The World of the short story :  a twentieth century collection /  [print] 
selected and edited by Clifton Fadiman. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  (c)1986. 
 - xiii, 847 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> A.V. Laider  Other wife  Facts of life  Dusky Ruth  Dead man  In the penal colony  Odour of chrysanthemums  Fly  He  Thirst  My first goose  Greatest man in the world  Piano  Babylon revisited  That evening sun  Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius  Mysterious Kor  First love  My old man  Door  Lovers of the Lake  Camberwell beauty  Men  Cap for Steve  Drunkard  Cheap in August  Dead fiddler  Flight  Patented gate and the mean hamburger  End of the world  Death of a traveling salesman  Five-forty-eight  Living  Max Beerbohm  --  Colette  --  Somerset Maugham  --  A.E. Coppard  --  Horacio Quiroga  --  Franz Kafka  --  D.H. Lawrence  --  Katherine Mansfield  --  Katherine Anne Porter  --  Ivo Andric  --  Isaac Babel  --  James Thurber  --  Anibal M. Machado  --  F. Scott Fitzgerald  --  William Faulkner  --  Jorge L. Borges  --  Elizabeth Bowen  --  Vladimir Nabokov  --  Ernest Hemingway  --  E.B. White  --  Sean O'Faolain  --  V.S. Pritchett  --  Kay Boyle  --  Morley Callaghan  --  Frank O'Connor  --  Graham Greene  --  Isaac B. Singer  --  John O'Hara  --  Robert P. Warren  --  Dino Buzzati  --  Eudora Welty  --  John Cheever  --  Mary Lavin --  Vertical ladder  Medal from Jerusalem  Southern thruway  Jewbird  Silver dish  Interior castle  Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland  Gift of the prodigal  One off the short list  Supper  Going ashore  Letter from his father  Miriam  Three million yen  Artificial nigger  Nikishka's secrets  Death constant beyond love  Shawl  Complicated nature  Hitchhiking game  Game  Bardon bus  Pigeon feathers  Eli, the fanatic  How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again  Man from Mars  A small, good thing  Weekend  Schreuderspitze  William Sansom  --  Irwin Shaw  --  Julio Cortazar  --  Bernard Malamud  --  Saul Bellow  --  Jean Stafford  --  Carson McCullers  --  Peter Taylor  --  Doris Lessing  --  Tadeusz Borowski  --  Mavis Gallant  --  Nadine Gordimer  --  Truman Capote  --  Yukio Mishima  --  Flannery O'Connor  --  Yuri Kazakov  --  Gabriel G. Marquez  --  Cynthia Ozick  --  William Trevor  --  Milan Kundera  --  Donald Barthelme  --  Alice Munro  --  John Updike  --  Philip Roth  --  Joyce C. Oates  --  Margaret Atwood  --  Raymond Carver  --  Ann Beattie  --  Mark Helprin. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780395368053 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>85027292 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories.<br/>Fiction--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN6120.F145.W675 1986