Fitzgerald, 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: "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 NEWSummary: 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 GREGibson, 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 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 TAYTaylor, 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 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: 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 BESSummary: 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 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREElkin, 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: Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfants brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 831.01 COLMcCullers, Carson.
Summary: Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullerswas equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writingin shorter forms. This Library of America volume brings together for the first time her twenty extraordinary stories, along with plays, essays, memoirs, and poems. Here are the indelible tales Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland and A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. as well as her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 MCCSummary: "This collection offers a rich sampling of significant Mexican short stories published from 1843 to 1918. Nine different tales range from the realism of López Portillo's 'Reloj sin dueño' and the modernismo saturating Gutiérrez Nájera's 'La mañana de San Juan' to the historical accuracy of Riva Palacio's 'Las mulas de Su Excelencia' and the vivid romanticism of 'Amor secreto' by Manual Payno,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2008