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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... "Men Without Bones" Short story by Gerald Kersh: Language: English ... "Men Without Bones" is a 1954 horror short story by ...
The collection was first published in 1955. The subjects of the short stories range from baptism ("The River") to serial killers ("A Good Man Is Hard to Find") to human greed and exploitation ("The Life You Save May Be Your Own"). The majority of the stories include jarring violent scenes that make the characters undergo a spiritual change.
A Barthelme collection like 'Sixty Stories' is a Whole Earth Catalogue of life in our time." [ 1 ] In The New York Times Book Review , critic John Romano called Barthelme a "comic genius," adding, "The will to please us, to make us sit up and laugh with surprise, is greater than the will to disconcert.
The story is set during the last years of the Great Depression, as the country readies itself for possible entry into World War II. It begins with two men visiting a house in Jefferson to serve a warrant for the two McCallum brothers, who have not registered for selective service (draft evasion.)
"Free Men" (1966) is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was his only short story known to have been published after " All You Zombies ". [ 1 ] It originally appeared in his collection The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966) and was later collected in Expanded Universe .
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables at Wikisource The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables is an 1887 collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson . The title derives from the local name given to a group of waves in the title short story, not from the Merry Men of Robin Hood tales.
They are the tiny experimental prose volume, in our time (1924), the much expanded In Our Time (1925, with an extra story added in 1930), Men Without Women (1927) and Winner Take Nothing (1933). In addition, four further stories were first published in Hemingway's first omnibus, The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938).
All the Sad Young Men is a collection of short fiction by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The stories originally appeared independently in popular literary journals and were first collected in February 1926 by Charles Scribner's Sons .