Ernest Hemingway
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English
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In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers.
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English
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Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway's 1927 classic, "The Killers."
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English
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Includes, concerning the Spanish Civil War, statements personal accounts, fiction, essays, and poetry by W.H. Auden, John Dos Passos, Louis MacNeice, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, William Carlos Williams, Federico Garcia Lorca, Thomas Mann, Antoine De Saint-Exupery, George Orwell, Kenneth Rexroth, Arthur Koestler, Wyndham Lewis, John Steinbeck, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Samuel Beckett, Luis Bunuel, I.F. Stone, Pablo...
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English
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After discovering a box of notes belonging to Dr. John H. Watson dealing with Sherlock Holmes cases, a collector commissions famous writers to turn them into stories in their particular style. Among the authors are Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac. Part mystery, part literary spoof.
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Library of America volume 289
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English
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A collection of 127 first-person narratives by writers such as Richard Harding Davis, Edith Wharton, John Reed, Henry Morgenthau, Leslie Davis, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Victor Chapman, Edmond Genet, Hervey Allen, Ellen N. La Motte, Mary Borden, Carrie Chapman Catt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and many more.
"The world must be made safe for democracy," Woodrow Wilson declared a century ago,...