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Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore

ISBN 0312241224 (0-312-24122-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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- Birds of America : Stories: ISBN 0679445978 (0-679-44597-8)
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Brothers Grimm
by Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm

ISBN 1853268984 (1-85326-898-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of 'Rapunzel', 'The Goose Girl', Sleeping Beauty', 'Hansel and Gretel' and 'Snow White', there are the darker tales such as 'Death's Messengers' which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good story-telling. [via]
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Burning Chrome
by William Gibson

ISBN 0060539828 (0-06-053982-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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When "Burning Chrome," the title story in William Gibson's first short story collection, appeared, it grabbed readers by the collar and shook them up a bit. Science fiction in the late '70s had grown a little bit stale and, worse, safe. "Burning Chrome" offered a fresh look at a future that was gritty, real, and more than a little dangerous. These stories brought high tech out of antiseptic university laboratories and corporate boardrooms and put it in the streets and alleyways where people found their own uses for it. Sometimes those uses were even legal.
The philosophy of cyberpunk, the movement that Gibson's early books kicked off, is most explicitly stated in "The Gernsbach Continuum," with its rejection of the '30s ideal of a future of flying cars and shining cities. But the real meat of this collection is found in those stories where Gibson involves us with the people who inhabit his world. The technical boy of "Johnny Mnemonic" and the thief-turned-game-player of "Dogfight" (cowritten with Michael Swanwick) would be right at home on the same streets. Most intense and more enigmatic is the recording engineer of "The Winter Market," who is overwhelmingly attracted to and repulsed by the greatest artist he ever worked with. Still, "Burning Chrome," with its tale of vengeance and high-stakes theft, remains the centerpiece of this collection. Read it and you will know why William Gibson became and remains one of the top writers in science fiction. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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Complete Poems
by Dorothy Parker

ISBN 0141180226 (0-14-118022-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Lily Owens

ISBN 0517336316 (0-517-33631-6)
Hardcover, Avenel Books

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All 215 of the stories published by the Grimms, including "Cinderella," "Rapunzel," and "Sleeping Beauty," as well as the less familiar "Wilful Child," "Idle Spinner," and "Lucky Hans." [via]
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- The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales: ISBN 0517453746 (0-517-45374-6)
  Hardcover, Catham River Press
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Jack David Zipes, John B. Gruelle

ISBN 0553382160 (0-553-38216-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by Jack D. Zipes, Johnny Gruelle, Jacob W. Grimm

ISBN 0553212389 (0-553-21238-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of Once Upon A Time, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Bothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. Volume II contains 142 unabridged tales, including such bedtime favorites as "Snow White and Rose Red" and "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes," as well as 32 little-known tales that the Brothers Grimm omitted during the course of their many revisions. These wonderful tales of life, passion, and make-believe appeal not only to children--who unabashedly love them--but to readers of any age. [via]
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- The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: ISBN 0553212516 (0-553-21251-6)
  Softcover, Bantam Books
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by Jacob Grimm, John B. Gruelle, Jack David Zipes

ISBN 0833515055 (0-8335-1505-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by John B. Gruelle, Jack Zipes

ISBN 0553371010 (0-553-37101-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of once upon a time, the fairly tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. [via]
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm

ISBN 0613718933 (0-613-71893-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A definitive compilation of more than 200 traditional fairy tales, compiled by the Brothers Grimm, is accompanied by explanatory and historical material, as well as commentary by Joseph Campbell. [via]
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, James Stern, Josef Scharl

ISBN 0710082053 (0-7100-8205-3)
Hardcover, Routledge and Kegan Paul

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Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 1417660511 (1-4176-6051-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury. [via]
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- Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: ISBN 0684843323 (0-684-84332-3)
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway : The Finca Vigia Edition
by Ernest Hemingway, John Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway, Gregory H. Hemingway, Scribner, Charles, III

ISBN 0020332009 (0-02-033200-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway will stand as the definitive collection by the man whose craft and vision remains an enduring influence on generations of readers and writers. [via]
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- The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway/the Finca Vigia Edition: ISBN 0684186683 (0-684-18668-3)
  Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
- The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway : The Finca Vigia Edition: ISBN 0020332009 (0-02-033200-9)
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Death in Venice and Other Stories
by Thomas Mann

ISBN 0099428652 (0-09-942865-2)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd

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Thomas mann is widely acknowledged as the greatest german novelist of this century. His 1912 novella death in venice is the most frequently read example of mann's early work.clayton koelb's masterful translation improves upon its predecessors in two ways: it renders mann into american (not british) english, and it remains true to mann's original text without sacrificing fluency. For american readers, this is the translation of choice. "backgrounds and contexts" includes mann's working notes, which allow students to observe the author's creative process. The notes are available here for the first time in english. Illuminating selections from mann's essays and letters are also reprinted, as are period maps of munich, venice, and the lido. "criticism" includes six essays-by andre von gronicka, manfred dierks, t. J. Reed, dorrit cohn, david luke, and robert tobin-sure to stimulate classroom discussion. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included [via]
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
by Thomas Mann, Joachim Neugroschel

ISBN 0141181737 (0-14-118173-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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"Death In Venice" tells the tragic story of a man who falls into foolish, forbidden love, only to reap his own ruin. While on holiday in Venice, a dignified older gentleman notices a teenage boy playing on the shore. The boy soon comes to represent the sleek perfection of youth, and the older man finds himself overwhelmed and obsessed with this ideal. Rich in imagery, and exploring the themes of beauty and decay, this book is a disturbing yet memorable work. Also included are seven of Mann's short stories, including "Tristan", "The Child Prodigy", and "Man and Dog". [via]
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- Death in Venice and Other Tales: ISBN 0451526090 (0-451-52609-0)
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
by Joachim Neugroschel, Thomas Mann

ISBN 0670874248 (0-670-87424-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Death in Venice : And Seven Other Stories
by Thomas Mann, H.T. Lowe-Porter

ISBN 0679722068 (0-679-72206-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella. [via]
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- Death in Venice : And Seven Other Stories: ISBN 067960040X (0-679-60040-X)
  Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
- Death in Venice, and Seven Other Stories: ISBN 0679722068 (0-679-72206-8)
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Different Seasons
by Stephen King

ISBN 0670272663 (0-670-27266-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy's corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity.
These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont's 1994 The Shawshank Redemption (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer's 1998 film Apt Pupil (also released in 1998 on audiocassette), and "The Body" into Rob Reiner's Stand by Me (1986).
The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances. It's the tightest, most polished tale in the collection. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Dorothy Parker
by Dorothy R. Parker, Brendan Gill

ISBN 0140150749 (0-14-015074-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Before there was Fran Leibowitz, there was Dorothy Parker. Before there was practically anyone, there was Dorothy Parker. When it comes to expressing the pleasure and pain of being just a touch too smart to be happy, she's winner and still champion after all these years. Along with Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table, she dominated American pop lit in the '20s and '30s; like Ginger Rogers, she did it all backwards. Parker's held up well--maybe the best of all of them.
This book is essential for any Parker fan, and an excellent way for new readers to make her acquaintance. It reprints her finest short stories and poems, some later articles, and all of her excellent "Constant Reader" book reviews from the Depression-era glory days of the New Yorker. The poetry, always light, has become brittle, sorry to say. But you've only to pick any story to be reminded that no middle-distance writer was better than Parker at her best. [via]
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Fairy Tales
by Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Arthur Rackham

ISBN 0679417966 (0-679-41796-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Thirty-seven selected stories from the Brothers Grimm, taken from the first English translation of 1823, are newly illustrated in black and white, with eight full-color plates by the artist from Stormy Weather. [via]
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Fairy Tales
by Berlie Doherty, Jane Ray

ISBN 0763609978 (0-7636-0997-8)
Hardcover, Candlewick Press

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Berlie Doherty, author of many books for young people, including Carnegie Medal-winner Dear Nobody, says fairy tales "are enchanted dreams. We remember them as if they had been sung to us while we were under the spell of a long deep sleep." And according to acclaimed picture-book illustrator Jane Ray, "fairy tales are the earth beneath our feet, giving us roots and helping us find our place in the world, but they also offer a glimpse of the magical and the enchanted." With two such eloquently mystical creators at the helm, any collection of fairy tales is bound to be magical. Sure enough, this team's magnificent Fairy Tales glimmers and shines, giving new life to traditional favorites such as "Beauty and the Beast," "Cinderella," "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp," and "Hansel and Gretel." Doherty's retellings are respectful of the originals, while incorporating her own strong, vibrant voice. Ray's watercolor, ink, and collage illustrations, surrounding the gold-framed text, are truly stunning, in exotic colors and exquisite tapestry-style patterns. Characters seem to come from all parts of the world--appropriately enough, since the stories have "echoes in many different cultures." The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Perrault would be proud. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Fairy Tales
by Publications International Ltd, Brian Conway

ISBN 0785348689 (0-7853-4868-9)
Hardcover, Publications International

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padded vinyl cover with square hole through which shows a cat reading a book; 4 classic tales including rumplestiltskin; cinderella; hansel and gretel and jack and the beanstock; beautiful, colorful illustrations; [via]
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Fairy Tales
by Sulamith Wulfing

ISBN 1885394403 (1-885394-40-3)
Hardcover, Amber Lotus

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This beautiful book includes a series of illustrations by Sulamith Wulfing which accompany stories about fairies and other related poems. [via]
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Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Kay Rasmus Nielsen

ISBN 0670305650 (0-670-30565-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Grimm's Fairy Tales

ISBN 1404305378 (1-4043-0537-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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Grimm's Fairy Tales, by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

With the words Once upon a time, the Brothers Grimm transport readers to a timeless realm where witches, giants, princesses, kings, fairies, goblins, and wizards fall in love, try to get rich, quarrel with their neighbors, and have magical adventures of all kindsand in the process reveal essential truths about human nature.

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm set out to collect stories in the early 1800s, their goal was not to entertain children but to preserve Germanic folkloreand the hard life of European peasants was reflected in the tales they discovered. However, once the brothers saw how the stories entranced young readers, they began softening some of the harsher aspects to make them more suitable for children.

A cornerstone of Western culture since the early 1800s, Grimms Fairy Tales is now beloved the world over. This collection of more than 120 of the Grimms best tales includes such classics as Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel and Grethel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Frog Prince, as well as others that are no less delightful.

Elizabeth Dalton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Barnard College. She has published fiction and criticism in The New Yorker, Partisan Review, Commentary, and The New York Times Book Review.
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm

ISBN 1406821411 (1-4068-2141-1)
Softcover, Echo Library

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A collection of fairy tales collected in Germany by two brothers. [via]
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm K. Grimm

ISBN 1853261017 (1-85326-101-7)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited

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The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane's charming line drawings. [via]
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Museum Quilts Publications Staff, Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm K. Grimm

ISBN 1897954956 (1-897954-95-6)
Hardcover, M Q Publications

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A collection of fairy tales collected in Germany by two brothers. [via]
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Grimm's Grimmest
by Maria Tatar

ISBN 0811850463 (0-8118-5046-3)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc

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A scholar of fairy tales, Maria Tatar, provides a fascinating introduction about the history and meaning of the stories assembled by the Brothers Grimm. She writes, for example, "We now know that the stories collected in the nineteenth-century folktale anthologies ...had their origins in an irreverent peasant culture that arose in conscious opposition to the feudal state's ruling class. By overdoing it in the realm of storytelling, these narrators were able to alleviate--if only temporarily--some of the tedium that marked the daily life of their audience ... [These tales] can be seen as the ancestors of our urban legends about vanishing hitchhikers and cats accidentally caught in the dryer or as the preliterate equivalents of tabloid tales describing headless bodies found in topless bars. But in many ways, it is the horror film to which the matter and manner of these folktales has most conspicuously migrated. Like horror films, folktales trade in the sensational--breaking taboos and enacting the forbidden with uninhibited energy."
The text of the 19 tales in this collection is based on the 1822 edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Nursery and Household Tales) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm--before the tales were expurgated and rewritten to make them more "suitable" for children. It's bound in a handsome faux-antique format, and lavishly illustrated by Tracy Arah Dockray (15 full-page color paintings, and a black-and-white drawing on nearly every page). Most of the tales will be unfamiliar to American and English readers, who may be surprised by the graphic descriptions of incest, murder, mutilation, and cannibalism. Chronicle Books has done us a service in helping restore to our adult culture these vivid, evocative folktales. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Grimm's Household Stories
by Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Lucy Crane, Walter Crane

ISBN 0831745827 (0-8317-4582-7)
Hardcover, Wh Smith Pub

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Includes such well-known titles as "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "Sleeping Beauty" as well as lesser known tales such as "The Little Farmer," and "The Golden Bird." Illustrations are by Walter Crane. [via]
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories
by Wilhelm Grimm, Ralph Manheim, Jacob Grimm

ISBN 0575025077 (0-575-02507-7)
Hardcover, Gollancz

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The Grimms' German Folk Tales
by Wilhelm Grimm, Francis P. Magoun, Grimm Brothers, Alexander Haggerty Krappe

ISBN 0809303566 (0-8093-0356-6)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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How We Are Hungry
by Dave Eggers

ISBN 1400095565 (1-4000-9556-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical, and always intensely soulful group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship ("Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"), the stories share a haunting and haunted sense of mortality. Though full of bursts of levity and humor, the book is deeply informed by the troubled times in which it was written. How We Are Hungry includes many never-before-published stories, along with a number of pieces that first appeared in magazines, both well known (Zoetrope, The New Yorker) and small and independent (h2s04, Ninth Letter). All previously published stories have been significantly revised. The urgency and experimentalism of Eggers's earlier work are still present, but are brought to a new level of precision and craft, injecting fresh life into traditional forms. Narratives are often linear, told by distinct and varied voices, and settings stretch from Egypt to Interstate 5.
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie

ISBN 0802141676 (0-8021-4167-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads "From the Death Bed of Jimmy Many Horses III," even though he actually writes then on his kitchen table. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and mostly poetically between modern Indians and the traditions of the past. [via]
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The Portable Dorothy Parker
by Dorothy Parker, Marion Meade

ISBN 0143039539 (0-14-303953-9)
Softcover, Penguin Classics

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Private Parts
by Howard Stern

ISBN 0671009443 (0-671-00944-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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The #1 bestseller and fastest selling autobiography of all time, "Private Parts, " will be released on March 14 as a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures and Rysher Entertainment. This is the event Stern's millions of fans have been waiting for. Yes, The King of All Media is back, letting it all hang out in his outrageous new movie. And here is the book that tracks the odyssey. In "Private Parts" Stern spills his life story, from his dysfunctional beginnings to his unlikely, turbulent rise to super stardom. In the process, he shares his views on everything from foreign policy to fatherhood and Madonna to masturbation, with lots of lesbians in between. No matter whose side you're on -- Cher's "I hate him. He's just a creep, " or Stallone's "I love him. I really love him" -- Stern's brutally frank "Don't ask, I'll tell" tome spares no group or institution.
Studded throughout with Howard's favorite photos, pickings from the Hate-Mailbag and illustrations, this is the original, in-your-face manifesto complete with movie art that will once again have fans storming the bookstores...and everyone else running for cover. [via]
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Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson, Ray Lewis White

ISBN 0821411802 (0-8214-1180-2)
Hardcover, Ohio Univ Pr

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Library Journal praised this edition of Sherwood Anderson's famed short stories as "the finest edition of this seminal work available." Reconstructed to be as close to the original text as possible, Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In "Hands," Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In "Adventure," lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people. [via]
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The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever

ISBN 0375724427 (0-375-72442-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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"These stories," writes Cheever in the preface to this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of stories, "seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationary store, and when almost everybody wore a hat. Here is the last of that generation of chain smokers who woke the world in the morning with their coughing, who used to get stoned at cocktail parties and perform obsolete dance steps like 'the Cleveland Chicken,' set sail for Europe on ships, who were truly nostalgic for love and happiness, and whose gods were as ancient as yours and mine, whoever you are." [via]
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
by Raymond Carver

ISBN 1860465013 (1-86046-501-3)
Softcover, Harvill Pr

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"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is not only the most well-known short story title of the latter part of the 20th century; it has come to stand for an entire aesthetic, the bare-bones prose style for which Raymond Carver became famous. Perhaps, it could be argued, too famous, at least for his fiction's own good. Like those of Hemingway or any other writer similarly loved, imitated, parodied, and reviled, these stories can sometimes produce the sense of reading pastiche. "A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house." "That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window." "My friend Mel McGinnis was talking. Mel is a cardiologist, and sometimes that gives him the right." What other writer ever produced first sentences like these? They are like doors into Carverworld, where everyone speaks in simple declarative phrases, no one ever stops at one beer, and failure or violence are the true outcomes of the American dream.
Yet these stories bear careful re-reading, like any truly important and enduring work. For one thing, Carver is one of the few writers who can make desperation--cutting your ex-wife's telephone cord in the middle of a conversation, standing on your own roof chunking rocks while a man with no hands takes your picture--deeply funny. Then there is the sheer craft that went into their creation. Despite their seeming simplicity, his tales are as artfully constructed as poems--and like poems, the best of them can make your breath catch in your throat. In the title piece, for instance, after the gin has been drunk, after the stories have been told, after the tensions in the room have come to the surface and subsided again, there comes a moment of strange lightness and peace: "I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark."
Much of what happens in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981) happens offstage, and we're left with tragedy's props: booze, instant coffee, furniture from a failed marriage, cigarettes smoked in the middle of the night. This is not merely a matter of technique. Carver leaves out a great deal, but that's only a measure of his characters' vulnerability, the nerve endings his stories lay bare. To say anything more, one feels, would simply hurt too much. --Mary Park [via]
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Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson

ISBN 1404339574 (1-4043-3957-4)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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Considered to be one of Sherwood Anderson's greatest works, "Winesburg, Ohio" is the portrayal of a fictitious American town and its inhabitants. "Winesburg, Ohio" is a collection of connected short stories depicting a variety of themes of rural American life. Heralded for its beautiful realism, "Winesburg, Ohio", is a classic collection of American stories whose influence upon American literature is considered to be nothing short of profound. [via]
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Winesburg, Ohio
by Irving Howe, Sherwood Anderson

ISBN 1598186809 (1-59818-680-9)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books

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No sooner did Winesburg, Ohio make its appearance than a number of critical labels were fixed on it: the revolt against the village, the espousal of sexual freedom, the deepening of American realism. Such tags may once have had their point, but by now they seem dated and stale. The revolt against the village (about which Anderson was always ambivalent) has faded into history. The espousal of sexual freedom would soon be exceeded in boldness by other writers. And as for the effort to place Winesburg, Ohio in a tradition of American realism, that now seems dubious. Only rarely is the object of Anderson's stories social verisimilitude, or the "photographing" of familiar appearances, in the sense, say, that one might use to describe a novel by Theodore Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis. Only occasionally, and then with a very light touch, does Anderson try to fill out the social arrangements of his imaginary town -- although the fact that his stories are set in a mid-American place like Winesburg does constitute an important formative condition. [via]
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