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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 (The Best American Series)

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 2004

Seller ID: 355783

ISBN: 0618341234

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.
Dave Eggers, who edits The Best American Nonreq...
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The Future Dictionary of America

By: Foer, Jonathan Safran,Krauss, Nicole,Eggers, Dave,Horowitz, Eli

Price: $7.95

Publisher: McSweeney's Books: August 2004

Seller ID: 320750

ISBN: 193241620x

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This book was conceived by Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, Nicole Krauss, and the staff of McSweeney's as a way to bring over a hundred authors together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election. An imagining of what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when the world's problems are solved and our current president is a distant memory, the book is by turns funny, outraged, utopian, and dyspeptic. 100 percent of the proceeds will go to a mix of political organizations to support progressive candidates in the upcoming elections. Over 150 writers contributed...
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The New Granta Book of the American Short Story

By: Ford

Price: $9.95

Publisher: N/A: November 2007

Seller ID: 338201

ISBN: 1862078475

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This collection features stories from over 40 writers including Sherman Alexie, Junot Diaz, Deborah Eisenberg, Nell Freudenberger, Matthew Klam, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Z.Z. Packer."
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Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series Â®)

By: Gay, Roxane

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Best American Paper: October 2018

Seller ID: 355773

ISBN: 0544582942

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year's Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.

"I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed," writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, "but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world." The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an im...
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the Man Without a Country and Other Stories

By: Gemme

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Airmont Publishing: January 1969

Seller ID: 282534

ISBN: B000XQZPOM

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Chinook Arch; A Centennial Anthology of Alberta Writing

By: Gillese, John Patrick [ed]

Price: $4.95

Publisher: The Government of Alberta: January 1967

Seller ID: 158451

ISBN: B0000EEN62

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of 17th-Century Women's Verse

By: Greer, Germaine

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: April 1989

Seller ID: 17251

ISBN: 0374521646

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Portable Russian Reader: A Collection Newly Translated from Classical and Present-Day Authors

By: Guerney, Bernard

Price: $4.95

Publisher: The Viking Press: January 1947

Seller ID: 283015

ISBN: B0007HYR7I

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Treasury of Russian Literature

By: Guerney, Bernard G.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Vanguard Pr: June 1943

Seller ID: 282985

ISBN: 0814901131

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Early American Writing (Penguin Classics)

By: Gunn, Giles

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: February 1994

Seller ID: 145203

ISBN: 0140390871

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature--including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide autho...
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The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories

By: Halpern, Daniel

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: August 1989

Seller ID: 216004

ISBN: 0140079491

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Eighty-one masterpieces by the world's best writers a surprising, irresistible collection of short stories from around the world."
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Renaissance Treasury, A: A Collection of Representative Writings of the Renaissance on the Continent

By: Haydn, Hiram, and John Charles Nelson, edited by.

Price: $12.49

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: January 1953

Seller ID: 69020

ISBN: B000OKMO9G

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Great American Short Stories (Wtm) (Watermill Classics)

By: Henry, O.

Price: $1.95

Publisher: Troll Communications: January 1997

Seller ID: 306128

ISBN: 0816707987

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Best American Series 2006 - Silver Gift Box

By: Houghton

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: November 2006

Seller ID: 339199

ISBN: 0618801278

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The set, boxed in a lavish silver metallic, features The Best American Travel Writing 2006, edited by Tim Cahill; The Best American Spiritual Writing 2006, introduced by Peter J. Gomes; and, like the first set, The Best American Short Stories 2006, edited by Ann Patchett.
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Story and verse for children,

By: Huber, Miriam Blanton

Price: $9.95

Publisher: The Macmillan Company: January 1940

Seller ID: 281767

ISBN: B007T2K174

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Best Food Writing 2012

By: Hughes, Holly

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books: October 2012

Seller ID: 363638

ISBN: 0738216038

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Our fascination with what we eat, its provenance, and its preparation just keeps growing--and food writing has continued to explode. Once again, editor Holly Hughes plumbs magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books, and websites for the year's finest culinary prose--"stories for connoisseurs, celebrations of the specialized, the odd, or simply the excellent" (Entertainment Weekly). Featuring essays and articles from established food writers and rising stars, as well as some literary surprises, Best Food Writing 2012 captures the trends, big stories, and new voices. From going ...
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Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

By: KEENE, DONALD

Price: $5.95

Publisher: N/A: March 1960

Seller ID: 320439

ISBN: 0802150586

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in this book. An introduction by Donald Keene places the selections in their proper historical context, allowing the readers to enjoy the book both as literature and as a guide to the cultural history of Japan. Selections include Man yoshu or Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves from the ancient period; Kokinshu or Collection of Ancient and Modern P...
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The Seagull Reader: Stories (Second Edition)

By: Kelly, Joseph

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: December 2007

Seller ID: 155743

ISBN: 0393930912

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Each volume offers an inviting mix of classics and less familiar pieces, complemented by concise genre introductions, short headnotes and annotations, brief author biographies, and a glossary of terms. The Readers also include access to innovative writing tips, study and review material, and much more at LitWeb and Norton Literature Online.
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Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion

By: Kemp, Sandra

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: September 1997

Seller ID: 60702

ISBN: 0198117604

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Edwardian era saw a remarkable outpouring of fiction, much of which we don't normally think of as Edwardian. There were major works such as Conrad's Lord Jim and Nostromo, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, and D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. Children's literature saw such marvelous books as Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, and there were many popular classics as well, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Now, in Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion, readers have an illuminati...
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Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion

By: Kemp, Sandra

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: September 1997

Seller ID: 337188

ISBN: 0198117604

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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