More than ten years after his first collection of short stories was nominated for a National Book Award, Edward P. Jones's second book (and first novel) created an even bigger critical stir. Jonathan Yardley called The Known World, about a black slaveholder in the antebellum South, ""the best new work of American fiction to cross my desk in years.""

The Known World
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories Since 1970
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Lost in the City
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All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
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The World Split Open: Great Authors on How and Why We Write
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D.C. Noir 2: The Classics
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New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2007
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Selected Shorts: Are We There Yet? (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)
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Known World, the \ El Mundo Conocido (Spanish Edition)
Releases 12/2/2025

Known World American Classics Edition : A Novel
Releases 5/5/2026