This is the most brilliant and celebrated book of short stories by a master of the form.

    From the exasperated metaphor of human relationships that is "La autopista del sur" through the masterpiece that is "El otro cielo," Cortazar once again paves the way to stories that are a must-read for lovers of the story genre in general. "La salud de los enfermos," "Reunión," "La señorita Cora," "La isla a mediodía," "Instrucciones para John Howell," and "Todos los fuegos el fuego" are a celebration of intelligence, passion, and genius.

    Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours. This new enlarged edition combines two collections previously published in the United States as Kolyma Tales and Graphite.

    In 1962, 'The Fine White Mist of Winter, ' composed when the author was 19 years old, appeared in The Literary Review and was selected for both the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories of that year.By the north gate: Edge of the world ; The fine white mist of winter --Upon the sweeping flood, 1966: First views of the enemy ; At the seminary ; What death with love should have to do ; Upon the sweeping flood --The wheel of love: In the region of ice ; Where are you going, where have you been? ; Unmailed, unwritten letters ; Accomplished desires ; How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again ; Four summers --Marriages and infidelities: Love and death ; By the river ; Did you ever slip on red blood? ; The lady with the pet dog ; The turn of the screw ; The dead --The goddess and other women: Concerning the case of Bobby T. ; In the warehouse ; Small avalanches --Night-side: The widows ; The translation ; Bloodstains ; Daisy --Uncollected: The molesters ; Silkie.

    Hammett's continental op - tough, tired, intelligent, a snap-brimmed Sir Galahad with a Browning - was the prototype for a whole new tradition of private eye thrillers.Here are ten of his classic suspense stories from the twenties and thirties - selected and introduced by Lillian Hellman.

    featured in whatever manner he chose.") Though Man has disappeared, his robotic creations (and their creations in turn) continue to function.Along the way, the story explores the differences between Man and Machine, the former experiencing the world qualitatively, while the latter do so quantitatively. "A machine is a Man turned inside-out, because it can describe all the details of a process, which a Man cannot, but it cannot experience that process itself as a Man can." This is illustrated by a conversation Frost has with another machine named Mordel.

    Poe's melancholy brilliance, his passionate lyricism, and his tormented soul would make him one of the most widely read and original writers in American literature. Here, in one volume, are his classic short works: masterpieces of horror, terror, humor, and adventure -- and the finest lyric and narrative poetry of this ill-fated genius whose influence on both prose and verse continues to this day. Pocket Books' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Great Tales And Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe contains the original Pocket Books introduction, first published in 1951, along with an updated selection of critical excerpts, and suggestions for further readings.

    S is for science fiction, spine-tingling, supernatural and sublime! S is for stories from a "Star Wilderness that stretched as far as eye and mind could see and imagine".ChrysalisPillar of FireZero HourThe ManTime in Thy FlightThe PedestrianHall and FarewellInvisible BoyCome into My CellarThe Million-Year PicnicThe Screaming WomanThe SmileDark They Were, and Golden-EyedThe TrolleyThe Flying MachineIcarus Montgolfier Wright

    S. Lewis's adult religious books, a repackaged edition of the revered author’s treasury of essays and stories which examine the value of creative writing and imaginative exploration.C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—presents a well-reasoned case for the importance of story and wonder, elements often ignored by critics of his time. He also discusses his favorite kinds of stories—children’s stories and fantasies—and offers insights into his most famous works, The Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy.

    Enlivened at unexpected moments by sexual exploration, mysticism, and flashes of wit alternately dry and hilarious, her prose is spare and honed, her stories filled with subtly sly characterizations of men and, mostly, women, dissatisfied not so much with the downward spiral of their fortunes as with the hollowness of their neat little lives. Whether focused on the separate emergences of Miss Goering and Mrs. Copperfield from their affluent, airless lives in New York and Panama into a less defined but intense sexual and social maelstrom in the novella Two Serious Ladies, or on the doomed efforts of the neighbors Mr. Drake and Mrs. Perry to form a connection out of their very different loneliness in "Plain Pleasures," or on the bittersweet cultural collision of an American wife and a peasant woman in Morocco in "Everything Is Nice," Jane Bowles creates whole worlds out of the unexpressed longings of individuals, adrift in their own lives, whether residing in their childhood homes or in faraway lands that are somehow both stranger and more familiar than what they left behind.

    The 2nd section, On His Own, includes "The Light of the World", "The Battler", "The Killers", "The Last Good Country" & "Crossing the Mississippi".The 3rd section, War, has "Night Before Landing", "Nick Sat Against the Wall", "Now I Lay Me", "A Way You'll Never Be" & "In Another Country". The 4th section, Soldier Home, has "Big Two-Hearted River", "The End of Something", "The Three-Day Blow" & "Summer People". The 5th section, Company of Two, has "Wedding Day", "On Writing", "An Alpine Idyll", "Cross-Country Snow" & "Fathers & Sons".

    Simak"The Accountant" by Robert Sheckley"Novice" by James M. Schmitz "Child of Void" by Margaret St. Claire "When the Bough Breaks" by Lewis Padgett "A Pail of Air" by Fritz Leiber "Junior Achievement" by William Lee "Cabin Boy" by Damon Knight "The Little Terror" by Will F. Jenkins "Gilead" by Zenna Henderson "The Menace From Earth" by Robert Heinlein "The Wayward Cravat" by Gertrude Friedberg "The Father-Thing" by Philip K. Dick "Star Bright" by Mark Clifton "All in a Summer Day" by Ray Bradbury "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby "The Place of the Gods" by Stephen Vincent Benet "The Ugly Little Boy" by Isaac Asimov

    Traven's remarkable short stories. Three of them are long stories: The setting of "The Night Visitor" is a hacienda deep in the Mexican bush where a lonely American recreates in his imagination an eerie world of Indian folk legend. "The Cattle Drive" is a vivid description of a cowboy's trek with a thousand head of cattle across the Mexican plains; it has all the authenticity that Hollywood Westerns lack. "Macario," which was made into a prize-winning motion picture, is a wry Mexican fable about an Indian woodcutter who makes a compact with the devil to save his family from starvation. Among seven shorter stories, some are based on incidents from contemporary Mexican life, others on ancient Indian folk legends. All have spontaneity, humor, and warmth. "B. Traven is coming to be recognized as one of the narrative masters of the twentieth century." New York Times Book Review.

    In stories touched by the fantastical and the strange, and filled with humor, irony, and menace, Buzzati illuminates the nightmarish side of our ordinary existence.From “The Epidemic,” which traces the gradual effects of a “state influenza” that targets those who disagree with the government, to “The Collapse of Baliverna,” where a man puzzles over whether a misstep on his part caused the collapse of a building, to “Seven Floors,” which imagines a sanatorium where patients are housed on each floor according to the gravity of their illness and brilliantly highlights the ominous machinations of bureaucracy, Buzzati’s surreal, unsettling tales reckon with the struggle that lies beneath everyday interactions, the sometimes perverse workings of human emotions and desires, and, with wit and pathos, describe the small steps we take as individuals and as a society in our march toward catastrophe.With hints of Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, Catastrophe, published for the first time in the United States, feels as timely today as ever.

    The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials had seen. A clerk like himself? Not likely.Novellete-length, this story is the inspiration behind the popular Total Recall movies from 1990 and 2012.

    In this collection the reader is offered the experience of visiting a disused lead-mine, the Houses of Parliament, a séance in a dreary suburb, and a sun-drenched Greek island. The dust jacket for the first edition of Powers of Darkness (first published in 1966) stated ‘. . . in every case his readers will experience that authentic chill which is the hallmark of the supernatural.’Mark Valentine points out in his Introduction to this new Tartarus Press edition that Aickman was striving to achieve something approaching poetry in his writing, and ‘he often does this in the service of the strange and sinister.’Contents: 'Introduction' by Mark Valentine, '‘Your Tiny Hand is Frozen’, ‘My Poor Friend’, ‘The Visiting Star’, ‘Larger Than Oneself’, ‘A Roman Question’ and ‘The Wine-Dark Sea’. Powers of Darkness is a sewn hardback of 226+ xii pages, printed lithographically, with silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands, and d/w.

    To find each work in the anthology, you must go to the "Go To" section of your Nook, and then select "Chapter." It might get a blank screen--if it does, then hit the page forward button and the work will appear. Nikolai Gogol is considered the fathern of modern Russian realism; collected here are his best known works.Works include:Dead SoulsThe Inspector-GeneralTaras Bulba, et. al

    

    Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories included in the original—from Charles W. Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar in the late nineteenth century to the rich and productive work of the Harlem Renaissance: writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright; the World War II accomplishments of Chester Himes, Frank Yerby, and many others; and the later fiction of James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, and LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka). Seven additional contributions round out a century of great stories with the work of Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Eugenia Collier, Jennifer Jordan, James Allan McPherson, Rosemarie Robotham, and Alice Walker. Dr. Clarke has included a new introduction to this 1993 edition, and a short biography of each contributor.

    

    Chelm is a village of fools. The most famous fools—the oldest and the greatest—are the seven Elders. But there are lesser fools too: a silly irresponsible bridegroom; four sisters who mix up their feed in bed one night; a young man who imagines himself dead. Here are seven magical folktales spun by a master storyteller, that speak of fools, devils, schlemiels, and even heroes—like Zlateh the goat.The New York Times called Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories, "beautiful stories for children, written by a master." The New York Book Review said, "This book is a triumph. If you have no older children on your list, buy it for yourself." Singer's extraordinary book of folklore is illustrated by Maurice Sendak, who won a Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are.Supports the Common Core State Standards

    Giant planoforming ships travel the hazardous spaceways. Men and women genetically 'built' from animals do civilization's labour - and plot in secret, planning revolution. But the hell-planet Shayol with its bizarre torments awaits those who rebel against the dictatorial yoke of the Instrumentality...Cordwainer Smith's vision and talent represent something unique in the field of imaginative SF.Contents :Introduction by Anthony CheethamThe Game of Rat and DragonOn the Sand PlanetUnder Old EarthAlpha Ralpha BoulevardThe Ballad of Lost C'mellThe Crime and the Glory of Commander SuzdalA planet Named Shayol

    

    Heinlein is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1966.It includes an introduction entitled "Pandora's Box" that describes some of the difficulties in making predictions about the near future. Heinlein outlines some of his predictions that he made in 1949 (published 1952) and examines how well they stood up to some 15 years of progress in 1965. The prediction was originally published in Galaxy magazine, Feb 1952, Vol. 3, No. 5, under the title "Where to?" (pp. 13-22).Following the introduction are five short stories: * "Free Men" (written c. 1947, but first published in this collection, 1966) * "Blowups Happen" (1940) * "Searchlight" (1962) * "Life-Line" (1939) * "Solution Unsatisfactory" (1940)In 1980, the entire contents of this collection, including "Pandora's Box" (further updated), were engulfed in Heinlein's collection, Expanded Universe.

    A collection of twenty-nine short stories that provide insight into many types of human characters and traits.

    Story of an eccentric genius marvellously funny book for reader from nine years & upwards-Book condition:-Good tight copy.#23

    7 • The Voice of the Lobster • (1950) • novelette35 • Masquerade • (1942) • short story47 • The Iron Standard • (1943) • short story71 • Endowment Policy • (1943) • short story84 • When the Bough Breaks • (1944) • novelette106 • Line to Tomorrow • (1945) • short story117 • Clash by Night • [Keeps • 1] • (1943) • novella168 • A Wild Surmise • (1953) • short story176 • What You Need • (1945) • short story189 • The Twonky • (1942) • novelette208 • Mimsy Were the Borogoves • (1943) • novelette236 • The Devil We Know • (1941) • novelette256 • Exit the Professor • [Hogben • 2] • (1947) • short story268 • Two-Handed Engine • (1955) • novelette

    Short Story: On an auto holiday though Argyll, the Gibsons stop to buy some slow glass.

    A newly settled planet is violent and capricious; Hellcops use surveillance drones to keep an eye on a fragile human habitation.

    Baltisberger, the fourteen stories in Romance showcase the breadth of Bohumil Hrabal’s considerable gifts: his humor of the grotesque, his often surprising warmth, and his hard-edged, fast-paced style. In the story "Romance," a plumber’s apprentice and a gypsy girl reach toward a tentative connection across the chasm that separates their worlds. Another unlikely love story, "World Cafeteria," features a romance between a young man whose girlfriend has just committed suicide and a bride whose husband lands in jail on their wedding night. The tone turns to the absurd in "The Death of Mr. Baltisberger," where a crippled ex-motorcyclist and three people he meets at the track exchange wildly improbably reminiscences, while a fatal Grand Prix motorcycle race rages around them. Hrabal’s psychological insight into quotidian interactions saturates stories such as "A Dull Afternoon," where a mysterious, self-absorbed stranger disrupts the psychic calm of a neighborhood tavern and becomes the silent catalyst for an unwanted truth. Throughout the collection, noted translator Michael Henry Heim captures the quirky speech patterns and idiosyncratic takes on life that have made Hrabal’s characters an indispensable part of world literature.

    # The Little Sewing-Machine# A Surprise for Mother Hubbard# Five Naughty Lambs# Bong, the Dragon# The Wooden Horse# The Tricks of Chiddle and Winks# The Two Silly Children# The Cackling Goose# The Boy Who Was Shy# He Didn't Think# In the Middle of the Night# The Greedy Brownie# One Good Turn Deserves Another# Dickie and the West Wind# The Grand Birthday Cake# The Naughty Little Kitten# A Real Game of Hide-and-Seek# The Pixies' Party# The Lost Key# The Boy Next Door# The Tale of Tibbles

    Senarens The Country of the Blind (1904) H.G. Wells The Place of Pain (1914) M.P. Shiel The Los Amigos Fiasco (1892) Arthur Conan Doyle The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw (1937) Edgar Rice Burroughs The People of the Pit (1918) A. Merritt System (1908) Josef & Karel Capek Extra Sensory Perfection (1956) Hugo Gernsback The Colour Out of Space (1927) H.P. Lovecraft Humanity on Venus [Last & First Men] (1930) Olaf StapledonJungle Journey (1945) Philip Wylie The Lotus Eaters (1935) Stanley G. Weinbaum

    

    1953 with art by Wallace Wood based on a story published in ''Planet Stories'' Fll 48 · Outcast of the Stars · ss Super Science Stories Mar ’50

    

    

    Twelve bizarre tales—to be read as a continuous account—involve theatrical people, musicians, and mountaineers, who lead the lieutenant, and the reader, on an ingenious chase through the paths of crime.

    The recurring themes of these stories - entrapment and search for the self, art versus life, and the mythic aspects of existence - are presented against the background of rural and urban life in northeast Brazil. The stylistic devices of the accessible tales (frequent shifts of tense, long sentences full of parenthetical clauses, heavy punctuation and inversions, and use of graphic symbols to suggest shifts in narrative perspective) all contribute to the multiplicity of meaning and significance of these very human stories.

    Classic Literature, Literary Studies, Collected Works

    

    Here is a generous cornucopia of a book, brimming with the very best tales of science fiction and fantasy published in PLAYBOY magazine-which means the very best published anywhere. Superb stories by Arthur C. Clark, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Sheckley, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, William Tenn and other stellar talents in the field are assembled here, as well as exciting excursions by mainstream writers such as Bruce Jay Friedman, Bernard Wolfe, Hugh Nissenson, Charles Beaumont, Ken W. Purdy and many more. Their work glitters with the wonder and wizardry of both the science-fiction and fantasy genres, conjuring up images of Things From Outer Space as well as Things That Go Bump In The Night.Contents:Preface (The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy) (1966) - The Editors of PlayboyThe Fly - (1957) - George Langelaan Blood Brother - (1961) - Charles BeaumontLove, Incorporated - (1956) - Robert SheckleyA Foot in the Door - (1960) - Bruce Jay FriedmanThe Vacation - (1963) - Ray BradburyThe Never Ending Penny - (1960) - Bernard WolfeBernie the Faust - (1963) - William TennA Man for the Moon - (1960) - Leland WebbThe Noise - (1959) - Ken W. PurdyThe Killer in the TV Set - (1961) - Bruce Jay FriedmanI Remember Babylon - (1960) - Arthur C. ClarkeWord of Honor - (1958) - Robert BlochJohn Grant's Little Angel - (1964) - Walt GroveThe Fiend - (1964) - Frederik PohlHard Bargain - (1958) - Alan E. NourseThe Nail and the Oracle - (1965) - Theodore SturgeonAfter - (1960) - Henry SlesarDecember 28th - (1959) - Theodore L. ThomasSpy Story - (1955) - Robert SheckleyPunch - (1961) - Frederik PohlThe Crooked Man - (1955) - Charles BeaumontWho Shall Dwell - (1962) - H. C. NealDouble Take - (1965) - Jack FinneyExamination Day - (1958) - Henry SlesarThe Mission - (1964) - Hugh NissensonWaste Not, Want Not - (1959) - John AthertonThe Dot and Dash Bird - (1964) - Bernard WolfeThe Sensible Man - (1959) - Avram DavidsonSouvenir - (1964) - J. G. BallardPuppet Show - (1962) - Fredric BrownThe Room - (1961) - Ray RussellDial "F" for Frankenstein - (1965) - Arthur C. Clarke

    

    

    She has spent a lifetime developing a significant point of view with which she delicately examines the nature of people's everyday activities. She can take an apparently insignificant event or relationship and explore it with such lucidity and perception that it becomes transformed into an intense drama, whole in itself and deeply moving. In another sense, these are stories of certain times and certain places: Austria in the months just before the Anschluss; Lisbon in 1939, when thousands were trapped in the city seeking passage out of Europe; West Germany during the Allied occupation; the rural South in the 1960s; Manhattan in the '40s, as well as the '60s; and the streets of Greenwich Village in 1964.By building these small personal dramas in the frameworks of history, Kay Boyle has succeeded in eloquently evoking both the times and the people who live in them.

    Four stories: That's Our Cleo!, The Careful Cat, Those Cats!, and The Cat Who Paid His Way.