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Selected short stories: Selected Short Stories
By H. G Wells. 1970
Short stories
By Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper. 1996
Forty-seven short stories by the noted African American author originally written between 1919 and 1963. The tales, arranged in chronological…
order, include those previously uncollected, such as his first stories (written while in high school) and other early works published in African American journals. Some strong language. 1996. Uniform title: Short stories.Short stories
By Robert Louis Stevenson. 2002
"The Merry Men": a grim drama of greed, insanity and murder in a setting of storm and shipwreck. "The Body-Snatcher":…
a plentiful supply of subjects is needed for Dr Knox's anatomy class, and no questions asked if they are suspiciously "fresh". Dissected victims can't accuse their destroyers - or can they? "Thrawn Janet": Rev. Soulis was not always solitary, severe and bleak-faced. Fifty years ago he had a visitor - from hell! "The Tale of Tod Lapraik": an eerie figure dances wildly on the Bass Rock, while another in the same likeness sits at home in a trance. 2002.Short stories
By Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. 1994
Stories by the 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Yearling (DB 33466). "Cracker Chidlings," published in 1931, is a series…
of vignettes about the poor white folk who inhabit the backwoods of central Florida. "Gal Young Un," a story about independent Mattie Syles and how she is taken in by two-timing Trax Colton, won the O. Henry Prize and was made into a movieShort stories
By Sherwood Anderson. 1962
Short Stories
By Luigi Pirandello. 1959
6 Short Stories
By Robert T. Jeschonek. 2012
Welcome to six short stories from award-winning storyteller Robert T. Jeschonek. This volume includes six full-length tales for one low…
price:"Wave a White Flag." Old man Henry decides to throw everything out the window, literally. No one can stop him as he chucks his belongings from his high-rise apartment and watches them crash to the sidewalk far below. But he can't get rid of some memories no matter how hard he tries."Day of the Mad Shitter." A man's obsessive pursuit of a workplace bathroom slob leads to an epic meltdown with tragic consequences."How to Get Lucky." Hopper the narcoleptic seeks salvation in an experimental sleep lab. Will a makeshift family of sleep-disorder rejects help him find the peace he craves, or will the twisted dreams that haunt him drag him into a personal hell on Earth?"A Wall of Lisas." A lonely woman struggles to overcome the isolation that torments her. Reflections of a terrible tomorrow drive her to the brink of madness."The Day After They Rounded Up Everyone Who Could Love Unconditionally." A society sheds its weakest links--everyone capable of unconditional love. In the aftermath, one of the survivors starts to think something wasn't quite right about the glorious purge."The Walking Bomb." What's the worst that can happen to a minister working in a bomb factory? A streak of bad luck that turns him into the next best thing to a human bomb. As disasters rain down around him and kill the people he loves most, this modern-day Job sets out on a journey of discovery that might just lead to a genuine miracle of healing and redemption.Short Stories
By Jerome K. Jerome.
Short Stories
By Langston Hughes. 1996
This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development…
of his personal and artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and others never before collected. These poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic stories demonstrate Hughes's uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general.Short Stories
By Theodore Dreiser. 1994
Short Story
By Karin Slaughter, Michael Kortya. 2017
An original short story from iconic thriller collection Match Up, edited by Lee Child, featuring a never-before-seen pairing between bestsellers…
Karin Slaughter and Michael Koryta and their best-loved characters Jeffery Tolliver and cop duo Joe Pritchard and Lincoln Perry.It's 1993 and Jeffrey Tolliver is a young Birmingham cop, taking a long weekend in Georgia that is about to go horribly wrong. While Tolliver finds himself in jail on suspicion of murder, veteran cop Joe Pritchard and partner Lincoln Perry have been asked by the DEA to track down a drug dealer, last spotted in a small town in Georgia . . .For more exciting short story pairings, don't miss all eleven short stories in Match Up!Two Short Stories and Three Very Short Stories
By Madeleine Oh. 2014
This third collection of naughty stories is a rather mixed bag: There is a rather delicious revenge story, a vampire…
one with an historical setting and three short shorts that are sensual and erotic more than explicit but feature my heroine Annie who finally ended up (with a different hero) in my novel Power Exchange. The last read is a rather sexy excerpt from Power Exchange featuring a threesome.Short Story: (short Story) (The MatchUp Collection #34)
By Karin Slaughter, Michael Koryta. 2017
It was a scam, but then the scam had gone horribly wrong… In this short story from the thrilling anthology…
MatchUp, bestselling authors Karin Slaughter and Michael Koryta—along with their popular series characters Jeffrey Tolliver and Joe Pritchard—team up for the first time ever.Short Stories by Thomas Murtha (Canadian Short Story Library)
By Thomas Murtha. 1980
This is a collection of the published and previously unpublished short stories by Thomas Murtha, a Canadian writer born and…
raised in Ontario. Murtha was one of the notable experimental writers of the 1920s, but his work has been largely ignored by literary historians. Thomas Murtha was a classmate and colleague of other notable Canadians including former prime minister Paul Martin, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister. Callaghan, Murtha, and Knister greatly influenced each others' work. Complete with a biographical introduction from Murtha's son, William, this collection provides insight into the work and life of one of Canada's most talented writers.Collected short stories
By Patrick O'Brian. 1994
Although Patrick O'Brian is best known for his Aubrey/Maturin series of naval adventures, he first made his reputation as a…
writer of short stories. This collection includes all the stories which O'Brian wishes to preserve. 1994. Uniform title: Short stories.Yolk: short stories
By Josip Novakovich. 1995
Croatian-born author combines the tone of folktales with wit and realism. Daily life in Croatia is depicted in an unromanticized…
but affectionate manner in seventeen stories. In "The Burning Clog," a man returning from America learns that his favourite storyteller got his stories from library books and war experiences, not from oral tradition. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 1995.Supernatural short stories
By Charles Dickens. 2012
Selection of ten short stories by the author of A Christmas Carol (DB 43546). In "No. 1. Branch Line: The…
Signalman" a man has a premonition of his own death. Also includes three selections from The Pickwick Papers (DB 47884). 1836Complete short stories
By Robert Graves, Lucia Graves. 1996
Stories by the celebrated British writer on themes both fictional and autobiographical. In "Interview with a Dead Man," the subject…
belies his lifeless condition with animated banter about his estate and ambitions for the netherworldYolk: short stories
By Josip Novakovich. 1995
Croatian-born author combines the tone of folktales with wit and realism. Daily life in Croatia is depicted in an unromanticized…
but affectionate manner in seventeen stories. In "The Burning Clog," a man returning from America learns that his favorite storyteller got his stories from library books and war experiences, not from oral tradition. Some violence and some descriptions of sexCollected short stories
By Aldous Huxley. 1992
Twenty-one short stories originally published in 1957 reflect Huxley's penchant for mysticism and interest in social commentary. Includes "Happily Ever…
After," "The Death of Lully," "Sir Hercules," "Little Mexican," "Young Archimedes," "Chawdron," "Fairy Godmother," and "The Claxtons."