Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce

Collected Shorter Fiction (Volume 1)

(Book Jacket prestige: no longer Jacketed)Written over a interval of greater than part a century, those tales replicate each point of Tolstoy's artwork and character. They conceal his reports as a soldier within the Caucasus, his married lifestyles, his passionate curiosity within the peasantry, his cult of fact adn simplicity, and, notably, his transforming into preoccupation with faith.

Cinq contes fantastiques

II est dans l'un et l'autre paysages à los angeles fois, là à los angeles même position, sans remuer. Il les despatched tous les deux, les despatched bien dans son corps tous les deux, tout autour de son corps, aussi loin qu'il puisse appréhender le monde. Pour une fois ! L'univers s'offre à lui dans une dualité insoupçonnée, séductrice, jusqu'à ce jour celée dans los angeles coïncidence.

Living with Snakes

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In Daniel Curley's tales, passionate rage and funky, transparent hatred adjust the phrases of even the main easy human relationships, etching extraordinary styles at the floor of the common world--a guy applies the equipment of Mata-Hari to the duty of keeping an eye on his ex-wife; the sufferer of a pickpocket plots mental revenge at the felony inhabitants of a Mexico urban bus line; a spurned lover summons all his energy and braveness to free up a roomful of snakes held captive through his rival. For the main half, the figures within the panorama of those tales are women and men appearing the rituals that bring about and clear of marriage.

In the 1st Baseman, a guy within the means of getting a divorce falls in love with a participant on a woman's softball staff, yet their dialog by no means is going a ways past the topic of her batting common. In "Trinity," an estranged couple introduced jointly back by means of the loss of life in their daughter unearths that they can not recreate both their love or their baby. And in Wild ducks, a man's dream approximately his youth, while flocks of ducks patterned the sky, is interrupted and eventually shot-through by way of fevered pictures of a tedious dinner party.

Nature exists as a shelter in those tales, however it is a shelter quite often to be present in the shadow of the phobia of dying; within the recesses of reminiscence; past the bars that isolate zoo animals from an unruly international. Demonically sincere and infrequently violently humorous, dwelling with Snakes tells of a global the place love is at top a touch-and-go type of factor, the place occasionally women and men are sure jointly no longer loads by way of affection as by way of mutual loss, mutual pain.

Literary Awards
Flannery O'Connor Award for brief Fiction (1985)

American Innovations: Stories

An excellent new number of brief tales from [b]“the conspicuously talented” (Time) Rivka Galchen.
In one of many intensely creative tales in Rivka’s Galchen’s American recommendations, a tender woman’s furnishings walks out on her. In one other, the narrator feels forced to vow to bring a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a 3rd, the petty details of a estate transaction illuminate the complex pains and loves of a family.

The tales in this groundbreaking assortment are secretly in dialog with canonical tales, re-imagined from the point of view of lady characters. simply as Wallace Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar” responds to John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Galchen’s “The misplaced Order” covertly recapitulates James Thurber’s “The mystery lifetime of Walter Mitty,” whereas “The zone of Unlikeness” is a smoky and playful replicate to Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Aleph. ” The name tale, “American Innovations,” revisits Nikolai Gogol’s “The nostril. ”

By turns sensible, fantastical, witty, and lyrical, those marvelously uneasy stories are deeply emotional and written in exuberant, pitch-perfect prose. no matter if exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter courting or the finer issues of time go back and forth, Galchen is a author like none different this day.