Short Stories of Excellence

Discover a curated collection of excellence in literature with our Short Stories of Excellence. Explore top-tier books featuring masterful short stories for every reader.

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Collected Stories

by Carson McCullers

This collection of nineteen stories includes "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland," "The Haunted Boy," "The Member of the Wedding," "The Ballad of the …
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

 

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The Elephant Vanishes

by Haruki Murakami

In the tales that make up The Elephant Vanishes, the imaginative genius that has made Haruki Murakami an international superstar is on full display. In …
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Almost No Memory

by Lydia Davis

Stories by an experimental writer, ranging in length from a sentence to several pages. One story describes the way a few ill-chosen words can turn …
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Varieties of Disturbance

by Lydia Davis

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Where I'm Calling from

by Raymond Carver

The last collection published during Carver's life, "Where I'm Calling From" contains 37 of his best stories and reflects his development as a writer over …
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The Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka

The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. “An important book, valuable …
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Dubliners

by James Joyce

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader understand Joyce's use of textures, dialect, and symbols.Each …
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Labyrinths

by Jorge Luis Borges

Readers are invited to take a new look at "Labyrinths," the classic by Latin America's finest writer of the 20th century--a true literary sensation--with a …
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Cosmicomics

by Italo Calvino

Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. “Naturally, we were all there, - …
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The View from Castle Rock

by Alice Munro

A collection of stories about the Laidlaw family starting in the wilds of the Scottish Borders, their voyage to Canada, to stories set in Alice …
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Runaway

by Alice Munro

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 This acclaimed, bestselling collection also contains the celebrated stories that inspired the Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta. Runaway …
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Dreamtigers

by Jorge Luis Borges

Poems, stories, and personal reflections reveal the interwoven existence of imagination and reality in the mind of the South American writer
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Moral Disorder and Other Stories

by Margaret Atwood

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments • This brilliant collection of connected short stories strings together several decades of moments …
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The Collected Stories

by Grace Paley

At long last, here are all of Grace Paley's classic stories collected in one volume. From her first book, The Little Disturbances of Man, published …
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A Model World and Other Stories

by Michael Chabon

By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the …