Short stories

Book SynopsisSackville resident Bradd Burningham''s uncanny ability to inhabit the mind brings intimate revelations from characters as diverse as earthy middle-aged women and adolescent boys in The Sad Eye.

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Book SynopsisGeorge Little examines the lives of parents, siblings, friends, and politicians, offering fleeting glimpses into the moral complexity of contemporary relationships. In the title story, a man discovers himself by rewriting his past.

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Governor General''s Award for FictionA Guide to Animal Behaviour is a stunning collection of stories by an author who is fast becoming one of the great, innovative story writers of his generation. Following on the heels of his widely acclaimed comic novel, The South Will Rise at Noon, Douglas Glover's new collection smashes all the fictional moulds.Urbane, stylish, and off-beat, the stories in this collection touch the lives of an astonishing array of characters whose common experience is of a world that is wayward yet full of marvels: a born-again Christian from Kentucky who loses his memory and ends up finding true love in glitzy Bel Air; two women who fall in love only to be parted when one dies of cancer; a man who goes to live in a cardboard box when his wife leaves him for the manager of a Toys R Us store; an eighteenth-century Canadian pioneer who believes he is being persecuted by witches.This is sophisticated fiction at its best. A maximalist writer of ideas, he packs his sentences with energy, exuberant imagery and amazing turns of thoughts.Trade Review"A very nervy writer, the kind who does not play safe and shoots at whatever moon he allows himself to aim at." * The Toronto Star *"A writer of some of the most extraordinary short stories in English Canada today." * CBC *

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Book SynopsisIn Montreal, sex and politics frequently mix, and T.F. Rigelhof''s stories are sexy and political. His contemporary cowboys -- immature, vulnerable men hoping to achieve masculinity by wearing cowboy boots, playing with guns, listening to Tom Waits -- get the treatment they deserve: ironic understanding.

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Book SynopsisNominated for the 1990 Governor General''s Award, The Golden Thread is a collection of linked stories that introduce readers to the memorable Sister Claire Delaney.Trade Review"A triumph ... [Copeland] makes of convent life a vital and moving adventure." * Boston Globe *"Two visions, secular and religious, carry their own weight ... A dazzling and difficult balancing act." * Toronto Star *"[Copeland's] writing is both beautiful and intelligent." * New York Times Book Review *

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Book SynopsisAnn Copeland jumps over the convent wall with Season of Apples, a book of stories about ordinary people surprised by their own sudden growth. With their special brand of serious good humour, Copeland''s characters gently push readers towards their own self-knowledge. Men and women of all ages star in Season of Apples, and all find themselves at some kind of threshold or on the brink of a life change. In Another Country, a mother finally connects with her own mother when she recognises, in the midst of her son''s dangerous illness, that each generation is another country. A woman playing the piano for an Easter service in a home for the aged knows the frailty of human individuality, her own included, in On the Other Side. In the title story, Leora May, colourless, habit-ridden, and chained to her small-town routine, rediscovers her capacity for joy when she''s chosen to act in a television commercial. And, in the hilarious, odd, yet moving Why Eat Pot Roast When You Can Sing? identical

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Herb Curtis's achievement is exact . . . the good old days are now. Curtis's Miramichi is an Arcadia." * The Fiddlehead *"Curtis has a deft hand with dialogue and a keen sense of human nature . . . a book that's engaging to read even if you can't tell a No. 10 Green Machine from a No. 8 Black Bear." * Coast Life *"What a pleasure it is to return, with Curtis as our guide, to the Miramichi River . . . [Luther] is a born storyteller." * Canadian Book Review Annual *"A collection of tales as unassuming and down-to-earth funny as its author. Herb Curtis's gentle-hearted humour flows through the book like the Miramichi River itself." -- Norm Foster

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Douglas Glover's 16 Categories of Desire is a book about love and its passions. It is a book that any adult can learn from and maybe understand themselves and perhaps forgive themselves a bit." * The Library of the Found Inkwell *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Christmas] is a conflict of emotion captured beautifully in this terrific, ranging collection... The significance of the orange as the sensuous apotheosis of the season is especially pervasive in the older stories... plenty here to warm the cockles of the heart, too, should they require warming... Despite its title, the vast majority of these narratives are strong enough to be enjoyed during any season." * Quill & Quire *

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Book SynopsisIn the thirteen stories that comprise Way Up, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer''s canvas stretches from downtown Toronto to isolated farms, from the Canadian Shield to Nova Scotia and Europe, and even into outer space. In The Last Magic Forest, she turns her Gothic imagination loose in the bush of Northern Ontario, where tree planters have developed a unique culture. In this wasteland of clear-cutting and scarifying, the concept of nature overturns everything readers (and tree planters) expect. When Kuitenbrouwer takes a Canadian tree planter to Belgium in What Had Become of Us, only the outer topography changes. In the superficially more cultivated European forest, the value and meaning of human life depends on the inner topography the forester brings with her from the Ontario bush. In other stories, Kuitenbrouwer''s characters engage in a continual play with perspective, in a perpetual balancing act. In an emotional spectrum ranging from corrosive grief to murderous recklessnesTrade Review"We have lift-off ... [an] accomplished debut collection ... Typical of Kuitenbrouwer's secondary characters, Yves and Beatrice are substantial enough to fill out a story all by themselves ... galloping imagination and fearless thematic ambition ... tales work their unerring magic ... It's a huge pleasure watching her defy the usual literary gravity." * Globe and Mail *

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Book SynopsisJoAnne Soper-Cook is such a spell-binding storyteller that she can lead her willing captives almost anywhere. In her new story collection, The Opium Lady, she draws her readers into the far corners of human yearning. The Opium Lady resembles a photo album of an extensive family, with a picture at the beginning of each story. The snapshots were taken between perhaps 1910 and 1955, and most of the events in the stories are contemporary with the snapshots, but a curious atmosphere of the present day hovers over all and finds its way into the narrator''s voice. Soon shadowy connections appear, and it becomes clear that in some way the narrator herself is implicated. Among the motley cast are rich people and poor people, men, women, and children, the scandalizers and the scandalized, housewives and farmers, tradesmen, charlatans, and ne''er-do-wells. It''s clear that there are connections and that all of the pieces fit together, but Soper-Cook hands over the missing link only at the end of this fascinating book, once the narrator''s identity and secret are revealed.

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Book SynopsisA remarkable debut collection, Kelly Cooper''s Eyehill provides a multi-hued portrait of a small prairie town. Too small to support a high school or a drugstore, Eyehill is populated by men and women who have worked for generations to wrest a living from the dry, rolling hills. Like people anywhere else, they hunger for love, understanding, a decent living, and safety and comfort in their homes. Their passion for something more, something better, is tangled by their almost visceral attachment to the land and by the dangerous allure of an oil industry that grows more rapacious every year. In this startling debut collection of loosely linked stories, characters disappear only to resurface once again a few stories later. Among the central characters are Rhea, a girl whose mother abandoned her and her father when she was three and who grows to adulthood full of questions and contradictions; Jarvis, a boy whom Rhea loves but wants as a boyfriend only when he has to marry his pregnant girlfr

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Book SynopsisGreetings from the off-kilter world of Chris Gudgeon. In his first-ever book of fiction, the bestselling author of The Naked Truth: The Untold History of Sex in Canada offers postcard glimpses into the quirky private lives of unusually twisted characters. A prim English bride honeymooning near the so-called Vodka Sea learns the hard way why it''s better not to drink the water in foreign parts. A chess-playing doctor loses his wife to a charismatic psychologist during a sensuous group sex session masquerading as therapy. A social climbing adulterer contemplates the seduction of a middle-aged woman he once loved but who may now expose him. Personal histories rub up against present relationships. Paths cross, whether by accident or design. Polished veneers hide deeper truths. Bitterly funny and filled with lusty, rueful, comical, calculating, and even affectionate sex, Gudgeon''s eleven cosmopolitan stories explore the chasm between loving and being loved in return. Life''s randomness is offset by dark comedy and by an eerily familiar synchronicity.

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Book SynopsisShortlisted, Danuta Gleed Literary AwardIn a bold, brilliant collection of stories, Dora Award-winning playwright Anton Piatigorsky delivers a superbly inspired inquiry into the early lives of the 20th century''s most notorious tyrants. In The Iron Bridge, he is unafraid to push at the boundaries of the unexpected as he breathes fictionalized life into the adolescents who would grow up to become the most brutal dictators the world has ever known.We discover a teenaged Mao Tse-Tung refusing an arranged marriage; Idi Amin cooking for the British Army; Stalin living in a seminary; and a melodramatic young Adolf Hitler dreaming of vast architectural achievements. Piatigorsky dazzlingly explores moments that are nothing more than vague incidents in the biographies of these men, expanding mere footnotes into entire realities as he ingeniously fills the gaps of the historical record.The Iron Bridge, completely imagined yet captivatingly real, captu

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Book SynopsisThe Globe and Mail Top 100Quill & Quire Book of the YearAmazon.ca Editors'' Pick, Top 100Now magazine, Top 10 BooksChatelaine, Favourite Books of 2013This was, hands down, the best book I read in 2013. -- Steven W. Beattie,The National Post The return of Douglas Glover, one of Canada''s most lauded and brilliant authors. Douglas Glover, the mad genius of Can Lit. -- Caroline Adderson, The Globe and Mail Savage Love shatters then transforms every conventional notion we''ve ever held about that cultural-emotional institution we call love. The most stylish, adventurous fiction this country has ever seen. -- Quill & Quire Absurd, comic, dream-like and deeply affecting, Glover''s stories are of our time yet timeless, spectacular fables that stand in any era, any civilization. Eclectic and obsessive, abrasive and majestic. -- Los Angeles Review of Books Savage Love exposes the humanity lurking behind our masks, the perversities that underlie our actions. This is Douglas Glover country

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Book SynopsisAnd now we are 60. To mark this momentous occasion, the editors at Goose Lane have selected six tiny perfect stories for your reading pleasure. Authored by some of Canada''s finest writers, they come from the sweep of Goose Lane''s publishing history. Each story will be individually bound and gathered with the others in a nifty sleeve as a collection, or they may be purchased individually in eBook singles. Here''s what you can expect to find in this sexagenarian sextet: ALDEN NOWLAN''s A Boy''s Life of Napoleon, a brilliant piece of short fiction adapted from Nowlan''s first novel, The Wanton Troopers, written in 1960, but published posthumously in 1988. The beguiling Woman Gored by Bison Lives from DOUGLAS GLOVER''s 1991 GG-nominated story collection, A Guide to Animal Behaviour. Giller Prize-winner LYNN COADY''s unforgettable Christmas story The Three Marys, adapted from her award-winning debut novel, Strange Heaven, published in 1993.

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Book SynopsisThe beguiling Woman Gored by Bison Lives is from Douglas Glover''s 1991 Governor General Award-nominated story collection, A Guide to Animal Behaviour. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions''s 60th anniversary, it is also part of the six@sixty collection.

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Book SynopsisThe extraordinary Knife Party is from a new collection of stories by Mark Anthony Jarman titled Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, published in the spring of 2015. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions''s 60th anniversary, it is also part of the six@sixty collection.

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Book SynopsisGiller Prize-winner Lynn Coady''s unforgettable Christmas story The Three Marys, is adapted from her award-winning debut novel, Strange Heaven, published in 1993. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions''s 60th anniversary, it is also a part of the six@sixty collection.

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Book SynopsisCommonwealth Prize winner Shauna Singh Baldwin''s glittering story Simran is from her 1996 debut collection, English Lessons and Other Stories. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions''s 60th anniversary, it is also part of the six@sixty collection.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Savage Love is an accomplished, funny, and inventive book that readers should rejoice in...the timing (so essential to comic writing ), point of view, and diversity of language is near perfect...By any measure, Savage Love deserves to be recognized as one of the best Canadian books published this year." * Quill & Quire *"[A] compact gallery, flint-eyed and snaggle-toothed, of wolfish behaviour; it's also a casebook study in narrative design...the stories smoulder and luminesce with vitiated heat, modulated light....For all its antic form and interpersonal dysfunction, Savage Love remains somehow low key: a quietly virtuosic, artistically backward-looking story collection. Both eclectic and obsessive, abrasive and majestic, it might also be the best novel written anywhere this year....Savage Love is Glover's fifth collection of short stories, and it confirms his longstanding mastery of the genre." -- Bruce Stone * lareviewofbooks.org *"There is much that is provocative about Savage Love ... Glover writes about love in various forms — philia, eros, and agape — but each word in the book's title should be afforded equal weight. ... Glover is one of Canada's greatest stylists, and one of the most impressive aspects of Savage Love is the variety and range of registers he allows himself. ... These stories engage in a process of aggressive defamiliarization, wrecking havoc with readerly sensibilities and exploring — deliberately and insistently — the extreme possibilities of language. Glover's collection is bracing, angry, violent and funny. It is, regardless of genre, one of the best books you will read this year.' * National Post *"The stories in Savage Love...were a revelation...relieved by moments of sardonic humour, as well as by the skill with which the stories are told.... If you have not read Douglas Glover before, I recommend you do." -- Bill Macnaughton * therecord.com *"[S]urprising, shattering, wickedly absurd tales rife with parenthetical, fourth-wall-breaking asides and understated cynicism... Savage Love remains one of the strongest, most refreshing short fiction collections of 2013." * Shortlisted *"Savage Love takes twenty-first-century liberties to the max, refusing to succumb to an inner censor that resists exposure to what makes the sensitive uncomfortable. Love and lust, infatuation and infidelity, all the deep-down primal urges — Douglas Glover tackles every instinct with a bizarre spin or a brutal twist. This gifted author transfixes his audience with the unthinkable, drawing word pictures that some may prefer not to see in the middle of a lonely night. Illuminating.... Not for the timid, this gut-wrenching collection of physically and emotionally charged fiction lives up to the outstanding reputation that Glover has attained. His distinctive voice may echo into the next century and beyond." -- Julia Ann Charpentier * ForeWord *"Douglas Glover always pushes the envelope. Every story in Savage Love is outrageous, creating farce #&8212; and something beautiful — out of human foibles.... Some paragraphs are so gorgeously vivid, I wanted to read them twice.... This is the kind of audacious work our literary juries should be acknowledging." -- Susan G. Cole * Now *"Savage Love is an accomplished, funny, and inventive book that readers should rejoice in. . . . He's also a master of shifting between moods and modes . . . Through it all, the timing (so essential to comic writing), point of view, and diversity of language is near perfect. . . . By any measure, Savage Love deserves to be recognized as one of the best Canadian books published this year." -- Alex Good * Quill & Quire *"Every story in Savage Love is outrageous, creating farce — and something beautiful — out of human foibles." * Now *"Savage Love by Douglas Glover is a perfect collection of short stories for people knowing the world isn't a fairy tale. The stories are rough and frank but brutally honest about the concept of human relations." * inkwellbook.blogspot.ca *"A Douglas Glover short story is like a 10-day journey by Soviet-era jeep over a nation's back roads — head-spinning and breathtaking. Its outcome is enlightening, sickening or utterly confusing, depending on which country he's taken you to.... The best stories in Savage Love...inspire you to seize love by the heart and genitals, consequences be damned.... The frenetic chaos of Glover's writing gets richer as the stories go on, taking us deeper into the desires that fuel love in all its perversions." -- Chris Benjamin * Atlantic Books Today *"Savage Love provides more evidence: nobody alive constructs more perfect stories than Douglas Glover. His art is exquisite, conclusive, stainless — but also wide-awake and breathing. That is to say, he's no mere craftsman. In Savage Love, he manages somehow to be both Geppetto and the magic life-giving kiss." -- Darin Strauss"What unifies this collection is the characteristic excellence of Douglas Glover's prose. Otherwise the books is hugely, even shockingly varied in its narrative strategies, its settings, its tones, and its characters, who range from broadly comic figures to a killer so warped by war that he makes the psychotic Judge in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian look benign. This book is urgent, ardent, obsessive, and remarkable." -- Steven Heighton

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mark Anthony Jarman's Knife Party at the Hotel Europa is an incendiary performance by a master storyteller. His prose is pyrotechnic bliss, the epitome of cool — adroit, eloquent, witty, hallucinatory, and sexy. He sets his stories in Rome, the blast zone of contemporary Europe, a glittering polyglot echo chamber of voices, packed with gypsies, druggies, expats, refugees, and tourists — something like A Room with a View meets Naked Lunch." -- Douglas Glover, author of Savage Love"In Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, love gone awry collides with Italy. From the warm, embracing glow of Rome's walls to a beach party on the wrong side of a military base, a broken heart is no match for Jarman's prose, which flies from all sides like jets in a dogfight, riotous and stunningly talented." -- Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach and Blood Sports"This is the work of a short-story master in full control of his work: tone, voice, audience are all in hand. These stories are very much like musical variations on a theme. What if the violin line leads? What changes when the oboe takes charge? The answer? Everything. Bittersweet and beautiful. Knife Party at the Hotel Europa is a jewel of a collection. If it doesn't change you, your heart is too hard." -- Russell Wangersky, author of Walt"Nothing, no description, no summary can prepare you for the book itself. ... Knife Party at Hotel Europa is fierce and beautiful, one of the most stunning books I’ve read in a long time." -- Robert J. Wiersema * Vancouver Sun *

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative edition contains all fifty of Canadian literary icon Rudy Wiebe's short stories.Trade Review"Wiebe is one of Canada's powerful myth makers and storytellers of the past half-century." Michael Bryson, Quill & Quire, September 2010"Best known as one of the province's pioneering authors, Rudy Wiebe's new release has the celebrated writer revisiting more than 50 years of writing fiction, from the story he wrote as a high school student to pieces he wrote this year.... Wiebe was born in Saskatchewan, where he spent his early childhood in a remote Mennonite village raised by parents who had escaped Stalinist Russia. But Wiebe moved to Alberta with his family when he was 12 years old. So he is best known as a pioneering Alberta author, a chronicler of Prairie life who often explores religion, community, nature and native stories in his writing. He has twice won the Governor General's Award for literature (for The Temptations of Big Bear, A Discovery of Strangers) and, as a creative writing teacher at the University of Alberta, helped groom Alberta literary stars such as Aritha van Herk, Myrna Kostash and Tom Wharton, who pens the introduction for this collection. But while Wiebe has traditionally shied away from discussing his legacy as a bedrock for Alberta literature, revisiting half a century of his short stories makes a self-examination inevitable. "There are certainly threads," says Wiebe. "There's really two kinds of stories. One is the story of the aboriginal people of this land and their first encounter with whites. The other is the white pioneer immigrant stories.".... Wiebe describes the collected stories as having an 'unplanned but suitable symmetry.' Part of this may be because he decided early in his career that he wanted to provide a voice to those he grew up with and give the region a 'literary voice.'.... 'I was an omnivorous reader and I read an enormous amount,' says Wiebe. 'But this was one of the things that struck me, I never found any stories that reflected what I was living. So that intrigued me. As I got older, it struck me, "Why shouldn't there be any stories?" In effect, my entire lifetime has been writing about my own particular world.'" Eric Volmers, Calgary Herald, December 19, 2010 [Full article at: http://tinyurl.com/47thqrq]"Like the image of a plow opening the Prairie soil and turning up fragments of blue-willow china that repeats in several of his stories, Wiebe's craft opens up the surface of experience to reveal fragments of meaning and beauty. We are fortunate to be able to follow his plow." Tom Sandborn, The Globe and Mail. http://tinyurl.com/3clfzv6"Rudy Wiebe's Collected Stories, 1955-2010 is a meticulously edited retrospective. The CanLit icon's many accolades, prizes and publications, as well as a helpful chronology, are listed at the end of this substantial book. His fifty stories use as many different voices and techniques, it seems, as there are distinct pieces.... Wiebe appears to have spent the next decade concentrating his short fiction to a single outcome, the production of a sprawling tapestry encompassing many historical accounts of the opening of the Canadian Northwest.... [contributing] to a remarkably varied and vibrant history, as if the author were writing catalogue copy for a grand and dynamic exhibition.... Literary scholars and biographers will welcome the convenience of such a complete resource as this book." Richard Cumyn, The Winnipeg Review, May 21, 2011 [Full review at http://www.thewinnipegreview.com/wp/2011/05/rudy-wiebe-collected-stories-195 5-2010]"The stories, most of which are flavoured in western culture, have a variety of settings and are related through an interesting set of perspectives, including those that are set in pioneer times and reflect settler culture, those told from an Aboriginal point of view and those that reflect the culture of his Mennonite upbringing." Ennis Morris, Alberta Native News, April 2011"[Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010] is marked by a strong, appropriate cover and a well-resolved, thoughtfully designed interior-both work together well to provide an appealing home for the text. The designer made good use of subtle and effective typographic contrasts throughout. Chapter openers are nicely composed and balanced; folios and running heads are carefully sized and placed; section-dividing pages are elegant. The subtle graphic elements used add visual interest without detracting from the overall harmony of the layout. The typefaces selected are an appropriate match for the subject matter, and the text is well-composed, carefully set, and very readable." Winner of Book Design Award, 2011 Alberta Book Publishing Awards Jury"The jury felt that the author's short fiction is deeply bound within the Alberta landscape, its history, and in the mentality of its peoples. An innovator with his focus on telling Alberta stories, by example and encouragement, [Rudy Wiebe] has midwived natural-born Alberta storytelling to new generations of writers. His fiction plays out the larger events of history and the smaller events of personality in a dynamic of colliding cultural forces. He reminds us that the stories a family or a community tells itself are the very stories that create identity. This keystone collection of this author's short stories will stand for years to come." Winner of Trade Fiction Award, 2011 Alberta Book Publishing Awards Jury Comments."A playful meditation on place, stillness, loss, and the Self. An experimental hunt for "high places" and "erratics." With a forceful voice, Wiebe portrays the wonder of discovering new histories we've been part of all along." "The vast sweep of this story's telling puts it in a category all its own. Through the first peoples of the prairies, Rudy Wiebe ties the story of our part of the world to that of the rest of the world and, through the meteorite Old Man Buffalo, to the greater universe. With his evocation of a distant then more recent past, the glimpse of the riverless, creatureless future that could be ours and the weaving throughout of language and contrasting personal histories, Rudy Wiebe has captured the beyond." Winner of the Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story, 2011 Alberta Literary Award jury comment"Rudy Wiebe has been producing and publishing his short fiction for over a half-century. He is regularly included among the 'icons' of Canadian literature, with Alice Munro, Margaret Laurence, Hugh MacLennan and Hugh Garner. In his depictions of the Canadian west, he has been compared with Robert Kroetsch and W. O. Mitchell. Wiebe's Mennonite family fled the persecutions of Stalinist Russia. His writing has often dealt directly with that specifically European experience, but that background has also invested him with a unique perspective on the life and experience of aboriginal Canadian peoples. He grew up on the prairies of Saskatchewan and Alberta among others whose histories consisted of persecution, marginalization and forced migrations from an ancestral home. Thus throughout his work run the themes of displacement and wandering, of the mixture of fact and truthful fiction that forms the basis of any oral history, and of voice - not the defining stylistic 'voice' of the writer (though Wiebe's can be seen developing, maturing, crystallizing in these pages) but the sound and timbre and cadence of the storyteller's voice. The University of Alberta Press has here produced an enormously valuable resource. This is a volume of substance, in its content and as a physical object.... Organized thematically, rather than chronologically, this collection illuminates the development of an artist." Neil MacRae, The Rover, April 4, 2011 [Full article at http://roverarts.com/2011/04/wiebes-world/]"In this collection, the reader is offered a tapestry of Rudy Wiebe's writing over the past half century.... This collection reveals the strength of Wiebe's fiction in the way it elicits empathy in the reader and invites discovery of layers of truth through voice and point of view, as well as an almost religious, certainly spiritual, way of looking at nature and her effects. It provides a profile of Wiebe's work from the beginning of his writing career to the present time, and will prove invaluable for students of his work. Its illustrations of Old Man Buffalo and First Nation art are a treasure to hold and to look at." Gillian Harding-Russell, Prairie Fire Review of Books, Vol. 11, No. 4."Wiebe has spent a lifetime searching for, imagining, and fitting together the bits and pieces needed to complete a story. He is, besides a writer, also a historian and a meticulous researcher, and all three are clearly at work shaping the narratives... Story, we are reminded, is organic, growing and gaining substance, changing over time, but held together by the author's artistic imagination, skill, and distinctive voice. The appendix offers scholars a convenient chronology and publication history of the stories... With its handsome cover--a striking image of a bird skull on a post--this is not a book to be left on a shelf, but is best displayed on a table where it can be tasted and savored in small or large portions." Sarah Klassen, The Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 2012"[Wiebe's] storytelling gifts are evident throughout this remarkable collection of one and fifty tales, which offers a substantially complete and satisfying retrospective of his published short fiction.... While these fifty stories are arranged thematically, the textual apparatus also conveniently allows one to place them in bibliographical and chronological context to enrich subsequent readings.... And the bibliographical details of first publications comprise a story in itself. The collection concludes fittingly with one of the author's first short stories, his high school prize-winner appropriately entitled 'Predestination'..." Neil Querengesser, Canadian Literature, March 2012 [Full review at http://canlit.ca/reviews/those_voices_speaking_now]"This authoritative edition contains all fifty of Canadian literary icon Wiebe's short stories. Rudy Wiebe is a must-have book for aficionados of great world literature, fans of prairie fiction, and Wiebe's faithful readers." SirReadsaLot.org"As part of the last generation of immigrant homesteaders in the Prairies, Wiebe draws on his experiences growing up Mennonite in the tiny Saskatchewan hamlet of Speedwell to create his acclaimed novels and short stories. He also reaches back into the nation's history to write about the indigenous people who thrived on the Prairies well before European settlers ever saw the land, and gives them a voice in several of his works.... The sense of place, both physical and philosophical, figures centrally in his work. Wiebe's beautiful language is spare, but equally lyrical and evocative..." Christina Toth, The Abbotsford/Mission Times [Full article at http://bit.ly/TvhCQD]."[Wiebe's] storytelling gifts are evident through this remarkable collection of one and fifty tales, which offers a substantially complete and satisfying retrospective of his published short fiction... While these fifty stories are arranged thematically, the textual apparatus also conveniently allows one to place them in bibliographical and chronological context to enrich subsequent readings." Neil Querengesser, Canadian Literatures 214, Autumn 2012Table of ContentsForeword; The Huis and Where They Came From; The Formation of the Hui Zu; The Fate of the Hui During and After the Qing Dynasty; Further Assimilation of Minorities and its effects of Muslims; How the Hui Zu Lives in China; Influential Muslim Personalities; Admiral Zheng He and His Achievements; Contributions of the Chinese Muslims; The Staunchness of the Chinese Muslims.

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Book SynopsisJapanese âœprivate writerâ bridges gap between traditional and pop cultures with stories of the ordinary.Trade Review"One thing that appealed to Meldrum about the stories was how they showed a side of life in Japan that rarely makes it onto North America's limited radar. We know geishas. We know Godzilla. But we don't know the emotions and routines of a married, middle-class woman in the late 20th century.... Even in Japan, Meldrum says, where these stories may be more familiar, the act of putting them down on the page is not." Michael Hingston, Edmonton Journal, January 30, 2014 [Full article at http://edmjr.nl/1fn2RdJ]"Thanks to online programs like Google Translate, it's possible to have a chunk of text translated into another language with just a click of a button. However, word-for-word translations don't capture the context and tone of the original text.... Meldrum strove to represent the original text as accurately as possible, but admits that the biggest challenge was trying to convey cultural differences." Work of Arts blog [Full post at http://bit.ly/1fi3dAT]"While Mitani uses humour in most of these stories, she never exaggerates for effect.... each [story] is a self-contained vignette that beautifully encapsulates an idea or emotion.... Her stories are thoughtful, profound and moving without dramatics, revealing without being confessional.... [Yukari F. Meldrum] proves a sensitive translator, adapting Japanese tone to elegant, simple English prose." , , September 2014 -- Mari Sasano * Alberta Views *"Mitani’s stories are, in effect, a kind of Japanese life writing... Stories of the kind Mitani has written here give glimpses of contemporary Japanese life that rarely see the light of day in English translation, and are a welcome addition to the small but hopefully growing Canadian body of work translated from the Japanese into English." [Full review at http://bit.ly/1tosSSC] -- Sally Ito * The Malahat Review *“The majority of the stories are first-person, narrated conversationally by a girl or woman observing the details of life as a daughter, student, wife, friend or mother…. Mitani’s greatest strength is the ability to present different perspectives—here is a hero, here is a bully—with heartbreakingly understated gestures or remembered details revealing the hope, pain, fear or pride underneath the annoyances and irrationality of others’ behavior…. Her stories are thoughtful, profound and moving without dramatics, revealing without being confessional.” -- Mari Sasano * Alberta Views *"Consisting of 22 short stories in two sections and a novella, and largely based on the author Tomoko Mitani's life, Will Not Forget Both Laughter And Tears is a rich record of Mitani's personal experiences mediated by both the act of writing and of translation." -- Michael Tsang * Cha: An Asian Literary Journal *

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Book SynopsisFull-fledged characters positively crackle in the deliciously realistic situations of these thirteen short stories.Trade ReviewAstrid Blodgett was announced as one of the 12 contributors to The Journey Prize Stories 24. Congratulations! http://www.facebook.com/TheJourneyPrize/posts/10151067884019227"You Haven't Changed a Bit, a compilation of 13 stories, took 10 years to complete. For the Literary Cocktails reading, Blodgett has picked Ice Break, a story about a family that goes ice fishing on Lake Wabamun. They never start fishing because as they drive on the ice, it cracks and breaks." St. Albert Gazette, April 20, 2013"These thirteen stories are a breath of fresh air. Blodgett's writing is clean and spare. The stories are intelligently written, and great care has clearly gone into crafting them. Details are carefully chosen to reflect larger relationships and moments; Blodgett has a terrific knack for sketching out complex relationships with telling little moments that are deftly and subtly rendered. I was filled with writer envy, wishing I'd written the last line of 'Ice Break.' A perfect little moment, so honest, so true and so shocking for that." Leslie Greentree"Astrid Blodgett's stories are acutely rendered picture-poems of the way the world is. The beauty, the shock, the frissons of love and dread--it's all there. A compelling new voice." Caroline Adderson"In You Haven't Changed a Bit, Astrid Blodgett lights a fuse. She takes us deep into the country where alfalfa brushes against the skin, where ice and sky merge, where people we've known since childhood live. Powerful fiction has a way of detonating after a book has been set down--these stories snap and burn." Anne Simpson"In her story 'Ice Break,' Astrid Blodgett ties, hangs, and tightens a noose of narrative with a masterful touch. Every word in this story is essential, and you can almost hear the text cracking beneath you as you venture out upon it, inching further from the shores of its beginning. In this quiet prelude of tragedy, Blodgett has crafted a tale that lives in your mind long after you've broken through." Jurors' remarks, Journey Prize"Astrid Blodgett explores lives in flashpoint and innocence meeting regret forever in "You Haven't Changed a Bit" (University of Alberta Press). My favourite stories are "New Summer Dresses" and "Ice Break." What a read. Congratulations, Astrid, on a collection I'll be thinking of for a very long time. :) Congratulations. What a gorgeous book." Richard Van Camp, May 16, 2013"Blodgett puts forth a baker's dozen of stories, each one a revelation of acumen and economy.... Blodgett is astute at fleshing out characters and expounding on situations with just the right words or phrases, a very tough skill to acquire. These are plausible people in plausible moments. Everything rings true.... There's the sinister brilliance of tone of Giving Blood, a story that tells the reader so much through its atmosphere, not by actual scrutiny of events. Getting the Cat reveals so much of its protagonist through his voice. Ice Break is heart-stopping with its staccato time shifting and minutiae of a tragedy in progress. 'My God, this is brilliant!'" Scott Hayes, St. Albert Gazette, May 15, 2013#2 on the Edmonton Journal's Fiction Bestsellers list for the week of May 24, 2013"...'New Summer Dresses,' which begins as a piece of straightforward naturalism about two girls on summer vacation, only to take a sharp detour into much darker and creepier territory in its climactic stages. Blodgett effectively seeds the ground in the course of the story, while still ensuring that the final pages retain a significant punch. Like the best stories in the collection - 'Zero Recall,' 'Tattletale' - 'New Summer Dresses' features a strong narrative line and an undercurrent of astringent irony that results in a propulsive reading experience." Steven W. Beattie, National Post, June 21, 2013"Individually, the stories are highly engaging, with authentic characters and trajectories packed with punch.... The writing is sparse and economical, which complements the suspense and bleakness of the tales. Blodgett presents a collection solidly crafted with details that leave the reader both captivated and unsettled." Kat Main, Alberta Views, December 2013"Highly Recommended. *** ½ out of 4" Dave Jenkinson, CM Magazine, February 21, 2014 [Full article at bit.ly/1eHenNr]"The characters in Astrid Blodgett's You Haven't Changed a Bit live rather than perform. They are being recorded rather than created. And they are being recorded covertly in their kitchens and trucks rather than under the lights of reality TV. Even under the scrutiny of the reader, the characters act without the self-consciousness of being trapped in fiction. Blodgett's debut collection is a prime example of literary short fiction: she satisfies the voyeuristic impulse; her voice is like clear water; she attends to ordinariness with reverence. Most of all, she enters and enlarges one's privacy in preparation for living a more attuned life." Jurors, 2013 Danuta Gleed Literary Award"The characters in Astrid Blodgett's short stories have a way of getting under our skin to the point that, in many instances, you want to climb into the pages of her first book You Haven't Changed A Bit and give them a piece of your mind, or more... It is easy to empathize with the everyday characters in Blodgett's stoiris. She paints her word pictures with the convincing, yet subtle, brush strokes of an anime master... Blodgett keeps her wide-ranging cast of characters firmly under control while subtly challenging readers to draw their own conclusions." Prairie Journal #61 -- Gordon Arnold * Prairie Journal *# 10 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, April 15, 2018#4 on Edmonton Bestsellers list, September 17, 2023#10 on Edmonton Bestsellers list, September 24, 2023Table of Contents1 Don’t Do a Headstand 19 Zero Recall 27 Ice Break 39 Getting the Cat 55 Let’s Go Straight to the Lake 75 In the Meadow 89 Tattletale 103 New Summer Dresses 115 The Gold One 131 Giving Blood 139 Butterflies 153 No Matter How Nicey-Nicey the Parents Were 163 Banana and Split 173 Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisIn Northwest of Boston, Stephen O''Connor''s characters live the human drama fully in stories that range from the humorous to the poignant. They go to the crossroads to face their demons, come to terms with the fleeting nature of life and love, and find the courage to follow their own compass. For some, that means an evolution; for others, a steadfast embrace of a world that is passing away.

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Book SynopsisA dog''s antics can make you laugh. Its cuddles can melt your heart. Its mischief can push your buttons. In short, a dog is rather like a well-written story. With little warning, it can sneak up on your emotions and take you to an unexpected place. In this volume, The Year''s Best Dog Stories 2021, Secant Publishing of Salisbury, Maryland, and The Greyhound-An Indie Bookstore, of Berlin, Maryland, present slightly more than two dozen stories, by two dozen writers, which we believe are worthy of their canine heroes and heroines. hese winning submissions were selected by our panel of independent judges following an international competition in which we asked writers to illuminate some aspect of communication between dogs and humans. The stories in this collection include drama, humor, and suspense. Readers will find a dog and a tale for every mood and stage of life.

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Book SynopsisThe unforgettable characters in Josh Barkan’s astonishing and beautiful story collection—chef, architect, nurse, high school teacher, painter, beauty queen, classical bass player, plastic surgeon, businessman, mime—are simply trying to lead their lives and steer clear of violence. Yet, inevitably, crime has a way of intruding on their lives all the same. A surgeon finds himself forced into performing a risky procedure on a narco killer. A teacher struggles to protect lovestruck students whose forbidden romance has put them in mortal peril. A painter’s freewheeling ways land him in the back of a kidnapper’s car. Again and again, the walls between “ordinary life” and cartel violence are shown to be paper thin, and when they collapse the consequences are life-changing.   These are stories about transformation and danger, passion and heartbreak, terror and triumph. They are funny, deeply moving, and stunningly well-crafted,

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Book Synopsis''Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky) loo-side read.''Jeremy NicholasA wonderful selection of writing on dogs, from Plato to Virginia Woolf, and from ancient Egypt to twentieth-century New YorkFrom beautiful lyrics to madcap waggery, from Elizabeth Barrett Browning''s adored lap-dog Flush to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle''s terrifying Hound of the Baskervilles, and encompassing odes, fables, stories, songs, nursery rhymes and more, Mark Bryant has compiled a wonderfully evocative collection of writing on all kinds of dogs by all kinds of authors. Included are poems by Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Rudyard Kipling, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns and more; humorous pieces by Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Ambrose Bierce and Jerome K. Jerome; and other delights from writers as varied as Charles Dickens, ChaTrade ReviewHandsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky) loo-side read.

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Book Synopsis''There''s nobody like Binchy for warming the cockles, and this collection of Christmas stories warms them to white heat'' Kate Saunders, The TimesChristmas: a time of year when emotions run high and long-held secrets can unexpectedly surface...This Year It Will Be Different powerfully evokes the lives of wives, husbands, children, friends and lovers. As the festivities take hold, there are step-families grappling with exes; long-married couples faced with in-law problems; a wandering husband choosing between the other woman and his wife; a child caught up in a grown-up tug-of-war.''We are all in her pages, all of us: mothers, daughters, fathers, sons, husbands, wives, children, friends, lovers ... It is this combination of Maeve''s understanding of what it is to be human, and how to cope with life, that makes her so popular'' Veronica Henry, bestselling author of Christmas at the Beach HutTrade ReviewThere's nobody like Binchy for warming the cockles, and this collection of Christmas stories warms them to white heat. -- Kate Saunders * THE TIMES *With her gift for effortless characterisation and homely detail, she evokes power shifts in families, unwelcome discoveries, conspiracies, affairs, forgiveness, sorrow and the rebirth of optimism with her usual warmth and sympathy. -- Elizabeth Buchan * SUNDAY TIMES *Brilliant, family-oriented short stories ... Binchy fans will love it - i did! 5/5 * WOMAN'S OWN *We are all in her pages, all of us: mothers, daughters, fathers, sons, husbands, wives, children, friends, lovers ... It is this combination of Maeve's understanding of what it is to be human, and how to cope with life, that makes her so popular -- Veronica HenryA master storyteller -- Marian KeyesHer storytelling ability is second to none * SUNDAY EXPRESS *You can see why, for a legion of female readers, Maeve Binchy is a one-woman opiate of the people * EVENING STANDARD *

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Book Synopsis''A powerhouse of a first story collection notable for its temerity and its skilled combination of humour and insight'' New York Times Book Review The unknowable wisdom of a baby; two teenagers with plans to build a time machine;the unnerving relationship between a man and his dangerous dog; a bumpy reunion between two childhood friends . . . These are stories about how people grow together and pull apart, the strangeness of lives lived at close quarters. Envy, distrust, confidence, collusion, hope - in this remarkable collection, Emily Fridlund delves into the small lies and large truths that make up our lives.Selected by Ben Marcus as winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short FictionTrade ReviewAn uneasy, but exhilarating, expectation of trouble ahead is manifest in her sharp and exquisite prose * DAILY MAIL *Emily Fridlund's language is generous and precise, her story grief-tempered and forcefully moving. History of Wolves is the loneliest thing I've read in years, and it's gorgeous. These are haunted pages -- Leif Enger on HISTORY OF WOLVESSo delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth -- Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake on HISTORY OF WOLVESAs exquisite a first novel as I've ever encountered. Poetic, complex and utterly, heartbreakingly beautiful -- T. C. Boyle, author of The Harder They Come on HISTORY OF WOLVESOne of the most intelligent and poetic novels of the year * NEW STATESMAN on HISTORY OF WOLVES *Fridlund is a fine writer and her work is cut through with moments of sparse beauty * FINANCIAL TIMES on HISTORY OF WOLVES *Eleven stories of misshapen families and broken friendships disturb and unsettle. Fridlund follows History of Wolves, her marvelous and preternaturally accomplished first novel, with a collection of jarring and polished short fiction. Bracing, often brilliant stories deliver a shock to the routine narratives we tell * Kirkus reviews (starred review) *Eleven brilliant short stories showcase childhood, adolescence, marriage, and families, and how the appearances of these events and relationships in life can hide the strangeness and emptiness that pervade beneath the surface. . . . Fridlund unpacks these situations with such thoughtful diction and complex characters that her subdued and controlled language sets what is unsaid at the fore, unveiling hope, despair, and the paradoxes that are often ignored in such close relationships. Fridlund's intelligent and conversational voice impressively manipulates the emotional atmosphere of her stories * Booklist (starred review) *Fridlund's ability to conjure humor in the darkest moments is clear in her blending of sitcomset-ups with bleak undercurrents. Her breathtaking prose and sly expressions make for compulsivereading * Publishers Weekly *Magical . . . Memorable and a joy to read * Library Journal *A powerhouse of a first story collection notable for its temerity and its skilled combination of humor and insight . . . this is - seriously - a laugh-out-loud collection as wise as it is funny * New York Times *This is a compelling, empathetic and funny look at 'asymmetrical' families, adolescence and ageing. * NEW STATESMAN *

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Book SynopsisA joyful, freewheeling, funny and profound new collection from ‘one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today’ (Lionel Shriver) For one woman, a cross-country train ride becomes a parallel journey into the dark psyche of American manhood. An old man and his neighbour enter strike up a friendship that might a more sinister battle of wits than he first thinks. A man, waiting for his wife in a bar on Valentine's Day, is plagued by a stranger who claims to be clairvoyant. In electric prose T. C. Boyle explores myriad facets of society: greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world and the way we understand our mortality. Roaming unrestrainedly through the present and near future, he inhabits his characters’ minds with a ventriloquist’s flair, skewering human motivations and revealing us to ourselves with empathy and wry humour.Trade ReviewPitch-black and incisive ... few authors can match Boyle’s ability to nail humanity’s talent for scuppering itself. * FINANCIAL TIMES *The prolific Boyle continues to have fun and make literary mischief with his latest story collection ... There's no reason why these 13 stories should seem so funny, as most of them confront individual mortality and some sort of cultural collapse. They run the gamut from the subversively real to the surreal in such a way that they blur the distinction between the implausible and the inevitable ... A playful virtuoso with a deadly seriousness of purpose * Kirkus, Starred Review *Forty-plus years into his stellar career, the prolific Boyle retains his signature charm and wit while mining the human condition for its many intrinsic foibles ... Boyle’s genius lies in his ability to describe characters through the eyes of other characters, adding nuance and depth. There's a rich musicality in Boyle’s prose ... Once again, Boyle’s virtuosity shines * BOOKLIST *"Boyle skewers American culture, masculine identity, and the modern age in his splendid latest collection ... Boyle’s stories are raw, unflinching, and highly entertaining ... Readers will be enthralled * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *Praise for T. C. Boyle: Some of the best, funniest, bleakest, most unsettling short stories I’ve ever read * THE TIMES *Always enjoyable, virtually incapable of dullness or slack sentences … His stories reveal truths about modern life while still feeling beautifully invented * NEW YORK TIMES *

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Book Synopsis'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Kreutzer Sonata and Other StoriesThis second volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected by the critic Sharon Cameron, contains 'Family Happiness', 'The Devil' and 'The Kreutzer Sonata', three of Tolstoy's unhappy-marriage stories as well as 'Father Sergius', a story of a loss of identity in ambitious pursuit of holy virtue and 'Master and Man'. Tolstoy's antidotes to delusion, fear, jealousy and even madness have an ethical thread pulled through the fabric of different themes and genres.This riverrun edition reissues the translation of Louise and Aylmer Maude, whose influential versions of Tolstoy first brought his work to a wide readership in English.

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Book Synopsis“The female novelist of the nineteenth century may have frequently encountered opposition and interference from the male literary establishment, but the female short story writer, working in a genre that was seen as less serious and less profitable, found her work to be actively encouraged.” ― from the Introduction.During the nineteenth century women writers finally began to be as popular―and as respected―as their male counterparts. We are all familiar with the novels of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and the Bröntes. Less familiar is the short fiction of the period; yet a great many nineteenth-century stories by women―both famous and obscure―retain in full measure their power to fascinate and to entertain. For this anthology Glennis Stephenson brings together stories by both British and North American writers; by such established luminaries as Shelley, Gaskell and Kate Chopin; and by lesser-known writers such as the Anglo-Indian writer Flora Steel, the Afro-American Alice Dunbar Nelson and the Canadian Annie Howells Frèchette. The result is an anthology that will be as interesting to the general reader as it will be useful to the student. Stephenson provides background information on all authors, together with a general introduction.Table of ContentsIntroductionLouisa May Alcott / A Whisper in the DarkMary Elizabeth Braddon / Good Lady DucayneKate Chopin / The StormIsabella Valancy Crawford / ExtraditedElla D’Arcy / The Pleasure-PilgrimRebecca Harding Davis / AnneAlice Dunbar-Nelson / Sister JosephaGeorge Egerton / Gone UnderAnnie Howells Frechette / A Widow in the WildernessMary Wilkins Freeman / A New England NunElizabeth Gaskell / Lizzie LeighElizabeth Gaskell / The Old Nurse’s StoryCharlotte Perkins Gilman / The Yellow WallpaperSarah Orne Jewett / A White HeronVernon Lee / DioneaL.M. Montgomery / The Red RoomMargaret Oliphant / A Story of a Wedding TourMary Shelley / The ParvenueHarriet Prescott Spofford / CircumstanceFlora Annie Steel / Mussumât Kirpo’s DollConstance Fenimore Woolson / FelipaFurther Reading

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Book SynopsisThe Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories beautifully demonstrates the astonishing variety and ingenuity of Victorian short stories. This collection brings together works focused on a wide range of popular Victorian subjects in many different styles and forms (including comic, gothic, fantasy, adventure, and colonial works; science fiction; children’s tales; New Woman writing; Irish yarns; stories originally published in popular periodicals; and travel stories). Both well-known and lesser-known authors are included, and both men and women are well represented.This anthology includes twenty-six annotated stories, a general introduction that discusses the history of the genre’s development in relation to key socio-political issues of the Victorian era, and suggestions for secondary readings. It also includes an intriguing selection of Victorian writings on the genre by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Frederick Wedmore, and Laura Marholm Hansson.Trade Review“Dennis Denisoff’s anthology of Victorian short fiction is a ground-breaking contribution to teaching and research, with a wide-ranging and original selection of stories by 19th-century writers, and an expertly-chosen group of Victorian critical essays on the short story and its genres.” — Elaine Showalter, Emeritus Professor, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPublication SourcesIntroductionWILLIAM CARLETON “Wildgoose Lodge” (1833)MARY SHELLEY “The Mortal Immortal” (1833)CHARLES DICKENS “The Bloomsbury Christening” (1834)THOMAS DE QUINCEY “The Vision of Sudden Death” and “The Dream-Fugue” (1849)WILKIE COLLINS “A Terribly Strange Bed” (1852)ELIZABETH GASKELL “The Great Cranford Panic” (1853)FRANCES BROWNE “The Story of Fairyfoot” (1857)GERALDINE JEWSBURY “Agnes Lee” (1857)ANTHONY TROLLOPE “George Walker at Suez” (1861)MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON “Eveline’s Visitant” (1862)ALGERNON SWINBURNE “Dead Love” (1862)C.L. DODGSON [LEWIS CARROLL] “Bruno’s Revenge” (1867)SHERIDAN LE FANU “Green Tea” (1869)MARY DE MORGAN “A Toy Princess” (1877)MARY BEAUMONT “The Revenge of Her Race” (1879?)AMELIA B. EDWARDS “Was it an Illusion? A Parson’s Story” (1881)THOMAS HARDY “Interlopers at the Knap” (1884)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON “Markheim” (1885)RUDYARD KIPLING “Lispeth” (1886)OSCAR WILDE “The Happy Prince” (1888)ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1891)GEORGE EGERTON “The Spell of the White Elf” (1893)EVELYN SHARP “In Dull Brown” (1896)ADA LEVERSON “The Quest of Sorrow” (1896)H.G. WELLS “The Star” (1897)ISRAEL ZANGWILL “To Die in Jerusalem” (1899)APPENDIX A Edgar Allan Poe, from a review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice-told Tales (1842)APPENDIX B Charles Dickens, from “Frauds on the Fairies”(1853)APPENDIX C Margaret Oliphant, from “The ByWays of Literature: Reading for the Million” (1858)APPENDIX D Frederick Wedmore, “The Short Story” (1898)APPENDIX E Laura Marholm Hansson, from “Neurotic Keynotes” (1896)

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Book SynopsisFrom the predatory same-sex desire in “Carmilla” to the ghostly hallucinations in “Green Tea,” the five supernatural stories in In a Glass Darkly reflect a profound and deeply disturbing uncertainty about the nature of humanity. Originally published separately in magazines, the stories are framed and linked in this collection as case notes in the papers of the fictional Dr. Hesselius. Sheridan Le Fanu’s approach to the supernatural reworks traditional Irish oral storytelling and combines it with nineteenth-century adaptations of the eighteenth-century Gothic novel. Appendices include Le Fanu’s correspondence about the stories, posthumous assessments of his life and work, and twentieth-century critical commentaries by M.R. James and Elizabeth Bowen. Engravings from the original serial publications of several stories are also included. Trade Review“Le Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly is one of the landmark works of Victorian Gothic. It contains some of the greatest ghost stories ever written, and in ‘Carmilla’ one of the most important vampire tales. Elizabeth Tilley’s brilliant new edition is the best one we’ve ever had, and it takes us closer to Le Fanu’s collection than we’ve ever been before. With its wonderful introduction and its superb selection of critical and contextual material, this book has everything a serious reader needs.” — Darryl Jones, Trinity College DublinTable of Contents In a Glass Darkly Green Tea The Familiar Mr. Justice Harbottle The Room in the Dragon Volant Carmilla Appendix A: Reviews and Early Observations 1. Contemporary Reviews (a) The Athenaeum (6 July 1872) (b) The Saturday Review (17 August 1872) (c) The Examiner (6 July 1872) 2. Twentieth-century notices of Le Fanu’s work (a) From M.R. James, “Some Remarks on Ghost Stories,” The Bookman (December 1929) (b) From Elizabeth Bowen, “Preface to Uncle Silas,” Collected Impressions (1950) Appendix B: Obituaries 1. The Irish Times (8 February 1873) 2. The Freeman’s Journal (10 February 1873) 3. The Irish Builder (15 February 1873) 4. The Illustrated London News (15 February 1873) Appendix C: On Swedenborg 1. From The Saturday Review (11 May 1867) Appendix D: Correspondence between Le Fanu and others 1. Charles Dickens to Le Fanu (24 September 1869) 2. Charles Dickens to Le Fanu (24 November 1869) 3. Le Fanu to George Bentley (3 January 1870) 4. Le Fanu to J. Munnings (16 June 1872) 5. Le Fanu to J. Munnings (24 June 1872)

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Book SynopsisWritten between 1955 and 1957, the 15 stories in And Now the News ... include five previously uncollected stories along with five well-known works, two cowritten with genre legend Robert Heinlein. Spanning his most creative period, these tales show why Sturgeon won every science fiction award given.

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Book SynopsisNew Falcon Publications has brought together some of the most talented, controversial, and rebellious writers of all time in REBELLION. Many such as William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Aleister Crowley, Israel Regardie, and Jack Parsonsare world famous. Others such as James Wasserman, Lon Milo DuQuette, and Richard Kaczynskiare well-accomplished in their own fields. Still others are lesser-known, for now. But all contributors, in every article, in every aspect of their lives, has had but one focus: to bring freedom to their own worlds. In all of human history the essence of the independent mind has been the need to think and act according to standards from within, not without. To follow ones own path, not that of the status quo. Inevitably, anyone with an independent mind must become one who resists or opposes an authority or established conventionin other words, a Rebel. Usually rebellion takes place so quietly that no one notices. But when those in power recognize the disobedience, the REBEL becomes known as a DEVIL. Until, of course, enough people notice. Then a different stature may be achievedknown as GREATNESS. With contributions by Aleister Crowley, Israel Regardie, Osho Rajneesh, William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Jack Parsons, James Wasserman, Richard Kaczynski, Dr. William S. Hyatt, Ph.D., and many others.

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