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Garden for the blind : stories / by Fordon, Kelly.;
The Great Gatsby party -- Use everything in your arsenal -- Lucky -- The guest room -- A shift in the weather -- Trees from heaven -- Opportunity cost -- The vagaries of love -- In the hermitage -- In the museum of your life -- Garden for the blind.Captivating linked stories that follow a group of characters from an upscale suburb of Detroit over several decades.
Subjects: Short stories.;
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Short fiction : classic and contemporary / by Bohner, Charles H.; Dougherty, Dean.;
Chinua Achebe-- Dead man's path / Alice Adams-- Roses, Rhododendron / Iqbal Ahmad-- A bicycle / Dorothy Allison-- I'm working on my charm / Sherwood Anderson-- I want to know why / Thea Astley-- Seeing Mrs. Landers / Margaret Atwood-- Rape fantasies-- Hairball-- Gertrude talks back-- The little red hen tells all / Isaac Babel-- Awakening / James Baldwin-- Sonny's blues / Tony Cade Bambara-- The lesson / Russell Banks-- My mother's memoirs, my father's lies, and other true stories / Julian Barnes-- III from three simple stories / John Barth-- Lost in the funhouse / Donald Barthelme-- A city of churches / Barbara Baynton-- The chosen vessel / Ann Beattie-- What was mine / Ambrose Bierce-- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Jorge Luis Borges-- The end of the duel / Angela Carter-- The werewolf / Raymond Carver-- Cathedral / Willa Cather-- Paul's case / John Cheever-- The swimmer / Anton Chekhov-- The darling-- Gooseberries-- The lady with the dog-- The death of a civil servant / Kate Chopin-- The story of an hour-- Regret-- A respectable woman /Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)-- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Colette-- The other wife / Joseph Conrad-- The secret sharer / Robert Coover-- The magic poker / Stephen Crane-- The Blue hotel-- The open boat-- The lover and the tell-tale / Isak Dinesen-- The blue jar / Arthur Conan Doyle-- The red-headed league / Andre Dubus-- The doctor / Ralph Ellison-- King of the bingo game / William Faulkner-- Dry September-- A rose for Emily / Ida Fink-- A scrap of time / F. Scott Fitzgerald-- Babylong revisited / Benjamin Franklin-- Silence Dogood, no. 1 / Mavis Gallant-- April fish / Gabriel Garcia Marquez-- Tuesday siesta / Charlotte Perkins Gilman-- The yellow wallpaper / Nikolai Gogol-- The overcoat / Nadine Gordimer-- The life of the imagination / Graham Greene-- Two gentle people / Donald Hall-- Argument and persuasion / Nathaniel Hawthorne-- The birthmark-- Young Goodman Brown / Bessie Head-- Looking for a rain God / Mark Helprin-- A Vermont tale / Ernest Hemingway-- Hills like white Elephants-- Indian camp / Langston Hughes-- Who's passing for who /Zora Neale Hurston-- Spunk / Washington Irving-- Rip Van Winkle / Shirley Jackson-- The lottery / Henry James-- The real thing / Sarah Orne Jewett-- A white Heron / James Joyce-- Araby / Franz Kafka-- The metamorphosis / Wayne Karlin-- Search and destroy / Jamaica Kincaid-- The circling hand-- Girl / Perri Klass-- Not a good girl / Ring Lardner-- Haircut / Mary Lavin My vocation / D. H. Lawrence-- The rocking-horse winner / Halldor Laxness-- A place for safety / Ursula K. LeGuin-- The professor's houses / Doris Lessing-- A sunrise on the veld / Primo Levi-- Small causes / Jack London-- To build a fire / Naguib Mahfouz-- Half a day / Bernard Malamud-- The magic barrel / Katherine Mansfield-- A dill pickle-- Miss Brill / Bobbie Ann Mason-- Shiloh / W. Somerset Maugham-- The outstation / Guy de Maupassant-- The necklace / Herman Melville-- Bartleby the scrivener / Yukio Mishima-- Patriotism / Bharati Mukherjee-- A father / Alice Munro-- Friend of my youth-- Boys and girls / Vladimir Nabokov-- The passenger / Joyce Carol Oates-- Where are you going, where have you been-- Shopping /Edna O'Brien-- The creature / Tim O'Brien-- The things they carried / Flannery O'Connor-- Everything that rises must converge-- A good man is hard to find / Frank O'Connor-- Guests of the nation / John O'Hara-- Do you like it here / Tillie Olsen-- I stand here ironing / Grace Paley-- A conversation with my father / Luigi Pirandello-- War / Edgar Allan Poe-- The cask of amontillado-- The fall of the house of usher / Hop-frog / Katherine Anne Porter-- Flowering Judas-- The grave / J.F. Powers-- THe valiant woman / V. S. Pritchett-- The diver / Philip Roth-- The conversion of the Jews / John Sayles-- I-80 Nebraska, M.490-M.205 / Isaac Bashevis Singer-- Gimpel the fool / John Steinbeck-- The Chrysanthemums / Elizabeth Tallent-- No one's a mystery / Amy Tan-- A pair of tickets / John Tavela-- Souvenir / James Thurber-- The catbird seat / Leo Tolstoy-- The death of Ivan Ilych / Ivan Turgenev-- The tryst / John Updike-- A & P / Luisa Valenzuela-- The verb to kill / Helena Maria Viramontes-- The moths / Alice Walker-- Roselily-- To hell with dying-- The welcome table /Robert Penn Warren-- Blackberry Winter / Eudora Welty-- Petrified man-- A worn path / Edith Wharton-- Roman Fever / John Edgar Wideman-- Damballah / William Carlos Williams-- The use of force / Tobias Wolff-- Smokers / Virginia Wolff / Kew Gardens / Richard Wright-- The man who was almost a man / Writers on writing: Margaret Atwood-- From dissecting the way a writer works-- My mother would rather skate than scrub floors-- From survival-- Witches / Anton Chekhov-- From his letters / Stephen Crane-- On Stephen Crane and the blue hotel by Alfred Kazin-- On his life-- Stephen Crane's own story-- A letter to John Hilliard / Bessie Head-- Let me tell you a story / Shirley Jackson-- Biography of a story / Primo Levi--To a young reader / Katherine Mansfield-- A letter to Richard Murray / Flannery O'Connor-- On her own work / Edgar Allan Poe-- The brief prose tale / Katherine Anne Porter-- The writing of flowering Judas / Alice Walker-- The old artist: notes on Mr. Sweet-- An interview with Eudora Welty-- From beyond the peacock / Robert Penn Warren-- Blackberry winter: a recollection /Eudora Welty-- Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead
Subjects: Short stories.;
© c1999., Prentice Hall,
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The complete short stories of Mark Twain / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.; Neider, Charles,1915-2001.;
This anthology covers the entire span of Twain's inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," to the bitter vision of humankind in "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," to the delightful hilarity of "Is He Living or Is He Dead?"The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The story of the bad little boy -- Cannibalism in the cars -- A day at Niagara -- Legend of the Capitoline Venus -- Journalism in Tennessee -- A curious dream -- The facts in the great beef contract -- How I edited an agricultural paper -- A medieval romance -- My watch -- Political economy -- Science vs. luck -- The story of the good little boy -- Buck Fanshaw's funeral -- The story of the old ram -- Tom Quartz -- A trial -- The trials of Simon Erickson -- A true story -- Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup -- Some learned fables for good old boys and girls -- The canvasser's tale -- The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton -- Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale -- The man who put up at Gadsby's -- Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning -- What stumped the bluejays -- A curious experience -- The invalid's story -- The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm -- The stolen white elephant -- A burning brand -- A dying man's confession -- The professor's yarn -- A ghost story -- Luck -- Playing courier -- The Californian's tale -- The diary of Adam and Eve -- The Esquimau maiden's romance -- Is he living or is he dead? -- The £1,000,000 bank-note -- Cecil Rhodes and the shark -- The joke that made Ed's fortune -- A story without an end -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- The death disk -- Two little tales -- The belated Russian passport -- A double-barreled detective story -- The five boons of life -- Was it heaven? Or hell? -- A dog's tale -- The $30,000 bequest -- A horse's tale -- Hunting the deceitful turkey -- Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven -- A fable -- The mysterious stranger.
Subjects: Short stories.;
© 2005., Bantam Books,
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The complete short stories / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.;
Includes bibliographical references.Presents a volume of satirical short tales by the literary master that includes such classics as "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," and "The Diary of Adam and Eve."
Subjects: Short stories, American.; Short stories.;
© 2012., Alfred A. Knopf,
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Best Russian short stories / by Seltzer, Thomas.;
Subjects: Short stories, Russian.;
© 2012], S. n.,
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Full dark, no stars / by King, Stephen,1947-;
1922 -- Big driver -- Fair extension -- A good marriage.Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side while he is away on a business trip.
Subjects: Horror tales, American.; Short stories, American.; Horror fiction.; Short stories, American.;
© 2010., Scribner,
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Look at the birdie : unpublished short fiction / by Vonnegut, Kurt.;
Letter from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., to Walter J. Miller, 1951 -- Confido -- FUBAR -- Shout about it from the housetops -- Ed Luby's key club -- A song for Selma -- Hall of mirrors -- The nice little people -- Hello, Red -- Little drops of water -- The petrified ants -- The honor of a newsboy -- Look at the birdie -- King and queen of the universe -- The good explainer.A volume of fourteen early and previously unpublished short works offers insight into the social satirist's developing literary style and includes pieces that explore such themes as innocence, ironic twists of fate, and morality.
Subjects: Short stories, American.;
© 2010, c2009., Dial Press Trade Paperbacks,
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Hawthorne's short stories / by Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864.; Arvin, Newton,1900-1963.;
The gray champion -- The minister's black veil -- The maypole of Merry Mount -- The gentle boy -- Wakefield -- The great carbuncle -- The prophetic pictures -- Dr. Heidegger's experiment -- Lady Eleanore's mantle -- Old Esther Dudley -- The ambitious guest -- The white old maid -- Peter Goldthwaite's treasure -- Endicott and the Red Cross -- The birthmark -- Young Goodman Brown -- Rappaccini's daughter -- The celestial railroad -- Feathertop, a moralized legend -- Egotism, or, The bosom serpent -- The Christmas banquet -- Drowne's wooden image -- Earth's holocaust -- The artist of the beautiful -- The great stone face -- Ethan Brand -- The wives of the dead -- The antique ring -- Alice Doane's appeal.Twenty four of the best of Hawthorne's short stories.
Subjects: Fiction.; Short stories.;
© [2011], ©1973., Vintage Books,
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Uncle Wiggily's adventures / [electronic resource]. by Garis, Howard R.;
The Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories began to appear in newspapers in the early decades of the twentieth century. Soon afterwards, the tales began to be collected in book form. The stories in Uncle Wiggily's Adventures follow the wise old rabbit Uncle Wiggily as he navigates a world populated by woodland creatures of both the nice and not-so-nice varieties. This collection is sure to enchant and delight readers young and old.Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1146 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 315 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1145 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 311 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Juvenile Fiction.; Short Stories.;
© 2013., Duke Classics,
On-line resources: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=1423143 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive. ;
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The hangman : [electronic resource] : A Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novella. by Penny, Louise.;
On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The dead man had been a guest at the local Inn and Spa. He might have been looking for peace and quiet, but something else found him. Something horrible. Did the man take his own life? Or was he murdered? Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to the crime scene. As Gamache follows the trail of clues, he opens a door into the past. And he learns the true reason why the man came to Three Pines. This novella is a quick and easy read for people on the go.Grade 1 - Grade 2450Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Mystery.; Short Stories.;
© 2011.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=686726 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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