| Description |
xiii, 847 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents |
A. V. Laider / M. Beerbohm -- The other wife / Colette -- The facts of life / S. Maugham -- Dusky Ruth / A. E. Coppard -- The dead man / H. Quiroga -- In the penal colony / F. Kafka -- Odour of chrysanthemums / D. H. Lawrence -- The fly / K. Mansfield -- He / K. A. Porter -- Thirst / I. Andric -- My first goose / I. Babel -- The greatest man in the world / J. Thurber -- The piano / A. Monteiro Machado -- Babylon revisited / F. S. Fitzgerald -- That evening sun / W. Faulkner -- Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / J. L. Borges -- Mysterious Kôr / E. Bowen -- First love / V. Nabokov -- My old man / E. Hemingway -- The door / E. B. White -- Lovers of the lake / S. O'Faolain -- The Camberwell beauty / V. S. Pritchett -- Men / K. Boyle -- A cap for Steve / M. Callaghan -- The drunkard / F. O'Connor -- Cheap in August / G. Greene -- The dead fiddler / I. Bashevis Singer -- Flight / J. O'Hara -- The patented gate and the mean hamburger / R. Penn Warren -- The end of the world / D. Buzzati -- Death of a traveling salesman / E. Welty -- The five-forty-eight / J. Cheever -- The living / M. Lavin -- The vertical ladder / W. Sansom -- Medal from Jerusalem / I. Shaw -- The southern thruway / J. Cortazar -- The jewbird / B. Malamud -- A silver dish / S. Bellow -- The interior castle / J. Stafford -- Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland / C. McCullers -- The gift of the prodigal / P. Taylor -- One off the short list / D. Lessing -- The supper / T. Borowski -- Going ashore / M. Gallant -- Letter from his father / N. Gordimer -- Three million yen / Y. Mishima -- The artificial nigger / F. O'Connor -- Nikishka's secrets / Y. Kazakov -- Death constant beyond love / G. Garcia Marquez -- The shawl / C. Ozick -- A complicated nature / W. Trevor -- The hitchhiking game / M. Kundera -- Bardon bus / A. Munro -- Pigeon feathers / J. Updike -- Eli, the fanatic / P. Roth -- How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / J. C. Oates -- The man from Mars / M. Atwood -- A small, good thing / R. Carver -- Weekend / A. Beattie / The Schreuderspitze / M. Helprin. |
| Subject |
Short stories.
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Fiction -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.
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| ISBN |
0395368057 : $24.95 |
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