Awaken your mind list
Explore our curated Awaken Your Mind book list, featuring mind-expanding fiction and literary collections from William Faulkner, Jorge Luis Borges, and Edgar Allan Poe. Discover transformative stories, from 'Blow-Up' to 'The Art of the Story,' to ignite your imagination and deepen your reading journey.
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Ficciones. C Edited and with an Introduction by Anthony Kerrigan
by Jorge Luis Borges
Seventeen short stories.
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Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
One of the most original American writers, Edgar Allan Poe shaped the development of both the detectvie story and the science-fiction story. Some of his poemsâ"The Raven," "The Bells," "Annabel Lee"âremain among the most popular in American literature. Poe's tales of the macabre still thrill readers of all ages. Here are familiar favorites like "The Purloined Letter," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," together with less-known masterpieces like "The Imp of the Perverse," "The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym," and "Ligeia," which is now recognized as one of the first science-fiction stories, a total of seventy-three tales in all, plus fifty-three poems and a generous sampling of Poe's essays, criticism and journalistic writings.
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner
by William Faulkner
âIâm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he canât and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.â âWilliam Faulkner Winner of the National Book Award Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing an epic expanse of vision into hard and wounding narratives, Faulknerâs stories evoke the intimate textures of place, the deep strata of history and legend, and all the fear, brutality, and tenderness of the human condition. These tales are set not only in Yoknapatawpha County, but in Beverly Hills and in France during World War I. They are populated by such characters as the Faulknerian archetypes Flem Snopes and Quentin Compson, as well as by ordinary men and women who emerge so sharply and indelibly in these pages that they dwarf the protagonists of most novels.
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The Art of the Story
by Daniel Halpern
An anthology of some 80 stories, including two dozen translations. The latter range from The Elephant Vanishes, a look at Japanese society by Haruki Murakami, to My Father, the Englishman, and I, a satire on colonialism by the Somalian, Nuruddin Farah.
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Blow-Up
by Julio CortĂĄzar
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murdererâs intended victim . . . Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected hereâincluding âBlow-Up,â which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioniâs film of the same nameâshows Julio CortĂĄzar's nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.
