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Lady Silverdale s sweetheart and other stories by William Black (1876) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1876 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations... more

The Greatest French Short Stories

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.� - Guy de Maupassant Doctor Bianchon notices his openly atheist friend Desplein going to church to attend a mass and becomes... more

Pre-Owned The Collector of Treasures : And Other Botswana Village Tales 9780435909819 Used

A collection of short stories based on life in a Botswanan village including the story of a woman who murders the husband who deserted her years before. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage... more

Pre-Owned Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories (Paperback) 0140182039 9780140182033

Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories gathers together all of Lawrence s short stories not collected in the Prussian Officer volume. It offers a range of work from Lawrence s earliest surviving published story A Prelude to New Eve and Old Adam... more

The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Edith Wharton Fiction Fantasy Horror Short Stories (Paperback)

Born into the hoi polloi of New York society in 1862 Edith Wharton married in 1885 and that marriage was a disappointment -- she may well have been born and bred to be a society wife but she was a woman with talent and it was a talent that would not... more

Pre-Owned Ocean of Story: 2the Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead (Hardcover) 0670809969 9780670809967

THIS VOLUME BRINGS TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME MOST OF THE SHORT PROSE WRITINGS BY CHRISTINA STEAD WHICH APPEARED IN VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS DURING HER LIFETIME ALONG WITH OTHER MATERIAL PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY IN THE FIRST THREE ISSUES OF THE MAGAZINE... more

Nixon under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction 9780861713547 Used / Pre-owned

From the O. Henry Award-winning title story to visionary short-shorts and barely fictionalized personal memoirs Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree is inventive exciting and unlike any collection before it. Contributors include: Dorris Dorrie Francesca... more

Dr. Ox s experiment and other stories tr. from the Fr. of J. Verne 1874 [Hardcover]

{Size: 14.34 x 22.59 cms} Lang: - English Pages 442 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2021 with the help of original edition published long back [1874]. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated... more

The Delicate Prey Deluxe Edition : And Other Stories 9780062393852 Used / Pre-owned

Paul Bowles s classic collection of short stories available in a deluxe paperback edition-part of Ecco s Art of the Story series. All the tales are a variety of detective story wrote Bowles of this his first short story collection in which the... more

Pre-Owned Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories (Mass Market Paperback) 0075497174 9780075497172

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE ? IN LITERATURE 2013 In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision displaying the remarkable... more

Pre-Owned The Black Rider (Mass Market Paperback) 0843960809 9780843960808

The Black Rider and Other Stories collects three short novels and one short story by Max Brand originally published in magazines and never reprinted before; they appear here for the first time in book form. At first publication the stories often... more

Pre-Owned Nightfall & Other Stor (Mass Market Paperback) 0345310918 9780345310910

A classic short-story collection by one of history s most influential writers of science fiction Isaac Asimov featuring the definitive version of Nightfall as well as nineteen other early Asimov stories. more

The Wedding Dress and Other Short Stories 9780385318990 Used / Pre-owned

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Pre-Owned Daphne Du Maurier: Three Complete Novels & Five Short Stories (The King s General The House on the Strand The Glass Blowers Don t Look Now and other Short Stories) 9780517349175 Hardcover

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Best Short Stories : Book One (Paperback)

The Large Print Edition of Best Short Stories Book One by AZ Writers contains over 40 captivating stories written by 37 different authors possessing an outstanding range of talent. Unlike many other short story collections in this book the reader... more

Fred Urquhart Collection: The Year of the Short Corn and Other Stories (Paperback)

The Year of the Short Corn was first published in 1949 and the war or its immediate aftermath forms a presence in most of the stories. It can be a civilian family gathered together with scattered serving children for a precious Christmas leave or a... more

Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest (Paperback)

The Southwest of the twenty-first century is full of surprises and so is this collection of southwestern short stories published between 2007 and 2011. The writers represented here remind us that this is not the Old Southwest of gunfighters and... more

Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction: The Clouds in Memphis : Stories and Novellas (Hardcover)

The late Raymond Carver wrote of Matty s Heart C. J. Hribal s first book our literature is healthier and wiser with the publication of this collection of short fiction. Commenting on the same volume Anne Tyler wrote some of these pieces are real... more

Pre-Owned The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction (Mass Market Paperback) 0553210599 9780553210590

To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other--a rich perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid complex characters. Devious children sparring lovers capricious American girls obtuse bachelors... more

Pre-Owned High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author s seminal collections and includes eleven new tales that further... more

Pre-Owned I Cannot Tell a Lie Exactly: And Other Stories (Paperback) 0375758224 9780375758225

When Mary Ladd Gavell died in 1967 at the age of forty-seven she had never been published. But her story The Rotifer was fortuitously discovered by John Updike who called it a gem and included it in The Best American Short Stories of the Century .... more

Pre-Owned Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories (Paperback) 1885941293 9781885941299

Not Safe after Dark contains 13 short crime tales including three stories about Inspector Banks and the modern classic Innocence which won the Crime Writers of Canada s Best Short Story Award. The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage included in this... more

Fictions: Short Stories and Other Limitations Paperback 1735941581 9781735941585 Eland Mann

This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. Format: Paperback Author: Eland Mann ISBN10: 1735941581 ISBN13: 9781735941585 Short Stories and Other Limitations A Venetian gondolier pursues love in the midst of war. A surgeon burdened by loss and... more

black rose : series 1 letting go (Paperback)

A collection of erotic short stories and poems/spokenword. more

The Cabin in the Woods and Other Short Stories (Paperback)

The stories you re about to read are based on the goodness of Christian faith. In each setting - whether you are an honest family man trying to earn better for his family an innocent boy who could always strike up a friendship with any senior... more

Pest on the Run : More Humorous Short Stories from the Paddy Pest Chronicles (Paperback)

Paddy Pest is a hero to himself and others. You d better believe it. The man has been fighting crime all his life and although he does have his shortcomings he does try hard. Bless his heart he really tries. And now someone has put out a contract on... more

The House of the Seven Heavens : and Other Stories (Paperback)

Two novellas and three stories whose protagonists face the challenges of integrating with American society -- This collection of two novellas and three short stories is concerned with displacement-both physical and emotional. A young immigrant woman... more

When the Nines Roll Over : And Other Stories 9780670033393 Used / Pre-owned

The Normal Heart set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that helped kill an entire generation. It has been produced... more

Pre-Owned The Muse s Tragedy and Other Stories (Mass Market Paperback) 0451524144 9780451524140

Contains 20 short stories which dramatize the topics that compelled Wharton throughout her career - both comedies of manners and social tragedies they reflect on marriage money romantic delusion integrity and the crossroads between life death and... more

Pre-Owned Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers 1967 to the Present (Hardcover) 0316599263 9780316599269

In 1969 Little Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now a quarter of a century later Gloria Naylor has compiled an... more

Anatomy of a Short Story: Nabokov s Puzzles Codes Signs and Symbols (Hardcover)

Since its first publication in 1948 one of Vladimir Nabokov s shortest short stories Signs and Symbols has generated perhaps more interpretations and critical appraisal than any other that he wrote. It has been called one of the greatest short... more

Pre-Owned Billy Budd Sailor and Other Stories 9780553212747

Brilliant short stories and a novella by the author of Moby-Dick Billy Budd Sailor a classic confrontation between good and evil is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself from wrongful accusations. Other selections include... more

Pre-Owned Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived: Short Stories (Paperback) 0060934859 9780060934859

In an elegant and penetrating first short-story collection Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived Lily Tuck s characters travel to unknown exotic places and while there find themselves deeply immersed in observation -- of the natives the local customs... more

Pre-Owned Black American Short Stories : A Century of the Best 9780374523541

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Ab-o th -Yate sketches and other short stories in three volumes / by Ben Brierley ; edited by James Dronsfield ; illustrated by F.W. Jackson. Volume 1 (1896) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Volume: v.1 Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1896 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint.... more

The Ravine and Other Tales (Paperback)

Mystery and suspense in North-Western Australia; Strange Happenings Family Conflict Time Travel A Murder in the Outback even a Ghost or two. These are some of the subjects covered in this the author s first Short Story Collection. Written in a... more

Pre-Owned Western Avenue and Other Fictions 9780816502332

In this soulful collection of short stories Arroyo shows us internal and external conflicts that are deeply rooted in--and affected by--place. A bodega a university town a factory a Chicago street some dusty potato fields: here is where we encounter... more

Love and Other Monsters in the Dark : Short Stories (Paperback)

Strange Stories That Linger in the Shadows Readers will encounter serial killers alien creatures and dark angels as well as more normal narratives about the horrors of everyday love. Love and Other Monsters in the Dark features a genre-hopping blend... more