Author: Milton Crane
Publisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0553277456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
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.
50 Great Short Stories
Author: Milton Crane
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553254822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
World's finest short stories collected and edited for this special edition. Included are Jackson's "The Lottery," Poe's "Masque Of The Red Death," Thurber's "Catbird Seat," and Wells' "Man Who Could Work Miracles".
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553254822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
World's finest short stories collected and edited for this special edition. Included are Jackson's "The Lottery," Poe's "Masque Of The Red Death," Thurber's "Catbird Seat," and Wells' "Man Who Could Work Miracles".
50 Greatest Short Stories
Author: Terry O'Brien (Quiz master)
Publisher: Rupa Publications India
ISBN: 9788129137258
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
50 Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the world's short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as 'The Gift of the Magi', 'The Lady with the Dog', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Rain' and 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', to name but a few. This outstanding and wide-ranging anthology of stories is a collector's item, designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the world's finest writing and for newer readers to be introduced to it. Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. Rider Haggard, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, W.W. Jacobs, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Saki, Jerome K. Jerome, H.G. Wells, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Frank Stockton, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Leacock, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, M. R. James, W. Somerset Maugham, R. L. Stevenson.
Publisher: Rupa Publications India
ISBN: 9788129137258
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
50 Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the world's short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as 'The Gift of the Magi', 'The Lady with the Dog', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Rain' and 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', to name but a few. This outstanding and wide-ranging anthology of stories is a collector's item, designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the world's finest writing and for newer readers to be introduced to it. Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. Rider Haggard, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, W.W. Jacobs, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Saki, Jerome K. Jerome, H.G. Wells, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Frank Stockton, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Leacock, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, M. R. James, W. Somerset Maugham, R. L. Stevenson.
50 Great American Short Stories
Author: Milton Crane
Publisher: Bantam Books
ISBN: 9780553247954
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher: Bantam Books
ISBN: 9780553247954
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Fifty Stories
Author: Kay Boyle
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Boyle, 50 Stories. An eloquent testament to the possibilities of living and writing.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Boyle, 50 Stories. An eloquent testament to the possibilities of living and writing.
100 World's Greatest Short Stories
Author: Prakash Book Depot
Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing
ISBN: 9789388810548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The short story is one of the finest forms of writing. As short as a paragraph at times, or as lengthy as a novel, short stories are widely read and immensely lauded. Some of the most exceptional writers have dabbled in this form penning beautiful, unforgettable stories. In this carefully-crafted selection, we bring to you some of the greatest writers from around the world-- the iconic storytellers from America, such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, the legendary Grimm brothers from Germany, to the lyrical Rabindranath Tagore from India, and the witty H H Munro from Britain. All these and many more remarkable people come together in this edition . . . and all have stories to tell. An anthology beginning with Aesop's fables-- perhaps the first stories we come across-- and ending with Virginia Woolf's gothic, thrilling ' The Haunted House', 100 World's Greatest Short Stories brings together stories short and sweet, descriptive and lengthy, and stories that can do anything-- from telling a tale to hiding its narrator, from portraying the reality to diving into pure imagination-- and are a must-read for every fiction lover."
Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing
ISBN: 9789388810548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The short story is one of the finest forms of writing. As short as a paragraph at times, or as lengthy as a novel, short stories are widely read and immensely lauded. Some of the most exceptional writers have dabbled in this form penning beautiful, unforgettable stories. In this carefully-crafted selection, we bring to you some of the greatest writers from around the world-- the iconic storytellers from America, such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, the legendary Grimm brothers from Germany, to the lyrical Rabindranath Tagore from India, and the witty H H Munro from Britain. All these and many more remarkable people come together in this edition . . . and all have stories to tell. An anthology beginning with Aesop's fables-- perhaps the first stories we come across-- and ending with Virginia Woolf's gothic, thrilling ' The Haunted House', 100 World's Greatest Short Stories brings together stories short and sweet, descriptive and lengthy, and stories that can do anything-- from telling a tale to hiding its narrator, from portraying the reality to diving into pure imagination-- and are a must-read for every fiction lover."
Great American Short Stories
Author: Paul Negri
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Features 19 gems in the American short-story tradition, including "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, plus stories by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Twain, others.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Features 19 gems in the American short-story tradition, including "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, plus stories by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Twain, others.
Great English Short Stories
Author: Paul Negri
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
DIVFirst-rate selections include Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels," James' "Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad," Dickens' "The Haunted Hotel," and tales by Saki, Kipling, Lawrence, Trollope, Stevenson, and others. /div
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
DIVFirst-rate selections include Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels," James' "Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad," Dickens' "The Haunted Hotel," and tales by Saki, Kipling, Lawrence, Trollope, Stevenson, and others. /div
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195092622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195092622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
The Best American Short Stories of the Century
Author: John Updike
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.
Fifty Famous People; A Book of Short Stories
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387050372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387050372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.