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3 books about Short Fiction
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Abundant Light: Short Fiction
Valerie Miner
Michigan State University Press, 2004
Library of Congress PS3563.I4647A64 2004 | Dewey Decimal 813.54
Abundant Light, Valerie Miner's fourth collection of short fiction, reveals a master storyteller writing in her prime. This collection looks closely at definitions of family and asks how this fragile and frightening entity can shape us, nurture us, or even destroy us. These stories also explore friendship as it is enriched by differences in nationality, race, class, and gender. Whether set in Calcutta, Cornwall, Alberta, Edinburgh, or the Coastal Range of California, each story is imbued with a resonant spirit of place. Light is a presence and metaphor in each of these stories, physical light as well as light ranging through human insight and reflection, as characters face the possibilities of forgiveness, acceptance and reunion.
This collection contains stories from the best literary journals, The Georgia Review, New Letters, Salmagundi, Southwest Review,Prairie Schooner, as well as from BBC Radio 4 and Ms.
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Crafting the Female Subject: Narrative Innovation in the Short Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán
Susan M. McKenna
Catholic University of America Press, 2009
Library of Congress PQ6629.A7Z7736 2009 | Dewey Decimal 863.5
Susan McKenna presents the innovative narratives of Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spain's preeminent nineteenth-century female writer, in Crafting the Female Subject.
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The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: AN ANNOTATED EDITION
Edited by Stuart Levine and Susan Levine
University of Illinois Press, 1990
Library of Congress PS2612.A1 1990 | Dewey Decimal 813.3
The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe brings together, in one convenient edition, all of the information a reader needs to understand Poe's stories. Readable, attractive, and accessible to a general reader or student, it also provides a useful resource for the scholar and specialist. Stuart Levine and Susan Levine tracked down information that is often highly specialized and hard to come by through an extensive program of literary sleuthing—an investigation that took him through the hundreds of places where scholars make their contributions to knowledge.
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