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The World of the short story : a twentieth century collection / selected and edited by Clifton Fadiman. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, (c)1986.Description: xiii, 847 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780395368053
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN6120.F145.W675 1986
Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
A.V. Laider Max Beerbohm -- Other wife Colette -- Facts of life Somerset Maugham -- Dusky Ruth A.E. Coppard -- Dead man Horacio Quiroga -- In the penal colony Franz Kafka -- Odour of chrysanthemums D.H. Lawrence -- Fly Katherine Mansfield -- He Katherine Anne Porter -- Thirst Ivo Andric -- My first goose Isaac Babel -- Greatest man in the world James Thurber -- Piano Anibal M. Machado -- Babylon revisited F. Scott Fitzgerald -- That evening sun William Faulkner -- Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Jorge L. Borges -- Mysterious Kor Elizabeth Bowen -- First love Vladimir Nabokov -- My old man Ernest Hemingway -- Door E.B. White -- Lovers of the Lake Sean O'Faolain -- Camberwell beauty V.S. Pritchett -- Men Kay Boyle -- Cap for Steve Morley Callaghan -- Drunkard Frank O'Connor -- Cheap in August Graham Greene -- Dead fiddler Isaac B. Singer -- Flight John O'Hara -- Patented gate and the mean hamburger Robert P. Warren -- End of the world Dino Buzzati -- Death of a traveling salesman Eudora Welty -- Five-forty-eight John Cheever -- Living Mary Lavin --
Vertical ladder William Sansom -- Medal from Jerusalem Irwin Shaw -- Southern thruway Julio Cortazar -- Jewbird Bernard Malamud -- Silver dish Saul Bellow -- Interior castle Jean Stafford -- Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland Carson McCullers -- Gift of the prodigal Peter Taylor -- One off the short list Doris Lessing -- Supper Tadeusz Borowski -- Going ashore Mavis Gallant -- Letter from his father Nadine Gordimer -- Miriam Truman Capote -- Three million yen Yukio Mishima -- Artificial nigger Flannery O'Connor -- Nikishka's secrets Yuri Kazakov -- Death constant beyond love Gabriel G. Marquez -- Shawl Cynthia Ozick -- Complicated nature William Trevor -- Hitchhiking game Milan Kundera -- Game Donald Barthelme -- Bardon bus Alice Munro -- Pigeon feathers John Updike -- Eli, the fanatic Philip Roth -- How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again Joyce C. Oates -- Man from Mars Margaret Atwood -- A small, good thing Raymond Carver -- Weekend Ann Beattie -- Schreuderspitze Mark Helprin.
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A.V. Laider Max Beerbohm -- Other wife Colette -- Facts of life Somerset Maugham -- Dusky Ruth A.E. Coppard -- Dead man Horacio Quiroga -- In the penal colony Franz Kafka -- Odour of chrysanthemums D.H. Lawrence -- Fly Katherine Mansfield -- He Katherine Anne Porter -- Thirst Ivo Andric -- My first goose Isaac Babel -- Greatest man in the world James Thurber -- Piano Anibal M. Machado -- Babylon revisited F. Scott Fitzgerald -- That evening sun William Faulkner -- Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Jorge L. Borges -- Mysterious Kor Elizabeth Bowen -- First love Vladimir Nabokov -- My old man Ernest Hemingway -- Door E.B. White -- Lovers of the Lake Sean O'Faolain -- Camberwell beauty V.S. Pritchett -- Men Kay Boyle -- Cap for Steve Morley Callaghan -- Drunkard Frank O'Connor -- Cheap in August Graham Greene -- Dead fiddler Isaac B. Singer -- Flight John O'Hara -- Patented gate and the mean hamburger Robert P. Warren -- End of the world Dino Buzzati -- Death of a traveling salesman Eudora Welty -- Five-forty-eight John Cheever -- Living Mary Lavin --

Vertical ladder William Sansom -- Medal from Jerusalem Irwin Shaw -- Southern thruway Julio Cortazar -- Jewbird Bernard Malamud -- Silver dish Saul Bellow -- Interior castle Jean Stafford -- Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland Carson McCullers -- Gift of the prodigal Peter Taylor -- One off the short list Doris Lessing -- Supper Tadeusz Borowski -- Going ashore Mavis Gallant -- Letter from his father Nadine Gordimer -- Miriam Truman Capote -- Three million yen Yukio Mishima -- Artificial nigger Flannery O'Connor -- Nikishka's secrets Yuri Kazakov -- Death constant beyond love Gabriel G. Marquez -- Shawl Cynthia Ozick -- Complicated nature William Trevor -- Hitchhiking game Milan Kundera -- Game Donald Barthelme -- Bardon bus Alice Munro -- Pigeon feathers John Updike -- Eli, the fanatic Philip Roth -- How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again Joyce C. Oates -- Man from Mars Margaret Atwood -- A small, good thing Raymond Carver -- Weekend Ann Beattie -- Schreuderspitze Mark Helprin.

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