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Includes the 10 finest short novels ever written.
This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature—writers best known for novels, plays, and poems—and how they put the essay to their personal use. Contributors include Auden, Balzac, Conrad, Dickens, Dostoevski, Eliot, Faulkner, Flaubert, Gide, Goethe, Hardy, Hawthorne, Heine, Hemingway, Kafka, Kipling, Lawrence, Melville, Pirandello, Poe, Proust, Sartre, Tolstoy, Twain, Whitman, Wilde, Woolf, and Yeats.
These two compelling novellas explore the tensions and eruptive violence of human relationships.
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The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones spins off the story of the legendary outlaw Billy the Kid. This action packed adventure follows Hendry (Billy) through southern California and northern Mexico leading to his capture and eventual murder by Dad Longworth (Pat Garrett).
A dark and fascinating portrait of an authoritarian city slicker in the backwoods of Maryland. In restaurants that cannot serve white-meat-only turkey dinners, in garages that don't have the parts to repair his prized automobile, and in sleep riddled with dreams of his wife's death at his own hands, Christopher Burbank tries desperately to regain power and authority, but finds himself accelerating toward a startling, violent denouement.
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Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim. In addition to his long public service as a diplomat, Irving was amazingly prolific: His collected works fill forty volumes that encompass essays, history, travel writings, and multi-volume biographies of Columbus and Washington. But it is Irving's mastery of suspense, characterization, tempo, and irony that transforms his fiction into virtuoso performances, earning him his reputation as the father of the American short story. Charles Neider has gathered all sixty-one of Irving's tales, originally scattered throughout his many colle...
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