18 books like Short Stories -- Classic, Modern, Contemporary
The experience of literature
Table of Contents (the following all with commentaries/criticism): Sophocles - Oedipus Rex; William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Lear; Henrik Ibsen - The Wild Duck; Anton Chekhov - The Three Sisters; George Bernard Shaw - The Doctor's Dilemma; Luigi Pirandello - Six Characters in Search of an Author: a comdey in the making; William Butler Years - Purgatory; Bertolt Brecht - Galileo;…
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Forms of the Novella
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Piazza Tales
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Bartleby, the Scrivener
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by…
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Christian short stories
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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 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…
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The Modern Tradition - Second Edition
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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…
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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:…
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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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The Dead
"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. The story deals with themes of love and loss as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity.
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Also contained in:
- Best Short Stories of the Modern Age
- Dubliners
- Dubliners / Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Essential James Joyce
- Fiction 100
-…
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Jotham's Journey
In this widely popular, exciting story for the advent season, readers follow ten-year-old Jotham across Israel as he searches for his family. Though he faces thieves, robbers, and kidnappers, Jotham also encounters the wise men, shepherds, and innkeepers until at last he finds his way to the Savior born in Bethlehem.
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Within the tides
In the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and part-owner of the important newspaper.
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Somehow
Somehow
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of Publishers Weekly’s Best Religion Books of 2024“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago TribuneFrom the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love“Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. “It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to…
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Voices
Voices
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Invoke the Goddess
Invoke the Goddess
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Wanting
Wanting
* Financial Times Business Book of the Month * Next Big Idea Club Nominee * One of Bloomberg's "52 New Books That Top Business Leaders Are Recommending" * Aleo Review of Books 2022 Book of the Year *A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires.Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a…
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