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Beginners is the title given to the manuscript version of Raymond Carver's 1981 short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, published with the permission of Carver's widow Tess Gallagher in 2009.
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856.
Drown is the semi-autobiographical, debut short story collection from Dominican-American author Junot Díaz that address the trials of Dominican immigrants as they attempt to find some semblance of the American Dream after immigrating to America. The stories are set in the context of 1980s America, and are narrated by an adult who is looking ...
In 1884, Brander Matthews, the first American professor of dramatic literature, published The Philosophy of the Short-Story. During that same year, Matthews was the first one to name the emerging genre "short story". [22] Another theorist of narrative fiction was Henry James, who produced some of the most influential short narratives of the time.
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William Sydney Porter, pen name O. Henry (1862–1910) Erin Pringle (born 1981) Annie Proulx (born 1935) Bolesław Prus (1847–1912) Indra Bahadur Rai (1927–2018) James Robison (born 1946) José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 1971) Emma May Alexander Reinertsen (1853–1920) Susanne Ringell (born 1955) Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980) Philip ...
20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction; Best-selling books; Big Read; Bokklubben World Library; Children's classic books
The list was first published in a journal article in 1936 [1] and then published in his book Problems in Reading in 1948. [2] Dolch compiled the list based on children's books of his era, which is why nouns such as "kitty" and "Santa Claus" appear on the list instead of more current high-frequency words.