{"title":"Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e Title:Books\u0026gt;\u0026gt;Literature \u0026amp; Fiction\u0026gt;\u0026gt;Short Stories \u0026amp; Anthologies\u0026gt;\u0026gt;Short Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Handle:books-literature-fiction-short-stories-anthologies-short-stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Children :\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"0060527986-warrior_of_the_light_from_the_bestselling_author_of_the_alchemist","title":"Warrior of the Light: From the Bestselling Author of The Alchemist","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ewarrior Of The Light: A Manual\u003c\/i\u003e Is An Inspirational Companion To \u003ci\u003ethe Alchemist\u003c\/i\u003e, An International Bestseller That Has Beguiled Millions Of Readers Around The World. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Every Short Passage Invites Us To Live Out Our Dreams, To Embrace The Uncertainty Of Life, And To Rise To Our Own Unique Destiny In His Inimitable Style, Paulo Coelho Helps Bring Out The Warrior Of The Light Within Each Of Us. He Also Shows Readers How To Embark Upon The Way Of The Warrior: The One Who Appreciates The Miracle Of Being Alive, The One Who Accepts Failure, And The One Whose Quest Leads Him To Become The Person He Wants To Be. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Paulo Coelho Is One Of The Most Beloved Storytellers Of Our Times. Now, In The Long-awaited Companion To His First Novel, Coelho Presents A Collection Of Philosophical Stories That Will Delight And Guide Seekers Everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e publishers Weekly \u003cp\u003ethis Companion Volume To Coelho's Popular The Alchemist Is An Odd Hybrid-a Self-help Manual With Fictional Overtones; A Series Of Aphorisms And Platitudes Set Within The Frame Of The Sketchiest Of Parables. In The Parable, A Boy Meets A Beautiful Woman At A Beach, Who Proceeds To Tell Him About A Hidden Undersea Temple Near A Vanished Island. The Boy Fails In His Initial Attempt To Find The Temple, Though He Hears Its Bells Ring, But Later, As A Grown Man, He Again Meets The Woman, Who Hands Him An Empty Notebook And Directs Him To Write About The Warrior Of The Light, A Being Who Is Capable Of Understanding The Miracle Of Life, Of Fighting To The Last For Something He Believes In-and Of Hearing The Bells That The Waves Set Ringing On The Seabed. Some Of The Aphorisms That Follow Have A Specific Spiritual Source-lao Tzu, Gandhi, Jesus And Rabbi Nachman Of Breslov, Among Others, Are Quoted. Coelho Provides General Spiritual Inspiration, But He Also Offers Guidance In More Mundane Matters, Explaining The Specific Motivations Behind Childish, Immature Behavior, Cowardly Moments, Feelings Of Spiritual Emptiness And The Reluctance To Change. Some Of These Passages Are Original, But Others Merely Repackage Common Inspirational Fodder. The Volume Preserves The Basic Spiritual Tone Of The Alchemist, But Readers Expecting Comparable Depth And Substance Will Be Disappointed. (mar.) Forecast: The Price Of This Tiny Hardcover May Be A Stumbling Block For Buyers; A Cheaper Paperback Might Have Been A Better Bet. 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That’s what Henry has to decide in \"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,\"one of the seven stories in this extra-ordinary collection. In addition to imaginative and magical tales, this book also contains the true story of how Roald Dahl became a writer, as well as a copy of the very first nonfiction story he wrote for The Saturday Evening Post. Packed with wit and adventure, the collection is a clever mix of fantasy and reality — and a stunning showcase of Dahl’s prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\nChildren's Literature\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of Roald Dahl's popular short stories introduces a new generation of readers to his engaging writing style and unique brand of humor. The seven stories included in this volume are--\"The Boy Who Talked with Animals,\" \"The Hitchhiker,\" \"The Mildenhall Treasure,\" \"The Swan,\" \"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,\" \"Lucky Break: How I Became a Writer,\" and \"A Piece of Cake: First Story-1942.\" This wonderful collection of stories offers a clever mix of fantasy and reality--from a young boy who rescues a giant sea turtle and a plowman who discovers a unique treasure to a cunning hitchhiker who picks pockets and a wealthy man who learns how to read cards and donates all of his winnings to several orphanages. In addition to memorable characters and creative plots, this book also contains the story of how Roald Dahl became a writer, as well as a copy of the very first nonfiction story he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post. Packed with wit and sarcasm, this book truly represents the best of Dahl. He's a gifted writer with a knack for telling outrageous stories and creating unforgettable scenarios. Young adults and adults will treasure this book. 2000, Puffin Books, Ages 12 up, $5.99 and $4.99. 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The Best of Gene Wolfe is an amazing retrospective collection of his short fiction, selected by Wolfe himself.Too many award winners and Best Of stories to list here; just as a sample we have \"The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories\", \"The Fifth Head of Cerberus\", \"Petting Zoo\", \"The Tree Is My Hat\", \"Seven American Nights\", and \"A Cabin on the Coast.\" Incredible tales from a writer who challenged and amazed. Who revolutionized the genre.And whose stories will stand the test of time. “Wolfe is our Melville.”―Ursula K. Le Guin\u003cbr\u003e      Review      \u003cbr\u003ePraise for Gene Wolfe“Wolfe is our Melville.”―Ursula K. Le Guin“If any writer from within genre fiction ever merited the designation Great Author, it is surely Wolfe . . . [who] reads like Dickens, Proust, Kipling, Chesterton, Borges, and Nabokov rolled into one.”―The Washington Post Book World “One of the literary giants of science fiction.”―The Denver Post  “Gene Wolfe is as good a writer as there is today...I feel a little bit like a musical contemporary attempting to tell people what's good about Mozart.”―The Chicago Sun-Times“Wolfe is sf’s greatest novelist, and overall one of America’s finest.”―The Washington Post Book World “Wolfe is a sophisticated stylist, and has more in common with writers such as Jorge Luis Borges than almost any science fiction writer both in terms of craft and themes.”―The Boston Globe“Quite possibly the most important writer in the sf field.”―The Encyclopedia of Science FictionPraise for The Best of Gene Wolfe“The Best of Gene Wolfe reflects his great versatility as a stylist, introducing me not to another side of Gene Wolfe, but to a great variety of other sides. ...Wolfe stands out as a major figure in contemporary science fiction and fantasy.” ―Vector“If every contemporary sf writer bar one were to be wiped out, it's a fair bet that Gene Wolfe would top many lists of who should be saved. ...An essential addition to any sf library.” ―Interzone“Wolfe mixes pulp adventure, ghost stories, and noir with self-reference, meta-fiction, unreliable narrators, and puns. ...A highly flattering career retrospective of a postmodern fabulist disguised as a mild-mannered SF writer.” ―Publishers Weekly“Wolfe is the best and smartest writer ever to write pulp science fiction and fantasy. ...You need this collection of 20th Century Wolfe, and we can only hope we'll see the 21st Century Wolfe collected before too long as well. And yes, this one is essential.” ―Jonathan Strahan“There are all kinds of stories in this collection, from adventure to meta-fiction to SF noir. ...here are so many really strong stories in the collection that anyone who loves reading, much less whether they usually enjoy speculative fiction or not, would be crazy not to check it out. Highly recommended.” ―SFRevu\u003cbr\u003e      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003eGENE WOLFE (1931-2019) was a winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, multiple winner of the Nebula Award and the World Fantasy Award, as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Prix-Tour Apollo. In 2007, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. 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From The Surreal To The Mundane, These Stories Exhibit His Ability To Transform The Full Range Of Human Experience In Ways That Are Instructive, Surprising, And Relentlessly Entertaining. As Richard Eder Has Written In The Los Angeles Times Book Review, He Addresses The Fantastic And The Natural, Each With The Same Mix Of Gravity And Lightness.\u003c\/p\u003e\npublishers Weekly\n\u003cp\u003eone Of My Favorite Haruki Murakami Stories Is The Elephant Vanishes-part Of An Earlier Collection Published In 1991-in Which The Narrator Watches As An Elephant In A Zoo Grows Smaller And Smaller Until Finally The Elephant Disappears. No Explanation Is Given, There Is No Resolution, The Vanished Elephant Remains A Mystery At The Same Time That The Narrator's Life Is Changed Forever. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Murakami's New Collection Of 25 Stories, Many Of Which Have Appeared In The New Yorker And Other Publications, Also Describes These Epiphanic Instances. In The Title Story, A Character Who Is Half Deaf, Alludes To A John Ford Movie, Fort Apache, In Which John Wayne Tells The Newly Arrived Colonel That If He Actually Saw Some Indians On His Way To The Fort That Means There Weren't Any. Everything Is A Bit Off-including Of Course The Blind Willow Trees Whose Pollen Carry Flies That Burrow Inside A Sleeping Woman's Ears-as In A Dream, Where Explanations Are Always Lacking But Where Interpretations Are Plentiful. In Mirror, The Narrator Sees Someone Who Appears To Be Both Himself And Not Himself In A Mirror And Then Finds Out The Mirror Does Not Exist; The Disaffected Woman-a Lot Of Murakami's Characters Are Handicapped Or Incapacitated In Some Physical Way-in The Shinagawa Monkey, Loses Her Own Name; In Man-eating Cats, The Narrator's Girlfriend Disappears And As He Searches For Her Finds That With Each Step I Took, I Felt Myself Sinking Deeper Into A Quicksand Where My Identity Vanished. Murakami's Stories Are Difficult To Describe And One Should, I Think, Resist Attempts To Overanalyze Them. Their Beauty Lies In Their Ephemeral And Incantatory Qualities And In His Uncanny Ability To Tap Into A Sort Of Collective Unconscious. In Addition, A Part Of Murakami's Genius Is That He Uses Images As Plot Points, Going From Image To Image, Like In The Marvelous Story Airplane, Where, While Making Love, The Narrator Imagines Strings Hanging From The Ceiling And How Each One Might Open Up A Different Possibility-good And Bad. It Is Clear That Murakami Is Well Acquainted With The Teachings Of Buddhism, Western Philosophies, Jungian Theory; He Has A Deep Knowledge Of Music And, Also, I Have Been Told, Is A Dedicated, Strong Swimmer. In His Stories, He Roams Freely And Convincingly Through All These Elements (and No Doubt Many More) Without Differentiating To Create A World Where Cats Talk And Elephants Disappear. 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When Bertram Telemann, A Developmentally Disabled Man, Goes Missing From A Local Diner Near Greenbury, The Entire Community Of The Small Upstate New York Town Volunteers To Search The Surrounding Woods In Hopes Of Finding Him. High Functioning And Independent, Bertram Had Been On A Field Trip With The Staff And Fellow Residents Of The Loving Care Home When He Vanished. When No Trace Of The Man Is Found, The Disappearance Quickly Becomes An Official Missing Persons Case And Is Assigned To Detectives Peter Decker And His Partner Tyler Mcadams. As Their Investigation Deepens, The Seasoned Decker Becomes Convinced That Bertram Hadn't Lost His Way, But Had Left With Someone He Knew. Soon Decker Discovers That Elsie Schulung, A Recently Fired Nurse Who Had Worked At The Home, Seemed To Be Especially Interested In Bertram. But Answers Proves Elusive When Elsie Disappears And Human Blood Is Found In Her Kitchen. But The Complications Are Only Beginning. While Combing The Woods, Searchers Discover The Remains Of One Of Three Young Men Who Had Vanished During A Camping Trip. And For Decker, Personal Problems Are Adding Pressure As Well. After A Ten-year Absence, The Biological Mother Of Decker's And Rina's Foster Son, Gabriel, Has Suddenly Appeared In New York, Children In Tow, Wreaking Emotional Havoc On The Young Man. Juggling The Personal And Professional, A Hot Case And A Cold Case, Decker And Mcadams Race To Find Answers, Sifting Through Cabinets Of Old Files, A Plethora Of Clues And Evidence, And Discouraging Dead Ends. As On-going Searches For Bertram And The Campers' Missing Remains Continue, The Frustrated Detectives Begin To Wonder If The Woods Will Ever Give Up Its Dark Secrets . . . 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