Esquire's Big Book of Fiction

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Summary: best anthology out there
Review: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wallace, Steinbeck, Nabokov...The list goes on and on. What more can you ask for? I spent the weekend with the book, and there are no duds here. Only some of the finest fiction from the 20th Century. It's also printed on high quality, thick paper, unlike so many other anthologies which are printed on paper so thin you can see through it.
It's also a beautiful book to have sitting on your coffee table.

Rating:
Summary: one word -- WOW!
Review: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wallace, Steinbeck, Nabokov...The list goes on and on. What more can you ask for? I spent the weekend with the book, and there are no duds here. Only some of the finest fiction from the 20th Century. It's also printed on high quality, thick paper, unlike so many other anthologies which are printed on paper so thin you can see through it.
It's also a beautiful book to have sitting on your coffee table.

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Summary: Best collection on the market
Review: So much better than the Best American Stories of the Century. I took this book on vacation with me, and found it to be one of the greatest collections I've ever read.

Rating:
Summary: best anthology out there
Review: This is probably pound for pound the best literary anthology I've come across. A great mix of old (Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Nabokov) and new (Means, Foster Wallace). I wish I had this book in my undergraduate days--would've been great to have these stories all consolidated in one package as they are here. It also has the best cover I've ever seen for an anthology.