Category: Short Stories Anthologies

By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lisa Vargo

ISBN-10: 1551110776

ISBN-13: 9781551110776

Beset via jealousy over an admirer of his wife's, Lord Lodore has include his daughter Ethel to the yank wasteland; his spouse Cornelia, in the meantime, has remained together with her controlling mom in England. while he ultimately brings himself to aim a go back, Lodore is killed en direction in a duel. Ethel does go back to England, and the remainder of the ebook tells the tale of her marriage to the stricken and impoverished Villiers (whom she stands by way of via a number of tribulations) and her lengthy trip to a reconciliation together with her mom. Lodore's scope of personality and of suggestion is matched by means of its narrative diversity and diversity of atmosphere; the novel's hugely dramatic story-line strikes at diversified issues to Italy, to Illinois, and to Niagara Falls. And during this version, which incorporates a wealth of files from the interval, the reader is supplied with a feeling of the complete context out of which Shelley's success emerged.

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ISBN-10: 1933354984

ISBN-13: 9781933354989

The River urban emerges as a sizzling spot for unseemly noir.Brand-new tales through: Dean King, Laura Browder, Howard Owen, Yazmina Beverly, Tom De Haven, X.C. Atkins, Meagan J. Saunders, Anne Thomas Soffee, Clint McCown, Conrad Ashley individuals, Clay McLeod Chapman, Pir Rothenberg, David L. Robbins, Hermine Pinson, and Dennis Danvers.FROM THE creation TO RICHMOND NOIR:"In The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Henry Miller tosses off a hard-bitten overview of the town at the James: 'I could really die in Richmond somehow,' he writes, 'though God is familiar with Richmond has little adequate to offer.' As editors, we adore the demise half, and may indicate that during its lengthy historical past, Richmond, Virginia has provided up some of the disparate parts an important to meaty noir. town used to be born amid deception, conspiracy, and violence . . ."These days, Richmond is a urban of iciness balls and backyard events on smooth summer time evenings, a urban of personal golf equipment the place white-haired outdated gents, with their martinis or mint juleps in hand, nonetheless genuflect in entrance of pix of Robert E. Lee. it is also a urban of brutal crime scenes and drug corners and okay-everybody-go-on-home-there's-nothing-more-to-see. it is a urban of world-class advert organisations and legislation corporations, a urban of the FFV (First households of Virginia) and a urban of immigrants--from India, Vietnam, and Africa to Massachusetts, manhattan, and New Jersey. it is a urban of finicky manners (you must never sneeze publicly in Richmond) and old-time neighborliness, and it is a urban the place you think that two times approximately giving an individual the finger in the event that they minimize you off at the Powhite throughway (that's mentioned Pow-hite, now not Po-white, thanks greatly) since you could get your head blown off by means of the shotgun at the rack . . ."

By Nell Freudenberger

ISBN-10: 0061461784

ISBN-13: 9780061461781

These 5 tales keep on with younger ladies residing faraway from domestic, dealing with new and sometimes unexpected ideas, as they confront the compelling conditions of grownup love. the wealthy, unforgettable stories during this assortment, set in Southeast Asia and at the Indian subcontinent, exhibit a author of outstanding expertise, one in all ultra-modern such a lot talented and fascinating younger voices.

By Ron Goulart

ISBN-10: 0879970375

ISBN-13: 9780879970376

By Paul Haupt

By Harold Bloom

ISBN-10: 0791098257

ISBN-13: 9780791098257

By William J. Hopkins, Diantha W. Horne

ISBN-10: 1599153025

ISBN-13: 9781599153025

16 tales in regards to the development, launching, and crusing of the nice brig "Industry" and a few of its travels to far-off ports. Fourth quantity in a sequence of reports created by way of a father to urge a undeniable little boy to fall asleep. for almost 3 years his one listener heard them repeated repeatedly, and his curiosity by no means flagged. because the first tales advised, the farm tales, slowly grew in quantity, finally to fill volumes, they solely displaced different tales, and that farm turned as genuine within the brain of his listener because it was once actually whilst little John was once using the cows or planting the corn within the early a part of the 19th century. Later got here extra volumes a few send and its voyages at sea, of which this quantity is the previous, and a last quantity on condo development. excellent for a long time 7 to nine.

By Gardner Dozois

ISBN-10: 0312308604

ISBN-13: 9780312308605

Greatly considered as the single crucial e-book for each technology fiction fan, The Year's top technological know-how Fiction (Winner of the 2002 Locus Award for most sensible Anthology) keeps to uphold its average of excellence with greater than dozen tales representing the former year's most sensible SF writing. This year's quantity contains Ian R. MacLeod, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Maureen F. McHugh, Robert Reed, Paul McAuley, Michael Swanwick, Robert Silverberg, Charles Stross, John Kessel, Gregory Benford and lots of different proficient authors of SF, in addition to thorough summations of the 12 months and a suggested analyzing record.

By Carlin Romano

ISBN-10: 1936070634

ISBN-13: 9781936070633

It is a assortment better by means of an unerring experience of position . . . that might please the main discriminating fans of the darkish side.--Kirkus Reviews"It took lengthy adequate for Akashic's noir sequence to get to Philly. Now that it has, compiled less than the shadowy auspices of Inquirer literary critic/West Philly local Carlin Romano, the thrill begins."--Philadelphia urban PaperIncludes brand-new tales by means of: Diane Ayres, Cordelia Frances Biddle, Keith Gilman, Cary Holladay, Solomon Jones, Gerald Kolpan, Aimee LaBrie, Halimah Marcus, Carlin Romano, Asali Solomon, Laura Spagnoli, Duane Swierczynski, Dennis Tafoya, and Jim Zervanos.Carlin Romano, critic-at-large of the Chronicle of upper schooling and literary critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty-five years, teaches philosophy and media conception on the collage of Pennsylvania. In 2006 he used to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for feedback, brought up through the Pulitzer Board for "bringing new energy to the vintage essay throughout a powerful array of topics." He lives in college urban, Philadelphia, within the basically residence on his block.

By Zalman King

ISBN-10: 0425202798

ISBN-13: 9780425202791

ISBN-10: 078655729X

ISBN-13: 9780786557295

THE 20 MILLION fanatics OF TV's purple SHOE DIARIES ARE INSATIABLE... And so, particularly for them--whether males, ladies, or couples-comes this sizzling anthology of reports encouraged through the wildly well known and groundbreaking cable sequence: The Psychiatrist is a girl intrigued through the categorical confessions of her promiscuous sufferer, Linda. Has she any limits in any respect? As Linda unearths much more, it is the psychiatrist who questions her personal limits, and her personal longing to discover the depths of uninhibited sexual wish. 4 at the flooring is an arousing online game for 2 undefined, who locate themselves stranded through a nighttime hurricane in an deserted vineyard. What unfolds over the process the evening is an uninhibited, taboo-breaking gamble for combined doubles that brings each fantasty to existence. Emily's Dance brings out the wild girl in a shy lady. The present? Dancing within the sexiest song video of the yr, pressed body-to-body with the main impossible to resist rock famous person alive. yet it really is only the start of a writhing duet, and the place the throbbing track takes them is past their such a lot outrageous desires. Plus an unique tale--a quickie bound to positioned you within the temper!