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Calling the collection “a memory book” literary critic Eileen Battersby registers high praise for the Updike’s posthumously issued collection of short fiction: My Fathers Tears and Other Stories appears to remind us of exactly how good Updike was and is. At his finest – and there are numerous echoes of his sensuous flair throughout ...
813’.5”4. LC Class. PS3571.P4. Problems and Other Stories is a collection of 23 works of short fiction by John Updike. The volume was published in 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf. The stories were first carried in literary journals, 17 of which appeared in The New Yorker. [1] [2] Problems and Other Stories is one of two collections of Updike's ...
yù shì míngyán. Stories Old and New ( Chinese: 古今小說 ), also known by its later name Stories to Enlighten the World (喻世明言), is a collection of short stories by Feng Menglong during the Ming dynasty. It was published in Suzhou in 1620. It is considered to be pivotal in the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. [1]
Background. Conrad began writing the four short stories that would comprise T yphoon and Other Stories while he was attempting to complete the third and final story for the proposed collection Youth, A Narrative; and Two Other Stories (1902) for William Blackwood and Sons. Setting aside “The End of the Tether”- and after finishing his novel ...
2014 short story collections. Short story collections written or published in 2014. These are collections of short stories by a single author. Books portal. 2010s portal. 2009. 2010. 2011. 2012.
The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov. The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov. The Borders Just Beyond. The Bridge (short story collection) Burning Chrome (short story collection)
The story is a reworking of Friedrich Schiller's ballad Die Bürgschaft, which tells the story of Melos and Selinuntius, originally Damon and Pythias. Schiller's version revolves around an ancient Greek legend recorded by the Roman author Gaius Julius Hyginus. The most prominent theme of "Run, Melos!" is unwavering friendship.
High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories, 1966–2006 is a collection of short stories by author Joyce Carol Oates. First published by Ecco in 2006, it is the author's largest collection of short stories. The anthology included previously published stories, selected by Oates as her personal favorites, accompanied by eleven new short stories.