Going to Meet the Man
by James Baldwin | 
The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor | 
Dubliners
by James Joyce | 
The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor | 
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig | 
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor | 
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love
by Raymond Carver | 
Where I'm Calling From
by Raymond Carver | 
The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson | 
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann | 
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
by Edgar Allan Poe | 
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson | 
Cathedral
by Raymond Carver | 
The Complete Short Stories
by Ernest Hemingway | 
Everything That Rises Must Converge
by Flannery O'Connor | 
The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever | 
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
by Raymond Carver | 
The Complete Short Novels
by Anton Chekhov | 
Bartleby the Scrivener
by Herman Melville | 
Selected Stories
by Anton Chekhov |
Raw, lyrical and blazing with intensity, these short stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man. 'He saw the dark bird glide into the sun and glow like a bird of flaming gold' Ranging from the Jim Crow South to a Harlem bingo parlour, from the hobo jungles of the Great Depression to Wales during the Second World War, they all display the musically layered voices, soaring language and sheer ebullience that made Ellison a giant of twentieth-century American writing. Written early in Ellison's career, several of these fourteen stories were unpublished in his lifetime, including 'A Storm of Blizzard Proportions' which features in this collection for the first time. 'Approach the simple elegance of Chekhov' Washington Post