Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories16 reviews Tobias Wolff Knopf, 2008 Adjectives fail me. + Some of the Best from a Master of the Short Story + The Stories Continue + Tobias Wolff's Greatest Hits + Amazing             Dubliners (Twentieth-Century Classics)106 reviews James Joyce Penguin Classics, 1993 Great Vignettes Of Dublin Life and A Great way to introduce yourself to James Joyce + INCLUDES "The Dead" + Irish Stew Admittedly Joyce's better known works can seem quite daunting to the uninitiated but here in these short character sketches a reader can begin to understand what all fuss is about and enjoy some wonderfully written short stories in the bargain. The stories are consistently good and from the very ...             The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain Mark Twain Digireads.com, 2008 This comprehensive volume of all of Twain's shorter works is representative of his vast humor and wit. "The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain" includes the following tales: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Story of the Bad Little Boy, Cannibalism in the Cars, A Day at Niagara, Legend of the Capitoline Venus, Journalism in Tennessee, A Curious Dream, The Facts in the Great ...             Complete Short Stories (Penguin Classics)5 reviews Graham Greene Penguin Classics, 2005 A kaleidoscope of human faiths + Take an insightful trip to Graham Greene land in this collection of his 49 excellent short stories + They Span Most of the Century, the Globe, and the Genres + Deep Writer + Complicated, compelling reading             The Complete Stories62 reviews Flannery O'Connor Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971 The Devil's In The Details + One of Two Must Own Collection of Short Stories + Completely Unique + Flannery O'Connor, one twisted sister + American Sophocles             Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook)40 reviews Jorge Luis Borges New Directions, 2007 Writings of a great reader + Rod Sterling on Steroids + Mystical, cosmopolitan, multi-layered In "How To Read a Book" Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren describe the fourth level of reading. Synoptical reading challenges the reader who, having carefully and thoroughly understood several individual works, strives to hear the conversation of their ensemble. "Labyrinths" brings us the ...             The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition43 reviews Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 1998 Phenomenal + A book in GREAT condition. + G + Hemingway - What more needs to be said?             Last Evenings on Earth7 reviews Roberto Bolano New Directions, 2006 a literary stud + Bolano's Meditations on Short-term friendships + Very good + Atmospheric and melancholy stories of exile + bolano wrote great stories             Collected Stories of William Faulkner18 reviews William Faulkner Vintage, 1995 Wonderful + More Than Just Southern Gothic + You can't go wrong here... + A Rose for Emily + Wow! Readable Faulkner!             Runaway: Stories35 reviews Alice Munro Knopf, 2004 Outstanding + Focusing on Motivation + remarkable + Real world translated into art + Wonderful stories             The Elephant Vanishes: Stories52 reviews Haruki Murakami Vintage, 1994 Intriguing novel + A wonderful introduction + Surreal landscapes + Great stories!             The Complete Stories44 reviews Franz Kafka Schocken, 1995 A Treasure of Madness + The best place to start with Kafka. + Excellent introduction to Kafka unique style Kafka is still "the rage," one supposes, but it is hard to see how, now that he has become an icon. This is a fabulous collection. Updike is right that these stories are excellent. Kafka has had enormous influence on modern fiction. He may be one of a handful of highly important authors. Reading ...             Interpreter of Maladies463 reviews Jhumpa Lahiri Houghton Mifflin, 2000 One of the best books I've ever read + Strange Maladies for Sure + It Gets Better As You Read It + Excellent collection of stories + Lovely stories             What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories37 reviews Raymond Carver Vintage, 1989 Master of the Short + Beautiful and Melancholic + A Walk on the Dark Side We Should All Take + good book             Collected Stories11 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999 Stories by a Master + Incredible, as always! + Highly Recommend This Short Story Collection: Good Reading. + Enchantingly Surreal             Nine Stories158 reviews J.D. Salinger Back Bay Books, 2001 Salinger Hits Nine Home Runs. + Salinger's Little Worlds + Nine Stories More Than Just Bananafish Published after The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Nine Stories is quintessential Salinger. Having first read Salinger's collection of Nine Stories as a college student, these short stories have remained in my thoughts for years. "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (first published in the The New ...             Stories of Anton Chekhov17 reviews Anton Chekhov Bantam, 2000 perceptive and heartbreaking + The Master of the Short Story + Everyone must read these stories! + Wonderful but depressing stories + Delightful             Welcome to the Monkey House78 reviews Kurt Vonnegut The Dial Press, 1998 Perfect Timing + You'll never look at the game of chess the same + Glen Williamson performs two of these stories as a play I purchased this book as a gift for my husband. It arrived on time, and the book was such a great read, my husband purchased another book from the same author as soon as he finished this one.             Jesus' Son: Stories by92 reviews Denis Johnson Harper Perennial, 1993 Children of loneness + I read the first couple stories... + Aimless Days of the Addicted In Denis Johnson's stunning collection of short stories "Jesus' Son", there is an image that stays with you most of the time. This is the picture of loneness and desolation. In one of the best tales, called "Emergency", the main character whose name goes by FH and a friend drive through the ...             Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories60 reviews Raymond Carver Vintage, 1989 Nice introduction to contemporary writing + Excellent Stories + Phota stories + Paeans to a lived life + "Who knows why we do what we do?"