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Cat Stories
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-70089-6 (0-307-70089-5)
Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripe—from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser.
The essential unknowableness of cats has inspired many flights of fancy: Italo Calvino’s secret city of cats in “The Garden of Stubborn Cats,” the disappearing feline... Read more >
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-70089-6 (0-307-70089-5)
Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripe—from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser.
The essential unknowableness of cats has inspired many flights of fancy: Italo Calvino’s secret city of cats in “The Garden of Stubborn Cats,” the disappearing feline... Read more >
Christmas Stories
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26717-7 (0-307-26717-2)
Now joining Everyman’s Library—the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world’s greatest works—is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure.
Christmas Stories is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries—from Dickens and Tolstoy to... Read more >
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26717-7 (0-307-26717-2)
Now joining Everyman’s Library—the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world’s greatest works—is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure.
Christmas Stories is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries—from Dickens and Tolstoy to... Read more >
Dog Stories
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-59397-9 (0-307-59397-5)
Dog Stories rounds up a pack of vivid and colorful stories about man’s best friend by a wide range of great writers, from Mark Twain and Anton Chekhov to Patricia Highsmith and Jonathan Lethem.
The richly drawn and unforgettable canines gathered here include Rudyard Kipling’s heroically faithful “Garm,” Bret Harte’s irrepressible scoundrel... Read more >
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-59397-9 (0-307-59397-5)
Dog Stories rounds up a pack of vivid and colorful stories about man’s best friend by a wide range of great writers, from Mark Twain and Anton Chekhov to Patricia Highsmith and Jonathan Lethem.
The richly drawn and unforgettable canines gathered here include Rudyard Kipling’s heroically faithful “Garm,” Bret Harte’s irrepressible scoundrel... Read more >
Horse Stories
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-96145-7 (0-307-96145-1)
An essential anthology of two centuries of short fiction about our most majestic companion animal.
Annie Proulx and Bret Harte transport us to the ranches of the Old West and Rudyard Kipling to the polo fields of India. Arthur Conan Doyle makes a famous Thoroughbred disappear, and Raymond Carver gives us a... Read more >
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-96145-7 (0-307-96145-1)
An essential anthology of two centuries of short fiction about our most majestic companion animal.
Annie Proulx and Bret Harte transport us to the ranches of the Old West and Rudyard Kipling to the polo fields of India. Arthur Conan Doyle makes a famous Thoroughbred disappear, and Raymond Carver gives us a... Read more >
Love Stories
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27087-0 (0-307-27087-4)
Anew anthology of literary love stories—the third collection in the appealing Pocket Classics format—perfect for Valentine’s Day.
Here are nineteen stories from a rich array of writers, and here is every kind of romantic entanglement: from the raw, erotic passion of D. H. Lawrence and Colette to the wickedly cynical comedy of... Read more >
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27087-0 (0-307-27087-4)
Anew anthology of literary love stories—the third collection in the appealing Pocket Classics format—perfect for Valentine’s Day.
Here are nineteen stories from a rich array of writers, and here is every kind of romantic entanglement: from the raw, erotic passion of D. H. Lawrence and Colette to the wickedly cynical comedy of... Read more >
Stories of Motherhood
Written by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95779-5 (0-307-95779-9)
Stories of Motherhood gathers more than a century of literary celebrations of mothers of all ages. These short stories by a wide range of great writers illuminate the many facets of our most elemental human relationship, from birth to death and everything in between.
Lydia Davis and Harold Brodkey explore dizzying encounters... Read more >
Written by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95779-5 (0-307-95779-9)
Stories of Motherhood gathers more than a century of literary celebrations of mothers of all ages. These short stories by a wide range of great writers illuminate the many facets of our most elemental human relationship, from birth to death and everything in between.
Lydia Davis and Harold Brodkey explore dizzying encounters... Read more >
Stories of the Sea
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-59265-1 (0-307-59265-0)
A gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the deep, of voyages that test human limits on the wild and limitless waters.
Classic adventures stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack... Read more >
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-59265-1 (0-307-59265-0)
A gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the deep, of voyages that test human limits on the wild and limitless waters.
Classic adventures stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack... Read more >
Blue Dawn, Red Earth
New Native American Storytellers
Written by Clifford E. Trafzer
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 1, 1996
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-47952-3 (0-385-47952-2)
These 30 varied and powerful short stories by Native American storytellers incorporate traditional oral tales into modern narratives. The writers, most of whom are new, featured in this collection represent a wide range of tribes and cultural backgrounds, and demonstrate the vibrancy and diversity of Native American writing. The characters in... Read more >
New Native American Storytellers
Written by Clifford E. Trafzer
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 1, 1996
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-47952-3 (0-385-47952-2)
These 30 varied and powerful short stories by Native American storytellers incorporate traditional oral tales into modern narratives. The writers, most of whom are new, featured in this collection represent a wide range of tribes and cultural backgrounds, and demonstrate the vibrancy and diversity of Native American writing. The characters in... Read more >
The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century
Edited by Harry Turtledove
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Del Rey
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-43990-1 (0-345-43990-2)
In this definitive anthology of alternate history stories-each presenting chilling “what if” scenarios from the last one hundred years-science fiction’s most visionary writers offer fourteen of the most mind-bending tales imaginable. Including alternate versions of the American Civil War, World War II, and Vietnam by such authors as Poul Anderson, Greg... Read more >
Edited by Harry Turtledove
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Del Rey
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-43990-1 (0-345-43990-2)
In this definitive anthology of alternate history stories-each presenting chilling “what if” scenarios from the last one hundred years-science fiction’s most visionary writers offer fourteen of the most mind-bending tales imaginable. Including alternate versions of the American Civil War, World War II, and Vietnam by such authors as Poul Anderson, Greg... Read more >
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The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Edited by Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Del Rey
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-43989-5 (0-345-43989-9)
A collection of thirteen of the finest military science tales of the 20th century-the only definitive anthology of its kind-this spellbinding work presents science fiction’s best talents and their most powerful stories about warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds. This must-read collection is sure to shed new light on the... Read more >
Edited by Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Del Rey
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-43989-5 (0-345-43989-9)
A collection of thirteen of the finest military science tales of the 20th century-the only definitive anthology of its kind-this spellbinding work presents science fiction’s best talents and their most powerful stories about warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds. This must-read collection is sure to shed new light on the... Read more >
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Mark Twain's Library of Humor
Written by Mark Twain
Illustrated by E.W. Kemble
Introduction by Roy Blount Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 30, 2000
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64036-3 (0-679-64036-3)
Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires... Read more >
Written by Mark Twain
Illustrated by E.W. Kemble
Introduction by Roy Blount Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 30, 2000
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64036-3 (0-679-64036-3)
Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires... Read more >
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The Journey Prize Stories 22
The Best of Canada's New Writers
Written by Various
Selected by Pasha Malla, Joan Thomas and Alissa York
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $17.99
ISBN: 978-0-7710-4344-4 (0-7710-4344-9)
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada’s most exciting up-and-coming new writers. Previous contributors – including such now well-known, bestselling writers as Yann Martel, Elizabeth Hay, Michael Crummey, Annabel Lyon, Lisa Moore, Heather O’Neill, Pasha... Read more >
The Best of Canada's New Writers
Written by Various
Selected by Pasha Malla, Joan Thomas and Alissa York
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $17.99
ISBN: 978-0-7710-4344-4 (0-7710-4344-9)
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada’s most exciting up-and-coming new writers. Previous contributors – including such now well-known, bestselling writers as Yann Martel, Elizabeth Hay, Michael Crummey, Annabel Lyon, Lisa Moore, Heather O’Neill, Pasha... Read more >
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The Beat Book
Writings from the Beat Generation
Edited by Anne Waldman
Foreword by Allen Ginsberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-455-6 (1-59030-455-1)
REVISED AND UPDATED
The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects of change. There is no doubt that we’re living in... Read more >
Writings from the Beat Generation
Edited by Anne Waldman
Foreword by Allen Ginsberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-455-6 (1-59030-455-1)
REVISED AND UPDATED
The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects of change. There is no doubt that we’re living in... Read more >
Short Story Masterpieces
Written by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Dell
On Sale: March 15, 1954
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-440-37864-8 (0-440-37864-8)
With works by Henry James, Stephen Crane, John Cheever, James Joyce--and many others. An outstanding collection of 35 American and British pieces of fiction from the first half of the 20th century.
PARTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Editor’s Note • “Impulse,” Conrad Aiken • “A Bottle of Milk for Mother,” Nelson Algren •... Read more >
Written by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Dell
On Sale: March 15, 1954
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-440-37864-8 (0-440-37864-8)
With works by Henry James, Stephen Crane, John Cheever, James Joyce--and many others. An outstanding collection of 35 American and British pieces of fiction from the first half of the 20th century.
PARTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Editor’s Note • “Impulse,” Conrad Aiken • “A Bottle of Milk for Mother,” Nelson Algren •... Read more >
Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds
Stories by and about Black Women
Edited by Mary Helen Washington
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 1989
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26015-2 (0-385-26015-6)
Combining two critically acclaimed short story collections, this volume contains 21 short stories, all published after 1960, by and about black women. Includes such authors as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, Ntozake Shange and Gayl Jones.
Table of Contents
Re(Visions): Black Women Writers—Their Texts, Their Readers, Their Critics
Jean Wheeler Smith
Frankie Mae
Paulette... Read more >
Stories by and about Black Women
Edited by Mary Helen Washington
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 1989
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26015-2 (0-385-26015-6)
Combining two critically acclaimed short story collections, this volume contains 21 short stories, all published after 1960, by and about black women. Includes such authors as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, Ntozake Shange and Gayl Jones.
Table of Contents
Re(Visions): Black Women Writers—Their Texts, Their Readers, Their Critics
Jean Wheeler Smith
Frankie Mae
Paulette... Read more >
Invented Lives
Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960
Written by Mary Helen Washington
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 1, 1988
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-24842-6 (0-385-24842-3)
A companion volume to Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds, this anthology encompasses an exploration of the works and worlds of black women writers between 1860 and 1960. Includes the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ann Petry, Zora Neale Hurston, and others plus Washington’s introduction and commentary.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
“The Darkened Eye Restored": Notes Toward... Read more >
Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960
Written by Mary Helen Washington
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 1, 1988
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-24842-6 (0-385-24842-3)
A companion volume to Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds, this anthology encompasses an exploration of the works and worlds of black women writers between 1860 and 1960. Includes the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ann Petry, Zora Neale Hurston, and others plus Washington’s introduction and commentary.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
“The Darkened Eye Restored": Notes Toward... Read more >
Memory of Kin
Stories About Family by Black Writers
Edited by Mary Helen Washington
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 1990
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-24783-2 (0-385-24783-4)
Critic, essayist, and anthologist Mary Helen Washington has chosen as the theme of her newest collection "the family as a living mystery." She selected nineteen stories and twelve poems by some of this century's leading black authors that oblige the reader to observe the complexities of the family in new and... Read more >
Stories About Family by Black Writers
Edited by Mary Helen Washington
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 1990
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-24783-2 (0-385-24783-4)
Critic, essayist, and anthologist Mary Helen Washington has chosen as the theme of her newest collection "the family as a living mystery." She selected nineteen stories and twelve poems by some of this century's leading black authors that oblige the reader to observe the complexities of the family in new and... Read more >
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Detective Stories
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27271-3 (0-307-27271-0)
Now, in the appealing and collectible Pocket Classics format, an anthology of beloved, classic detective stories—riveting and irresistibly addictive tales of crimes and those who unravel them.
Beginning with modern masters such as Sara Paretsky, Ruth Rendell, and Ian Rankin, this collection works its way back through the golden age of the... Read more >
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27271-3 (0-307-27271-0)
Now, in the appealing and collectible Pocket Classics format, an anthology of beloved, classic detective stories—riveting and irresistibly addictive tales of crimes and those who unravel them.
Beginning with modern masters such as Sara Paretsky, Ruth Rendell, and Ian Rankin, this collection works its way back through the golden age of the... Read more >
Ghost Stories
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26924-9 (0-307-26924-8)
A new anthology of classic ghost stories—the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format.
The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body-Snatcher,” while visions of the dead come... Read more >
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26924-9 (0-307-26924-8)
A new anthology of classic ghost stories—the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format.
The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body-Snatcher,” while visions of the dead come... Read more >
Southern Selves
From Mark Twain and Eudora Welty to Maya Angelou and Kaye Gibbons A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
Written by James Watkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 28, 1998
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-78103-5 (0-679-78103-X)
In this marvelous anthology thirty-one of the South's finest writers--from Kaye Gibbons and Reynolds Price, to Eudora Welty and Richard Wright--make their intensely personal contributions to a vibrant collective picture of southern life.
In the hands of these superb artists, the South's rich tradition of storytelling is brilliantly revealed. Whether slave or... Read more >
From Mark Twain and Eudora Welty to Maya Angelou and Kaye Gibbons A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
Written by James Watkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 28, 1998
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-78103-5 (0-679-78103-X)
In this marvelous anthology thirty-one of the South's finest writers--from Kaye Gibbons and Reynolds Price, to Eudora Welty and Richard Wright--make their intensely personal contributions to a vibrant collective picture of southern life.
In the hands of these superb artists, the South's rich tradition of storytelling is brilliantly revealed. Whether slave or... Read more >
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The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
Written by Edith Wharton
Compiled by Roxana Robinson
Introduction by Roxana Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-248-3 (1-59017-248-5)
Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as... Read more >
Written by Edith Wharton
Compiled by Roxana Robinson
Introduction by Roxana Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-248-3 (1-59017-248-5)
Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as... Read more >
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The Crisis Reader
Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis Magazine
Written by Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 26, 1999
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75231-5 (0-375-75231-5)
After its start in 1910, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races magazine became the major outlet for works by African American writers and intellectuals. In 1920, Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was published in The Crisis and W. E. B. Du Bois, the magazine's editor, wrote... Read more >
Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis Magazine
Written by Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 26, 1999
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75231-5 (0-375-75231-5)
After its start in 1910, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races magazine became the major outlet for works by African American writers and intellectuals. In 1920, Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was published in The Crisis and W. E. B. Du Bois, the magazine's editor, wrote... Read more >
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
Written by Tobias Wolff
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 6, 1994
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74513-6 (0-679-74513-0)
The thirty-three stories in this volume, selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, prove that the American short story is as lively and robust an art form as it was in the early half of the century. Writers like Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Flannery O'Connor paved the way for many of those... Read more >
Written by Tobias Wolff
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 6, 1994
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74513-6 (0-679-74513-0)
The thirty-three stories in this volume, selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, prove that the American short story is as lively and robust an art form as it was in the early half of the century. Writers like Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Flannery O'Connor paved the way for many of those... Read more >
Favorite Folktales from Around the World
Written by Jane Yolen
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 12, 1988
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-75188-7 (0-394-75188-4)
This book is an inexhaustible source of folkloric delights: the world's best folktales, chosen by the internationally known storyteller Jane Yolen.
"Most of the great human themes, from storytelling itself through love, wisdom, and death, are covered in this dazzling collection of tales.... A delight for all readers."--Library Journal Read more >
Written by Jane Yolen
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 12, 1988
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-75188-7 (0-394-75188-4)
This book is an inexhaustible source of folkloric delights: the world's best folktales, chosen by the internationally known storyteller Jane Yolen.
"Most of the great human themes, from storytelling itself through love, wisdom, and death, are covered in this dazzling collection of tales.... A delight for all readers."--Library Journal Read more >
Short Stories by Latin American Women
The Magic and the Real
Written by Celia Correas Zapata
Introduction by Isabel Allende
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6707-4 (0-8129-6707-0)
In her Foreword, Isabel Allende states, “This anthology is so valuable; it lays open the emotions of writers who, in turn, speak for others still shrouded in silence.”
Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one... Read more >
The Magic and the Real
Written by Celia Correas Zapata
Introduction by Isabel Allende
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6707-4 (0-8129-6707-0)
In her Foreword, Isabel Allende states, “This anthology is so valuable; it lays open the emotions of writers who, in turn, speak for others still shrouded in silence.”
Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one... Read more >
