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  Some Faces in the Crowd - Short...

  Budd Schulberg

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  Twenty gritty stories by the Academy Award–winning writer of On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd. Despite growing up among Hollywood’s most powerful producers and movie stars in the 1920s and ’30s, Budd Schulberg was always a populist at heart. In this collection of his best short fiction, Schulberg takes readers from the halls of privilege in Los Angeles to smoky dives and dockyard slums in New York. His eye for detail and nose for trouble render characters as vividly as a Weegee photograph. These stories also represent the great clash of people and ideas in mid-century America. The collection includes “The Arkansas Traveler,” the story Schulberg adapted into the influential, prescient film A Face in the Crowd starring Andy Griffith. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

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  Disasters in the First World -...

  Olivia Clare

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  “Olivia Clare is pure literary dynamite . . . [She] writes with Carveresque clarity and bite and an elegance all her own. A bravura debut.” —Janet Fitch, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of White Oleander   Olivia Clare’s delightfully strange and tender debut collection traces the impact of larger-than-life forces on everyday people. From siblings whose relationship is as fragile as glass, to a woman grappling with both an emotional and physical drought, to a superstitious spouse fearful of misfortune, Disasters in the First World explores the real and the imagined, environmental and man-made calamities, and the human need to comprehend the unknown.   “These insightful stories . . . flout convention and work in mysterious ways. Two in particular—‘Pétur’ and ‘The Visigoths’—will probably be anthologized and taught and cherished for years to come. They’re so well crafted . . . [they] flicker with moments of rare insight and nuance . . . makes me want to pick up whatever Clare publishes next.” —Andrew Ervin, The New York Times Book Review   “Lyrical and elegiac . . . Clare’s writing sparkles with unexpected word choice . . . Her stories unfold in wonderfully astonishing turns . . . Tender yet occasionally biting, Disasters in the First World ekes narrative poetry out of tragedy . . . Clare writes compassionately and unflinchingly about mental suffering.” —Shelf Awareness   “Olivia Clare’s debut collection will surprise you with its poetic weirdness, its dark confidence. The ‘disasters’ in these stories are tragically indefinite, fissures in the lives of the characters, whom Clare brings to life with humor, wisdom, and brutal honesty.” —Vu Tran, author of Dragonfish

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Victor Hugo, Robert Louis...

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  The Top 10 – The European 19th Century – an Introduction 
   
  A century of change.  Some catastrophic, some fantastical.  Europe reaches out its national tentacles in a global grab for Empire.  At home, revolutions erupt and decay.  Literature gains a widespread audience through advancing technology.  Here, in this volume, authors absorb and then reveal their wondrous stories. 
   
  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  1 - Top 10 - The European 19th Century 
  2 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  3 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 
  4 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Overcoat' 
  5 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 
  6 - The Story of B24 by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  7 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev 
  8 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo 
  9 - A Legend of Old Egypt by Boleslaw Prus 
  10 - A Passion in the Desert by Honoré de Balzac 
  11 - The Bundle of Letters by Moritz Jokai 
   
  1 - Top 10 - The European 19th Century 
  2 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  3 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 
  4 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Overcoat' 
  5 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 
  6 - The Story of B24 by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  7 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev 
  8 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo 
  9 - A Legend of Old Egypt by Boleslaw Prus 
  10 - A Passion in the Desert by Honoré de Balzac 
  11 - The Bundle of Letters by Moritz Jokai

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  Bartleby the Scrivener

  Herman Melville

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  One of Melville's most well known novellas set in Wall Street with a character that "would prefer not too".

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  The Day Time Stopped Moving

  Bradner Buckner

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  All Dave Miller wanted to do was commit suicide in peace. He tried, but the things that happened after he'd pulled the trigger were all wrong. Like everyone standing around like statues. No St. Peter, no pearly gate, no pitchforks or halos. He might just as well have saved the bullet... Classic fiction from Bradnor Buckner, pen name for Ed Earl Repp, American writer, screenwriter and novelist.

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  The Very Best Vampire Short...

  Jan Neruda, Eugene Field, George...

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  A collection of classic vampire tales to entertain.

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