The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
Title | The Oxford Book of American Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 788 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780195092622 |
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Short Stories
Title | Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Irwin Shaw |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 786 |
Release | 2000-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780226751283 |
Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.
Jesus' Son
Title | Jesus' Son PDF eBook |
Author | Denis Johnson |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2009-02-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 031242874X |
Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiraling grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found and lost again. The raw beauty and careening energy of Denis Johnson's prose has earned this book a place among the classics of twentieth-century American literature.
The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
Title | The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking PDF eBook |
Author | Dale Carnegie |
Publisher | Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2017-01-11 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 9352617592 |
The book consists of many technique of ?Effective public speaking?. The author has transformed public-speaking into a life-skill which anyone cab develop. The book consists of basic principles of effective speaking, technique of effective speaking, and the 3-aspects of every speech and effective methods of delivering a talk. The book focuses on impromptu talk too. The author tells us how to make the most of our resources and achieve our fullest potential. A must read book for effective speaking.
The Book of Tokyo
Title | The Book of Tokyo PDF eBook |
Author | Hideo Furukawa |
Publisher | Comma Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2015-06-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
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A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the city’s train network… A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a flat full of eerie Egyptian artefacts… A man suspects his young wife’s obsession with picnicking every weekend in the city’s parks hides a darker motive… At first, Tokyo appears in these stories as it does to many outsiders: a city of bewildering scale, awe-inspiring modernity, peculiar rules, unknowable secrets and, to some extent, danger. Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar, hesitant to stray from their daily routines to engage with them. But Tokyo being the city it is, random encounters inevitably take place – a naïve book collector, mistaken for a French speaker, is drawn into a world he never knew existed; a woman seeking psychiatric help finds herself in a taxi with an older man wanting to share his own peculiar revelations; a depressed divorcee accepts an unexpected lunch invitation to try Thai food for the very first time… The result in each story is a small but crucial change in perspective, a sampling of the unexpected yet simple pleasure of other people’s company. As one character puts it, ‘The world is full of delicious things, you know.’
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
Title | The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Marcus |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307428133 |
“In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go. . . . If we are made by what we read, if language truly builds people into what they are, how they think, the depth with which they feel, then these stories are, to me, premium material for that construction project. You could build a civilization with them.” —Ben Marcus, from the Introduction Award-winning author of Notable American Women Ben Marcus brings us this engaging and comprehensive collection of short stories that explore the stylistic variety of the medium in America today. Sea Oak by George Saunders Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Do Not Disturb by A.M. Homes The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender The Caretaker by Anthony Doerr The Old Dictionary by Lydia Davis The Father’s Blessing by Mary Caponegro The Life and Work of Alphonse Kauders by Aleksandar Hemon People Shouldn’t Have to be the Ones to Tell You by Gary Lutz Histories of the Undead by Kate Braverman When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine by Jhumpa Lahiri Down the Road by Stephen Dixon X Number of Possibilities by Joanna Scott Tiny, Smiling Daddy by Mary Gaitskill Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace The Sound Gun by Matthew Derby Short Talks by Anne Carson Field Events by Rick Bass Scarliotti and the Sinkhole by Padgett Powell
Short!
Title | Short! PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780192781482 |
The longest of the stories in this book is short, and the shortest is just one sentence long. Which means there are lots of stories : a whole bookful to make you think, laugh, Shiver, and think again.