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A collection of North American literature, featuring fifty short stories written by a variety of authors since 1970.

Presents an anthology of forty-nine short fiction stories, featuring selections from Saul Bellow, Anton Chekhov, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Twain, and many others.

Collection of classic and recent Latino writing in English.

A collection of short stories and poems including the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to care for his distant, American Indian father who is slowly dying.

A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana.

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction.

Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

Provides introductory overviews of some of the world's best-known works of literature, including novels, short stories, novellas, and poems, placing them in historical, societal, scientific and religious context of their time to deepen understanding and encourage discussion.

A collection of short stories that are ideal for telling around a campfire, divided into categories as "funny" and "serious".

An anthology of original horror/suspense stories, featuring contributions by twenty-nine authors including William Peter Blatty, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Contains twenty-one short stories published between 1993 and 1998 in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Presents selected works of fiction by African-American women.

Collection of thirty-three tales that illustrate the evolution of the American detective short story, presenting examples of different sleuth types, demonstrating the use of regionalism, and encompassing the move into the use of ethnic detectives.