Books like New Orleans Sketches
Short prose sketches Faulkner wrote in 1925 for the Times-Picayune and The Double Dealer while living in the French Quarter, portraits of beggars, sailors, jockeys and bootleggers by a young writer finding his range.
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A Curtain of Green
Welty's debut stories of small-town Mississippi lives: a travelling salesman, a postmistress, a Black jazz pianist, women talking on porches and in beauty parlours.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
All four of Welty's story collections and a few uncollected pieces, from 'Why I Live at the P.O.' and 'A Worn Path' to the linked Morgana tales of The Golden Apples.
The Moviegoer
A young man in 1960s New Orleans drifts through movies, affairs, and existential malaise, searching for something real in a world of surfaces.
The Awakening
A married woman in turn-of-the-century Louisiana begins to awaken to her own desires, and the freedom she discovers is incompatible with the world she lives in.
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Forty-two stories, among them A Rose for Emily, That Evening Sun, Barn Burning and Dry September, set mostly in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County and in the wars.
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Porter's stories and short novels, among them Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Noon Wine and Flowering Judas, set in Texas, Mexico and the South.
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Fitzgerald stories from 'The Ice Palace' and 'Winter Dreams' to 'The Rich Boy', and the title story of a reformed drinker who returns to Paris after the crash to win back his young daughter.
Table for Two
Six short stories set mostly in New York and a novella that follows Eve Ross from Rules of Civility to 1938 Hollywood, each turning on a chance meeting or a decision made over a meal.
The Garden Party and Other Stories
Mansfield's stories of family life in New Zealand and England, among them At the Bay, The Garden Party and The Daughters of the Late Colonel.
Florida
Eleven stories that circle Florida and its storms, snakes and heat, from two small sisters abandoned on an island to a mother who walks her neighbourhood at night to keep her rage in check.
I Want To Show You More
Linked stories about faith, marriage, and desire in the American South, where Protestant conscience collides with carnal longing.
The Dancing Girl of Izu
Stories from Kawabata's early career, among them a lonely Tokyo student who falls in with a family of travelling performers on the Izu peninsula and is drawn to their young dancer.