Donald Barthelme, Forty Stories, with an Introduction by Dave Eggers (New York: Penguin Books, 1987, 2008).
Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories, with an Introduction by David Gates (New York: Penguin Books, 1982, 2003).
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Introduced by Michael Moorcock, and Illustrated by Sam Weber (London: Folio Society, 2011) ("It was a strange quiet meeting. The old man admitted to being a retired English Professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage." Id. at 68.).
Elizabeth Taylor, A Game of Hide and Seek, with an Introduction by Caleb Crain (New York: New York Review Books, 1951, 2012) (from the bookjacket:"Harriet and Vesey meet when they are teenagers, and their love is as intense and instantaneous as it is innocent. But they are young. All life still lies ahead. Vesey heads off hopefully to pursue a career as an actor. Harriet marries and has a child, becoming a settled member of suburban society. And then Vesey returns, the worse for wear, and with him the love whose memory they have both sentimentally cherished, and even after so much has happened it cannot be denied. But things are not at all as they used to be. Love, it seems, is hardly designed to survive life.").
Elizabeth Taylor, A Game of Hide and Seek, with an Introduction by Caleb Crain (New York: New York Review Books, 1951, 2012) (from the bookjacket:"Harriet and Vesey meet when they are teenagers, and their love is as intense and instantaneous as it is innocent. But they are young. All life still lies ahead. Vesey heads off hopefully to pursue a career as an actor. Harriet marries and has a child, becoming a settled member of suburban society. And then Vesey returns, the worse for wear, and with him the love whose memory they have both sentimentally cherished, and even after so much has happened it cannot be denied. But things are not at all as they used to be. Love, it seems, is hardly designed to survive life.").
