Product Description: Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Reflecting a continent with a tragic history, An African Quilt depicts a place where even everyday life is extraordinary, and the continent’s history changes what it means to be a woman, an employee, a couple, a passerby, and, of course, a citizen...read more

Product Description: It was an age of miracles," declared F. Scott Fitzgerald of the 1920s, "it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire." No author is more closely associated with the decade than Fitzgerald, who christened it the Jazz Age and chronicled its manners and morals...read more

Tired of being a cook and housekeeper in her married sister's home, an unmarried Lulu Bett spontaneously accepts a whimsical marriage proposal during a visit from a peripatetic brother-in-law in the title novella in a collection of short fiction by the early twentieth-century American writer. Original. 17,500 first printing.

An evocative anthology of writings from some of the most important voices in American literature offers a stunning portrait of American youth, in stories, essays, reminiscences, and more from Art Buchwald, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alice Hoffman, Jack London, Tobias Wolff, Mary McCarthy, T. C. Boyle, Julia Alvarez, and others. Original.

A unique anthology of short stories about money and class in America includes the work of T. C. Boyle, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Walker, John Cheever, Sandra Cisneros, O. Henry, and many others. Original.

Product Description: The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work...read more

Presents 'The Awakening' and seventeen short stories, including 'A Shameful Affair,' 'At the 'Cadian Ball,' and 'Madame Celestin's Divorce'

A collection of short fiction spanning nearly eighty-five years features the writing of Kate Chopin, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, and others. Original.

A multicultural selection of short stories from around the world includes the work of Nadine Gordimer, Bei Dao, Anita Desai, Kobo Abe, Gabriel Garcfa Mßrquez, Isabel Allende, Chinua Achebe, Wang Anyi, R. K. Narayan, Yukio Mishima, and fifteen other notable authors. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Gathers selections from the eighteenth century British feminist's writings on the education of women, human rights, and the French Revolution

Product Description: This extraordinary volume brings together the works of two American writers. Both Jewett and Freeman used as their settings the small towns of 19th-century New England, both created as their principal characters mature and elderly women...read more