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• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

  Liu, Ken, 1976-

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  Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.

• The Complete Stories

  Hurston, Zora Neale

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  This landmark gathering of Zora Neale Hurston's short fiction--most of which appeared only in literary magazines during her lifetime--reveals the evolution of one of the most important African American writers. Spanning her career from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Complete Short Stories

  Greene, Graham, 1904-1991

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  Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence--this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including four previously uncollected stories, this new complete…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Manual for Cleaning Women

  Selected Stories

  Berlin, Lucia

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  With her trademark blend of humor and melancholy, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday uncovering moments of grace in the cafeterias and Laundromats of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Northern California upper classes, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

  Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927

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  Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour.

• Everything's Eventual

  14 Dark Tales

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  From encounters with the dead, the near dead, or the mundane dreads of life, from quitting smoking to yard sales, these stories are intense, eerie, and instantly compelling.

• Fragile Things

  Short Fictions and Wonders

  Gaiman, Neil

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  A collection of more than twenty-five short fictional works follows a theme of the intersections between life and death, perception and reality, and darkness and light.

• Florida

  Groff, Lauren,

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  The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida, its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence.

• The Thing Around Your Neck

  Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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  Collects twelve short stories by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in which she examines bonds between men and women, parents and children, and Africa and the United States.

• Drifting House

  Lee, Krys

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  This collection of short stories depicts the lives of Korean immigrants to America in both contemporary times and immediately following the war, including a story about a woman who fakes a marriage to find her kidnapped daughter.

• Dubliners

  Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism

  Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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  These fifteen stories, including such unforgettable ones as "Araby," "Grace," and "The Dead," delve into the heart of the city of Joyce's birth, capturing the cadences of Dubliners' speech and portraying with an almost brute realism their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Essential Tales of Chekhov

  Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904

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  These stories, ordered from 1886 to 1899, are drawn from Chekhov's most fruitful years as a short-story writer. A truly balanced selection, they exhibit the qualities that make Chekhov one of the greatest fiction writers of all time: his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Strange Pilgrims

  Twelve Stories

  García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014

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  Collection of twelve stories recounting the amazing experiences that befall Latin Americans visiting or living in Europe.

• The Complete Stories

  O'Connor, Flannery

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  The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Refugees

  Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

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  A collection of stories, written over a twenty-year period, examines the Vietnamese experience in America as well as questions of home, family, and identity.