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Collected Short Stories, Vol. 1

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: N/A: January 0001

Seller ID: 105982

ISBN: 0140187154

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Best Food Writing 2004

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books: September 2004

Seller ID: 128520

ISBN: 1569244162

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Best Food Writing 2004 assembles, for its fifth year, the most exceptional writing from the past year's books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and Web sites. Included are the best writers on everything from celebrated chefs to the travails of the home cook, from food sourcing at the greenmarket to equipping one's kitchen, from erudite culinary history to food-inspired memoirs. Considered a classic, Best Food Writing is required reading for all undergraduate students enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America and is used as a textbook at other culinary schools nationwide. Stellar contrib...
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Best Food Writing 2007

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books: November 2007

Seller ID: 128523

ISBN: 1600940390

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now in its eighth year, "Best Food Writing 2007" hosts a literary feast of the finest culinary prose from the past year's books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and Web sites. With eight sections ranging from Food Fights to Fast Food, The World's Kitchen to Why I Cook, this stellar collection features both established food writers and rising stars who serve up their culinary forays, musings, and discoveries. By turns luminous, nostalgic, witty, sensual, and sometimes just plain funny, this delectable sampler will invoke your imagination and tantalize your taste buds-whether you're in the m...
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The Best American Essays 1998

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 1998

Seller ID: 128873

ISBN: 0395860520

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Best American Essays 1998 features a captivating mix of people and prose, as guest editor Cynthia Ozick shapes a volume around the intricacies of human memory. The reflections and recollections of Saul Bellow, John Updike, Jamaica Kincaid, John McPhee, and Andre Dubus join company with many voices new to the series, as an astonishing variety of writers share their deepest thought on ecstasy and injury, ambition and failure, privacy and notoriety.
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Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Eerdmans: April 2006

Seller ID: 129428

ISBN: 0802829317

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Leading Lives that Matter" draws together a wide range of texts -- including fiction, autobiography, and philosophy -- that offer challenge and insight for those who are thinking about what to do with their lives.
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The BEST SHORT STORIES Of RING LARDNER.

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Unknown: January 1957

Seller ID: 132497

ISBN: B001NIM7JA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Great English Short Stories

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Laurel: July 1987

Seller ID: 133145

ISBN: 044033084X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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The Best American Short Stories of the Century

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: April 1999

Seller ID: 134412

ISBN: 0395843685

Condition: Used - Good

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest He...
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The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce

By: Bierce, Ambrose

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Citadel Press: February 2001

Seller ID: 132410

ISBN: 0806501804

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The best from the legendary 19th-century journalist, including stories that still amuse, shock, and entertain. The Devil's Dictionary, Can Such Things Be? Negligible Tales, and more.
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Timeless Requiem

By: Blevins, Clint,Semones, Stephen J,Blevins, Knox,Bridgeforth, Marie,Semones, Autumn,Semones, Janet

Price: $5.00

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform: March 2013

Seller ID: 131688

ISBN: 1482586576

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Twelve short stories. Six authors. One amazing book. Timeless Requiem delivers a book that's sure to please any fan of horror and science fiction tales. Zombies, werewolves, aliens, ghosts, and vampires... this book will have you feverishly turning the page until the end. Featuring stories by: C.R. Blevins, Knox Blevins, V. Marie Bridgeforth, Autumn Semones, Janet Semones, and Stephen J. Semones. The book also ties together the stories with poetry by: Logan A. Rosenbaum. Illustrations by: Jordan Carroll Cover by: Bridgeforth Design Studio
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A Rhetoric of Irony (Phoenix Books)

By: Booth, Wayne C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: August 1975

Seller ID: 133522

ISBN: 0226065537

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies--and why we often fail when we try to do so. How does a reader or listener recognize the kind of statement which requires him to reject its "clear" and "obvious" meaning? And how does any reader know where to stop, once he has embarked on the hazardous and exhilarating path of rejecting "what the...
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Billy Watson's Croker Sack

By: Burroughs, Franklin

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: May 1992

Seller ID: 128875

ISBN: 0395619009

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Grass Harp and The Tree of Night: And Other Stories

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Signet Books: July 1956

Seller ID: 132040

ISBN: 0451161777

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Journals Of John Cheever

By: Cheever, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: October 1991

Seller ID: 131442

ISBN: 0394572742

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

How I Met My Wife and Other Stories

By: Coleridge, Nicholas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mandarin: September 1992

Seller ID: 107826

ISBN: 0749312246

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The John Collier Reader

By: Collier, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Knopf: January 1972

Seller ID: 131941

ISBN: 039446186X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

An American Retrospective Writing From Harper's Magazine 1850-1984

By: Cunningham, Ann Marie (Editor)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper's: January 1985

Seller ID: 128874

ISBN: B001P631O0

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (FSG Classics)

By: Didion, Joan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: October 2008

Seller ID: 131303

ISBN: 0374531382

Condition: Used - Good

The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem "remains, forty years after its first publication, the essential portrait of America-- particularly California--in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem (FSG Classics)

By: Didion, Joan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: October 2008

Seller ID: 133144

ISBN: 0374531382

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Haunted Kingsport:: Ghosts of Tri-City Tennessee (Haunted America)

By: Dykes, Pete

Price: $8.00

Publisher: The History Press: October 2008

Seller ID: 131680

ISBN: 1596294949

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Tales of ghostly spirits envelop the northeast Tennessee landscape like a familiar mountain fog. Join Pete Dykes, editor of Kingsport's "Daily News," as he offers up a collection of spooky local stories and legends from centuries past, including such spine-chilling accounts as the foreboding ghost of Netherland Inn Road, spectral disturbances at the Rotherwood Mansion, devilish felines, ruthless poltergeists in Caney Creek Falls, the tortured cries from fallen Rebel soldiers still heard today- and could bigfoot really be buried in the woods of Big Stone Gap?
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Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story

By: Faulkner, Grant

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Outpost19: February 2019

Seller ID: 129966

ISBN: 1944853480

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Love Trouble: New and Collected Work

By: Geng, Veronica

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Mariner Books: May 1999

Seller ID: 78384

ISBN: 0395945577

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this collection of satirical pieces and short humorous fiction, Veronica Geng turns up hilarities large and small in government-speak, gender relations, academia, the mass media, love lives, restaurants, airplanes, and baseball fans. "Often," Ian Frazier writes in his introduction, "her writing was the purest satire, in the sense that its preferred outcome would be for its object to fall down dead." Always attuned to the way things sound, Geng was a wicked parodist, a mimic of voices from Henry James to Chandler's private eyes, from LBJ to Pat Robertson. Love Trouble confirms Veronica Geng'...
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London (Small Oxford Books)

By: Green, Benny,Green, O.P.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: February 1990

Seller ID: 130510

ISBN: 0192141430

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

By: Jewett, Sarah Orne

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: January 1956

Seller ID: 132481

ISBN: B000NPK624

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Best Stories of Anton Chekhov

By: Kulka, John Edited By

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble: January 2000

Seller ID: 134445

ISBN: 0760719810

Condition: Used - Good

Selected Literary Essays (Canto Classics)

By: Lewis, C. S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: November 2013

Seller ID: 130342

ISBN: 1107685389

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version' to 'Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism, ' from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, is the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterizes Lewis's best critical writing
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Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form

By: Magill, Frank N. (editor)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper & Row: January 1952

Seller ID: 130817

ISBN: B000JJME6K

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Strange Pilgrims

By: Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: December 1993

Seller ID: 133146

ISBN: 0679425667

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact. In these twelve masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, Garcia Marquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the emigre ex...
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Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

By: Maupassant, Guy de

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Sterling Publishing: September 2008

Seller ID: 132905

ISBN: 1593082223

Condition: Used - Good

"Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant" is part of the ""Barnes & Noble Classics" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of "Barnes & Noble Classics" All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. "Barnes & Noble Classics "pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich...
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Collected Stories Including the Member of the Wedding and the Ballad of the Sad Cafe

By: McCullers, Carson

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: June 1987

Seller ID: 130247

ISBN: 0395442435

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: *Short Stories / Essays