Books like Twelve Short Stories by Marvin Magalaner

James Joyce’s Dubliners is a landmark collection of fifteen short stories set in late‑19th‑century Dublin, capturing ordinary lives and suppressed dreams while exploring themes of lost innocence, paralysis, and the moral fabric of Irish society.

A collection of nine short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri that follows Indian and Indian‑American characters navigating identity, displacement, and complex relationships.

James Joyce’s final short story in *Dubliners*, “The Dead,” examines love, loss, and the complexities of Irish identity through a quiet, winter gathering that reveals the quiet tragedies of ordinary lives.

A 1950 Random House collection of 42 short stories by William Faulkner, supervised by the author himself, that captures Southern social life and class conflicts and earned the 1951 National Book Award for Fiction.

A collection of classic and contemporary short fiction, featuring works by renowned authors such as Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and many others, from timeless pieces like "The Lottery" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" to modern narratives.

A curated anthology of short stories spanning diverse genres and eras, assembled and contextualized by Ann Charters for study and enjoyment.

A collection of 1930s American fiction set in Yoknapatawpha County, exploring family memory, crime, pregnancy and aerial show themes.

A collection of thirteen William Faulkner short stories, including 'Victory', 'Ad Astra', 'All the Dead Pilots', and others.

A curated set of thirteen William Faulkner short stories from 1930 to 1955, illustrating his experimental prose, nonlinear narratives and Southern themes of class conflict and tradition.

A thoughtfully compiled anthology showcasing notable short stories across varied genres, eras, and cultures.

A compilation of classic short fiction from American, English, and European writers, featuring tales such as Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown" and Poe’s "Masque of the Red Death" that explore themes of morality, death, and society.

This ambitious work traces a social history of semicolonialism in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China. It takes as its central concern the intertwining of two antagonistic forces: elite constructions of modernity shaped globally, and an alternate line of peasant resistance and development. The author's specific project is to unravel the multiple strands of the semicolonial process and thereby the dominant and alternative histories it embodied. In emphasizing semicolonialism as a structural context shaping events, the book opens up a pivotal but silent area in the history of modern China. In confronting the development of capitalism as a historical phenomenon and suggesting that its consequences for land and labor on a global scale need greater theoretical and historical scrutiny, the book forces a new understanding of China's modernity.

Curated anthology of classic and contemporary short stories by more than forty writers, ranging from the American South to Latin America, from the nineteenth century to the twenty‑first.

Gogol, N. The overcoat. Melville, H. [Billy Budd, sailor](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102746W) James, H. The Aspern papers. Chopin, K. [The awakening](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL65430W) Conrad, J. Heart of darkness. Joyce, J. [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) Kafka, F. The metamorphosis. Lawrence, D.H. St. Mawr. Porter, K.A. Pale horse, pale rider. Pynchon, T. The crying of Lot 49.

A varied anthology of short stories by classic and contemporary authors, covering themes from mystery to family drama.

An anthology of classic and contemporary short fiction from diverse authors, spanning genres such as mystery, horror, and drama.

A compact anthology of masterful short stories from a diverse array of writers, spanning classic and contemporary voices, grouped by themes and authorship.