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bibliography biography Fiction. Nouvelles. novel Romans. Short stories. short story Stories (texts) Translations.Summary: "In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, the endlessly-mysterious moon is explored in this reprint short science fiction anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld, The Best Science Fiction of the Year). On July 20, 1969, mankind made what had only years earlier seemed like an impossible leap forward: when Apollo 11 became the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EAGSummary: "Ideal for students, this affordable anthology features expert new translations of a dozen works previously unavailable in English. The translations appear alongside the original German text of such stories as "Beauty and the Beast" by Irmtraud Morgner, Gabriele Wohmann's "Good Luck and Bad Luck," and tales by other modern authors, including Grunert, Inneberger, and Klockmann"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC GreatFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: "It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel--for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITSummary: A celebration of the short story as it was popularized in America in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Features works by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Kate Chopin, O' Henry, Jack London, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fall River Press, imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 GRESummary: "Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of this generation, delivers a stellar anthology of the best short fiction being written today in America In New American Stories, Ben Marcus has collected a diverse, exciting, and wholly unique book of contemporary American fiction writers. Herein are the luminaries of the form like Deborah Eisenberg, George Saunders, and Denis Johnson,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWGibson, William
Summary: Best-known for his science fiction novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of "Johnny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBTaylor, Peter
Summary: This second volume presents thirty stories including many of his most ambitious works, among them “Dean of Men,” a monologue delivered by a middle-aged father to his long-haired son about the limits of idealism; “In the Miro District,” a parable of the Old South’s enduring persistence in the New; and “The Old Forest,” one of Taylor’s most celebrated works, the story of a young man who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYSummary: "Featuring the original Russian on the left-hand page and new English translations on the right-hand side, contents include "The Fugitive" by Vladimir A. Gilyarovsky, "The Present" by Leonid Andreev, "Trataton" by Dimitry Mamin-Sibiryak, "Life Granted" by Aleksandr Grin, and "Icarus" by Stepan Skitalets, plus stories by Vasily Grossman, Aleksandr Kuprin, and others. No further apparatus or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications, Inc. 2013
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Summary: "In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of a case of mass suicide reveals further mysteries. In a far-flung colony, a cynical trio sends an unwitting man into the wilderness in search of a chimera. Mixing romance and high adventure, intrigue and the fantastic, these magnificent tales by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIMurakami, Haruki
Summary: Contains seventeen short fiction stories by Haruki Murakami about people whose lives veer off the path of normalcy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURSummary: Contains 62 stories from 16 countries written during the 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986
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Summary: This first volume offers twenty-nine early masterpieces, including such classics as “A Spinster’s Tale,” “What You Hear from ’Em?,” “Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” and “Miss Leonora When Last Seen.” As a special feature, an appendix in the first volume gathers three stories Taylor published as an undergraduate that show the early emergence of his singular style and sensibility.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYBowles, Jane
Summary: Though Jane Bowles published only one novel, one play, and a handful ofstories, her genius for spare prose and vivid dialogue had an outsized influence onher contemporaries. Tennessee Williams called her "the most important writer ofprose fiction in modern American letters"; for John Ashbery she was "one of thefinest modern writers of fiction in any language." Now, on the occasion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BOWContents: Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936): Naked life (La vita nuda) -- Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920): The crucifix (Il crocifisso) -- Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973): The ash of distant battles (La cenere delle battaglie) -- Dino Buzzati (1906-1972): An important man (Un uomo importante) -- Alberto Moravia (1907-1990): My name is Alice I am a spinning top (Mi chiamo Alice sono una trottola) -- Tommaso Landolfi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.3 FIC GRESummary: Written by authors from Quebec as well as France, the majority of these stories have been published in the last decade and reflect a rich diversity of styles and themes. From Daniel Boulanger's exploration of revenge and the desire for recognition in The Hunter's Cafe, to Alain Gerber's brief and poetic You Never Die, and the sardonic tales of Frederic Fajardie and Sylvie Massicotte, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOContents: The legend of pig-eye.--The disappeared.--Love is not a pie.--Tall tales from the Mekong Delta.--The trip back.--The point.--Oil and water.--Another short day in La Luz.--The custodian.--Separation.--The body shop.--Houdini.--Bologoye.--Glossolalia.--Viva la Tropicana.--Willing.--Friend of my youth.--American, abroad.--Dog stories.--A sandstone farmhouse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESElkin, Stanley
Contents: One's ship, by B. Midwood.--In praise of Vespasian, by A. Chester.--Revelation, by F. O'Connor.--In the heart of the heart of the country, by W. H. Gass.--The scream on 57th Street, by H. Calisher.--City boy, by L. Michaels.--The day of trials, by A. Lebowitz.--Dean of men, by P. Taylor.--Mosby's memoirs, by S. Bellow.--Love in the winter, by D. Curley.--The babysitter, by R. Coover.--Harry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1971
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC StoriesSummary: The anthology features such stories as James Kelman's The Busconductor Hines, on the life of a bus conductor in Glasgow, Alison Fell's There's Tradition for You, an art model's rant, and Duncan McLean's Hours of Darkness, the impact on a community of the arrival of a stranger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VINContents: The idyl of Red Gulch / Bret Harte -- The lonesome road / O. Henry -- One night at Medicine Tail / Chad Oliver -- Timberline / Owen Wister -- All Gold Canyon / Jack London -- Mago's bride / Loren D. Estelman -- Cowboy blues / Lenore Carroll -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses / Mark Twain -- The vengeance of Padre Arroyo / Gertrude Atherton -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The naked gun...
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Publisher / Publication Date: D.I. Fine Books 1996