All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories

Ragtime, World's Fair, The Book of Daniel—E. L. Doctorow's novels animate American history with a creative power that places readers in the mysterious currents of character and culture that shape it. His marvelous and unduly neglected shorter fiction exhibits more concentrated journeys into the same imaginative landscape, as this volume of new and collected stories reveals.

 

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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