The Best Short Stories of 1915, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
By: Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
3.53
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1890-1941) was an American author, poet, editor and anthologist. …
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1. Lullaby
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.74
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. Aft… read more
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"I'm in love. So kill me."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"Anymore, no one's mind is their own."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"We're all of us haunted and haunting."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"Some people still think knowledge is power."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
2. Youth and the Bright Medusa
By: Willa Cather
3.98
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
Paul had just come in to dress for dinner; he sank into a chair, weak in the knees, and clasped his… read more
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"Oh, he’s an old friend from the West,"-Willa Cather, Youth and the Bright Medusa
"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."-Willa Cather, Youth and the Bright Medusa
"The Queen had a jewel of great value, a turquoise that had fallen from the sun, and had the image of the sun upon it. And when she desired a young man whom she had seen in the army or among the slave…"-Willa Cather, Youth and the Bright Medusa
"Bouchalka was not a reflective person. He had his own idea of what a great prima donna should be like, and he took it for granted that Mme. Garnet corresponded to his conception. The curious thing wa…"-Willa Cather, Youth and the Bright Medusa
3. The Pastures of Heaven
By: John Steinbeck
4.08
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on … read more
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4. Cup of Gold
By: John Steinbeck , Susan F. Beegel
3.43
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, r… read more
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"But don't you see that I must go, for it seems that I am cut in half and only one part of me here. The other piece is over the sea, calling and calling me to come and be whole."-John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
"Why are you making no more songs?' I said to him in a tone like that. 'Why are you making no more songs?' 'I have grown to be a man. Only children make songs -- children and idiots."-John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
"It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ev…"-John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
"There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outw…"-John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
5. Sucker's Portfolio
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.85
Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition
Available to readers for the first time, Sucker’s Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never b… read more
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6. The Shadow-Line
By: Joseph Conrad , Jeremy Hawthorn
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Lineis based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlie… read more
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7. Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers
By: Anton Chekhov , Guy de Maupassant , O. Henry , Mark Twain , H.G. Wells , Stephen Crane , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Rudyard Kipling , Ambrose Bierce , D.H. Lawrence , Charles Dickens , Thomas Hardy , Oscar Wilde , Kate Chopin , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Franz Kafka , Jack London , Katherine Mansfield , Willa Cather , Edgar Allan Poe , Leo Tolstoy , Luigi Pirandello , Daniel Defoe , Saki , Jerome K. Jerome , Sherwood Anderson , Alexander Pushkin , Paul Negri , Nella Larsen , Sarah Orne Jewett , Bret Harte
3.92
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
"To buy books would be a good thing," observed Arthur Schopenhauer, "if we also could buy the time … read more
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8. Renascence and Other Poems
By: Edna St. Vincent Millay
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) have been long admired for the lyric beauty that i… read more
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9. The Torrents of Spring
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.11
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
First published in 1926, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of lite… read more
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10. Prufrock and Other Observations
By: T.S. Eliot
5.00
Format: 172 pages, paper
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized … read more
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11. Obscure Destinies
By: Willa Cather , Frederick M. Link , None
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The jacket of the first edition of Obscure Destiniesannounced "Three New Stories of the West," hera… read more
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12. Great Short Poems
By: Paul Negri
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
This outstanding anthology of short verse offers poetry lovers an impressive sampling of more than … read more
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13. How to Keep House While Drowning
By: K.C. Davis
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more
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"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning
"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning
14. Old School
By: Tobias Wolff
3.84
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy… read more
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"a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
"The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
"The stories you have to write will always make someone hate your guts. If they don't you're just producing words."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
"The life that produces writing can't be written about. Is is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below the mind's business and noise, in deep unlit shafts where phantom messen…"-Tobias Wolff, Old School
15. Post-Bliss
By: Jay Honeycomb
4.50
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Post-Bliss is the debut novella of Irish writer Jay Honeycomb. This gender-neutral, postmodernist b… read more
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16. The Best Short Stories of 1915, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
By: Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
3.53
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1890-1941) was an American author, poet, editor and anthologist. … read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
