Frank Carlson Library

This omnibus volume by one of the South's greatest writers includes stories published prior to 1980. Stories are as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. The breadth of Welty's offering is finally most visible not in the variety of types--farce, satire, horror, lyric, pastoral, mystery--but in the clarity and solidity and absolute honesty of a lifetime's vision.

Contains stories and novellas which were the precursors to, and show the evolution of, the full-length classic novel Fahrenheit 451.

"Franny" and "Zooey" are two stories about a New York family called Glass. The first two entries of what is to be a narrative series are about two of the Glass offspring.

A collection of stories in which animals confront situations which resemble aspects of human life, including the title selection in which a squirrel and a chipmunk find their love for one another threatened by their disapproving family members.

"The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories" is a classic collection of some of the most loved short stories of Rudyard Kipling, one of the most important and accomplished English authors of the twentieth century. The youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature at age 42 in 1907, Kipling, who was born in India in 1865, captured in his writing the British Empire in all of its glory and contradiction in unparalleled detail and nuance. Contained...

A novella, and ten short stories, introduce us to the last man on earth; a man planning a funeral for his unsuspecting wife; and a man whose telephone rings inside his head-- with calls from his dead father.

Every story in this book is a laugh! Mr. Nash selected each of these from his favorites and introduces them with a sampling of his own humor, in verse, for which he is a famous.

A complete collection of the writings of Poe, including his mysteries, fantasies, satires, and poems.

Here are some of the most powerful and enchanting works by this renowned Southern author, contrasting grace and old-world charm with a new generation.