The Collected Short Stories
Title | The Collected Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Rhys |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780393306255 |
Jean Rhys was one of the twentieth century's foremost writers, a literary artist who made exqusite use of the raw material of her own often turbulent life to create fiction of memorable resonance and poignancy. Here for the first time in one volume are her complete stories.
Collected Short Stories
Title | Collected Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Ruskin Bond |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 2016-04-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9386057042 |
Ruskin Bond wrote his first short story, ‘Untouchable’, at the age of sixteen, and has written memorable fiction ever since. He is famous not only for his love of the hills, but for imbuing the countryside with life and vibrancy through moving descriptions. The simple people who inhabit his stories evoke sympathy and laughter in equal measure. This wonderful collection of seventy stories, including classics like ‘A Face in Dark’, ‘The Kitemaker’, ‘The Tunnel’, ‘The Room of Many Colours’, ‘Dust on the Mountain’ and ‘Times Stops at Shamli’, is a must-have for any bookshelf.
The Collected Short Stories
Title | The Collected Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Archer |
Publisher | St. Martin's Paperbacks |
Pages | 640 |
Release | 2005-12-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312937706 |
International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer has enthralled readers with his riveting suspense, surprise denouements, and unforgettable storylines. Now Archer's three acclaimed collections of short fiction are brought together in one irresistible volume... THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES A Quiver Full of Arrows takes readers on a journey of encounters that befall an assortment of kindly strangers, wary old friends, and long-lost loves. Sly reflections on human nature are at the center of A Twist in the Tale in which blindly adventurous game-players compete for stakes higher than they dreamed. Expect the unexpected and you'll still be surprised in Twelve Red Herrings, a dozen tales of betrayal, love, murder and revenge capped with a startling twist. Thirty-six stories in all, each poised to astonish and inspire, revealing "master entertainer" (Time) Jeffrey Archer at his artfully entertaining best.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Title | The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty PDF eBook |
Author | Eudora Welty |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 652 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780156189217 |
Stories as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. These stories are honest, and vastly entertaining.
The Collected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf
Title | The Collected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Woolf |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2022-05-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
This edition presents the greatest short stories of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). Virginia Woolf is one of the most famous English writers who was a novelist, diarist, letter writer, polemicist and critic as well as a short story teller. Content: Kew Gardens Monday or Tuesday A Haunted House and Other Short Stories Mrs Dalloway's Party The Complete Shorter Fiction "Carlyle's House and Other Sketches"
Collected Short Stories: Volume 1
Title | Collected Short Stories: Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1992-09-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780140185898 |
These 30 short stories, comprising Somerset Maugham's first collection, are set in locations ranging from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. They include "Rain," "The Three Fat Women of Antibes," "The Voice of the Turtle," and "Before the Party." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Wordsworth Collection of Classic Short Stories
Title | The Wordsworth Collection of Classic Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Wordsworth Editions |
Pages | 1412 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781840222708 |
These accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary masterpiece on a small canvas