Gathers stories by Lowry, Beckett, Bowen, Pritchett, Rhys, Golding, Amis, Lessing, Spark, Fowles, Ballard, and Weldon.
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"50 Great Short Stories" is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O'Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common-the enduring quality of the writing, which places ...

With works by Henry James, Stephen Crane, John Cheever, James Joyce and many others, this outstanding collection of 35 American and British short pieces of fiction from the first half of the 20th century is one of the bestselling collections of our time. ...

An anthology made up of 6,000 word monologues by a variety of high-profile authors ranging from Helen Fielding and Robert Harris to Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh. The format is comparable to Alan Bennett's )Talking Heads(, and $1 from every book goes to the TreeHouse Trust, a charity for autistic children. Nick Hornby, whose son is autistic, also provides the introduction to the collection.
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Here, in one compact volume, is a greatest hits collection of the 100 best loved poems ever written by 100 of the world's greatest poets. This essential anthology is ideal for the romantic--and will inspire any cynic. ...

This volume of eight short stories offers students of German at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature with the aid of parallel translations.
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"New York Times" bestselling authors Maeve Binchy and Marian Keyes top an impressive roster of Ireland's most popular women writers in this collection of 16 stories that celebrate love and female friendships. ...

A collection of twenty-nine short stories that capture the stylistic diversity of American short fiction features contributions by such authors as Rick Bass, David Foster Wallace, Jhumpa Lahiri, Mary Gaitskill, Anthony Doerr, Kate Braverman, A. M. Homes,Sam Lipsyte, and Anne Carson.
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Christmas began with a good but harassed woman giving birth in difficult domestic circumstances. Somewhere between then and now, the circumstances have changed, but for women today, Christmas is still a time of joys garnered against the odds. We have moved on from stables and mangers to supermarkets and microwaves; palm fronds and shepherds have given way to a spangled conifer and a fat man in a red suit. In this anthology, reflecting the ...

A modern twist on "The Twelve Days of Christmas," this collection of playful tales makes a perfect holday gift. "On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me..." From a partridge in a pear tree to twelve drummers drumming, here is a collection sure to please even the Scroogiest of readers. Taking the classic Christmas song as inspiration, these twelve stories from some of Britain's finest contemporary writers are in turn playful, funny, ...