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“A good short story is like a good conversation.” - Frank Moorhouse | |||
Our Short Story Display Includes Works by
Sholem Aleichem
James Baldwin
Donald Barthelme
Jorge Luis Borges
Elizabeth Bowen
Paul Bowles
Angela Carter
Raymond Chandler
Anton Chekov
C.J. Cherryh
Arthur C. Clarke
Charles Dickens
Isak Dineson
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Andre Dubus
Philip Jose Farmer
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Carlos Fuentes
Nadine Gordimer
Graham Greene
Ron Hansen
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Patricia Highsmith
Aldous Huxley
Washington Irving
Henry James
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
James Joyce
Stephen King
D.H. Lawrence
Jack London
Alison Lurie
Bernard Malamud
Katherine Mansfield
Gabriel García Márquez
Susan Mates
Guy de Maupassant
Herman Melville
Susan Minot
Rohinton Mistry
Alice Munro
Vladimir Nabokov
Gloria Naylor
R.K. Narayan
Joyce Carol Oates
Flannery O’Connor
Frank O’Connor
Grace Paley
Dorothy Parker
Reynolds Price
V.S. Pritchett
Katherine Anne Porter
Annie Proulx
Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Philip Roth
Norman Rush
Saki (H.H. Munro)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Josef Škvorecký
Muriel Spark
John Steinbeck
Robert Louis Stevenson
Paul Theroux
Flora Thompson
Tatyana Tolstaya
Leo Tolstoy
William Trevor
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
John Updike
Jules Verne
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)
Elizabeth Von Arnim
H.G. Wells
Eudora Welty
Jessamyn West
Edith Wharton
Elie Wiesel
Tobias Wolff
Virginia Woolf
and others…
Collections Such As:
The American Short Story
Art of the Story
Art of the Tale
Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
Best European Fiction 2010
Best New American Voices
Best Short Stories of the Century
Centaurus: Best of Australian Science Fiction
Chicago Blues
Crème De La Crime
The Deadly Bride
Deadly Housewives
Fifty Great American Short Stories
The Fireside Book of Christmas Stories
A Hammock beneath the Mangos
Hard-Boiled
Measure of Poison
Murder and Other Acts of Literature
The Norton Book of Science Fiction
Points of View
Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories
The Mammoth Book of Vintage Whodunnits
The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories
and others…
And Series Such As:
Nebula Awards
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror
The Year’s Best Science Fiction
Noir Series:
Baltimore Noir
Bronx Noir
Brooklyn Noir
D.C. Noir
Delhi Noir
Detroit Noir
Las Vegas Noir
Moscow Noir
Paris Noir
Phoenix Noir
Portland Noir
San Francisco Noir
Queens Noir
San Francisco Noir
Toronto Noir
Twin Cities Noir
Wall Street Noir
The Oxford Book of:
Children’s Stories
Fantasy Stories
Irish Short Stories
Jewish Stories
Modern Fairytales
Short Stories
Stories by Canadian Women
Travel Tales
Penguin Book of:
Best Australian Short Stories
British Comic Stories
Irish Fiction
The O. Henry Prize Stories
The Vintage Book of:
Contemporary Chinese Fiction
Contemporary Scottish Fiction
Latin American Stories
Modern Indian Literature
War Fiction
Contemporary Irish Fiction
Contemporary American Short Stories
and others…
All titles on this list owned by the Barrington Public Library.