Synopses & Reviews
The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe To Build a Fire” by Jack London
The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant
The Man Who Would Be King” by Rudyard Kipling
The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry
The South” by Jorge Luis Borges
Good Country People” by Flannery OConnor
The Blind Dog” by R. K. Narayan
and Fifteen Other Classic Tales in One Volume
Masterpieces by some of the finest writers ever to make words come alive on paper, the stories in this volume have been selected to represent the full spectrum of the storytellers art. Here are works of suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama. Given sharpened focus through insightful editorial commentary, each of these tales is distinctive in style and visionand each is uniquely memorable.
Synopsis
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
To Build a Fire by Jack London
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The South by Jorge Luis Borges
Good Country People by Flannery O Connor
The Blind Dog by R. K. Narayan
and Fifteen Other Classic Tales in One Volume
Masterpieces by some of the finest writers ever to make words come alive on paper, the stories in this volume have been selected to represent the full spectrum of the storyteller s art. Here are works of suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama. Given sharpened focus through insightful editorial commentary, each of these tales is distinctive in style and vision and each is uniquely memorable.
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About the Author
David Leavitts novels and story collections include
Family Dancing (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award),
Arkansas,
The Lost Language of Cranes,
While England Sleeps (finalist for the
Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize), and
The Indian Clerk (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and shortlisted for the IMPAC/Dublin Award). His
Collected Stories appeared in 2003. A new novel,
The Two Hotel Francforts, is due out next year. He is codirector of MFA@FLA, the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Florida, where he edits the literary journal
Subtropics.
Aaron Thier received his BA from Yale and his MFA from the University of Florida. His essays and reviews appear frequently in The Nation and The New Republic, and he is a contributor to the popular narrative iPhone app called The Silent History.”