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
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xiii, 849 p ; 22 cm. - Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1947.
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Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- The old order / Katherine Anne Porter. |
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