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Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Award–winning author Shirley Hazzard’s short-story collections—Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses—alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment. Taken together, these twenty-eight short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical send-ups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. Hazzard's heroes are high-minded romantics who attempt to fit their feelings into the twentieth-century world of office jobs and dreary marriages. After all, as she writes in "The Picnic," "It was tempting to confine oneself to what one could cope with. And one couldn't cope with love." And yet it is the comedy, the tragedy, and the splendor of love, the pursuit and the absence of it, that animates Hazzard's stories and provides the truth and beauty that her protagonists seek. Hazzard once said, "The idea that somebody has expressed something, in a supreme way, that it can be expressed; this is, I think, an enormous feature of literature." Her stories themselves are a supreme evocation of writing at its very best: probing, uncompromising, and deeply felt.
Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by obligation to an overarching theme. Selected from Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, Mirgorod, and the Petersburg tales and arranged in order of composition, the thirteen stories in The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogolencompass the breadth of Gogol's literary achievement. From the demon-haunted “St. John's Eve ” to the heartrending humiliations and trials of a titular councilor in “The Overcoat,” Gogol's knack for turning literary conventions on their heads combined with his overt joy in the art of story telling shine through in each of the tales. This translation, by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, is as vigorous and darkly funny as the original Russian. It allows readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostevsky and Kafka.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Collected Tales of A. E. Coppard" by A. E. Coppard. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Collected Tales: Fables and Parables in Search of a Moral contains 230-plus contemporary satirical fables, parables, revisions of myths, and passing observations on the present state of homo sapiens. The tales focus on psychological, social, political, spiritual, and philosophical themes, but the “moral” of each one is left to the reader to decide. Among the tales in the present book: • Aesop runs afoul of the good citizens of Delphi • a barnacle weighs the moral pros and cons of letting go • a bear attracts quite a following in faith-based wrestling • two troops of lowland buffoons square off on a patch of ground where the halls of Congress now stand • a booby and a loon host a talk-radio show • a chicken and an egg nearly come to blows over which of them should go first • the Chimera has a difficult time filling out the compatibility profile for an online matchmaking service • an ophthalmologist has some good news and some bad news for a dragonfly • a free spirit stubs its toe • a fruit fly becomes obsessed with genealogy • a gazelle finds itself in a state of suspended animation • a gene falls victim to identity theft • a hawk has trouble maintaining eye contact • the Hydra notices that its many heads are growing smaller and disappearing • Icarus goes for a swim • a film crew sets out to document the march of the pundits • reports come in that a misanthrope has been spotted on the outskirts of town • a molehill comes to worry that it might not reach its full potential • a mosquito lands a job waiting tables • a nightcrawler is tracked down by the thought police • an old goat nearly overdoses on ED pills • the great god Pan roles over and declares, “I ain’t dead yet, folks” • Pavlov’s dogs nearly die of acute dehydration • the phoenix considers having itself embalmed • a poodle takes up ballroom dancing • a porcupine goes in for body piercing in a big way • a possum comes to realize how difficult it is to appear dim • Prometheus investigates the merits of canned heat • a robot takes its pet human for a walk in the park as usual • a rhinoceros notices it has a bruise • a rubber chicken begins to fret that it lacks gravitas • a sardine feels kind of lonesome • a satyr sets himself up as a life coach • a scorpion experiences a moment of compassion • a selfie fails to recognize itself • the Seven Deadly Sins form a support group to buck up their faltering spirits • a shark suffers from bleeding gums • a sheep rents a wolf suit • Sisyphus is arrested as a public nuisance • Spirit and Flesh are directed to undergo relationship counseling • a swan considers becoming an ugly duckling • a termite applies for a highly regarded grant to carry on with its work • topiary animals take the shears to themselves • a unicorn loses its horn trying to make a career change • vampire bats come out of their caves by the millions to discharge their civic duty • a vulture learns to feel good about itself • a wacko falls off the ceiling and right into the soup at a political banquet • a weak ego signs up for the trial offer of a popular home gym • a pack of wolves wins a Department of Defense contract in the billions to howl at the moon • a xenophobe turns up in the nation’s blood supply • a zebra finds itself in a herd of black horses and white horses • a zeitgeist has to admit being perplexed about what it was supposed to be Collected Tales includes material contained in Maneater Meditations.
This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century. Tennessee Williams’ Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams’ lifetime with previously unpublished or uncollected stories. Arranged chronologically, the forty-nine stories, when taken together with the memoir of his father that serves as a preface, not only establish Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century, but also, in Gore Vidal’s view, constitute the real autobiography of Williams’ "art and inner life."
Leonard Michaels was a master of the short story. His collections are among the most admired, influential, and exciting of the last half century. The Collected Stories brings them back into print, from the astonishing debut Going Places (1969) to the uncollected last stories, unavailable since they appeared in The New Yorker, Threepenny Review, and Partisan Review. At every stage in his career, Michaels produced taut, spare tales of sex, love, and other adult intimacies: gossip, argument, friendship, guilt, rage. A fearless writer—"destructive, joyful, brilliant, purely creative," in the words of John Hawkes—Michaels probed his characters' motivations with brutal humor and startling frankness; his ear for the vernacular puts him in the company of Philip Roth, Grace Paley, and Bernard Malamud. Remarkable for its compression and cadences, his prose is nothing short of addictive. The Collected Stories is a landmark. "Leonard Michaels's stories stand alongside those of his best Jewish contemporaries -- Grace Paley and Philip Roth." -- Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book Review
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. “Collected Tales” is a collection of early Doyle’s short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy.
The appearance of these stories in one volume is an event in our literature. To have built up so distinguished a collection, each story excellent in its own way and each an original departure in relation to the others, is a triumph. --Guy Davenport, New York Times Book Review Miss Stafford's craftsmanship and her mastery of the short story form are by now so well known that it seems superfluous to praise these stories. That they are impeccably done is obvious. --Joyce Carol Oates, Book World She writes about people whom loneliness has driven slightly mad, but also about people who are secure and comforted; she explores childhood and old age, poverty and wealth, tragedy and comedy. The comedy is usually wry... but often moves one to laughter. Above all, Miss Stafford will not be hurried... To me, this book is most solidly achieved. --John Wain, New York Review Of Books Winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this collection of thirty stories includes some of Jean Stafford's best short fiction from the period 1944-1968. Including such favorites as In the Zoo, Children Are Bored on Sunday, and Beatrice Trueblood's Story, the collection offers the work of this popular writer of the 1940s and 1950s to a new generation of readers and critics.
'Shirley Hazzard is, purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in the English today' Michael Cunningham. Now at last comes the first complete book of her short stories, including those previously uncollected. Collected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses - alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories. Twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and talent. Taken together, Hazzard's short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, 'at once surgical and symphonic' (New Yorker), ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical sendups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. In an interview, Hazzard once said, 'The idea that somebody has expressed something, in a supreme way, that it can be expressed; this is, I think, an enormous feature of literature'. Her stories themselves are a supreme evocation of writing at its very best: probing, uncompromising and deeply felt.