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The Little Disturbances of Man
by Paley, Grace       
(Paperback - English - 9780140075571)
Whether writing about relationships, sexy little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, Grace Paley captures the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of the human experience with matchless style in this book of short stories. Fresh and vigorous...Mrs. Paley's view of life is her own.--The New Yorker br br The glad tidings from this reviewer's corner are of the appearance of a writer] possessed of an all-too-infrequent literary virtue--the comic vision.--The New York Times ..
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Made to Order: Robots and Revolution
by Strahan, Jonathan    Chu, John    Gregory, Daryl
(Paperback - English - 9781781087879)
A cutting-edge anthology, published on the 100th anniversary of the word "Robot", exploring the possibilities and place of robots in society going forwards. 100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, "robots" are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games. They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where hope and optimism shines through. Including stories by: Brooke Bolander - John Chu - Daryl Gregory - Peter F ..
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Horrorama
by Harvey, Matt    Coomer, A. S.    Mangum, Lucas
(Paperback - English - 9781941918715)
Ready for the book version of a horror movie marathon? Horrorama brings you three novelettes reminiscent of those popcorn fueled all-nighters. br Stor-All Self-Storage by A.S. Coomer br Richard Dennison has just landed a new job at the Stor-All Self-Storage as a night security officer. The owners are a bit strange but not as bizarre as the renters who visit their units at night. And the only instructions he's been given are to call the police. br Primitive by Lucas Mangum br A group of old friends decide to spend the weekend camping on Moon Mountain only to have their vacation interrupted when a disheveled woman appears out of the woods. She tells them ..
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Magic of Mirstone
by Fierce, Richard    Pdmac    Cook, A. R.
(Paperback - English - 9781947329713)
strong Everyone needs a little magic. strong br For some, that means seeking out a machine that can make you a god. For others, it's about saving a floating isle from crashing into the sea. br And then there are those who desire magic for darker purposes ... like revenge. br Seven authors bring you seven unique stories about magic and magical items in a fantastic world of imagination. br Welcome back to Mirstone. ..
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First Love
by Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich    Berlin, Isaiah    Pritchett, V. S.
(Paperback - English - 9780140443356)
Isaiah Berlin's translation of the legendary Russian novella of growing up and heartbreak When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the capricious young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each other, Vladimir's unrequited youthful passion soon turns to torment and despair - although he remains unaware of his true rival for Zinaida's affections. Set in the world of nineteenth-century Russia's fading aristocracy, Turgenev's story depicts a boy's growth of knowledge and ..
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Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story
by The Paris Review       
(Paperback - English - 9781250005984)
A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year br A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year br Twenty contemporary authors introduce twenty sterling examples of the short story from the pages of The Paris Review . What does it take to write a great short story? In Object Lessons , twenty contemporary masters of the genre answer that question, sharing favorite stories from the pages of The Paris Review . Over the course of the last half century, the Review has launched hundreds of careers while publishing some of the most inventive and best-loved stories of our time. This anthology---the first of its kind---is more than a treasury: it is an indispensable resource ..
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Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience
by Prasad, Chandra    Walker, Rebecca   
(Paperback - English - 9780393327861)
Globally, the number of multiracial people is exploding. In 10 US states, the percentage of multiracial residents who are of school age--between 5 and 17--is at least 25 percent. In California alone, it is estimated that 15 percent of all births are multiracial or multiethnic. Despite these numbers, mixed-race people have long struggled for a distinct place on the identity map. It was only as recently as 2000 that the U.S. Census Bureau began to allow citizens to check off as many racial categories as are applicable-White, African American, Asian, Hispanic, Native Hawaiian, American Indian, and Alaska Native. Previously, Americans were allowed to check off only ..
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
by Hustvedt, Asti       
(Paperback - English - 9781890951078)
In fin-de-si cle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a striking manner with those of the last fin de si cle: crime, pollution, sexually transmitted disease, gender confusion, moral depravity, alcoholism, and tobacco and drug use were topics of constant popular discussion in both epochs. The Decadent Reader is a collection of novels and stories from fin-de-si cle France that celebrate decline, aestheticize decay, and take pleasure in perversity. By embracing the marginal, the unhealthy, and the deviant, these writers attacked ..
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Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia
by Dodd White, Charles    Smith, Larry    Offutt, Chris
(Paperback - English - 9781933964850)
Appalachia verite...This fine collection edited and introduces by Charles Dodd White and Larry Smith includes this short fiction: �On the Road with C.T. Savage� by Meredith Sue Willis, �Burning Off into Forever� by David Joy, �The Wife You Wanted� by Marie Manilla, �Wild Kind� by Matt Brock, �The Hanging� by Darnell Arnoult, �Confluence� by Mesha Maren, �Covered Bridge� by Taylor Brown, �Obituary� by Jacinda Townsend, �Cell-Life� by Carrie Mullins, �The Hawkins Boy� by Charles Dodd White, �White Freightline ..
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Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction
by Park, Sunyoung    Park, Sunyoung    Joon, Park Sang
(Paperback - English - 9781885030573)
Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction presents the first book-length English-language translation of science and speculative fiction from South Korea, bringing together 13 classic and contemporary stories from the 1960s through the 2010s. From the reimagining of an Asimovian robot inside the walls of a Buddhist temple and a postapocalyptic showdown between South and North Korean refugees on a faraway planet to a fictional recollection of a disabled woman's struggle to join an international space mission, these stories showcase the thematic and stylistic versatility of South Korean science-fiction writers in its wide array. At ..
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Christmas Stories
by Tesdell, Diana Secker       
(Hardcover - English - 9780307267177)
Now joining Everyman's Library--the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world's greatest works--is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure. Christmas Stories is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries--from Dickens and Tolstoy to John Updike and Alice Munro. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging anthology. Goblins frolic in the graveyard of an early Dickens tale and a l ..
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Great Russian Short Stories
by Negri, Paul       
(Paperback - English - 9780486429922)
Among the country's greatest artistic contributions, 20th-century Russian literature was revolutionary in its approach to realism, injecting characters with human weaknesses familiar to all. It also provided fodder for other such important concepts as existentialism and even passive resistance, which was rooted in the works of Tolstoy, and practiced resistance, which was rooted in the works of Tolstoy and practiced successfully by Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The 12 powerful short stories in this collection are excellent examples of writing by the foremost authors from Russia's Golden Age of Literature. br Included are The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin; ..
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Meanwhile in the Middle of Eternity
by Giunta, Phil       
(Paperback - English - 9781948178037)
In eternity, all stories are timeless. Join gods and mortals in combat against slithering demons in famine-stricken Finland... Witness an unconventional battle of wits as a devious genie tries to outfox a clever robot... Ride with two hapless deliverymen as they stumble upon a frightening ritual to propitiate an ancient and malevolent power... Escape to a remote corner of the globe with a desperate family fleeing an insidious alien invasion... Follow a fraternity pledge as he undergoes an initiation to terror at a local cemetery... Travel through time and across the cosmos with storytellers Daniel Patrick Corcoran, Michael Critzer, Sean Druelinger, ..
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Pen America Best Debut Short Stories 2019
by Machado, Carmen Maria    Evans, Danielle    Sola Kim, Alice
(Paperback - English - 9781948226349)
The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction selected by Danielle Evans, Alice Sola Kim, and Carmen Maria Machado Prominent issues of social justice and cultural strife are woven thematically throughout 12 stories. Stories of prison reform, the immigrant experience, and the aftermath of sexual assault make the book a vivid time capsule that will guide readers back into the ethos of 2019 for generations to come . . . Each story displays a mastery of the form, sure to inspire readers to seek out further writing from these adept authors and publications.--Booklist Who are the most promising short story writers working today? Where do we loo ..
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Bodies from the Library 2: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and Other Masters of Golden Age Detection
by Medawar, Tony    Christie, Agatha    Crispin, Edmund
(Paperback - English - 9780008318789)
strong This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 15 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including newly discovered stories by Dorothy L. Sayers and Edmund Crispin that have never previously been published. strong With the Golden Age of detective fiction shining ever more brightly thanks to the recent reappearance of many forgotten crime novels, Bodies from the Library offers a rare opportunity to read lost stories from the first half of the twentieth century by some of the genre's most accomplished writers. This second volume is a showcase for popular figures of the Golden Age, in stories ..
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Great German Short Stories
by Bates, Evan       
(Paperback - English - 9780486432052)
The unique boundaries of the short story have attracted a majority of the prominent writers in the German language since the genre attained its modern form and became widely read around the turn of the 19th century. br This collection, featuring stories by eight of the form's most successful practitioners, includes Arthur Schnitzler's "Lieutenant Gustl," considered to be the first purely interior monologue in European literature; Heinrich von Kleist's "Earthquake in Chile," a highly charged narrative in which nature and public opinion precipitate acts of incredible violence; as well as important works by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Gerhart Hauptmann, Rainer Maria ..
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Tales of the Metropolis - Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan, Vol. 3
by Edogawa, Rampo    Higashi, Masao    Weinberg, Robert
(Paperback - English - 9784902075106)
The third and final volume of our Kaiki series returns us to the Capital City: Tokyo. While Japan has modernized, renaming old Edo as new-born Tokyo, strange secrets remain hidden under the chrome and spotlights, unaffected by our beliefs in Science and Technology. Enjoy a new collection of stories introducing the strange denizens and happenings of the shadowy world of Japanese uncanny literature. Selected and with commentary by Higashi Masao, a recognized researcher and author in the field. The list of authors includes some of the most famous names in Japanese literature: Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Edogawa Rampo, Hisao Juran, Endo Shusaku, Kawab ..
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Selected Tales
by Poe, Edgar Allan    Leer, David Van   
(Paperback - English - 9780199535774)
Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very br American tales, this new selection of twenty-four tales places the most popular--"The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Purloined Letter"--alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires. strong About the Series: strong For over 100 years strong Oxford World's Clas ..
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New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction
by Thomas, James    Scotellaro, Robert   
(Paperback - English - 9780393354706)
All of the stories in this book are exceptionally short, revealing themselves in no more than 300 words. With a foreword by Robert Shapard and an afterword by Christopher Merrill, this book brings you fresh approaches to an exacting form that demands precision, a species of brevity that is surprisingly expansive. Writers say the pieces are hard to compose, but readers say they are easy to appreciate, a pleasure to envision, a wonder to watch life spun out and painted in small places. Real and surreal, lyrical and prosaic, here are 135 stories by 89 authors, certain to make you think. ..
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