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American Falls

The Collected Short Stories

by Barry Gifford
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

American Falls is the first major collection of short stories from Barry Gifford, master of the dark side of the American reality. These stories range widely in style and period, from the 1950s to the present, from absurdist exercises to romantic tales, from stories about childhood innocence to novellas...
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Stories for Men

An Anthology

by Bruce L.R. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017

Can the reading public imagine a less likely but more needed book than Stories for Men - a seventy-five-year- old anthology edited by Charles Grayson - written in an age when such a title would scarcely raise an eyebrow! Imagine a book about men in which the featured theme is not rapists, child abusers,...
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by Kate Chopin, Rachel Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009

The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, by Kate Chopin, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the...
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by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019

“A Novel in Nine Letters” is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in “Short Stories” (1963). Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881) was a Russian novelist, essayist, short story writer, journalist, and philosopher. His literature examines human psychology during the...
Cover of The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888
by Thomas Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006

"See if she is dark or fair, and if you can, notice if her hands be white; if not, see if they look as though she had ever done housework, or are milker's hands like mine." So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The...
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by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was one of the most well known writers of the 20th century, chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Born in Bombay, he was taken by his family to England when he was five years...
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Chicano Sketches

Short Stories by Mario Suárez

by Mario Suárez
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

Mario Suárez will tell you: Garza’s Barber Shop is more than razors, scissors, and hair. It is where men, disgruntled at the vice of the rest of the world, come to get things off their chests. The lawbreakers come in to rub elbows with the sheriff’s deputies. And when zoot-suiters come in for...
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by Deb Olin Unferth
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are so smart, fast, full of heart, and distinctive in voice—each an intense little thought-system going out earnestly in search of strange new truths. What an important and exciting talent.”—George Saunders For more than ten years, Deb Olin Unferth has...
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by Noy Holland
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

“By turns earthy, reverent, poetic, and wry, these stories . . . make you feel what it feels like . . . to be fully alive in the world.” —Oprah.com   In the twenty years since her first short story collection, The Spectacle of the Body, Noy Holland has become a singular presence in American...
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by Frank Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016

Even the author of DUNE—the best-selling science fiction novel of all time—had trouble getting published. At first.   Frank Herbert wanted to be a writer, and though today his name is practically synonymous with world-building and epic science fiction, Herbert didn’t start...
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by Samrat Upadhyay
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014

From “a major new talent” come short stories set in modern Nepal, about arranged marriages, forbidden desires, and the universal yearning for human connection (Amitav Ghosh).   Set in a city where gods are omnipresent, privacy is elusive, and family defines identity, these are stories of men...
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by Jacob Ross
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017

This substantial collection brings together short stories written over a span of forty years, including those first published in the highly-rated Song for Simone (1986) and A Way to Catch the Dust (1999) and more than a dozen new stories. The previously published pieces have been extensively revised....
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Familiar Faces, Less Familiar Stories

A Collection of Short Stories

by Debaprasad Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

I am a thief. While travelling through a rather longish journey of life, I was fortunate enough to come across a variety of characters. There were moments with them that were worth stealing. I have stolen them and preserved carefully in a sacred corner of my heart. Now the time has come when it looks...
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by M. L. Buchman
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016

The Second Annual Volume of short stories originally published monthly for free on www.mlbuchman.com. It began in 2014 as a gift for my fans, but I quickly discovered the joy of the short form. I have a lifelong love of short fiction as a reader, but it took me until 2014 to begin writing it. Inside...
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