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 years since World War II have seen an exciting resurgence of the short story. From Albert Camus to William Maxwell, from Amos Oz to R.K. Narayan, from Ann Beattie to Yukio Mishima - this incomparably rich and diverse collection attests to the vigor and excellence of the mode…
In this collection, Orozco leads the reader through the secret lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. Each story in the collection has a gut-punch impact, softened only by lyricism and black humor.
In this collection, Orozco leads the reader through the secret lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. Each story in the collection has a gut-punch impact, softened only by lyricism and black humor.
In this collection, Orozco leads the reader through the secret lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. Each story in the collection has a gut-punch impact, softened only by lyricism and black humor.
From the American West to the Siberian coast, from Hollywood to the boxing ring, here are timeless tales of war, mystery, romance, crime, and punishment as only Louis L'Amour can tell them.
From the American West to the Siberian coast, from Hollywood to the boxing ring, here are timeless tales of war, mystery, romance, crime, and punishment as only Louis L'Amour can tell them.
Lawman, manhunter, peacemaker--it takes a hard breed of man to survive as a Texas Ranger, but Chick Bowdrie stands head and shoulder above the rest. The rough trails are his home, from the Big Thicket to the Pecos to the border. He's dried by the desert sun and wind, scarred and…
