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Four novels from African American writers during Harlem's cultural and artistic movement of the 1930s. Includes Not Without Laughter by…
Langston Hughes, Black No More by George S. Schuyler, The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher, and Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps. Some violence and some strong language. 2011
Collection of five novels from African American writers during the black cultural mecca in 1920s Harlem, New York. Includes Cane…
by Jean Toomer, Home to Harlem by Claude McKay, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset, and The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman. Some strong language. 2011
Selection of short fiction, essays, and poems by women working in the genre in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Includes…
fiction by C. L Moore, poems by Julia Boynton Green, and journalism by L. Taylor Hansen. Also provides commentary documenting women's contributions to the pulp-magazine community. Some violence and some strong language. 2016
Six short works of fiction from Danish author of Out of Africa (DB 23011). Includes "Babette's Feast," in which a…
woman prepares a decadent meal for a community of religious ascetics, and the novella Ehrengard, about a rakish nobleman. 1963
Eleven stories by the acclaimed Russian writer (1828-1910). The title piece examines death and the possibilities of redemption. Includes "The…
Prisoner of the Caucasus," inspired by Tolstoy's experiences in the Chechen War, and "Hadji Murat," featuring a Chechen rebel who defects. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. 2009
Twenty short stories selected from literary magazines. In "Them Old Cowboy Songs" teenagers Archie and Rose, married homesteaders living downstream…
from the Sierra Madre in 1885, face disaster. "Clothed, Female Figure" features a Russian nanny in Manhattan. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2010
This volume brings together five essays that King considers "true fact," ten that constitute "tall tales," and four short stories…
that he classifies as "pure fiction." All of these pieces represent an ongoing attempt to define and understand his native place and his mind's country. They cover subjects ranging from a rape trial to dubious recipes and points between: writing, politics, Little League baseball, Texas basketball, racial integration in the military, dogs, sinning, and stories of troubled lives. Explicit descriptions of sex
Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be…
called short novels, here brought together in one one volume for the first time, in a new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Twenty short stories selected from diverse periodicals. In Brian Evenson's "Mudder Tongue" a teacher gradually loses his language ability. Includes…
"The View from Castle Rock" by Alice Munro and "El Ojo de Agua" by Susan Straight. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2007
Thirty tales by Russian playwright and author Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Includes brief early pieces such as "The Huntsman" and later…
works marked by symbolism, irony, and social commentary. In "Ward No. 6" a doctor at a mental hospital becomes a patient. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. 2000
Deep in Norway's unspoiled backcountry, Isak perseveres in building a homestead, nurturing his crops, and raising a family. But the…
demands of civilization eventually intrude upon--and destroy--his simple way of life. A 2007 translation by Sverre Lyngstad. 1917
More than one hundred works of the nineteenth-century author and reporter Stephen Crane (1871-1900). Includes five novellas; dispatches from Asbury…
Park, New Jersey, and New York state; war reports from Greece during the Greco-Turkish wars and from Cuba during the Spanish-American War; and poetry. 1984
Anthology of short pieces representing the diversity, scope, and complexity of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Texas. Includes over sixty essays, stories,…
excerpts, and memoirs by writers such as Elmer Kelton, Molly Ivins, and O. Henry. Foreword by Lonesome Dove (DB 22959) author Larry McMurtry. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2003
Anthology of twenty pieces of North American short fiction that describe the human condition--love, war, repression, and life-changing moments. Includes…
Anthony Doerr's "The Shell Collector," Denis Johnson's "Train Dreams," and selections by T. Coraghessan Boyle, Marjorie Kemper, and A.S. Byatt. Some strong language. 2003
Sixty selections of short fiction, essays, and poetry published first by noncommercial presses and magazines. This twentieth-anniversary edition features up-and-coming…
authors as well as such literary figures as John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates. Selections include a canto from Robert Pinsky's translation of Dante's "Inferno" and Eileen Pollack's "Milk." Descriptions of sex and some strong language
First published in 1930, this collection includes "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a novel about a beautiful youth whose portrait…
has supernatural qualities; "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comic, satirical play about a rakish nobleman; "Lady Windermere's Fan," a comedy of manners; "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," an autobiographical account of Wilde's imprisonment; and other short works of drama, prose, and poetry
A collection of twenty-eight short stories including "The Man in a Shell," "Gooseberries," and "The Darling;" two plays, "The Boor,"…
and "The Cherry Orchard;" and selected letters of Chekhov. Includes a chronology of his life and a selected bibliography of his works