World's Shortest Stories

World's Shortest Stories

Author: Steve Moss

Publisher: Turtleback

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780613237857

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A compilation of the best entries in the annual Fifty-Five Fiction writing contest held by New Times in San Luis Obispo, this volume offers more than 150 masterpieces of brevity in writing! Enjoy mysteries, love stories, and creepy ironies in less time than it takes to tie your shoe.


World’s Best Short Stories

World’s Best Short Stories

Author: Various

Publisher: Jaico Publishing House

Published: 2016-02-12

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 8184958382

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A selection of timeless masterpieces from Charles Dickens Edgar Allan Poe William Thackeray Rudyard Kipling and many more World’s Best Short Stories is a collection of captivating tales from around the world, penned by some of the greatest storytellers of all time. Featuring pioneers of the short-story genre, this book promises to entertain you in many different ways. Be it the intellectual but endlessly fun The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, or even the enduringly brilliant Aladdin from the Arabian Nights, every story has a unique charm. Also included are the ever-popular A Christmas Carol by master storyteller Charles Dickens and Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. Presenting masterpieces of literature by the likes of Rudyard Kipling, William M. Thackeray, Guy de Maupassant, Nathaniel Hawthorne and J. M. Barrie, this edition belongs in every avid reader’s personal collection.


The World's Greatest Short Stories

The World's Greatest Short Stories

Author: James Daley

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0486114791

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Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, this wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology includes Tolstoy, Kipling, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Pirandello, Mann, Updike, Borges, and other major writers of world literature.


100 World's Greatest Short Stories

100 World's Greatest Short Stories

Author: Prakash Book Depot

Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing

Published: 2019-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789388810548

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The short story is one of the finest forms of writing. As short as a paragraph at times, or as lengthy as a novel, short stories are widely read and immensely lauded. Some of the most exceptional writers have dabbled in this form penning beautiful, unforgettable stories. In this carefully-crafted selection, we bring to you some of the greatest writers from around the world-- the iconic storytellers from America, such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, the legendary Grimm brothers from Germany, to the lyrical Rabindranath Tagore from India, and the witty H H Munro from Britain. All these and many more remarkable people come together in this edition . . . and all have stories to tell. An anthology beginning with Aesop's fables-- perhaps the first stories we come across-- and ending with Virginia Woolf's gothic, thrilling ' The Haunted House', 100 World's Greatest Short Stories brings together stories short and sweet, descriptive and lengthy, and stories that can do anything-- from telling a tale to hiding its narrator, from portraying the reality to diving into pure imagination-- and are a must-read for every fiction lover."


Orange World and Other Stories

Orange World and Other Stories

Author: Karen Russell

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0525656146

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From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.


A Walk in My World

A Walk in My World

Author: Anne Mazer

Publisher: Persea Books

Published: 2000-05-01

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9780892552498

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A collection of short stories from around the world including such authors as Valentin Rasputin, Yasunari Kawabata, and Toni Cade Bambara.


One Day, The End

One Day, The End

Author: Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1635924456

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Very short, creative stories pair with bold illustrations in this picture book that will inspire young readers to stretch their imaginations and write stories of their own. "One day. . . I went to school. I came home. The end," says our storyteller—a girl with a busy imagination and a thirst for adventure. The art tells a fuller tale of calamity on the way to school and an unpredictably happy ending. Each illustration in this inventive picture book captures multiple, unexpected, and funny storylines as the narrator shares her shorter-than-ever stories, ending with "One day. . . I wanted to write a book." This book demonstrates a unique approach to writing and telling stories and is a delightful gift for children as well as for teachers seeking a mentor text for their classrooms.


Two Worlds Walking

Two Worlds Walking

Author: Diane Glancy

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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The book transcends the dead end topic of 'race'--an issue that necessarily invites conflict--and concentrates instead upon culture, in all its nebulous, universal and unmistakable influence.--Pacific Reader


Postcards from Impossible Worlds

Postcards from Impossible Worlds

Author: Peter Chiykowski

Publisher: Chizine Publications

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781771484671

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Postcards From Impossible Worlds collects 88 dazzling micro-stories written as postcards from strange and beautiful worlds that run parallel to our own.