JEF - Short Story Collections

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Born in England in 1881, Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse delighted generations of readers with his whimsical tales of the deliciously dim aristocrat Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, his brainy, imperturbable manservant. Many are unaware, however, that Bertie had a prototype -- Reggie Pepper -- who stumbled into the same worrying situations involving old school chums with romantic troubles, irate female relatives, threatening suitors, and other troublemakers....

2) Carry on, Jeeves

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Wodehouse, P. G

Series

Jeeves and Wooster volume 4

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Book, Audiobook CD

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First published in 1925, "Carry On, Jeeves" is P. G. Wodehouse's third collection of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories. All of the stories included in this volume first appeared in periodicals like the "Saturday Evening Post" including some that are reworked versions of stories that appeared in the 1919 collection "My Man Jeeves". In this volume, readers will find some of Wodehouse's most famous tales of the hapless and wealthy Bertie, his equally...

3) Fifty best American short stories, 1915-1965

4) The complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway

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Hemingway, Ernest

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Contains "The first forty-nine, " short stories published in books or magazines subsequent to "The first forty-nine, " and previously published fiction.

5) The short stories of Ernest Hemingway

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Hemingway, Ernest

Series

Scribner library

6) The O. Henry prize stories

7) Uncommon type: some stories

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Hanks, Tom

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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"A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant...

8) The luck of Roaring Camp and other short stories

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Harte, Bret

Series

Dover thrift editions

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In 1870, the young San Francisco-based writer and editor Bret Harte (1836-1902) first compiled a single-volume edition of his rousing stories of life in the Wild West. Entitled The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches, the book propelled him almost overnight from local celebrity to American literary lion. Four of the most famous of those tales are included in this collection: the title story, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," "Tennessee's Partner,"...

9) Goodbye, Columbus, and five short stories

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Roth, Philip

Series

Modern library of the world's best books

10) No middle name: the complete collected Jack Reacher short stories

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Eleven previously published stories and a new novella. In "Too Much Time," a brand-new work of short fiction, finds Reacher in a hollowed-out town in Maine, where he witnesses a random bag-snatching but sees much more than a simple crime--a fact that could prove fatal. "Small Wars" takes readers back to 1989, when Reacher is an MP assigned to solve the brutal murder of a young officer found along an isolated forest road in Georgia--and whose killer...

11) Endless summer: stories

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Hilderbrand, Elin

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, Large Print

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Nine stories set in the universe of the best-selling author's previous romance novels includes a visit with friends of Mallory Blessing three years after her death and Margot Carmichael encouraging her husband to reunite with his ex.

12) A place like home: short stories

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Pilcher, Rosamunde

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Book, eAudiobook

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A collection of Rosamunde Pilcher's most enduring short stories, never before published in book form. The collection contains fifteen stories, which range from The Holiday, in which a wife surprises her husband of twenty-five years with a holiday full of Mediterranean sunshine, red rocks and blue seas in an effort to rekindle the romance they had before children; The Eye of Love which takes the reader to a village by the sea where old flames meet...

13) A house is a body: stories

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Swamy, Shruti

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"In this collection of stories, dreams collide with reality, modernity collides with antiquity, myth with true identity; women grapple with desire, with ego, with motherhood and mortality. The stories travel from India to America and back again to revealthe small moments of beauty, pain, and power that contain the world"--

14) A day in the life of a smiling woman: complete short stories

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Drabble, Margaret

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Margaret Drabble's novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has its own unique brilliance. Her penetrating evocations of character and place, her wide-ranging curiosity, her sense of irony-all are on display here, in stories that explore marriage, female friendships, the English tourist abroad, love affairs with houses, peace demonstrations, gin and tonics, cultural...

15) Beautiful days: stories

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Oates, Joyce Carol

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Book, Audiobook CD

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"A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien." In the diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. "Fleuve Bleu" exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's...

16) Five Tuesdays in winter: stories

Author

King, Lily

Series

Thorndike Press large print core

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway/Launchpad

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"With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country, further cementing her reputation as one of the most "brilliant" (NYTBR), "wildly talented" (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time, King collects ten of her finest short stories-half published in leading literary magazines and half brand new-opening fresh realms of discovery...

17) Death wears a beauty mask and other stories

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Clark, Mary Higgins

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A collection of short stories by the "Queen of Suspense" features her first published short story, "Stowaway."

18) Liberation day: stories

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Saunders, George

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"The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression...

19) The Treasury of American short stories

20) 100 years of the best American short stories