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  The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (Vintage International)

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire , and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic... (more)
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  The Complete Stories

  by Leigh P. Beadle, Flannery O'Connor

  A complete collection of Flannery O'Connor's stories. They explore the social and personal tensions of the American South - between youth and age, gentility and poverty, enlightment and bigotry.
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  How to Read and Why

  by Harold Bloom

  Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic media threatens to... (more)
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  Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant

  by Guy De Maupassant

  The literary godfather of such writers as H. H. Munro ("Saki"), O Henry, and Roald Dahl, Maupassant was the master of writing short stories with a twist. Now his most fascinating tales have been collected in this sterling collection. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.
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  The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

  by Ernest Hemingway

  THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete... (more)
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  Stories of Anton Chekov

  by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

  Called the greatest of short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. Now, thirty of his best tales from the major periods of his creative life are available in this outstanding one volume edition. Included are Chekhov's characteristically brief, evocative early pieces such as "The Huntsman" from 1885, which... (more)
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  180 Original Short Stories by Guy De Maupassant

  by Guy De Maupassant

  Maupassant is one of the fathers of the modern short story. He delighted in clever plotting, and served as a model for Somerset Maugham and O. Henry in this respect. Maupassant's short story Boule De Suif was the inspiration for the classic John Ford movie Stage Coach staring John Wayne. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during... (more)