Category: Short Stories Anthologies

Download Wonderful Girl (Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short by Aimee LaBrie PDF

By Aimee LaBrie

This outstanding first choice of brief tales covers the panorama of dysfunctional formative years, city angst, and human disconnection with a wit and perception that maintain you riveted to the web page. The characters the following have wealthy and ingenious inside lives, yet grave hassle when it comes to the surface global. the start tale, "Ducklings," introduces the over-weight and over-enthusiastic Marjorie, the final twelve-year-old you will wish babysitting your little one. In "Wanted" we meet Eleanor, a unmarried lady dwelling in Chicago who may possibly or will not be relationship a serial killer. "Another melanoma tale" is an unsentimental account of 2 sisters whose loved mom simply will not appear to die, and "The final lifeless Boyfriend" supplies us a improving addict who retains encountering her lately deceased boyfriend, a nasty guy she wanted she'd damaged up with sooner than he died. regularly humorous, frequently darkish, and entirely enjoyable, those tales discover the eager for connection between characters who're usually with nervousness. each one tale is rendered in a fashion that's surreal, brilliant, and solely convincing.

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Download Sympathy for the Devil by Tim Pratt PDF

By Tim Pratt

ISBN-10: 1597801895

ISBN-13: 9781597801898

The satan is understood by way of many names: Serpent, Tempter, Beast, Adversary, Wanderer, Dragon, insurgent. His traps and machinations are the stuff of legends. His faces are legion. it doesn't matter what face the satan wears, Sympathy for the satan has all of them. Edited via Tim Pratt, Sympathy for the satan collects the simplest Satanic brief tales via Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Stephen King, Kage Baker, Charles Stross, Elizabeth endure, Jay Lake, Kelly hyperlink, China Mieville, Michael Chabon, and so on, revealing His Grand Infernal Majesty, in all his kinds. Thirty-five tales, from classics to the leading edge, exploring the numerous aspects of devil, Lucifer, the Lord of the Flies, the daddy of Lies, the Prince of the Powers of the Air and Darkness, the 1st of the Fallen... and a guy of Wealth and style. sit and spend a bit time with the satan.

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Download Henry James : Complete Stories 1884-1891 (Library of by Henry James PDF

By Henry James

ISBN-10: 0585218684

ISBN-13: 9780585218687

ISBN-10: 1883011647

ISBN-13: 9781883011642

Entire tales 1884-1891 positive aspects between its seventeen tales a few of James' maximum masterpieces, between them "The Aspern Papers", a gorgeous novella approximately emotional ruthlessness within the carrier of literary scholarship, "The Lesson of the Master", an tricky learn of ambition, sadness, and the calls for of a lifestyles dedicated to artwork; "Brooksmith", a relocating portrait of a home servant; and the captivating ghost tale "Sir Edmund Orme".

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Download The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy, Doris Lessing, Isai Kamen PDF

By Leo Tolstoy, Doris Lessing, Isai Kamen

While Marshal of the the Aristocracy Pozdnyshev suspects his spouse of getting an affair along with her song accomplice, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to homicide. debatable upon booklet in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian beliefs, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his pondering at the position of paintings and tune in society.

In her creation, Doris Lessing indicates how correct The Kreutzer Sonata is to our realizing of Tolstoy the artist, in addition to to feminism and literature. this contemporary Library Paperback vintage additionally comprises Tolstoy’s Sequel to the Kruetzer Sonata.

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Download Lightspeed: Year One by Stephen King PDF

By Stephen King

ISBN-10: 1607013045

ISBN-13: 9781607013044

ISBN-10: 1607013339

ISBN-13: 9781607013334

Lightspeed (www.lightspeedmagazine.com) is the critically-acclaimed, on-line technological know-how fiction journal edited through bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams. Lightspeed publishes all kinds of technological know-how fiction, from near-future, sociological smooth sf, to far-future, star-spanning not easy sf, and whatever and every little thing in among. every month, Lightspeed includes a mixture of originals and reprints, from various authors - from the bestsellers and award-winners to the simplest new voices you haven''t heard of but. Now, in Lightspeed: yr One, you can find all the fiction released in Lightspeed''s first 12 months, from new tales akin to Nebula Award finalists, Vylar Kaftan''s "I''m Alive, i admire You, I''ll See You in Reno" and "Arvies" through Adam-Troy Castro, and Carrie Vaughn''s Hugo Award-nominee "Amaryllis," to vintage reprints via Stephen King, Ursula ok. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, and extra.

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Download Breaking the Ties That Bind: Popular Stories of the New by Maureen Honey PDF

By Maureen Honey

The New Woman-an self sustaining, nontraditional, frequently career-minded girl for whom marriage and kin have been secondary-became a well-liked heroine in women’s journal fiction from the time of worldwide battle I during the Twenties. in this interval, American tradition entertained a brand new, feminist imaginative and prescient of gender roles that helped pave the best way for contemporary photographs of girls in public job. The tales during this assortment are drawn from the most important periodicals of the day-Ladies’ domestic magazine, Cosmopolitan, stable housework, Woman’s domestic spouse, and McCall’s-as good because the African-American journal The obstacle. each one tale is rooted in a few size of up to date feminism and explores a subject of constant significance, equivalent to team spirit between girls, the lives of girls of colour and working-class ladies, sexual harassment, lesbian love, kin and marital bonds, and women’s relation to paid employment.

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Download The Day of the Locust (Library of America) by Nathanael West, Sacvan Bercovitch PDF

By Nathanael West, Sacvan Bercovitch

ISBN-10: 1883011280

ISBN-13: 9781883011284

The 1st complete, authoritative version of the paintings of America's prince of black humor and social satire contains his so much recognized novels of the thirties, with his poetry, essays, performs, movie scripts, and letters."

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Download Wharton's New England: seven stories and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton PDF

By Edith Wharton

ISBN-10: 087451715X

ISBN-13: 9780874517156

Even supposing Edith Wharton is mostly pointed out with the "old long island" of such masterworks because the Age of Innocence and the home of Mirth, she spent ten years dwelling and writing in New England, a atmosphere that looks in novels, a novella, and completely 1 / 4 of her brief tales. In those works Wharton turns from portraying the monied and the mannered to probing inscrutable psyches and souls. the hot England of those tales-which diversity from mild comedy to horror-becomes a metaphor for fierce poverty, cultural barrenness, and an oppressive Puritan background that either interested and repelled Wharton.Thus the frigid, engulfing iciness of Starkfield buries Ethan Frome in a dwelling loss of life. That experience of ethical and emotional confinement additionally seems to be in "The Angel on the Grave," as a tender girl senses she has been "walled alive right into a tomb hung with the effigies of useless ideas." In "The Lamp of Psyche," a trip to Boston family members sheds new gentle on a woman's marriage; "Xingu" lightly satirizes the snobbery of small-town "huntresses of erudition"; "Bewitched" and "All Souls'" discover the topic of witchcraft. Barbara A. White's insightful advent means that in those tales Wharton "seems to have projected onto New England facets of herself that she such a lot feared: repression, coldness, inarticulateness, psychological hunger, or even loss of excessive culture."

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