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“tess slesinger”

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  • Time: The Present

    Selected Stories

    by Tess Slesinger ...
    Falling in love. Falling out of love. Getting a job. Losing a job. Being too young. Being too old. Tess Slesinger's short stories deal with themes as timely as the day they were written. Though an activist in radical politics, her foremost concern was always with the hopes, fears, foibles, and needs of individual men and women. Her gift for subtle observation and gentle satire make the stories in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unpossessed

    by Tess Slesinger ...
    Tess Slesinger’s 1934 novel, The Unpossessed details the ins and outs and ups and downs of left-wing New York intellectual life and features a cast of litterateurs, layabouts, lotharios, academic activists, and fur-clad patrons of protest and the arts. This cutting comedy about hard times, bad jobs, lousy marriages, little magazines, high principles, and the morning after bears comparison with the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    by Russell Baker ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir about coming of age in America between the world wars: "So warm, so likable and so disarmingly funny" ( The New York Times).One of the New York Times' "50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years"Ranging from the backwoods of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the city of Baltimore, this remarkable memoir recounts Russell Baker's experience of growing up in pre ... Read more

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  • Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings (LOA #287)

    Complete stories / The Member of the Wedding: A Play / The Sojourner / The Square Root of Wonderful / essays, poems & autobiography

    by Carson McCullers ...
    Series Book 287 - The Library of America
    A landmark gathering of McCullers’ shorter works, including all her published stories, plays, essays, poems, and an unfinished autobiographyCelebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullers was equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writing in shorter forms. This Library of America volume brings together for the first time her twenty extraordinary stories, along with plays, ... Read more

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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, Collection

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby (his most famous), and ... Read more

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  • The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapper’s historian and poet ... Read more

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  • The Crack-Up

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism.The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

    The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

    by Patricia Highsmith ...
    "Highsmith is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre...than are Doestoevsky, Faulkner and Camus."—Joan Smith, Los Angeles TimesThe Patricia Highsmith renaissance continues with Nothing That Meets the Eye, a brilliant collection of twenty-eight psychologically penetrating stories, a great majority of which are published for the first time in this collection.This volume spans almost ... Read more

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  • Collected Stories of Willa Cather

    by Willa Cather ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    The most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories brings together all the stories published in book form during her lifetime along with two additional volumes compiled after her death.These nineteen stories resonate with all the great themes that Cather staked out like tracts of fertile land: the plight of people hungry for beauty in a country ... Read more

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  • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    Series series The Art of the Novella
    Although this novella stands out from his body of work in that it’s a playful yet sinister fairy tale, it brilliantly fuses F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ongoing lush fantasies about the extremes of wealth with his much more somber understanding of what underpins it. Loosely inspired by a summer he spent as a teenager working on a ranch in Montana, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is Fitzgerald’s ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Mortgaged Heart

    Selected Writings

    by Carson McCullers ...
    "Essential reading for any serious beginning writer . . . illuminating." — San Francisco ChronicleCarson McCullers is renowned for her Southern Gothic fiction and for such modern classics as The Member of the Wedding. This collection includes an assortment of her earliest work, written mostly before she was nineteen.Included are stories, essays, articles, poems, and writing about writing—including ... Read more

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  • The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play, Volume 1

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    The first comprehensive collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories and essays is now available in eBook only. This definitive edition pulls together the complete works from such celebrated titles as Tales of the Jazz Age, Babylon Revisited, Flappers and Philosophers, and many others. For the first time ever, readers will have all of the short stories and essays ordered chronologically in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD