans inside the world of the March sisters. It includes the full text of Little Women, plus gorgeous, removable replicas of the characters’ letters and other writings.
For- Series: Classic Novels X Chronicle Books
- Author: Heller, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1797208918
- Language: English
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A Question of Value: Stories from the Life of an Auctioneer
$22.00 Add to cartIn the late 1970s, Robert Brunk discovered the world of auctioneering. Drawn to the unique mountain culture and the history of fine art in and around Asheville, North Carolina, Bob started a business,… [more below]
- Author: Brunk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1469678098
- Language: English
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Great American Short Stories: Hawthorne, Poe, Cather, Melville, London, James, Crane, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Bierce, Twain & More
$8.00 Add to cartFeaturing 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1835 tale “Young Goodman Brown” and r… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Negri, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: 23-Jul-02
- ISBN10: 0486421198
- Language: English
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Our America: A Photographic History
$80.00 Add to cartFrom one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America–a stunning and moving collection of some of Ken Burns’s favorite photographs, with an introduction by Burns, and an essay by … [more below]
- Author: Burns, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0385353014
- Language: English
