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Title A treasury of short stories : favorites of the past hundred years from Turgenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemingway ; with biographical sketches of the authors / edited by Bernardine Kielty.

Publication Info. New York : Simon and Schuster, [1947]
©1947

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Sperry  813.08 T71 1947    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xiii, 849 pages ; 22 cm
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Contents Yermolaï and the miller's wife / Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev -- The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoi [Tolstoy] -- A day in the country / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov -- A passion in the desert / Honoré de Balzac -- A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert -- Two little soldiers / Guy de Maupassant -- The last lesson / Alphonse Daudet -- Our lady's juggler / Anatole France -- The steadfast tin soldier / Hans Christian Andersen -- Germelshausen / Friedrich Gerstäcker -- The Saint Joseph's ass / Giovanni Verga -- A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Quattrocentisteria / Maurice Hewlett -- The red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Without benefit of clergy / Rudyard Kipling -- The tragedy of a comic song / Leonard Merrick -- The money box / W.W. Jacobs -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce -- The Hiltons' holiday / Sara Orne Jewett -- The griffin and the Minor Canon / Frank Stockton -- The pace of youth / Stephen Crane -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The coming-out of Maggie / O. Henry -- The altar of the dead / Henry James -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- Sorrow-acre / Isak Dinesen -- The storyteller / Frank O'Connor -- The old hunter / Liam O'Flaherty -- Sinners / Sean O'Faoláin -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- The doll's house / Katherine Mansfield -- Mackintosh / W. Somerset Maugham -- Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley -- Bella Fleace gave a party / Evelyn Waugh -- Joining Charles / Elizabeth Bowen -- Beware of the dog / Roald Dahl -- The mezzotint / M.R. James -- The story of a panic / E.M. Forster -- The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -- A haunted house / Virginia Woolf -- Adam and Eve and pinch me / A.E. Coppard -- The voice in the night / William Hope Hodgson -- Bird of prey / John Collier -- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson -- Some like them cold / Ring Lardner -- Blood pressure / Damon Runyon -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Night club / Katharine Brush -- A telephone call / Dorothy Parker -- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- The leader of the people / John Steinbeck -- Price's always open / John O'Hara -- The tuxedos / Jerome Weidman -- Act of faith / Irwin Shaw -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- Sacre du printemps / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Seventy thousand Assyrians / William Saroyan -- O'Halloran's luck / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Tom Whipple / Walter D. Edmonds -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- Sex education / Dorothy Canfield -- The petrified man / Eudora Welty -- The hound / William Faulkner -- No door / Thomas Wolfe -- Saturday afternoon / Erskine Caldwell -- Almos' a man / Richard Wright -- gThe old order / Katherine Anne Porter.
Subject Short stories.
Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01117043
Genre/Form Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
Short stories.
Added Author Kielty, Bernardine, editor.
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883.
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893.
Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897.
France, Anatole, 1844-1924.
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.
Gerstäcker, Friedrich, 1816-1872.
Verga, Giovanni, 1840-1922.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
Hewlett, Maurice, 1861-1923.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930.
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
Merrick, Leonard, 1864-1939.
Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.
Stockton, Frank R., 1834-1902.
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900.
London, Jack, 1876-1916.
Henry, O., 1862-1910.
James, Henry, 1811-1882.
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962.
O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966.
O'Flaherty, Liam, 1896-1984.
O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991.
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965.
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.
Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966.
Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.
Dahl, Roald.
James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936.
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.
Saki, 1870-1916.
Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878-1957.
Hodgson, William Hope, 1877-1918.
Collier, John, 1884-1968.
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933.
Runyon, Damon, 1880-1946.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
Brush, Katharine, 1900-1952.
Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
O'Hara, John, 1905-1970.
Weidman, Jerome, 1913-1998.
Shaw, Irwin, 1913-1984.
Thurber, James, 1894-1961.
Bemelmans, Ludwig, 1898-1962.
Saroyan, William, 1908-1981.
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943.
Edmonds, Walter D. (Walter Dumaux), 1903-1998.
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973.
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958.
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.

 
    
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