The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Middlesex" presents this dazzling collection of outstanding love stories from such renowned writers as Alice Munro, William Faulkner, and Milan Kundera.

"50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors
represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne... [More...]

This collection is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is... [More...]

Fords first short story collection, published in 1992, became the definitive anthology of American short fiction. This new collection features more than 40 stories, including some he regretted overlooking the first time around, as well as many by a new... [More...]

Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte, "To... [More...]

A blend of fiction and nonfiction, humor, and poignancy, this celebration of music and storytelling features works by Kris Kristofferson, Hazel Smith, Charlie Daniels, Gary Nicholson, Hal Ketchum, Janis Ian, Mark D. Sanders, Tom T. Hall, Marshall Chapman,... [More...]

Since its original publication in 1966, this volume has attained classic status. Now its contents have been updated and its cultural framework enlarged by the orginal editors. Many of the 44 stories come from a new writing generation with a contemporary... [More...]

Each story in this exciting collection of 30 classic works of American short fiction is a jewel of structure, economy, and precision. Included in this original anthology are such masters as Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charlotte... [More...]