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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

Author : John Freeman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984877828
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story written by John Freeman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman In the past fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst of energy. The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story celebrates this avalanche of talent. This rich anthology begins in 1970 and brings together a half century of powerful American short stories from all genres, including—for the first time in a collection of this scale—science fiction, horror, and fantasy, placing writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Ken Liu, and Stephen King next to some beloved greats of the literary form: Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Denis Johnson. Culling widely, John Freeman, the former editor of Granta and now editor of his own literary annual, brings forward some astonishing work to be regarded in a new light. Often overlooked tales by Dorothy Allison, Percival Everett, and Charles Johnson will recast the shape and texture of today’s enlarging atmosphere of literary dialogue. Stories by Lauren Groff and Ted Chiang raise the specter of engagement in ecocidal times. Short tales by Tobias Wolff, George Saunders, and Lydia Davis rub shoulders with near novellas by Susan Sontag and Andrew Holleran. This book will be a treasure trove for readers, writers, and teachers alike.

Masters of the Modern Short Story

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters of the Modern Short Story written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories

Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories written by Patricia Craig and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The inadequate acknowledgement of women short story writers in standard anthologies is a cause for wonder or affront. How else, indeed, can you view it, given the riches overlooked?" So states editor Patricia Craig in her introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories, a rich, wide-ranging collection that, at last, redresses this historical imbalance by bringing together forty examples of the very best women's stories--from established authors such as Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Katherine Mansfield, to such modern masters as Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Bharati Mukherjee, and Amy Tan. Here readers will find humor, passion, eccentricity, forcefulness, elan, intellectual vigor, subversion--indeed every shading of tone and mood, from ironic detachment to full-blooded engagement. Each writer has her own, perfectly realized angle of vision, whether it's the zestfulness of Angela Carter, the breathtaking evocations of Willa Cather, the quirkiness of Grace Paley, or the pungency of Flannery O'Connor. Breaking with tradition, editor Patricia Craig offers few stories about traditional "women's" topics. Instead, the entries in this collection range from an unforgettable tale of racism in South Africa to explorations of adultery, immigration, the importance of cultural identity, and the rootlessness of American cities. Craig also includes some provocative offerings from outside the mainstream of twentieth century fiction--a ghost story by Edith Wharton, a delightful fairy tale, and several engaging historical pieces. Eloquent and captivating, The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories offers a dazzling assortment of classic stories and overlooked gems that will amuse, intrigue, and challenge every lover of fine fiction.

The Book of Modern Anecdotes

Author : Howard Paul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Modern Anecdotes written by Howard Paul and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memories

Author : Das Siddhanta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972259705
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Memories written by Das Siddhanta and published by . This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recollections presented herein are testimony to the transcendental character of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada the founder Acharya of the Hare Krsna movement, to spread pure love of Godhead.

Tiny Love Stories

Author : Daniel Jones
Publisher : Artisan
ISBN 13 : 1648290132
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Tiny Love Stories written by Daniel Jones and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Charming. . . . A moving testament to the diversity and depths of love.” —Publishers Weekly You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be swept away—in less time than it takes to read this paragraph. Here are 175 true stories—honest, funny, tender and wise—each as moving as a lyric poem, all told in no more than one hundred words. An electrician lights up a woman’s life, a sister longs for her homeless brother, strangers dream of what might have been. Love lost, found and reclaimed. Love that’s romantic, familial, platonic and unexpected. Most of all, these stories celebrate love as it exists in real life: a silly remark that leads to a lifetime together, a father who struggles to remember his son, ordinary moments that burn bright.

Atlantic Narratives

Author : Charles Swain Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Narratives written by Charles Swain Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Torn

Author : Samantha Parent Walravens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781603810975
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Torn written by Samantha Parent Walravens and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torn is an anthology of essays that captures the voices of a generation of women caught in the crossfire of kids, career, and family life. In a series of 48 heartfelt and often laugh-out-loud essays, the book exposes the dirty truths of motherhood and the inevitable crises of that life brings: battles with cancer, lost jobs, broken marriages, unplanned pregnancies, the heartbreak of infertility, and lots of “bad mommy” moments. As these stories illustrate, there is no perfect mother, nor is there a perfect balance when it comes to kids and a successful career.

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195092622
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of American Short Stories written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.

Storytelling

Author : Christian Salmon
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784786608
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Storytelling written by Christian Salmon and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative spell cast over politics and society Politics is no longer the art of the possible, but of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way that it is perceived. In Storytelling Christian Salmon looks at the twenty-first-century hijacking of creative imagination, anatomizing the timeless human desire for narrative form, and how this desire is abused by the marketing mechanisms that bolster politicians and their products: luxury brands trade on embellished histories, managers tell stories to motivate employees, soldiers in Iraq train on Hollywood-conceived computer games, and spin doctors construct political lives as if they were a folk epic. This “storytelling machine” is masterfully unveiled by Salmon, and is shown to be more effective and insidious as a means of oppression than anything dreamed up by Orwell.

The Modern Story-teller

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Story-teller written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories

Author : Joost Zwagerman
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141395737
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories written by Joost Zwagerman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS 'There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excellent book' Jonathan Gibbs, Minor Literatures 'We were kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic. Except for Bavink, who went crazy' A husband forms gruesome plans for his new fridge; a government employee has a haunting experience on his commute home; prisoners serve as entertainment for wealthy party guests; an army officer suffers a monstrous tropical illness. These short stories contain some of the most groundbreaking and innovative writing in Dutch literature from 1915 to the present day, with most pieces appearing here in English for the first time. Blending unforgettable snapshots of the realities of everyday life with surrealism, fantasy and subversion, this collection shows Dutch writing to be an integral part of world literary history. Joost Zwagerman (1963-2015) was a novelist, poet, essayist and editor of several anthologies. He started his career as a writer with bestselling novels, describing the atmosphere of the 1980s and 1990s, such as Gimmick!(1988) and False Light (1991). In later years, he concentrated on writing essays - notably on pop culture and visual arts - and poetry. Suicide was the theme of the novel Six Stars (2002). He took his own life just after having published a new collection of essays on art, The Museum of Light.

Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady; a Modern Story

Author : Dudley Costello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady; a Modern Story written by Dudley Costello and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Modern Story Book

Author : Wallace Wadsworth
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486478440
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Story Book written by Wallace Wadsworth and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rediscovered 1930s classic features nine stories of adventurous machines, including a lazy automobile and a runaway elevator. Thirty full-page color images, numerous black-and-white illustrations, plus an audio CD featuring readings of all the tales.

The Children's Hour: Modern stories

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Children's Hour: Modern stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Bitter Heritage: A Modern Story of Love and Adventure

Author : John Bloundelle-Burton
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465610162
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book A Bitter Heritage: A Modern Story of Love and Adventure written by John Bloundelle-Burton and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Two Mentors: a Modern Story. By the Author of “The Old English Baron” [i.e. Clara Reeve].

Author : Clara Reeve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Two Mentors: a Modern Story. By the Author of “The Old English Baron” [i.e. Clara Reeve]. written by Clara Reeve and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: