Short Story Collections
Discover more great short story collections.
From one of the greatest storytellers of the American West comes
a collection of short stories never before released as audio
digital downloads.
This audiobook collection includes "Death West Bound," "Old Doc Yak," "It's Your Move," "And Proudly Die," "Survival," "Show Me The Way To Go Home," "Thicker Than Blood," "The Admiral," "Shanghai, Not Without Gestures," "The Man Who Stole Shakespeare," "The Dancing Kate," "Off the Mangrove Coast," "Glorious Glorious," "By the Ruins of El Walarieh," "Where There's Fighting," "The Cross and the Candle," "A Friend of the General," "Author's Tea," "Dead End Drift," and "Let Me Forget.
This audiobook collection includes "Death West Bound," "Old Doc Yak," "It's Your Move," "And Proudly Die," "Survival," "Show Me The Way To Go Home," "Thicker Than Blood," "The Admiral," "Shanghai, Not Without Gestures," "The Man Who Stole Shakespeare," "The Dancing Kate," "Off the Mangrove Coast," "Glorious Glorious," "By the Ruins of El Walarieh," "Where There's Fighting," "The Cross and the Candle," "A Friend of the General," "Author's Tea," "Dead End Drift," and "Let Me Forget.
In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers
into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the
sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents.
Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring characters who are woebegone, baffled and depraved—but irresistibly, undeniably real.
Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring characters who are woebegone, baffled and depraved—but irresistibly, undeniably real.
From one of China’s most famous contemporary writers, who
celebrated novel To Live catapulted him to international
fame, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the
best of Yu Hua’s early work, that shows his far-reaching
influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature.
Danzy Senna's You Are Free is now available for the first
time in audio.
Each of these eight remarkable stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states. life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender.
Each of these eight remarkable stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states. life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender.
A new anthology celebrating the witches and sorcerers of epic
fantasy—featuring stories by George R. R. Martin, Scott
Lynch, Megan Lindholm, and many others.
Hot on the heels of Gardner Dozois’s acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic.
Hot on the heels of Gardner Dozois’s acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic.
Rudyard Kipling’s best-loved book is now the
basis for the Netflix film Mowgli. Legend of the
Jungle starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Benedict
Cumberbatch, Freida Pinto, and Rohan Chand
The story of Mowgli, the abandoned "man-cub" who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created.
The story of Mowgli, the abandoned "man-cub" who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created.
An exquisite new collection of short stories from award-winning
author Simon Van Booy.
Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people’s stories. With these personal accounts as a starting point, he has crafted a powerful collection of short fiction that takes readers into the innermost lives of everyday people.
Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people’s stories. With these personal accounts as a starting point, he has crafted a powerful collection of short fiction that takes readers into the innermost lives of everyday people.
The acclaimed author of Occupied City, Tokyo Year
Zero, and The Red Riding Quartet now gives us a stunning work
of fiction in twelve connected tales that take up the strange,
brief life of the brilliant twentieth-century Japanese writer
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
Dorothy Parker's quips and light verse have embedded themselves in
the American literary landscape, but it was her prose that proved
her star and demonstrated her talent as extending far beyond her
time. In her fiction, she not only brought to life the urban milieu
that was her bailiwick, but lay bare the uncertainties of ordinary
people living ordinary lives, all told in her unflinching and
deeply personal voice.
2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION
A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W.
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION
A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W.
“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its
diaspora we hear many voices at once. some cultivated, some simple,
some wickedly funny, some deeply melancholic. All of them
shine.”—Zadie Smith
NAMED ONE OF THE TOP FIFTEEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O.
NAMED ONE OF THE TOP FIFTEEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O.
A masterly collection of eleven stories about the way we live
now from the best-selling author of Netherland.
From bourgeois facial-hair trends to parental sleep deprivation, Joseph O’Neill closely observes the mores of his characters, whose vacillations and second thoughts expose the mysterious pettiness, underlying violence, and, sometimes, surprising beauty of ordinary life in the early twenty-first century.
From bourgeois facial-hair trends to parental sleep deprivation, Joseph O’Neill closely observes the mores of his characters, whose vacillations and second thoughts expose the mysterious pettiness, underlying violence, and, sometimes, surprising beauty of ordinary life in the early twenty-first century.
