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Interpreter Of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies is a 2000 collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year. The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between the culture they have inherited and the "New World" they now find themselves in.
Dubliners
by James Joyce
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.
Skeleton Crew
by Stephen King
Skeleton Crew (1985) is the second published anthology of short stories by Stephen King. The first collection, Night Shift was published seven years prior in 1978. Different Seasons, a collection of four novellas, was published between the two in 1982. Skeleton Crew was originally published in hardcover form by Putnam (512 pages). It has been reprinted multiple times in the years since in both hardcover and paperback forms.
The Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury that explores the nature of mankind. While none of the stories have a plot or character connection with the next, a recurring theme is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of "the Illustrated Man", a vagrant with a tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets.
Tales Of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination, stories by American author Edgar Allan Poe have been compiled by Padraic Colum into a thrilling collection focused on Poe’s suspenseful stories. The first edition compiled by Padraic Colum was published in 1908 by Geoffrey Newnes Ltd. and includes an introduction by Colum explaining his decision to exclude Poe’s poems, comedies, and essays from the collection. A later 1919 edition, published by George G. Harrap & Co., includes 24 full-page black and white plates...
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The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist.
Her novel, The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, won the National Book Award in 1972. This collection of thirty-one short stories is a unique, tangible expression of O’Connor’s projected ideas of the southern United States in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Included in this collection are twelve stories that are only included in this collection and not in her two other compilations, Everything That Rises Must Converge... Read more about this item
Her novel, The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, won the National Book Award in 1972. This collection of thirty-one short stories is a unique, tangible expression of O’Connor’s projected ideas of the southern United States in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Included in this collection are twelve stories that are only included in this collection and not in her two other compilations, Everything That Rises Must Converge... Read more about this item
In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time is the first published collection of Hemingway's short fiction. The book collects several of the author's short stories about American life in the early 1920's, just after WWI. A few of these stories focus on the character Nick Adams.First published in Paris in 1924 by Three Mountains Press under the title in our time - in all lower case - the first state of this work was a set of 18 vignettes and numbered 32 pages in total. Only 300 copies were printed, but due to a printing...
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The Stories Of John Cheever
by John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The Swimmer. " It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979; the paperback version won the American Book Award for Fiction in 1981.
Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway
First published in 1927, Men Without Women is an early Hemingway collection containing fourteen short stories that are beginning to show the normal Hemingway themes: war and it's casualties, the interactions between men and women, sports, and violence.
"Banal Story," "In Another Country," "The Killers," "Ten Indians," "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Undefeated," "Fifty Grand," "In Another Country," "Now I Lay Me," "A Canary for One," and more.
"Banal Story," "In Another Country," "The Killers," "Ten Indians," "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Undefeated," "Fifty Grand," "In Another Country," "Now I Lay Me," "A Canary for One," and more.
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
by Stephen King
New to Pocket BooksâÈç Stephen King backlistâÈ'the short story collection containing the story "DolanâÈçs Cadillac," soon to be released as a feature film starring Christian Slater and Wes Bentley.With numerous unforgettable movies based on his short storiesâÈ'including Shawshank Redemption, 1408, and The Green MileâÈ'readers will be delighted to rediscover this classic collection, also released as a television mini-series and on DVD. Featuring twenty short horror stories, a television...
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Holidays On Ice
by David Sedaris
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations ("Six to Eight...
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Haroun and The Sea Of Stories
by Salman Rushdie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children's book by Salman Rushdie. It was Rushdie's first novel after The Satanic Verses. It is a phantasmagorical story set in a city so old and ruinous that it has forgotten its name. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is an allegory for several problems existing in society today, especially in India and the Indian subcontinent. It looks at these problems from the viewpoint of the young protagonist Haroun.
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
"Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relations to our age as Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of." —W. H. Auden
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on October 14 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on October 15 by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies.
Runaway
by Alice Munro
In Alice Munro's superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband. In "Passion," a country girl emerging into the larger world via a job in a resort hotel discovers in a single moment of stunning insight the limits and lies of that mysterious emotion. Three stories are...
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Years Best Science Fiction - Twenty Second Annual Collection
by Gardner Dozois
Includes bibliographical references.
Cathedral
by Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in August of that year, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a 1993 collection of interconnected short stories by Sherman Alexie. The characters and stories in the book, particularly "This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" provided the basis of Alexie's screenplay for the film Smoke Signals.
Short Stories Books & Ephemera
The Short Stories of H. G. Wells
by H. G. Wells
Ernest Benn, 1957. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1957. 17th Impression. 1038 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Heavy tanning to pages throughout. Front hinge severely cracked, thus the board is slack. Presentation plate to front paste down. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine.
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$16.03
Tales from Shakespeare
by Charles and Mary Lamb
Ward, Lock & Co., 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 472 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with an illustration pasted on. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Some occasional moderate cracking to gutters throughout however binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering...
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$15.12
Bardot M. P.? And Other Misleading Cases
by A. P. Herbert
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1964. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Presentation copy from the author and his wife with an inscription on the title page; signed 'Alan and Gwen.' First edition, first issue in original unclipped jacket in protective sheet. Jaket has minor scuffing at edges and slight toning to the rear, otherwise fine. Burnt orange cloth over boards with gilded lettering on the spine. Solid binding. Pencil note from old seller on ffep. Inscription on title page. Otherwise the interior is...
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$99.75
Dubliners
by James Joyce
Penguin Books, 1967. Paperback. Acceptable. 1967. Penguin Reprint. 220 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Pages are moderately tanned with a few small nicks along text block edge. Minor dog-eared corners. Cover has moderate shelf-wear to edges and surfaces, with curling to corners. Mild crushing to spine ends, with visible reading creases to front cover and spine. Book has a pronounced forward lean. Light sunning to spine, with a small tear to rear cover.
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$4.57
Exile and the Kingdom
by Albert Camus
Penguin Books, 1968. Paperback. Acceptable. 1968. Reprinted. 151 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Slight cracking to binding, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges with tears to paper to spine. Staining to front cover.
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$9.69
A Fairy Garland
by Charles Perrault, Mme. d'Aulnoy, Count Anthony Hamilton
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1928. First Edition. Near Fine. Edmond Dulac. Illustrated by Edmond Dulac. Number 193 of 1000 copies; signed by Edmund Dulac on the limitations page. With twelve color illustrations by Dulac, all with protective rice paper intact. Quarter vellum spine over blue cloth boards with gilded rule on covers and gilded lettering to the spine. Some minor marks to vellum, and rubbing to the cloth. Corners slightly rubbed. Solid and square binding - folio size. Gilded top edge,...
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$1,050.00
The Short Stories of H. G. Wells
by H. G. Wells
Ernest Benn, 1957. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1957. 17th Impression. 1038 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.
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$18.18
Twenty - Two Tales
by Mccormick, Kenneth D. (Editor)
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania : The Franklin Library, 1981. Quarter-Leather. Very Good/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lyall, Dennis. No Edition Or Printing Stated. Bound In Red Leather Over Red Gilt Stamped Boards With Three Raised Bans On The Spine. Marbled Endpapers With All Edges Gilt. Red Marker Ribbon Bound In. A Small Worn Spot On The Upper Edges And An Embossed Ownership Seal On The Second Free Endpaper, Else Fine.
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$29.99
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
J. M. Dent & Co., 1946. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1946. Reprinted. 527 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.
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$15.98
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
by Singer, Isaac Bashevis
New York, New York, U. S. A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated Third Printing (1983) Of This Trade Paperback Edition. Inscribed "To Jene ______Greetings" And Signed By The Author On The Ffep. Translated From The Yiddish By Various Hands. Former Owner's Photo Of The Author And Her Laid In.
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$39.99
Bible Stories
by Peale, Norman Vincent
New York, New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Good +/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No Edition Or Printing Stated. The Book Is Bound In Blue Cloth With Black Stamped Lettering On The Front And Spine. The Page Edges Have Tanned And Small Faint Stain On The Upper Edges. The Cloth At The Board Edges Has Minor Fading. The Jacket Has A Few Tears At The Edges.
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$5.99
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Folio Society, 1958. Hardcover. Good. 1958. No Edition Remarks. 291 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Paul Hogarth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Book has slight forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed.
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$27.10
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
John Murray, 1940. Hardcover. Good. 1940. Reprint. 344 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable red marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.
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$20.93
The Short Stories of H. G. Wells
by H. G. Wells
Ernest Benn, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1948. Fourteenth Impression. 1148 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Front hinge cracked with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is dulled. Book has a slight forward lean.
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$10.64
Cross Channel
by Julian Barnes
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; <b>Julian Barnes </b>is the author of thirteen novels, including <i>The Sense of an Ending</i>, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and <i>Sunday Times</i> bestsellers <i>The Noise
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$13.28
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories
by Murray, John
New York: HarperCollins, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Collectible. First Edition. Hardcover and Jacket As New. Binding of black half cloth w/gilt titles, tan paper-wrapped boards. very clean and unmarked, no edgewear. Tight & solid, square. Jacket very striking red with gold filigree butterflies and a realistic Monarch butterfly in full color. Bright, clean, tight, no tears, unmarked, not price clipped. Very handsome book. A collection of stories,...
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$12.00
Inside Straight (Wild Cards Novel)
by Abraham, Daniel; Martin, George R.R. (Editor); Snodgrass, Melina M. (Editor);
New York, New York, U. S. A.: Tor Books, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing. The Book Is Bound In White With Silver Lettering And Rules On The Spine. Blind Stamped Card On The Front With A Playing Card Suit Image In Each Corner. The Unclipped Jacket Has A Vertical Crease On The Front.
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$11.99
Yesterday Knocks
by Noel Boston
Ashcroft: Ash-Tree Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2003. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies, book and jacket both in as new condition, jacket with archival cover for protection; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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$80.00
Cabbages and Kings
by O. Henry
Pan Macmillan Books, 1949. Paperback. Good. 1949. First Pan Edition. 203 pages. Paperback book. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and tear to spine, cover edges and corners. Notable sunning to spine, with staining and creasing to covers and spine.
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$10.74
The Middleman and Other Stories
by Mukherjee, Bharati
Grove/Atlantic, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$6.88
The Short Stories of H. G. Wells
by H. G. Wells
Ernest Benn, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. Sixteenth Impression. 1038 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are moderately tanned with visible foxing. Mild cracking to hinges, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Rubbing to spine has obscured the lettering.
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$6.72
The Best Short Stories of Jack London
by Jack London
Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1962. Paperback. Good. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 190 pages. Illustrated paper cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
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$6.72
Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
by Wilde, Oscar
Fine. Maroon leather binding with gilt decorations accented by 22kt gold. All edges, gilt, satin ribbon marker sewn in, silk endpapers. Printed on archival-quality, acid-neutral paper. Pages are Smyth-sewn into the binding for permanence.
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$40.00
The Horror of the Heights & Other Tales of Suspense
by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books, 1992. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Number Line Indicates A First Printing Of This Trade Paperback Edition. Fine Condition.
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$8.99
