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0-7181-3545-8. The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl is a 1991 short story collection for adults by Roald Dahl. [1] The collection containing tales of macabre malevolence comprises many of Dahl's stories seen in the television series Tales of the Unexpected and previously collected in Someone Like You (1953), Kiss, Kiss (1960), Twenty-Nine ...
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a compilation of 43 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1989. It begins with a foreword by Charles Scribner II and a preface written by Bruccoli, after which the stories follow ...
Short story collection by Maugham, screen adaptation by Maugham, R.C. Sherriff and Noel Langley. [44] Encore. 1951. Heinemann. Short story collection by Maugham, screen adaptation by Maugham, T.E.B Clarke, Arthur Macrae and Eric Ambler.
First edition. Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1946 by Reynal & Hitchcock. [1] This early collection is a stylistic departure from Dahl's better known stories. For the most part they do not use suspense or twist endings and are instead more slow-paced and reflective.
305 pp. ISBN. 0-394-42985-0 (reprint) OCLC. 20058318. I Sing the Body Electric! is a 1969 collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. The book takes its name from an included short story of the same title, which in turn took the title from a poem by Walt Whitman published in his collection Leaves of Grass.
Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit".
In 1974, a pirated collection of 22 works of short fiction—gleaned mostly from these early sources—entitled The Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J. D. Salinger, Volumes 1 and 2, began appearing in bookstores. Though unauthorized by Salinger, an estimated 25,000 copies were printed. Published by "John Greenberg" - a pseudonym used by a ...
The story is set in a small Western Australian town and is about all different kinds of "turnings", be they in people, situations, surprises, accidents, relationships, and even the turning of time. [ 1] These turnings come at crucial times in the characters' lives. They are doomed and unhappy people, and though the turning may not change their ...