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Great short stories.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- Local Subjects:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 536 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1950.
- Contents:
- To the readers of this book: What is a short story?
- How a short story is written
- How to read a short story
- What is a good story?
- Glossary of terms used in talking about the short story
- Short story in America: Tell-Tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
- Open boat / Stephen Crane
- All-gold canon / Jack London
- Furnished room / O. Henry
- Lost phoebe / Theodore Dreiser
- Neighbor rosicky / Willa Cather
- Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson
- Now I lay me / Ernest Hemingway
- By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benet
- Leader of the people / John Steinbeck
- Bear / William Faulkner
- Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter
- Summer of the beautiful white horse / William Saroyan
- Short story in Great Britain: Secret sharer / Joseph Conrad
- Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney / Rudyard Kipling
- Red-headed league / A. Conan Doyle
- Storyteller / Saki (H. H. Munro)
- Timber / John Galsworthy
- Man who could work miracles / H. G. Wells
- Dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield
- Lotus-eater / W. Somerset Maugham
- Short story in other countries: Death of the Dauphin / Alphonse Daudet
- Inn / Guy de Maupassant
- Beggar / Anton Chekov
- Invisible collection / Stefan Zweig
- Laugh in the desert / Pedro Prado.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies.
- OCLC:
- 1239176
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