A complete volume of the Nobel Prize-winning writer's fantastical pieces ranges from traditional ghost stories to works of psychological horror and includes the works "The Phantom Rickshaw," "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes," and "The Mark of the Beast."
A prolific writer of short stories, Elizabeth Bowen claimed towards the end of her life that "a story deals in the not-yet-thought-of but always possible." Covering a range of situations - broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime - these stories demonstrate…
This collection aims to display the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years. It includes stories by authors including Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, and Rudyard Kipling.
The Oxford book of short stories
by Welty, Eudora, Twain, Mark, James, Henry, Bates, H. E., (Herbert Ernest), Bierce, Ambrose, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Henry, O., White, Patrick, Updike, John, Crane, Stephen, O'Connor, Frank, De la Mare, Walter, Lardner, Ring, Pritchett, V. S., (Victor Sawdon), Scott, Walter, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Poe, Edgar Allan, Harte, Bret, Conrad, Joseph, Kipling, Rudyard, Saki, Maugham, W. Somerset, (William Somerset), Anderson, Sherwood, Coppard, A. E., (Alfred Edgar), Joyce, James, Mansfield, Katherine, Porter, Katherine Anne, O'Flaherty, Liam, Faulkner, William, Hemingway, Ernest, Bowen, Elizabeth, O'Faoláin, Seán, Callaghan, Morley, Narayan, R. K., Sansom, William, Lavin, Mary, Cheever, John, Lessing, Doris, O'Connor, Flannery, Trevor, William
Gathers stories from the U.S., England, and Ireland by such noted writers as Hawthorne, Poe, James, Conrad, Joyce, O'Flaherty, Lessing, and Updike.
The Book of Other People
From the Publisher: A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character. The Book of Other People is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating chara…
"A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character. The Book of Other People is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating character is at the hear…