Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art1 review

Modern Library, 2005

The Time of the Season

With all the hoopla that comes with the Christmas shopping season, everybody needs a short respite. What better way to do it than to pick up a book, or better yet, give a book that reflects the holiday season? The New Yorker partners with Random House with CHRISTMAS AT THE NEW YORKER: STORIES, ...
  
  











  



  
The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women (Writing American Women)

Syracuse University Press, 2001
  
  











  



  
Under The Boardwalk: A Dazzling Collection Of All New Summertime Love Stories (Sonnet Books)11 reviews
Linda Howard, Geralyn Dawson, ...

Pocket, 1999

nice beach reading

+ I enjoyed this book...
+ Howard & Hunter's Stories were the best
+ Decent novella compilation
  
  











  



  
Great Short Stories of the Masters1 review
Charles Neider

Cooper Square Press, 2003

An Old but Good Collection

This book, published in 2002, was an unabridged republication of the 1989 version (Great Short Stories: Fiction from the Masters of World Literature). Earlier versions were published in 1950 and 1972 as Great Short Stories from the World's Literature. Most of the compiler's choices appear to have ...
  
  











  



  
Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam20 reviews
Susan O'Neill

University of Massachusetts Press, 2004

One of my favorite Army Nurses

+ Great
+ sincere and deeply felt
+ Masterful Storytelling
+ Highly recommended
  
  











  



  
Island: The Complete Stories16 reviews
Alistair MacLeod

W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

Finest writing I've read in ages

+ Island
+ Island - The Complete Stories by Alistair MacLeod
+ A Bittersweet Look Back Home
+ An English Assignment Gone Well...
  
  











  



  
Just Our Best Short Stories 20055 reviews
Janet Sue Terry

Just My Best, 2005

A VERSATILE COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY TALENTED WRITERS

+ Simply Beautiful
+ A GOOD MIX OF STYLES & GENRES IN THIS COLLECTION! GREAT READS!
+ THESE SHORT STORIES ARE REALLY GOOD!
+ MY AUNT LIKES THESE STORIES
  
  











  



  
Rear View: Stories5 reviews
Peter Duval

Mariner Books, 2004

Hard, gritty, real

+ Wise, Funny, Humane
+ Fantastic Decription + Peculiar Plots = Excellent Stories
+ Flash Fiction at it's Finest
+ Duval's masterful text
  
  











  



  
A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories1 review

Henry Holt & Company, 1997

A BLACK PERSPECTIVE ON CHRISTMAS

Everyone is familiar with the traditional Christmas stories that will be shared during this holiday. Ah, but there are other Christmas stories which put a unique twist on Christmas from an African-American perspective. Collected for the first time in one source are Christmas stories told by ...
  
  











  



  
Mark Twain : The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It (Library of America)28 reviews
Mark Twain

Library of America, 1984

Review of INNOCENTS ABROAD by Mark Twain

+ The Hobo Philosopher
+ Perfect Gift
+ As always a wonderful read
+ Timeless Twain
  
  











  



  
Across the Bridge of Sighs: More Venetian Stories6 reviews
Jane Turner Rylands

Pantheon, 2005

Wonderfully enchanting

+ a slice of Venetian life
+ This should not be missed...

Ever since I read Venetian Stories I've been awaiting a sequel with all of the anticipation of a ten-year-old J.K.R. fan. Thank you, Mrs. Rylands, for not disappointing. I savored this book for over a week, trying to carefully digest each vignette before it slipped into the intertwined mass of the ...
  
  











  



  
The Undiscovered Zane Grey Fishing Stories1 review
Zane Grey, George Reiger

MacMillan Publishing Company, 1992

Excellent look into the heart of Grey, his motives for livin

The book contains 3 or four short stories that carry well Mr. Grey's attitudes about fishing and life in general. These stories are interwoven with information about him that I had not heard before. About his prowess as a horseman. His horses carried familiar names of those used in his writings, ...
  
  











  



  
No Time for Sergeants: A Novel (Voices of the South)4 reviews
Mac Hyman

Louisiana State University Press, 1995

No time for airmen neither!

+ One of the funniest books ever written!
+ This is a very funny book!
+ Totally fun
  
  











  



  
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (Modern Library Paperbacks)8 reviews

Random House, 2000

Wonderful collection

+ Terrific!
+ A brilliant collection
+ A must-read for literary fiction fans
  
  











  



  
Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night: Stories23 reviews
Thisbe Nissen

Anchor, 2000

Sharp, Sweet, Stealthy

+ Another Iowa success story
+ Wonderful
+ Beautiful and disarming collection of short stories!
  
  











  



  
Black No More : A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)9 reviews
George S. Schuyler

Modern Library, 1999

Life is a Con

+ Will the Real Black Man Please Stand Up
+ Wonderful and thought provoking
+ What it means to be black in America
  
  











  



  
When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories14 reviews
David Benioff

Viking Adult, 2004

An Overlooked Collection of Short Stories

+ Amazing writing and great stories.....
+ Each story is a new suprise!
+ A Diverse Collection
+ Sex, Lies & Short Stories
  
  











  



  
Willa Cather: Stories, Poems, and Other Writings (Library of America)
Willa Cather, Sharon O'Brien

Library of America, 1992

Featuring her wonderfully readable and often anthologized short stories, the third and final volume (with "Early Novels and Stories" and "Later Novels") of the most comprehensive Cather edition available anywhere. Includes the short-story collections "Youth and the Bright Medusa," "Obscure Destinies," and "The Old Beauty and Others," the novellas "Alexander's Bridge" and "My Mortal Enemy," ...
  
  











  



  
Theodore Dreiser : Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men (Library of America)
Theodore Dreiser

Library of America, 1987

A master of naturalism, Theodore Dreiser brought the American novel into the twentieth century. Fascinated by the city street, its parade of fashion and its threat of poverty and degradation, his journalistic eye lets us see as they were first seen the now familiar realities of modern living. "Sister Carrie" traces the fate of a small-town girl drawn into the brutal metropolitan worlds of Chicago ...
  
  











  



  
Natasha: And Other Stories33 reviews
David Bezmozgis

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

Excellent book with basic respect for the reader

+ The Title Story is My Favorite
+ Little treasure of a book
+ Same Characters in Different Short Stories Don't Quite Make a Novel