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New Stories from the South: The Year's Best (New Stories from the South) by Shannon Ravenel Publisher Comments New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2000 tours the contemporary South better than any freight train, jet plane, or VW Bug. As Ellen Douglas muses in her preface to this year's collection, each story here helps us "feel and understand the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Best American Short Stories of the Century by John Updike Publisher Comments 'Since the series\' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate Publisher Comments The first anthology devoted to the literary form known as the personal essay. A compilation of more than 60 selections by such masters as Plutarch, Montaigne, Orwell, Baldwin, Tanizaki, and Woolf, as well as contemporary personal essayists from... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers (Blackwell Anthologies) by Karen L Kilcup Publisher Comments "Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology" is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth century American women's expression.... (read more) List Price $49.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant Publisher Comments A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade. Michael... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets by David Biespiel Powells.com Staff Pick "Biespiel argues in the book's introduction that this is no run of the mill anthology of the poetry of place. Rather, it displays the very different voices that are writing out of our region. Some of the poets and their work do indeed reflect an... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (Paperback)) by Bill Henderson Publisher Comments "The Pushcart Prize series is the best of its kind."—Kirkus Reviews The Pushcart Prize XXXII continues as a testament to the flourishing of American literature in our small presses. Edited with the assistance of more than two hundred distinguished... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sudden Fiction -American Short-Short Stories by Robert Shapard Publisher Comments 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 In, 280 Pp, Appendix Here Are 70 of The Very Best Short-Short Stories of Recent Years Including Contributions From Such Contemporary Writers As Raymond Carver, Leonard Michaels and John Updike; A Few Modern Masters As Hemingway and Cheever;... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker by David Remnick Publisher Comments One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker magazine has met this challenge more often and more successfully--and more originally and more surprisingly--than any other modern American journal. Starting with its... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness by Carolyn Forche Publisher Comments This landmark anthology takes its impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecht: "In the dark times, will there be singing? /Yes, there will be singing./About the dark times". Bearing witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile, or repression--this... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Anthologies on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace by Maxine Hon Kingston Publisher Comments This poignant collection, compiled from Kingston's healing workshops, contains the distilled wisdom of survivors of five wars, including combatants, war widows, spouses, children, conscientious objectors, and veterans of domestic abuse. "Vetrans of War... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Basque Literature Series #1: An Anthology of Basque Short Stories by Mari Jose Olaziregi Publisher Comments This compilation of short stories from fourteen contemporary Basque writers provides an excellent introduction to modern Basque literature. Includes stories by Bernardo Atxaga. Lourdes Onederra, and Iban Zaldua, among others.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker by David Remnick Powells.com Staff Pick This makes the perfect gift for those who love a literary hit with their humor. A wonderful wide-ranging selection to read aloud with others or simply snicker at in the privacy of one's own personal reading space. Mark, Powells... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters Publisher Comments Through poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoir this authoritative single-volume collection of Beat literature captures the triumphant energy of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and many others.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature by Amit Chaudhuri Publisher Comments In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Christmas Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Everymans Library Publisher Comments Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherished carols around the punch bowl. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the ones... (read more) List Price $12.50 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan by Ann C Carver Publisher Comments This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of 14 writers, major figures in the literary movements of three generations, who represent a range of class, ethnic, age, and political perspectives. It is filled with "unexpected gems", writes... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology by Patrick Crotty Publisher Comments A major collection of 20th century Irish poetry. Forty-seven poets are represented with over 250 poems to present readers with the very best of Irish poetry since Yeats. Crotty begins in the '30s with the poetry of Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True-Life Tales of Friendships That Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away by Jenny Offill Publisher Comments Bringing together the voices of Francine Prose, Katie Roiphe, Dorothy Allison, Elizabeth Strout, and others, this title casts new light on the meaning and nature of women's friendships while illuminating the emotions evoked by the loss of a friend.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modern British Short Stories, the Penguin Book of by Malcom Bradbury Synopsis Gathers stories by Lowry, Beckett, Bowen, Pritchett, Rhys, Golding, Amis, Lessing, Spark, Fowles, Ballard, and Weldon.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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