From the publisher: Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and other writers.

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From the publisher: Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed 'the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.' First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.

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From the publisher: A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988.

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From the publisher: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov(1860-1904) may be likened to his contemporaries, the pointilliste painters. Piece by piece, episode by episode, character by character, he constructs in prose a survey of the human condition. as David Magarshack writes in his introduction, on reading these stories "one gets the impression of holding life itself, like a fluttering bird, in one's cupped hands"...

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From the publisher: Seven masterly tales: La Parure, Mademoiselle Fifi, La Maison Tellier, La Ficelle, Miss Harriet, Boule de Suif and Le Horla. In French, with new English translations on facing pages...

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From the publisher: This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic "White Nights," an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous "Notes from the Underground," a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature.

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From the publisher: Throughout his all-too-brief literary life - two decades of published writings - F. Scott Fitzgerald sold some 160 short stories to magazines. Today he is admittedly better known for his novels, but in his own day his fame rested squarely on his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted, and it must be added, most highly paid writers of stories and novellas. While juggling his two careers as a serious novelist and as a popular magazine writer, Fitzgerald devoted (with frequent protests) the greater part of his time and ink to his short fiction. Now, a half-century after the author's death, the premier...

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From the publisher: The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway will stand as the definitive collection by the man whose craft and vision remains an enduring influence on generations of readers and writers.

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From the publisher: This volume continues the masterly unabridged reading of the short stories. It contains the last five stories from the collection: "A Painful Case," "Ivy Day in the Committee Room," "A Mother, Grace, 'and perhaps the most welt-known of all the stories (and the longest), 'The Dead."

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From the publisher: The only available collection that brings together all of Kafka's stories—those published during his lifetime and those released after his death.

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1998, ISBN: 0767902890
Format: Paperback
Genre: Fiction

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From the publisher: The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime - Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946 while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. This Book, which is arranged...

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From the publisher: "This is a book that will last and last."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. Here is a stunning collection of five stories and a novella that confirms Jane Smiley's place as one of our most gifted writers. In "The Age of Grief," a man meditates on the vagaries of love and family life. Certain that his wife has fallen in love with someone else—and been spurned by him—he tries to recover the good-humored, matter-of-fact heart of the mmarriage where he can keep her from knowing of his own sorrow. Clear and elegant, and filled with the unmistakable sound of real people going about the business—and pleasure—of real life, THE AGE OF GRIEF is a true cause for celebration.

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From the publisher: Stories are as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. The breadth of Welty's offering is finally most visible not in the variety of types--farce, satire, horror, lyric, pastoral, mystery--but in the clarity and solidity and absolute honesty of a lifetime's vision.

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From the publisher: Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. Lorrie Moore brings her keen eye for wit and surprise to the volume,...

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From the publisher: Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. Here you will find a 'splendid array of unpredictable and delectable...

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