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An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts. In genre fiction anthology is used to categorize collections of shorter works such as short stories and short novels, usually collected into a single...
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The New American Poetry 1945-1960
The New American Poetry 1945-1960 was a poetry anthology edited by Donald Allen, and published in 1960. It aimed to pick out the "third generation" of American modernist poets, and included quite a number of poems fresh from the little magazines of...
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- May 29, 1960
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Nanotech
Nanotech is a 1998 anthology of science fiction short-stories revolving around nanotechnology and its effects. It is edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois.
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- 1998
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Constellations
Constellations (2005) is a science fiction anthology of all-new short stories edited by Peter Crowther, the fourth in his themed science fiction anthology series for DAW Books. The stories are all intended to be inspired by the theme of...
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- 2005
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Beyond Singularity
Beyond Singularity (ISBN 978-0441013630) is a science fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was published in 2005, and includes stories on the theme of "beyond singularity" that were originally published from 1960 to 2004,...
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- 2005
The New Space Opera
The New Space Opera (2007, ISBN 978-0060846756) is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan. It was published in 2007, and includes all original stories selected to represent the genre of space opera. It includes a...
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- 2007
Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction
Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction (ISBN 1-84-183086-0) is an anthology showcasing Scottish Science Fiction and Fantasy, compiled by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson. The book was among the finalists for the 2006 World Fantasy Award...
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- 2005
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories is a science fiction anthology written and edited by Isaac Asimov (ISBN 0-385-12198-9). Following the usual form for Asimov collections, it consists of eleven short stories and a poem surrounded by commentary...
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- Sep 1976
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Once Upon a Time There Were Nine Oscillators
This book about the aesthetics and the new music composition techniques developed in Italy in the second half of the 20th century is a collection of historical documents, images, essays and interviews by Luciano Berio, Massimo Mila, Lorenzo Ferrero...
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- 2002
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from...
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- 1364
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- 1475
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The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August...
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- 1787
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Dangerous Visions
Dangerous Visions (ISBN 0-425-06176-0) was a science fiction short story anthology edited by Harlan Ellison, published in 1967.
A path-breaking collection, Dangerous Visions helped define the New Wave science fiction movement, particularly in its...
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- 1967
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Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, especially beast fables...
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Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics
The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics is a popular anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861. It was considerably revised, with input from Tennyson, about three decades later....
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- 1861
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Sex and the City
Sex and the City is a collection of essays by Candace Bushnell based on her and her friends' lifestyles. It was first published in 1997, and re-published in 2001, 2006, and in 2008 as 10th anniversary movie tie-in edition.
The book is an anthology...
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- Aug 1, 1997
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Hackers
Hackers (ISBN 0-441-00375-3) is an anthology of short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It contains stories by noted science fiction and cyberpunk writers of the late 1980s and early 1990s about hackers.
This story, written by William...
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- 1996
Mythologies
Mythologies is the title of a book by Roland Barthes, published in 1957. It is a collection of essays taken from Les Lettres nouvelles, examining the tendency of contemporary social value systems to create modern myths. Barthes also looks at the...
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- 1957
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Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
Tales from Ovid is a poetical work written by the English poet Ted Hughes. Published in 1997 by Faber and Faber, it is a retelling of twenty-four tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It won the Whitbread Book Of The Year Award for 1997 and has been...
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- 1997
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Ficciones
Ficciones is the most popular anthology of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, often considered the best introduction to his work.
Ficciones should not be confused with Labyrinths, although they have much in common....
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Tottel's Miscellany
Songes and Sonettes, usually called Tottel's Miscellany, was the first printed anthology of English poetry. It was published by Richard Tottel in 1557, and ran to many editions in the sixteenth century.
Richard Tottel was an English publisher with a...
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- 1557
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Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left
Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left is the first anthology of autobiographical writings by "Red Diaper Babies" — children of communist or other radical-left parents. Edited by Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro, it consists of memoirs, short...
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- 1998
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Bagombo Snuff Box
Bagombo Snuff Box is an assortment of short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut published in 1999. The book contains previously published, but uncollected short fiction that did not appear in Vonnegut's previous collection, Welcome to the Monkey House....
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again is the title of a 1997 collection of non-fiction writing by David Foster Wallace.
In the title essay, originally published as "Shipping Out" in Harper's, Wallace describes what he sees as the middlebrow...
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- 1997
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The Love of a Good Woman: Stories
The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998.
The eight stories of this collection (one of which was originally published in Saturday Night; five others were...
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- 1998
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Selected Stories
Selected Stories is a volume of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1996. It collects stories previously published in her eight previous books.
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- 1996
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The Tower
The Tower was a book of poems by William Butler Yeats, published in 1928.
The title, which the book shares with the second poem, refers to the Thoor Ballylee castle which Yeats purchased and lived in for some time with his family.
The book includes...
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- 1928
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The Counterfeit Man
The Counterfeit Man is a collection of science fiction short stories by Alan E. Nourse, published in 1963 by Scholastic. Several of the stories have a medical or psychological theme:
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Again, Dangerous Visions
Again, Dangerous Visions is the sequel to the science fiction short story anthology Dangerous Visions, first published in 1972. It was edited by Harlan Ellison and illustrated by Ed Emshwiller.
Like its predecessor, Again, Dangerous Visions and the...
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- 1972
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 is a collection of articles covering the 1972 presidential campaign written by the gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson and illustrated by Ralph Steadman. The articles were first serialized in Rolling Stone...
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- Jan 1973
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) is a collection of twenty-three short stories by David Foster Wallace. Several of the stories, all entitled "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men," are presented as transcripts of interviews with male subjects....
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- 1999
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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
Consider the Lobster (2005) is a collection of essays by novelist David Foster Wallace. It is also the title of one of the essays, which was published in Gourmet Magazine in 2004. The entire list of essays is as follows:
The collection was published...
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- Dec 2005
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The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The...
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- 1978
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The Further Adventures of The Joker
The Further Adventures of The Joker (1990; Bantam Books, 457 pages) is an English language paperback anthology of short fiction stories about Batman, his archenemy the Joker, and their interactions. The material was written by various authors (see...
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- 1990
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Little Altars Everywhere
Little Altars Everywhere chronicles the adventures of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - four eccentric women - and their children, affectionately called the Petites Ya-Yas.
Author Rebecca Wells alternates between setting her short stories in the 1960s, when...
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- Nov 1998
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Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses
The Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses are a set of martial songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling originally published in two parts: the first set in 1892, the second in 1896. Many have become classic military ditties, still well known, and are...
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- 1892
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Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000 and has sold over 15 million...
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- 2000
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The Puttermesser Papers
The Puttermesser Papers is a novel written by Cynthia Ozick. It was published in 1997. It could also be considered a collection of short stories, as each of the five "chapters" were published previously in various magazines before being brought...
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- 1997
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Close Range: Wyoming Stories is a 1999 collection of short stories written by E. Annie Proulx. The stories are set in the desolate landscape of rural Wyoming and detail the often grim lives of the protagonists.
The most acclaimed story from the...
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- May 10, 1999
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Hooking Up
Hooking Up is a collection of essays and short stories by American author Tom Wolfe, a number of which were earlier published in popular magazines.
The essays cover diverse topics dating from as early as 1965, including both non-fiction and fiction,...
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- 2000
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Wild Ducks Flying Backward is Tom Robbins' book, published on August 30, 2005. It is an anthology of poems, short stories, essays, reviews, and other brief writings over Robbins' career.
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (ISBN 0-553-38058-3) is the title of Tom Wolfe's first collected book of essays, published in 1965. The book is named for one of the stories in the collection that was originally published in Esquire...
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- 1965
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A Curtain of Green
A Curtain of Green was the first collection of short stories written by Eudora Welty. In these stories Welty looks at the state of Mississippi through the eyes of its inhabitants, the common people, both black and white, and presents a realistic...
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- 1941
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The Whitsun Weddings
The Whitsun Weddings is a collection of 32 poems by Philip Larkin. It was first published by Faber and Faber in the United Kingdom on 28 February 1964. It was a commercial success, by the standards of poetry publication, with the first 4,000 copies...
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- Feb 28, 1964
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Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism
Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (ISBN 1-885266-33-2) is an anthology of poets edited by Mark Jarman and David Mason, published by Story Line Press in 1996. The stated objective of this anthology was to showcase American poetry in...
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- 1996
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1634: The Ram Rebellion
1634: The Ram Rebellion is the seventh published work in the 1632 series, and is the third work to establish what is best considered as a "main plot line or thread" of historical speculative focus that are loosely organized and classified...
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Star Science Fiction Stories No.2
Star Science Fiction Stories No.2 is the second book in the anthology series, Star Science Fiction Stories, edited by Frederik Pohl. It was first published in 1953 by Ballantine Books at the cost of 35¢.
Before the Golden Age
Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s is an anthology of 25 science fiction stories from 1930s pulp magazines edited by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in April 1974.
The anthology was inspired by a dream Asimov had on...
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- Apr 1974
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Places I Never Meant to Be
Places I Never Meant to Be is a book edited by Judy Blume and first published in 1999. The book is a collection of short stories written by authors who have been censored or banned in some form in the United States. Sales went to benefit the...
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- 1999
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales is a 1995 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks consisting of seven medical case histories of individuals with neurological conditions such as autism and Tourette syndrome. An Anthropologist on Mars...
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- Feb 7, 1995
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Lord of the Fantastic
Lord of the Fantastic is a festschrift, or an anthology that memorializes someone's art, usually written by colleagues. Subtitled "Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny." The title Lord of the Fantastic is both a play off his novel Lord of Light and yet...
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- 1998
Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde is a book that contains over 1000 pages of letters written by Oscar Wilde. The book was published by Henry Holt and Company LLC in 2000 and edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis.
Merlin Holland, Oscar...
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- 2000
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Robert Bloch's Psychos
Robert Bloch's Psychos is a 1997 horror anthology that was being edited by Robert Bloch until his death in 1994. Martin H. Greenberg completed the editorial work posthumously.
The book featured the following stories by contributing authors from the...
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The World That Couldn't Be
The World That Couldn't Be is an anthology of science fiction short-stories selected by Galaxy Science Fiction editor, H. L. Gold.
Date of first publication:
- 1959
TV: 2000
TV: 2000 is a 1982 anthology of science fiction short-stories revolving around television and its implications. Its editors are Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg.
Date of first publication:
- 1982
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First Flight: Maiden Voyages in Space and Time
First Flight: Maiden Voyages in Space and Time is a science fiction short-stories anthology edited by Damon Knight.
Date of first publication:
- 1963
Faber Book of Irish Verse
The Faber Book of Irish Verse was a poetry anthology edited by John Montague and first published in 1974 by Faber and Faber. Recognised as an important collection, it has been described as 'the only general anthology of Irish verse in the past 30...
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- 1974
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The View from Castle Rock
The View from Castle Rock is a book of short stories by Canadian author Alice Munro, published in 2006 by McClelland and Stewart.
It is a collection of historical and autobiographical stories. The first part of the book narrates the lives of members...
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- 2006
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Past Imperfect
Past Imperfect is a 2001 anthology of science fiction short-stories revolving around time travel. Its editors are Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff.
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- 2001
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Too Far To Go: The Maples Stories
Too Far to Go is a collection of short stories by the American author John Updike published in 1979 in conjunction with the showing of a two-hour television movie on the NBC network with Blythe Danner, Michael Moriarty, Kathryn Walkerand Glenn Close...
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- 1979
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Hospital Station
Hospital Station is a 1962 science fiction book by author James White and is the first volume in the Sector General series. The book collects together a series of five short stories previously published in New Worlds magazine between 1957 and 1960.
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- 1962
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Space, Inc.
Space, Inc. is a 2003 anthology of science fiction short-stories revolving around careers in space. It is the first anthology edited by Julie E. Czerneda, for which she won a 2004 Prix Aurora Award.
Date of first publication:
- 2003
