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Death, that ending of all endings, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on death-and for planned anthologies on such topics as work, family, animals, children, and more.Most of the expected ways by which we take our leave are covered here: accident, murder, suicide, illness, old age. Perhaps less expected is how, in these stories, a matter we'd rather not think about becomes the stuff of fiction so compelling that we can't stop thinking about it. How can something so final and certain spread so much ambiguity in its wake? What did we think of the departed, and what did they think of us? How long will they be around—in our hearts and heads-even after they're gone? How will we forgive those who may have caused the death of a loved one? These fifteen stories give us many new ways of looking not only at death but at the lives that must go on in its aftermath.

Short stories, American. --- Death --- Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

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The latest Grist Anthology is an innovative blend of some of the most exciting and freshest voices in prose and poetry today. It features five sections written from five distinct narrative viewpoints.

English poetry --- Short stories, English. --- English prose literature. --- English short stories --- English fiction --- English literature --- short fiction --- anthology --- prose --- english literature --- poetry --- stories

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Although L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is best remembered for the twenty-two book-length works of fiction that she published in her lifetime, from Anne of Green Gables (1908) to Anne of Ingleside (1939), she also contributed some five hundred short stories and serials to a wide range of North American and British periodicals from 1895 to 1940. While most of these stories demonstrate her ability to produce material that would fit the mainstream periodical fiction market as it evolved across almost half a century, many of them also contain early incarnations of characters, storylines, conversations, and settings that she would rework for inclusion in her novels and collections of linked short stories.In Twice upon a Time, the third volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library, Benjamin Lefebvre collects and discusses over two dozen stories from across Montgomery's career as a short fiction writer, many of them available in book form for the first time. The volume offers a rare glimpse into Montgomery's creative process in adapting her periodical work for her books, which continue to fascinate readers all over the world.

Short stories, Canadian. --- Montgomery, Lucy Maud --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian. --- Anne of Green Gables. --- Canadian literature and culture. --- Lucy Maud Montgomery. --- Prince Edward Island. --- gender studies. --- periodical studies. --- popular culture. --- short fiction. --- short stories. --- women’s writing. --- Montgomery, L. M.

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Alla centralità del tema amoroso nella narrativa breve non di rado si connette o si affianca la rappresentazione dell’irrazionalità e della follia, in diversi gradi, forme e manifestazioni: dal tragico al comico, dal drammatico al grottesco, dal serio e grave al parodico e irridente. A tali tematiche, dal Medioevo a Cervantes, e alle loro differenti declinazioni – cui si oppongono specularmente, con maggiore o minore frequenza e intensità, i richiami a principi d’ordine, ragione e misura – sono dedicati i saggi di questo volume, che trae origine dal confronto e dialogo di un gruppo di studiosi di più ambiti disciplinari: Letteratura italiana (Johannes Bartuschat, Anna Maria Cabrini, Sandra Carapezza, Claude Cazalé Bérard, Cristina Zampese); Filologia romanza (Beatrice Barbiellini Amidei, Luca Sacchi); Letteratura spagnola (Antonio Gargano, Maria Rosso); Linguistica italiana (Giuseppe Polimeni).

Language & Linguistics --- le thème de l'amour dans la fiction courte --- irrationalité --- folie --- littérature italienne --- philologie romane --- littérature espagnole --- linguistique italienne --- il tema amoroso nella narrativa breve --- irrazionalità --- follia --- Letteratura italiana --- Filologia romanza --- Letteratura spagnola --- Linguistica italiana --- the love theme in short fiction --- irrationality --- madness --- Italian literature --- Romance philology --- Spanish literature --- Italian linguistics

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This collection of Russian short stories from the 21st century includes works by famous writers and young talents alike, representing a diversity of generational, gender, ethnic and national identities. Their authors live not only in Russia, but also in Europe and the US. Short stories in this volume display a vast spectrum of subgenres, from grotesque absurdist stories to lyrical essays, from realistic narratives to fantastic parables. Taken together, they display rich and complex cultural and intellectual reality of contemporary Russia, in which political, social, and ethnic conflicts of today coexist with themes and characters resonating with classical literature, albeit invariably twisted and transformed in an unpredictable way. Most of texts in this volume appear in English for the first time. 21 may be useful for college courses but will also provide exciting reading for anyone interested in contemporary Russia.

Russian prose literature --- Russian literature --- Aleksandr Ilichevsky. --- Aleksey Tsvetkov Jr. --- Arkady Babchenko. --- Denis Osokin. --- Elena Dolgopyat. --- Evgeny Shklovsky. --- Kirill Kobrin. --- Lara Vapnyar. --- Leonid Kostyukov. --- Linor Goralik. --- Margarita Khemlin. --- Maria Boteva. --- Marianna Geide. --- Nikolai Baitov. --- Nikolai Kononov. --- Pavel Pepperstein. --- Polina Barskova. --- Russia. --- Russian culture. --- Russian fiction. --- Russian literature. --- Russian short stories. --- Russian writers. --- Sergei Soloukh. --- Short stories. --- Stanislav Lvovsky. --- Valery Votrin. --- Vladimir Sorokin. --- contemporary Russia. --- contemporary fiction. --- diversity in writing. --- early 21st century. --- fiction. --- literature in translation. --- prose. --- short fiction. --- twenty first century. --- twenty-first century. --- Russian prose literature. --- Short stories, Russian --- Short stories, Russian. --- 2000-2099.