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1. The Dead
By: James Joyce
3.99
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more
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"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."-James Joyce, The Dead
"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pareció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"-James Joyce, The Dead
2. The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
By: John Chu
3.81
Format: 22 pages, ebook
In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential fl… read more
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3. Brokeback Mountain
By: Annie Proulx
4.00
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary lite… read more
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"I wish I knew how to quit you."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,"-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
4. Mom & Me & Mom
By: Maya Angelou
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER The story of Maya Angelou's extraordinary life has been chronicled in her … read more
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5. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more
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6. Dear Life: Stories
By: Alice Munro
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales abo… read more
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7. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
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9. The City Born Great
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.49
Format: 288 pages, ebook
In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this yea… read more
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10. The Embassy of Cambodia
By: Zadie Smith
4.38
Format: None pages,
'The fact is, if we followed the history of every little country in the world - in its dramatic as … read more
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11. The Swimmer
By: John Cheever
3.56
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Neddy Merrill decides to swim home from a friend's pool party, traveling from fashionable swimming … read more
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12. Premium Harmony
By: Stephen King , Steve Powers
4.06
Format: 205 pages, ebook
They've been married for ten years and for a long time everything was O.K.--swell--but now... http:… read more
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13. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.50
Format: 262 pages, ebook
The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more
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14. The Most Dangerous Game
By: Richard Connell
3.94
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more
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"But you can’t mean—"-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
15. Sweetness
By: Toni Morrison
3.73
Format: 192 pages, ebook
It's not my fault. So you can't blame me. I didn't do it and have no idea how it happened. It didn'… read more
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16. The Veldt
By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more
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17. A Good Man Is Hard To Find
By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more
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18. The Gift of the Magi
By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger
4.11
Format: 26 pages, Hardcover
O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more
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"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
19. The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains
By: Neil Gaiman , Eddie Campbell
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The text of The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountainswas first published in the collection antholo… read more
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20. Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7)
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert and now is the mother of six mischievous … read more
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21. Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #6)
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.88
Format: None pages,
Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now with a new baby on… read more
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22. The Library of Babel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley , Erik Desmazieres
4.35
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains al… read more
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"O Time thy pyramids."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
23. The Monkey's Paw
By: W.W. Jacobs
3.84
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more
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"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
24. Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
By: Chuck Palahniuk
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with… read more
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"Three parts description . Two parts instruction . One part onomatopoeia . Mix to taste ."-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
"Once someone who draws superheroes draws your picture , you never want to go back to reality ."-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
"My guess is that people haven’t a clue how to get along . They need a structure , rules , and roles to play ."-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
"All through that lunch I feigned interest in her cats , yes , cats , while psychically begging her to love me and interview me ."-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
25. All Summer in a Day
By: Ray Bradbury
4.00
Format: 4 pages, ebook
Margot is a nine-year-old girl whose family moved from Earth to Venus when she was four. She rememb… read more
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"I think the sun is a flower. That blooms for just one hour."-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day
"It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days..."-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day
"Sabía que creían recordar un calor, un ardor en las mejillas, en el cuerpo, en los brazos y las piernas, en las manos temblorosas. Pero luego despertaban siempre al tamborileo trepidante, al intermin…"-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day
"It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling and finally cutting…"-Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day
26. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more
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27. Girls, at Play
By: Celeste Ng
3.85
Format: None pages, None
"Girls, at Play" is a short story about childhood, sexuality, and class, originally published in th… read more
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28. The Hunter's Wife
By: Anthony Doerr
3.70
Format: 2 pages, Unknown Binding
Short story, published in The Atlantic read more
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"Death can seem so final, like a blade dropped through the neck. But the nature of death is not at all final. It is not some dark cliff off which we leap. I hope to show you it is merely a fog, someth…"-Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife
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30. Broads
By: Roxane Gay
2.45
Format: None pages, None
Jimmy Nolan has a thing for broads—loud, brassy women who sit with their legs open and drink beer s… read more
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