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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (Everyman's Library)
Joan Didion
Everyman's Library, 2006
Divinity between the covers
WARNING! This is an extremely biassed review!
No one writes like Joan Didion. Every story, almost every sentence is a study of someone who obviously loves the language.
Didion hones in on our finest feelings, our fears, our sorrows shot from her literary arrow, with ...
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 4: The Adventure Stories
Louis L'Amour
Bantam, 2006
THE BEST NON WESTERN STORIES HE WROTE
The stories are all page turners. i read the book in one sitting. the stories are .... Death Westbound * Old Doc Yak * It's Your Move * And Proudly Die * Survival * Show Me The Way To Go Home * Thicker Than Blood * The Admiral * Shanghai, Not Without Gestures * The ...
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Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (Library of America #186)
Katherine Anne Porter
Library of America, 2008
A Master of Short Fiction
Katherine Anne Porter's stories, as well as her novel "Ship of Fools," have never gone out of print. They've always been available in some edition or another, albeit mostly in paperback. So it's gratifying to see her stories finally grace the Library of America ...
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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
Richard Yates
Picador, 2002
Excellent
During the time I was reading The Collected Stories Of Richard Yates I happened to come across a review of the book in a book of reviews by Joyce Carol Oates, which proved that she is as clueless about writing as she is about painting. Of course, given the three books ...
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2: The Frontier Stories
Louis L'Amour
Bantam, 2004
Pure L'Amour
Fantastic audio. I have been a devoted Louis L'Amour fan for eons. Another way to enjoy one of my favorite authors. I highly recommend this audio.
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Collected Stories
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Stories by a Master
This collection of twenty six stories by Nobel Laureate Garcia Marquez was first published as a whole in 1984, although the stories were previously published in three separate volumes. As a consequence, two translators are credited here: Gregory Rabassa for the ...
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1: The Frontier Stories
Louis L'Amour
Bantam, 2003
Louis L'Amour at his best
An excellent introduction to one of the greatest American storytellers. A very good gift to anyone who admires American Western courage, independence, and sense of honor.
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Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / ...
Thomas Paine
Library of America, 1995
Excellent - Must Read!
A great read. Especially The Age of Reason. For those of you who have had doubts about the book of fairy tales that the church insists is "the word of god" and a book of facts than this book is for you. Thomas Paine is masterful at using the bible's own ...
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Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Princeton University Press, 1994
The Reviews fail to note....
The most important thing all of the reviews fail to note is that Stuart Atkins was one of the greatest Goethe scholars of the 20th century. I was fortunate enough to take his Faust course almost 40 years ago and it remains one of the high points of my university ...
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Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)
Roald Dahl
Everyman's Library, 2006
The Everyman's Roald Dahl review!!!
Once again! the Everyman's Library has outdone any other publisher's job of creating a thorough and precise piece of book history. This is the third book I have purchased and read through Everyman's Library and I sincerely feel their books are the only ones I will buy ...
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Michael Ondaatje
Vintage, 1996
A Postmodern Western
"The Collected Works of Billy the Kid" creates a beautiful and visceral written collage about the legendary Billy the Kid. Written in a mixture of prose, poetry, clippings and interviews, the reader may not always be sure of whose voice they are hearing and whether ...
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The Collected Stories (FSG Classics)
Grace Paley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
People say short stories are dying...
This collection of short fiction demonstrates just how horrible that would be. Grace Paley's work is amazing in its lyrical sound - at some moments sparse, at others extremely detailed, and always poignant. Stories about single mothers, about women visiting elderly ...
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Wallace Stevens : Collected Poetry and Prose (Library of America)
Wallace Stevens, Frank Kermode
Library of America, 1997
The greatest poet of the 20th Century in a very complete collection
Wallace Stevens is my favorite poet. This Library of America collection is to be preferred as a source of his writing: it includes a number of additional poems relative to his Collected Poems (including the controversial long poem "Owl's Clover"), as well as alternate ...
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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Volume 3 : The Catholic Church; Where All Roads Lead; The Well and ...
G. K. Chesterton
Ignatius Press, 1990
Simply Magnificent
This volume contains essays revolving around GK's conversion to Catholicism. As always, GK is illuminating and entertaining--several parts of these essays had me laughing out loud. GK has a marvelous talent for utterly dismantling an argument, an attitude, or a ...
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The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 1) (Vol 1)
Philip K. Dick
Citadel, 2002
Essential reading for everyone (and everything)
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford collects some of Dick's earliest writing, including much of his output from 1952-1955. Even writers who don't appreciate his prose style would have to admire his fecundity: some of these stories were written within days of each ...
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