Short Stories (single author)
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
$8.00 Read moreThe quintessential American writer, Washington Irving emerged as the country’s first popular author with such beloved nineteenth-century short stories as “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Win… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Irving, Washington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0486466582
- Language: English
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The Golden Pot and Other Tales: A New Translation by Ritchie Robertson
$12.95 Add to cartHoffmann, among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics, is renowned for his humorous and sometimes horrifying tales of supernatural beings. This selection, while stressing the variety o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hoffmann, E. T. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552479
- Language: English
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Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
$21.95 Add to cart“Nothing short of a wonder-book.”–New York Times Book Review
The story collection that hailed the arrival of an essential voice in southern literature—a sharp, rich exploration of what it means to p
- Series: Harvest American Writing
- Author: Kenan, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0156505150
- Language: English
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Ugly Man: Stories
$15.99 Add to cart” A] brilliant, triumphantly lurid writer as well as a supremely talented, elegant stylist whose prose is smart and nervy. He might also be the last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction.” —
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Cooper, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0061715441
- Language: English
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Reasons to Live: Stories by
$16.99 Add to cartThe author of “At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom” presents a “tough-minded, original, an fully felt” (Sheila Ballantyne) collection of stories that “approach the usual cliches of real life and fictio… [more below]
- Author: Hempel, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 20 1995
- ISBN10: 0060976721
- Language: English
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50 States
$17.99 Add to cartAn Idaho farmer who aches for absolution after a tragedy is given one more chance at redemption. Two runaways cross paths in a Tennessee bus station with only one ticket between them. A family sees lo
- Author: Becker, Richard R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 9798985381139
- Language: English
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If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home
$15.95 Add to cartIf I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home, Pete Hsu’s gripping and energetic debut, tells the stories of children and young people navigating a world not made for them, where the presence of death and v… [more below]
- Author: Hsu, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1636280536
- Language: English
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Unaccustomed to Grace
$16.95 Add to cartUnaccustomed to Grace is a collection of short stories where the unlikely outcome for irresponsible acts and unfortunate events result in redemption. Bannatyne’s mastery of the written word informs th
- Author: Bannatyne, Lesley Pratt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1952224160
- Language: English
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Snake Pit Therapy
$10.00 Add to cartA rough and tumble collection of memories, poetry, and fiction from Sonny Vincent, the legendary underground rock ‘n’ roller.
Slinging newspapers at Playland.
Meditations on Formica.
Loud nights at Max’
- Author: Vincent, Sonny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1736538802
- Language: English
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Sleepovers: Stories
$16.95 Read moreOne of the New Yorker’s “What We’re Reading This Summer” * A Millions Most Anticipated Book (June) * A Goop15 May 2020 Feature * One of Apartment Therapy’s “7 Must-Read Books Everyone Will Be Talking
- Author: Phillips, Ashleigh Bryant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 1938235665
- Language: English
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Beneath the Skin: The Sam Hunter Case Files
$23.95 Add to cartSam Hunter is a PI in the big bad city. When he takes a new case it’s like he’s accepting the client into his ‘pack’. And Sam will do anything to protect the members of his pack. Dogs are like that. S
- Author: Maberry, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1945373121
- Language: English
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The Folly of Loving Life
$15.00 Add to cartFiction. Short Stories. Women’s Studies. Following her acclaimed novels Clown Girl and The Stud Book, Monica Drake presents her long-awaited first collection of stories. THE FOLLY OF LOVING LIFE featu… [more below]
- Author: Drake, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1892061775
- Language: English
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Last of Her Name
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 PEN America Literary Award for Debut Short Story Collection, Mimi Lok’s Last of Her Name narrates the interconnected lives of diasporic women from ’80s UK suburbia to WWII Hong Kong… [more below]
- Author: Lok, Mimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1885030614
- Language: English
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Fancies and Goodnights
$24.95 Read moreJohn Collier’s edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition … [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Collier, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: May 31 2003
- ISBN10: 1590170512
- Language: English
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African Stories
$38.99 Add to cartLong considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing’s best collection of short stories, African Stories–a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer–is now back in print. This beautiful collect… [more below]
- Author: Lessing, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1476767157
- Language: English
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Places Like These: Stories
$20.00 Read moreA widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual assa
- Author: Carter, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1771668059
- Language: English
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Patterns of Orbit: Stories
$16.95 Add to cartChloe N Clark’s Patterns of Orbit spans genres, perspectives, and styles to articulate contemporary uncertainties in a rapidly changing world. Steadily gazing into and across the uncanny valley, Clark
- Author: Clark Chloe N
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1936097478
- Language: English
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Electrodomésticos: Stories
$18.95 Read moreInspired, in part, by Moira McCavana’s own family history in Bilbao, these inventive short stories inhabit the Spanish Basque Country in the fifty years following the Spanish Civil War.
“In Guernica, … [more below]
- Author: McCavana, Moira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1956046275
- Language: English
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Where Are Your People From?: A Novel in Stories
$24.95 Add to cartMeet Giacomo Agostini, retired coal miner and first-generation American, a son of foreigners, a Depression kid who never got over it, the second-oldest living member of the St. Theresa’s Knights of Co
- Author: De Monte, James B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986966366
- Language: English
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Twin Lakes Vortex
$15.00 Add to cartThese stories are fictional, of course, but along the way are events, or incidents that happen to each of us on a daily basis. Books can take us to the moon and stars. Drawing inspiration from his rea
- Author: Morris, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885275316
- Language: English
