Anthologies
American and English Masterpiece mysteries by Faulkner, Christie, Doyle, Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Wallace, H G Wells, Edgar Allan Poe and others
50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common—the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction.
With works by Henry James, Stephen Crane, John Cheever, James Joyce and many others, this outstanding collection of 36 American and British short pieces of fiction from the first half of the 20th century is one of the bestselling collections of our time.
For many years the "Paris Review" interviews have been justly famous for giving deeper insight and understanding of the creative process. In this selection from the interviews, 15 writers discuss what they think of their own, and other people's work, their lives and the problems of writing in the contemporary world.
A Splendid collection of 50 stories from Washington Irving's 'The Adventures Of A German Student' to John Updike's 'The Lucid Eye in Silver Town'.Such classic stories as Edgar Allan Poe’s 'Ms. Found in a Bottle', Bret Harte’s 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat', Sherwood Anderson’s 'Death in the Woods', Stephen Vincent Benét’s 'By the Waters of Babylon'. Also some little-known masterpieces as Edith Wharton’s 'The Dilettante', Finley Peter Dunne’s 'Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman', Charles M. Flandrau’s 'A Dead Issue', and James Reid Parker’s 'The Archimandrite's Niece'.There are also splendid offerings from Melville, Henry James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers, Irwin Shaw, John Cheever and Erskine Caldwell.
Anthology of 55 horror stories. The black cat ; The tell-tale heart ; The premature burial / Edgar Allan Poe. The torture of hope / Villiers de l'Isle Adam. An episode of the terror / Honoré de Balzac. The hand / Guy de Maupassant. The withered arm / Thomas Hardy. The idiots / Joseph Conrad. The bird / Thomas Burke. The terror / Arthur Machen. Lot No. 249 / Arthur Conan Doyle. The apprentice / Hilaire Belloc. The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski. The killers / Ernest Hemingway. Arabesque : the mouse / A. E. Coppard. Treasure trove / F. Tennyson Jesse. Cinci / Luigi Pirandello. Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers. The last chukka / Alec Waugh. Dead on her feet / Cornell Woolrich. Taboo / Geoffrey Household. A little place off the Edgware Road / Graham Greene. The words of guru / C. M. Kornbluth. Yours truly, Jack the ripper / Robert Bloch. The glass eye / John Keir Cross. The web / D'Arcy Niland. The little black bag / C. M. Kornbluth. The phsysiology of fear ; The head and the feet / C. S. Forester. The veld ; Skeleton / Ray Bradbury. Evening primrose / John Collier. Back from the grave / Robert Silverberg. A rose for Emily / William Faulkner. The island of bright birds / John Christopher. The comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor. The skylight / Penelope Mortimer. Pig / Roald Dahl. Robert ; The question / Stanley Ellin. In the steam room / Frank Baker. The pencil / Edmund Crispin. The dark of the moon / Olaf Ruhen. Falling object / William Brittain. The terrapin / Patricia Highsmith. The taste of your love / Eddy C. Bertin. Aunt Jennie's tonic / Leonard Tushnet. Not after midnight / Daphne du Maurier. The game / Thomasina Weber. The fanatic / Arthur Porges. The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison. Judas story / Brian M. Stableford. You're putting me on -- aren't you? / Joe Gores. Wake up dead / Tim Stout. Corabella / David Fletcher. -- introduction by Lynn Picknett.
Some of the greatest storytellers of our time chronicle twentieth-century southern life. Rich in irony, sly humor, and vivid, dramatic imagery, the literature of the modern South is a vital amalgam of a once-rural society’s storytelling tradition and the painful contradictions and cultural clashes brought about by rapid change. The stories in this collection are as diverse as the region itself, yet they are all connected by a shared history and a uniquely southern strain of American language and narrative. Contributors include Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams.
This capacious anthology has selections from the authors you would expect to find, from others you may be less familiar with, and from writers you might not expect to show up in this company. The result is a treasure trove of unusual fiction, one of the most exciting anthologies to appear in the last decade. This is a poet's companion, a student's delight, great bedside reading: the kind of book you'd take to a desert island!
An anthology of some of the best short stories ever written by Louisiana authors. Included in this compilation are works by Henry Clay Lewis, George Washington Cable, Lafcadio Hearn, Grace King, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Lyle Saxon, E. P. O'Donnell, Shirley Ann Grau, Ernest Gaines, Andre Dubus, James Lee Burke, and John William Corrington.
Masterpieces of horror fiction. Brilliant introduction by Hartwell.
Featuring contributions by William Faulkner, Alice Walker, Flannery O'connor, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, and Ernest Gaines, among others, a richly textured collection of stories about growing up in the South vividly depicts a place that is extraordinarily beautiful yet afflicted by great tragedy. Reprint.
A collection of short stories, in fact masterpieces from such authors as Hawthorne, Poe, Bradbury, Walker and Amy Tan.
A compilation of the debut published stories of some of the twentieth century's finest writers features the work of Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anne Tyler, John Updike, James Baldwin, and others
A collection of the very best in mystery writing includes contributions by O. Henry, Dasniell Hammett, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Ellery Queen, James Thurber, Sue Grafton, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, John Steinbeck, Mickey Spillane, and many, many others. 75,000 first printing.
John Updike has selected enduring stories from the eighty-four annual volumes of THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, and the result is a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" (Entertainment Weekly). Volume 1 of the audio edition features a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the genre, along with authors reading from their own work. "America and the 20th century -- at its best" (Wall Street Journal). Contents: The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson, read by John Updike. Theft by Katherine Anne Porter, read by Jill McCorkle. Crazy Sunday by F. Scott Fitzgerald, read by George Plimpton. The Interior Castle by Jean Stafford, read by Mary Gordon. Gold Coast by James Alan McPherson, read by James Alan McPherson. The German Refugee by Bernard Malamud, read by Alan Cheuse. The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick, read by Cynthia Ozick. How to Win by Rosellen Brown, read by Rosellen Brown. I Want to Live! by Thom Jones, read by Thom Jones. Birthmates by Gish Jen, read by Gish Jen.
Gathering forty important short stories in a portable and economical format, the second edition includes even more of the fiction instructors want to teach and more of the help student readers need.
For writers Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic “hall of mirrors,” Aldous Huxley a “city of dreadful joy.” Where Jack Kerouac found a “huge desert encampment,” David Thompson imagined “Marilyn Monroe, fifty miles long, lying on her side, half-buried on a ridge of crumbling rock.” In Writing Los Angeles , The Library of America presents a glittering panorama of the city, encompassing fiction, poetry, essays, journalism, and diaries by over seventy writers. This revelatory anthology brings to life the entrancing surfaces and unsettling contradictions of the City of Angels, from Raymond Chandler’s evocation of the murderous moods fed by the Santa Ana winds to John Gregory Dunne’s affectionate tribute to “the deceptive perspectives of the pale subtropical light.” Here are fascinating strata of Los Angeles’s cultural and social history, from the oil boom of the 1920s to the graffiti artists of the 1980s, from flamboyant evangelist Aimee Semple MacPherson to surf music genius Brian Wilson, from the German émigré intellectuals chronicled by Salka Viertel to the hard-bitten homicide cops tracked by James Ellroy. Here are its fragile ecosystems, its architectural splendors, and its social chasms, in the words of writers as various as M.F.K. Fisher, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Octavio Paz, Joan Didion, Walter Mosley, and Mona Simpson. Art Pepper discovers Central Avenue in the heyday of the 1940s jazz scene; Charles Mingus describes an early encounter with the builder of the Watts Towers; screenwriter Robert Towne reflects on the origins of Chinatown; John McPhee powerfully conveys the devastation of Los Angeles mudslides; David Hockney teaches himself how to drive in record time; and Pico Iyer finds at Los Angeles International Airport “as clear an image as exists today of the world we are about to enter.” Writing Los Angeles is an incomparable literary tour guide to a city of shifting identities and endless surprises.
Explore the fascinating lives and loves of the greatest novelists, poets, and playwrights. From William Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison, Writers explores more than 100 biographies of the world’s greatest writers. Trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each individual and affected their writing, revealing insights into the larger-than-life characters, plots, and evocative settings that they created. You will also uncover details each writer’s most famous pieces and understand the times and cultures they lived in - see how the world influenced them and how their works influenced the world. Writers introduces key ideas, themes, and literary techniques of each figure, revealing the imaginations, and personalities behind some of the world's greatest novels, short stories, poems, and plays. A diverse variety of authors are covered, from the Middle Ages to present day, providing a compelling glimpse into the lives of the people behind the page.