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A Study Guide for Vikram Chandra's "Dharma (Art of the Short Story)," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
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"As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might," writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. "It's the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are." The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously...
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The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected...
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"To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time," recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. "They were windows into emotions I had and hadn't had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships." Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year's edition. The result is a striking...
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In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, "The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius...modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition."
Boyle's choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence...
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Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection. The authors include Americans such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Saul Bellow, and Flannery O'Connor, 19th and 20th century Western European giants such as Proust, Sartre, Flaubert, Kafka, Mann, Pirandello, Rilke, and Balzac, Russian icons Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Turgenev, and Chekhov, and Asian writers...
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Twenty of the best American short stories of 2011, chosen by the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Chord.
The twenty tightly crafted stories collected here by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks are full of deftly drawn characters, universal truths, and often surprising humor. Richard Powers's "To the Measures Fall" is a comic meditation on the uses of literature in the course of a life. In the satirical "The Sleep,"...
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From well-known and award-winning authors-including Bernardine Evaristo, Fred D'Aguiar, and Leone Ross-to previous unpublished writers, this ambitious and intriguing anthology of short stories showcases each author's most challenging work. These works from writers who are happy to describe themselves as Black British, have a rich variety of styles, forms, and themes, from raw realism, the erotic, and elegant economy, to the fanciful, humorous, and...
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The New York Times–bestselling author of The Interestings compiles a stunning anthology of literary short fiction with T.C. Boyle, Emma Cline and others.
"If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn't go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome," writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction...
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Enjoy the traditions of holidays past with this classic collection of fun and touching stories. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, read by John Mawson.
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus by Francis Pharcellus Church, read by Paul Boehmer.
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, read by Paul Boehmer'Twas the Night before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, read by Gregory Itzin.
Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, read...
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Diverse {dɪˈvɜrs, daɪ-, ˈdaɪ vɜrs} Adjective
Showing a great deal of variety; From the Latin root diversus meaning various
The etymology of the word diverse accurately defines the settings, themes, voices, and formats of the fiction in this third anthology of the Saigon Writers Club. From human trafficking to crime redemption to the costs of war, friendship, family, and the pursuit of dreams, these are some of the themes explored...
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When the empty house across the way appears to be suddenly occupied, the elderly Sophonisba enlists her equally elderly admirer, Jabez Jarber, and her servant, Trottle, to get to the bottom of the mystery. But in so doing, Sophonisba will find her life surprisingly changed for the better. "A House to Let" was the first collaboration between esteemed authors Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Adelaide Anne Procter. With each author...
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Best Classic Short Stories for Children brings together some of the most well-known and beloved stories by authors like O. Henry, Oscar Wilde and Saki, and extracts from children's classics such as The Railway Children and Little Women. With a mix of genres including science fiction, mystery and ghost stories, and a host of popular characters such as Oliver Twist, Sherlock Holmes, Jane Eyre and Dracula, this is the perfect introduction to a range...
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The stories in this anthology arise from the I Love Writing Competition, an initiative that engaged young and older writers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Judges of the competition were, impressed by the high caliber of many of the entrants. This book contains the stories of those who were most notable.
The rules of the competition were the story needed to contain the word 'heart' and needed to be fiction. Entries were open for three categories:...
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A collection of award winning short stories written by Texas Sudents. This is Volume 1 with 12 stories. These short stories will take you on a Sci-Fi trip through Western stories and down to the home front. Each giving you a glimpse into American life and thought, while entertaining you. At the end of each story is a simple, paragraph that lets the reader get a better understanding about the story they read.
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One of the great literary figures of the modern age, French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) probes the precarious mental and erotic nuances of love, the frail mysteries of time passing and time past in highly original, surprising tales. Includes a new translation of the complete text of Pleasures and Days, Proust's only short-story collection, and six tales previously uncollected and never before available in English.
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Other Voices is a collection of short stories by ten West Australian writers. The collection gives voice to a variety of life experiences, and in particular, to those who are typically unable to speak loudly and clearly for themselves. The stories convey themes of memory and loss, power and illness, morality, unease and personal tragedy. They take readers on a journey into 19th century England, post-war Europe and Iran, and other imaginary worlds,...
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"The Dating Game-Modern Romance Short Stories" brings the romance to today with an assortment of short stories inspired by the 21st century's dating trials and tribulations. Join our wonderful writers as we swipe right on paper after page of passionate adventures and mishaps.
featuring the works of the following authors:
Leigh Alder
Stella Almazan
Skye Ballantyne
Natalie Carroll
Shari Held
David Lange
Matt. J. McGee
Arik Mitra
Tim O'Neal
Josh...
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Doorways can be a bridge to another world, a portal to a bygone era, or a crossroads between two cultures, or two lives. Sometimes a doorway is a ledge between the racist past and a robotic future. A passageway leading to celestial spirits, or earthbound souls-to a crumbling castle adrift in time.
Doorways are the ferries that usher us through beginnings and endings, steering us into possibility and misfortune, alike. Some doors protect us and give...
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