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"A most literate account of a group of most literate people by a writer of power . . . A delight of true understanding." —Wallace Stevens, Pulitzer Prize–winning poetBeneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell's classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standar...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.”From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill”...

Short stories of suspense by the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley—“a brilliant collection” with a foreword by Graham Greene (The Sunday Times).Master of tension Patricia Highsmith is best known for her novels of ever-increasing suspense, but she is equally adept at the short story, where “she is after the quick kill rather than the slow encirclement of the reader.” Eleven is Highsmith’s first collection ...

The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald gathers the fiction, stories, and essays through which one of American modernism's defining voices anatomized desire, class, youth, and disillusionment. From the crystalline social tragedy of The Great Gatsby to the romantic volatility of Tender Is the Night and the sharply observed short stories of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's prose combines lyrical elegance with moral precision. His work stands at the intersection of modernist experimentation and p...

Originally published in 1925, ‘The Witness for the Prosecution’ is a short story and play by Agatha Christie, an English writer best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, specifically those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.When affluent spinster, Emily French is found murdered, skepticism falls on Leonard Vole, the man to whom she impatiently bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wif...

The A List edition of Ticknor, the first novel by Sheila Heti — featuring a new introduction by Ben Lerner, author of Leaving the Atocha Station.George Ticknor is trying to reconcile his own failure with the success of his boyhood friend, the famous American historian William Prescott. Ticknor's life has been reduced to a series of awkward meetings, failed dinner parties, and other misfortunes he is loath to own up to. Situated in the complicated and contradictory...

Best known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman's descent into madness, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote more than 200 other short stories. Seven of her finest are reprinted here. Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include "Turned," an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a naïve servant; "Cottagette," concerning the romance of a young...

The Velveteen Rabbit is a first children's book and a heart-warming tale by Margery Williams, an English-American author, primarily of popular children's books. It is about a stuffed rabbit who longs to become real, and the magic that makes his dream come true.Christmas morning, the room filled with the hustle and bustle of preparation, a rabbit stitched of velveteen sits perched on top of the little boy's stocking. But like most children, the boy is fickle and eas...

The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real) is the charming story of a toy rabbit's quest to become real through the love of his owner. This short novel has been a favourite of children and their parents since 1922.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.

Head and Shoulders was written in the year 1920 by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. This book is one of the most popular novels of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Enter the glittering, restless, and deeply human world of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the literary voice who defined the Jazz Age and explored the dreams and disillusionments of an entire generation. The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald presents all of his novels, short stories, essays, and personal writings, offering a comprehensive view of a writer whose lyrical prose and emotional insight remain unmatched. This collection includes Fitzgerald's unforgettable masterpieces: The Great Gatsby,...

In this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines.Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider world. But as her path to the world stage leads her ever farther from the humble town she can't forget and from the man she can't afford to love, Thea learns that her exceptional musical talent and fierce ambition are not enoug...