Short Stories
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Interpreter Of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies is a 2000 collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year. The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between the culture they have inherited and the "New World" they now find themselves in.
Dubliners
by James Joyce
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.
Skeleton Crew
by Stephen King
Skeleton Crew (1985) is the second published anthology of short stories by Stephen King. The first collection, Night Shift was published seven years prior in 1978. Different Seasons, a collection of four novellas, was published between the two in 1982. Skeleton Crew was originally published in hardcover form by Putnam (512 pages). It has been reprinted multiple times in the years since in both hardcover and paperback forms.
The Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury that explores the nature of mankind. While none of the stories have a plot or character connection with the next, a recurring theme is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of "the Illustrated Man", a vagrant with a tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets.
Tales Of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination, stories by American author Edgar Allan Poe have been compiled by Padraic Colum into a thrilling collection focused on Poe’s suspenseful stories. The first edition compiled by Padraic Colum was published in 1908 by Geoffrey Newnes Ltd. and includes an introduction by Colum explaining his decision to exclude Poe’s poems, comedies, and essays from the collection. A later 1919 edition, published by George G. Harrap & Co., includes 24 full-page black and white plates...
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The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist.
Her novel, The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, won the National Book Award in 1972. This collection of thirty-one short stories is a unique, tangible expression of O’Connor’s projected ideas of the southern United States in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Included in this collection are twelve stories that are only included in this collection and not in her two other compilations, Everything That Rises Must Converge... Read more about this item
Her novel, The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, won the National Book Award in 1972. This collection of thirty-one short stories is a unique, tangible expression of O’Connor’s projected ideas of the southern United States in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Included in this collection are twelve stories that are only included in this collection and not in her two other compilations, Everything That Rises Must Converge... Read more about this item
In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time is the first published collection of Hemingway's short fiction. The book collects several of the author's short stories about American life in the early 1920's, just after WWI. A few of these stories focus on the character Nick Adams.First published in Paris in 1924 by Three Mountains Press under the title in our time - in all lower case - the first state of this work was a set of 18 vignettes and numbered 32 pages in total. Only 300 copies were printed, but due to a printing...
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The Stories Of John Cheever
by John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The Swimmer. " It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979; the paperback version won the American Book Award for Fiction in 1981.
Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway
First published in 1927, Men Without Women is an early Hemingway collection containing fourteen short stories that are beginning to show the normal Hemingway themes: war and it's casualties, the interactions between men and women, sports, and violence.
"Banal Story," "In Another Country," "The Killers," "Ten Indians," "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Undefeated," "Fifty Grand," "In Another Country," "Now I Lay Me," "A Canary for One," and more.
"Banal Story," "In Another Country," "The Killers," "Ten Indians," "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Undefeated," "Fifty Grand," "In Another Country," "Now I Lay Me," "A Canary for One," and more.
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
by Stephen King
New to Pocket BooksâÈç Stephen King backlistâÈ'the short story collection containing the story "DolanâÈçs Cadillac," soon to be released as a feature film starring Christian Slater and Wes Bentley.With numerous unforgettable movies based on his short storiesâÈ'including Shawshank Redemption, 1408, and The Green MileâÈ'readers will be delighted to rediscover this classic collection, also released as a television mini-series and on DVD. Featuring twenty short horror stories, a television...
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Holidays On Ice
by David Sedaris
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations ("Six to Eight...
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Haroun and The Sea Of Stories
by Salman Rushdie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children's book by Salman Rushdie. It was Rushdie's first novel after The Satanic Verses. It is a phantasmagorical story set in a city so old and ruinous that it has forgotten its name. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is an allegory for several problems existing in society today, especially in India and the Indian subcontinent. It looks at these problems from the viewpoint of the young protagonist Haroun.
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
"Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relations to our age as Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of." —W. H. Auden
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on October 14 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on October 15 by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies.
Runaway
by Alice Munro
In Alice Munro's superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband. In "Passion," a country girl emerging into the larger world via a job in a resort hotel discovers in a single moment of stunning insight the limits and lies of that mysterious emotion. Three stories are...
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Years Best Science Fiction - Twenty Second Annual Collection
by Gardner Dozois
Includes bibliographical references.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a 1993 collection of interconnected short stories by Sherman Alexie. The characters and stories in the book, particularly "This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" provided the basis of Alexie's screenplay for the film Smoke Signals.
Cathedral
by Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in August of that year, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.
Short Stories Books & Ephemera
Vintage Wodehouse
by P.G. Wodehouse; Richard Usborne [Editor]
Penguin, 1981. Paperback. Good. 17 to 19 cm tall (12mo). 1981 reprint. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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NZ$8.50
Alligator Dance: Stories.
by Janet Peery
Alligator Dance: Stories. By Janet Peery. 1993 by Southern Methodist University Press. Hardcover, 224 pp.
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NZ$119.15
Sweet Talk
by Stephanie Vaughn
New York: Random House, 1990. 1st Edition Unrevised and Unpublished proofs. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Uncorrected Proofs in very fine condition. Ten stories which seem to be printed by coping author typed pages. Authors first book.
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NZ$14.47
Swingin Round the Cirkle: His Ideas of Men, Politics, and Things as Set Forth in His Letters to the Public Press, During the Year 1866
by Nasby (Locke, David Ross), Petroleum V. and Thomas Nast
Boston: Lee and Shepard , 1867. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. Thomas Nast . Maroon cloth with blindstamped rules to both covers. Spine with titles and decorations stamped in gilt. Nasby's look at Reconstruction, written in dialect, and dedicated to "Androo Johnson". 8 b&w illustrations by Thomas Nast. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. The popular work of ironic fiction written by journalist and political commentator David Ross Locke (1833-1888). Locke's greatest influence was through his...
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NZ$68.09
Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
by Freeman, John
Granta Magazine, 2010-11-25. Paperback. Very Good. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). English language. Previous owner's ink inscription. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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NZ$8.50
Going Up: And Other Stories And Sketches
by J. B. Priestley
Pan, 1950-01-01. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 17 to 19 cm tall (12mo). First Edition. Ink number on front cover. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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NZ$8.50
The Face (Collected Spook Stories - 4th Volume) - As New
by E. F. Benson
Ashcroft: Ash-Tree Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2003. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. From the legendary publisher of supernatural and horror literature. Part of a 5-volume set, bringing together all of Benson's known tales of the strange and supernatural, including recently discovered weird tales. This is the 4th volume and covers the period between December 1923 - November 1927. Edited by Jack Adrian. The Ash-Tree edition was limited to 600 copies. Both the book and jacket...
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NZ$212.78
DAVID COPPERFIELD'S TALES OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
by Created and edited by David Copperfield and Janet Berliner
New York: Harper Prism. Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 1995. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0061052280 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; B&W Illustrations; 385 pages; Stated first printing. Pages are clean, unmarked, tight, ivory. No ownership marks. Featuring original contributions from Dean Koontz, Ray Bradbury, S.P. Somtow, Eric Lustbader, F. Paul Wilson, Dave Smeds, Raymond E. Feist, Lisa Mason, Dave Wolverton and others. .
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NZ$11.92
Pieces of Midnight (As New)
by Gary McMahon
Ashcroft: Ash-Tree Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2008. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. From the legendary publisher of supernatural and horror literature. A collection of 17 short stories by McMahon. The Ash-Tree edition was limited to 400 copies. Both the book and jacket are as new, the jacket now with an archival cover. A beautiful, untouched copy as good as it gets. We have a wide selection of Ash-Tree books, all in Fine - As New condition and happy to offer discount and/or...
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NZ$212.78
The Phantom Detective: Fangs of Murder
by Robert Wallace
Paperback / softback. New.
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NZ$36.03
TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE
by Charles & Mary Lamb
Ward, Lock & Co, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Ward, Lock & Co 1910. Hardcover with tight but fragile binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text.
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NZ$97.96
ELLERY QUEEN'S Mystery Magazine: September, Sept. 1948
by Ellery Queen (Helen McCloy; Margery Sharp; W. T. Brannon; Thomas Walsh; Jack Jonas; Lawrence G. Blochman; Q. Patrick; Dale Clark; Jack Moffitt; Clarke Olney)
NY: Mercury Publications, 1948. Vol. 12, no. 58. Cover art by George Salter. Includes "Through a Glass, Darkly" by Helen McCloy; "The Adventure of the Gent's Romeo" by Margery Sharp; "The Perfect Secretary" by W. T. Brannon; "Hard Guy" by Thomas Walsh; "The Undertaker" by Jack Jonas; "Murder Walks in Marble Halls" by Lawrence G. Blochman; "Farewell Performance" by Q. Patrick; "Crime Lesson" by Dale Clark; "The Lady...
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NZ$8.51
Trust Me
by Updike, John
New York: Fawcett, 1988-05-12. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. 6x3x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. heavy spine creasing and edge wear; Here is trust betrayed--and fulfilled. Here are parents struggling to maintain that fragile claim on their offspring's childish awe. Here are husbands and wives as only Updike knows them. Here is life as we live it, in 22 stories of uncommon beauty and pathos from a master storyteller at the peak of his brilliant career.
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NZ$1.70
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In the Penny Arcade [*SIGNED*]
by Millhauser, Steven
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394546601 . (price-clipped) [book is bumped and lightly shelfworn at bottom edge; rear jacket panel shows a little scuffing/surface scratching]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep. His third book, and first story collection. Signed by Author .
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NZ$85.11
BADGER ON THE BARGE
by Howker, Janni
NY: Greenwillow, 1984 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Fine in a Very Fine dustjacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 201 pgs, boards. 5 stories each of which describes a significant encounter between 2 people - 1 old & 1 young..
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NZ$59.58
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
by Ishiguro, Kazuo
Faber & Faber, 2010-03-18. Paperback. Very Good. 11x8x0. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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NZ$9.56
Burlesques
by Thackeray, W.M
Smith, Elder & Co, 1869-01-01. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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NZ$10.63
PAULINE AND THE PRINCE IN THE WIND
by Kruss, James
NY: Atheneum, (1966) Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE dustjacket. Translated by Edelgard Bruhl. Drawings by Jochen Bartsch. First American Edition. 109 pgs, cloth. Stories told to the author by little Pauline who received payment for each in the form of candy & ice cream..
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NZ$51.07
LICKS OF LOVE Short Stories and a Sequel
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good+; with a Very Good+ dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked. First Trade Edition is stated. ; 8.20 X 5.59 X 1.18 inches; 368 pages.
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NZ$42.56
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
by Robb, Graham
Picador, 2010-10-15. Paperback. Good. 8x5x1. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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NZ$8.50
Daughter of Regals and Other Tales
by Stephen R. Donaldson
New York: Del Rey / Ballantine Books [1985]. Very Good. 1985. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. 0345314433 . First edition thus. Collects 8 stories plus an introduction. 366 pages. VG copy [reading crease to slightly cocked spine, text paper starting to tan]. .
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NZ$17.36
Bits of Paradise
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Fitzgerald, Zelda
The Bodley Head, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First UK edition in unusually nice condition. The wraps have the slightest evidence of edge wear, but remain otherwise bright, whole and intact. The boards are strong and square, with bright gold gilt to the spine. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages within are immaculate, pristine and crisp. Tightly bound and presents beautifully in cellophane. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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NZ$42.56
