18 books like Short Stories -- Classic, Modern, Contemporary
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Part One: Stories --
Chinua Achebe / Civil Peace --
Sherman Alexie / The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven --
Isabelle Allende / An Act of Vengeance --
Sherwood Anderson / Hands --
Margaret Atwood / Happy Endings --
Isaac Babel / My First Goose --
James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues --Toni Cade Bambara / The Lesson --
Russell Banks / Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat --
Lynda…
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The Story and its Writer -- Third Edition
Dead men's path/Achebe
Oasis/Adams
Kugelmass episode/Allen
Death in the woods ; Hands/Anderson
Happy endings/Atwood
My first goose/Babel
Sonny's blues/Baldwin
Hammer man/Bambara
Lost in the funhouse/Barth
School/Barthelme
Burning house/Beattie
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge/Bierce
Like a bad dream/Böll
Garden of forking paths/Borges
This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen/Borowski
Distant…
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The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
Collection contains:
Stories: Civil peace / Chinua Achebe --
Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie --
Act of vengeance / Isabel Allende --
Hands / Sherwood Anderson --
Happy endings / Margaret Atwood --
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin --
Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara --
Black man and white woman in dark green boat / Russell Banks --
Snow / Ann Beattie --
From Fun Home: Old father,…
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The little bookroom
Collects twenty-seven of Eleanor Farjeon's stories, which include kings, princesses, servants, a mysterious flower, orphans, enchanted woods, an organ-grinder, giants, a little dressmaker, fairies, and a kindly farmer.
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The story of the other wise man
Story of Artaban, the "fourth wise man", who sold all he possessed and bought three jewels to present to the Christ-child. He could not have predicted how his eventful journey would end.
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The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
From the book:Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above it; of their rough coating of bark and queer, gnarled limbs; of the bushy foliage that roofed the entire forest, save where the sunbeams found a path…
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Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
The reminiscences of a young girl growing up in early nineteenth-century England.
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Fear Street Super Chiller - Silent Night
Fear Street Super Chiller
Spoiled rich girl Reva is in for a not-so Merry Christmas when someone begins stalking her.
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The Christmas Mystery
Joachim discovers a magic Advent calendar which contains the story of a little girl who traveled through time to be present at the birth of Jesus.
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The Nutcracker and the King of Mice
Young Marie Stahlbaum falls in love with the handsome nutcracker Godfather Drosselmeier gives her family as a Christmas gift, and has adventures with him as he faces the monstrous, seven-headed Mouse King.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
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The Father Christmas letters
A collection of illustrated letters from Father Christmas recapping the activities of the preceding year at the North Pole. The letters were written by the author to his children.
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A Christmas Carol
A retelling of the story about a miser whose life is changed by Christmas.
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Sisters in Sanity
"Where are they taking me?""It's for your own good, Brit," Dad said.I was shoved into a small, stuffy room, and the door was locked behind me. I waited for my dad to realize he'd made a terrible mistake and come get me.But he didn't.For sixteen-year-old Brit Hemphill, it's hard to know who she can trust. Convinced she's out of control, her father has sentenced her to Red Rock: a center for…
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War Game
Based on a true account of a soccer game played between the German and English troops in no-man's land on Christmas Day in 1914 during World War I, this book tells the story of four young men who have recently enlisted and have found that war is not as glamorous as they had once thought. The young men get to realize their dream of playing soccer for England when the English and German sides hold…
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Merry Christmas, Strega Nona
Big Anthony plans a surprise Christmas party for Strega Nona.
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Little Dorrit
Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens's previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that "intensity of imagination is the gift from which…
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Rinkitink in Oz
When all the inhabitants of Pingaree are kidnapped by the mongrel hordes of twin island kingdoms, Prince Inga and his friend King Rinkitink decide to go to the rescue.
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