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 Ten Little IndiansBest Price: $6.98 I spent the past weekend soaked in Sherman Alexie. It was a pleasure to find out about Sherman... |  Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.99 A collection of tales mostly of Persian, Indian, and Egyptian origin. Legend has it that... |  The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other StoriesBest Price: $6.91 The most poignant moment of Franz Kafka's 1915 novella The Metamorphosis occurs when the... |  Tales of Ordinary MadnessBest Price: $8.25 This is only the second Bukowski book I've read, the first being Post Office. I liked Post... |  Ship FeverBest Price: $2.50 Ship Fever is a beautiful colelction of short stories and the titular novella covering the lives... |
 Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and HemingwayBest Price: $13.90 Joyce Carol Oates notes where the title for this volume comes from, as she quotes verse from... |  Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classics)Best Price: $6.98 This book includes one of my favorite works by Melville (or anyone, for that matter),... |  The Girl on the Fridge: StoriesBest Price: $6.71 Keret's stories are rarely happy, but they're fun. Their fluidity and lack of surface... |  A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: StoriesBest Price: $7.50 Warning: Begin reading "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" at the BEGINNING of a... |  Anecdotes of Destiny and EhrengardBest Price: $7.98 This volume contains Babette's Feast which is the basis for the Oscar winning movie of the same... |
 Edgar Allan Poe Audio CollectionBest Price: $17.29 I'm didn't like the audio levels, I had to turn it up to hear some of what the narrators were... |  Sudden FictionBest Price: $3.96 From Hemingway to Jackson, these authors provide evidence that it doesn't take a lot of words to... |  The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room (Contemporary American Fiction Series)Best Price: $4.50 When I was an English grad-student in the 90's, there was a certain kind of guy I observed who... |  Little BirdsBest Price: $8.10 definitely not the erotica I was expecting. there's some interesting twisted stuff but if you're... |  The Lottery and Other StoriesBest Price: $8.04 The only bad thing I can say about this collection is that it makes me want to suffer head... |
 The Turning: StoriesBest Price: $8.80 Some of the stories are only four star, and that says a lot about the standard to which I hold... |  Bearing An Hourglass (Incarnations of Immortality, Book 2)Best Price: $3.81 this book is more of a connector from the first to the third. i found it hard to read at first... |  The Question of Bruno: StoriesBest Price: $6.49 I picked this slender book up for the title, knowing nothing about the author. The Question of... |  After the Quake: StoriesBest Price: $6.94 I must confess up front that short stories are not all that appealing to me. I prefer full... |  The Marquise of O and Other Stories (The Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.18 Because of the intricacy of speech in the days before our short-order transient/on-the- run... |
 In God We Trust: All Others Pay CashBest Price: $5.99 An excellant book that reviews a typical midwestern childhood from the humorous viewpoint of an... |  Case Histories: A NovelBest Price: $7.99 it is tedious and depressing. there is not one normal person described and all the families are... |  Intercourse: StoriesBest Price: $10.65 Butler, Robert Olen. "Intercourse: Stories", Chronicle Books, 2008. Talking During... |  Eleven Short Stories/Undici Novelle (A Dual-Language Book)Best Price: $7.45 I like dual language books as I Learn the language. This one is a good one. the stories are... |  Imagining ArgentinaBest Price: $2.50 I read this novel in college, over four years ago. I still remember it's vivid imagery &... |
 Zane's Sex ChroniclesBest Price: $8.45 New York Times bestselling author Zane presents a tantalizing short story collection, Zane's... |  Flight, Volume OneBest Price: $11.88 I bought this book because it was listed as a must-buy by the Library Journal and by a number of... |  Exceptions to Reality: StoriesBest Price: $3.53 As is evident in his many thrilling novels, Alan Dean Foster is a master at creating other... |  Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated TalesBest Price: $10.17 Re: Mr Deusner's review from September 12, 2003, "but where are "The Scythe,"... |  Night Shift (Signet)Best Price: $2.20 I compared this new edition to the former one and it is missing some of the original stories. ... |
 The Red Gloves CollectionBest Price: $12.89 RED GLOVE COLLECTION By Karen Kinbsbury. Recieved book great condition. Book arrived when... |  Strange PilgrimsBest Price: $7.31 The author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is well known as a master of the novel, something which the... |  The Collected StoriesBest Price: $8.61 Bought this based on an effusive review I read in The New Republic. To mangle a phrase from... |  Best Short Stories (Dual-Language)Best Price: $3.90 Contrary to all silly 19th Century notions of linguistics and Saxon ethnicity, English and... |  Screwjack: A Short StoryBest Price: $8.46 So, it is Hunter Thompson--for what? (How many pages are in this leaflet? Two and one-half?... |
 The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.98 I got this book as a gift for my Birth Day. I loved Edgar Allan Poe, his writings, poetry,... |  Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories (Hilarious Stories)Best Price: $4.96 I will not rate this item among the best works of Wodehouse, but the Jeeves stories are still... |  Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Sixth EditionBest Price: $65.00 Yet another wonderful Norton anthology, but I have only one disappointment: this "shorter... |  Great American Stories: Ten Unabridged ClassicsBest Price: $17.85 I bought this for my dad as he has started listening to literature on XM Radio. So far he loves... |  Run with the Horsemen (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)Best Price: $2.79 Really enjoyed Ferrol Sams book "Run with the Horsemen" which is the first in a... |
 Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and EvilBest Price: $6.76 Gogol's _Petersburg Tales_, the title under which these stories were ultimately collected by the... |  Come to Me: StoriesBest Price: $4.37 Striking stories. Amy Bloom is a long-standing favorite author of mine. I can still remember the... |  St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Vintage Contemporaries)Best Price: $7.82 Ms. Russell offers the perfect view of reality as seen through a child's mask of fantasy -- or... |  Rolling The R'sBest Price: $7.29 Read this book for class at Indiana University: Fictions of Empire. Much of this book was... |  Catharine: and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $3.58 Compared to Jane Austen's mature and much polished novels, the stories contained in... |
 The Blazing World and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.88 Margaret Cavendish was the first woman to publish prolifically under her own name, but has been... |  Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Best Price: $8.49 This is a review of Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories, translated by Jay Rubin and published... |  Silent WitnessBest Price: $1.30 Silent Witness is the first book I've read from Richard North Patterson. When I finished, I was... |  Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (Bantam Classics)Best Price: $3.60 None have mastered the pithy wisdom of Mark Twain and it is nowhere more powerful than his short... |  Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasies for CouplesBest Price: $7.94 'Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasies for Couples' and I have essentially broken up by now. We've tried... |
 Brownsville: StoriesBest Price: $5.60 I love this book. I read it back in 2003, when it first came out. I had the pleasure of going... |  An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories)Best Price: $13.40 I wanted to get a taste of some "graphic fiction," and this book looked pretty good. ... |  Selected StoriesBest Price: $8.99 Alice Munro is among the few great writers who have chosen the story (short and long) for... |  Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.95 I find it simply miraculous being able to render into a foreign language such as English both... |  Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad CafeBest Price: $6.20 There is no finer story in the English language than "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." ... |
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