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The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, named after a line from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, [1] and first published by Harper & Row in 1975. [2] [3] A retrospective of Le Guin's short stories, it collects 17 previously published pieces of speculative fiction.
For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond stories only as full-length novels.
Ford County is a collection of novellas by John Grisham.His first collection of stories, it was published by Doubleday in the United States in 2009. [1]The book contains 7 short stories or novellas: [2] "Blood Drive"; "Fetching Raymond"; "Fish Files"; "Casino"; "Michael's Room"; "Quiet Haven"; and "Funny Boy".
These books involve reading small sections of print and being given two or more options to follow, with a different page number for each option. The first series of these, written by Stephen Thraves, featured stories loosely based on the original books. They were issued in plastic wallets with accessories such as maps, dice and codebooks.
Short story 4 "The Dune" Fall 2011 issue of Granta: Short story 5 "Bad Little Kid" Previously unpublished in English: Short story 6 "A Death" March 9, 2015 issue of The New Yorker: Short story 7 "The Bone Church" November 2009 issue of Playboy: Short story 8 Morality: July 2009 issue of Esquire: Novella 9 "Afterlife" June 2013 issue of Tin ...
Complete Stories (Seven Stories Press) is a 2017 collection of most of Kurt Vonnegut's previously published short stories, and several that were previously unpublished. The collection is introduced with a foreword by Dave Eggers , and is edited by Jerome Klinkowitz and Dan Wakefield .
The story begins by introducing an alluring woman, whose entrance into the room is marked by every one of its occupants. The narrator goes on to describe the event as a chess tournament, where the lady is a new participant, and he himself was the Chess Club's new captain.
A slightly expanded version of the story was published in Proulx's 1999 collection of short stories, Close Range: Wyoming Stories. The collection was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana adapted the story for the 2005 film.