New York: Lion Library Editions, 1955. Bob Maguire (cover painting). First Paperback Edition. Paperback. # LL53. Includes stories by Nelson Algren, William Saroyan, Thomas Wolfe, Conrad Aiken, Carson McCullers, Budd Schulberg, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James T. Farrell, Alice Denham, Dorothy Parker, and others. More
London: Vintage Books, 2001. Trade Paperback. In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know..... More
New York: Vintage International, 2001. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman–is an insightful, honest book, “autobiographical in form but not in fact,” that chronicles a young girl’s growing up in rural..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes–the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart..... More
London: Vintage Books, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from..... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2019. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Exile lies at the root of our earliest stories. Charting varied experiences of people forced to leave their homes from the ancient world to the present day, The Heart of a Stranger is an anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction that journeys..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1996. Paperback. More
London: Vintage Books, 2006. Parra (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves -..... More
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1985. First Carroll & Graf Edition. Mass-market Paperback. More
London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd / New Windmills, 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. Includes the following stories: A Knife with Sixteen Blades (from Autumn Term) by Antonia Frost; The Trouble with Donovan Croft (from The Trouble with Donovan Croft) by Bernard Ashley; Seymour's Century by Jan Mark; The Scar by Margaret..... More
New York: Manor Books Inc., 1972. Third Printing. Paperback. Deft and funny, wicked and wise... Here is science fiction at its peak. C. M. Kornbluth was one of the great masters of the form: gathered here are his best short stories. This posthumous collection takes you on wild excursions past..... More
Hong Kong: WIPS Women In Publishing in Hong Kong, 2020. Paperback. An exciting collection of new fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, travelogue, commentary, humour and artwork and much more. The literary and artistic skills of over 50 members combine in our 19th and latest high quality issue. "Women..... More
New York: The Modern Library, 2003. Gabrielle Bordwin (cover design). Trade Paperback. With a Foreword by Isabel Allende Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Robert B Stepto, Jennifer Rae Greeson (eds). First Edition. Paperback. Fourteen conjure tales by one of America’s most influential African American fiction writers. This Norton Critical Edition of The Conjure Stories arranges the tales chronologically by composition date, allowing readers to discern..... More
New York: Anchor Books, 2010. Wesley Gott (book design), Abby Weintraub (cover design). First Anchor Books Edition. Paperback. A dazzling story collection from the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists, “one of the world’s great contemporary writers” (Barack Obama). In these twelve riveting stories, the..... More
New York: Berkley Books, 1986. Paperback. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Second Edition. Softcover. Presents representative short stories by twenty-nine major international authors to reflect the development, styles, and trends of modern literature. More
Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2018. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. "From [Daniel] Pinkwater we expect the pure wackiness of a mind given to bizarre bolts of imagination," declared Publishers Weekly. These four different stories — collected for the very first time — abound in hilarious situations and characters that will amuse..... More
Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017. Edition with new introduction. Paperback. "Daniel Pinkwater is so obviously the funniest writer of children's books that he should be made a Living National Treasure," declared The Washington Post Book World. Young readers can join Pinkwater on a rollicking visit to his beloved New Jersey..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op. In his novels and stories, Dashiell Hammett created some of the most memorable characters--detectives, dames, and assorted miscreants--in twentieth-century fiction. It is nearly impossible to imagine modern American literature without Hammett. Vintage..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. Paperback Edition. Paperback. More
London: Harper Perennial, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. A collection of charming and celebrated writings about cats, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semi-feral creatures on the African farm where..... More
Random House, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Random House, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. More
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