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A short story collection is a book of short stories and/or novellas by a single author. A short story collection is distinguished from an anthology of fiction, which would contain work by several authors (e.g., Les Soirées de Médan). The stories in a collection may or may not share a tone, theme, setting, or characters with one another.
- Night Shift (short story collection)
978-0-385-12991-6. Followed by. Different Seasons. Night...
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Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions...
- Night Shift (short story collection)
Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. Such stylistic devices often acted ...
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978-0-385-12991-6. Followed by. Different Seasons. Night Shift is Stephen King 's first collection of short stories, [1] first published in 1978. In 1980, Night Shift won the Balrog Award for Best Collection, and in 1979 it was nominated as best collection for the Locus Award and the World Fantasy Award. [2]
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Dec 23, 2019 · We began with the best debut novels of the decade, and now we’re back with the best short story collections of the decade—or to be precise, the best collections published in English between 2010 and 2019. The following books were chosen after much debate (and several rounds of voting) by the Literary Hub staff.
- "The Dead" by James Joyce. The stories in Dubliners are depictions of life in Dublin around 1910. T. S. Eliot, amongst others, described The Dead as "one of the greatest short stories ever written."
- "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. Who knew that a story about a village lottery could cause so much anger and outrage? Yet Jackson’s dark, modern gothic tale caused a flood of complaints to The New Yorker.
- "The Swimmer" by John Cheever. Cheever’s short stories veer from realism to satire to fantasy, often in the space of the same sentence. Below the surface of the cocktail parties that greet new readers, are puzzling fables about radio transmissions of private conversations (The Enormous Radio) or brothers attacking one another unexpectedly (Goodbye My Brother).
- “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor. It is almost cast in stone that any list of great short story writers must mention Carver, Cheever, and O’Connor together, as the greats of American short story writing.
06 = The View from Castle Rock – 2006. 09 = Too Much Happiness – 2009. 12 = Dear Life – 2012. Compilations. s96 = Selected Stories – 1996. s03 = No Love Lost – 2003. s04 = Vintage Munro – 2004. s06 = Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories – Toronto 2006/ Carried Away: A Selection of Stories – New York 2006; both with an ...
Apr 20, 2021 · William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name, O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry’s most famous short story, The Gift of the Magi, matched selflessness with love in the literary firmament. In 1906 the story appeared in O. Henry’s second collection which he titled, The Four Million, in response to an op-ed in The ...
