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Great short stories of the world / selected by the editors of the Reader's Digest.
LIBRA - Special PN6014 .G74 1974
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 799 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pleasantville, New York : The Reader's Digest Association, [1974]
- Contents:
- The leader of the people / John Steinbeck
- Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham
- Vanka / Anton Chekhov
- The happy prince / Oscar Wilde
- The old demon / Pearl S. Buck
- The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen
- Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley
- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon
- Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers
- Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat
- The open boat / Stephen Crane
- My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Conner
- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway
- A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes
- The little Bouilloux girl / Colette
- The ruby / Corrado Alvaro
- Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer
- The boarding house / James Joyce
- The brute / Joseph Conrad
- A double game / Alberto Moravia
- Maternity / Lilika Nakos
- Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West
- God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy
- The walker-through-walls / Marcel Aymé
- The lottery / Shirley Jackson
- The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain
- The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht
- The overcoat / Sally Benson
- Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall
- The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France
- The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro)
- María Concepción / Katherine A. Porter
- My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore
- The end of the party / Graham Greene
- Modern children / Sholom Aleichem
- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner.
- Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez
- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
- The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley
- The Mezzotint /Montague R. James
- The alligators / John Updike
- Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko
- Haircut / Ring Lardner
- The burning city / Hjalmar Söderberg
- Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden
- The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing
- Who cares? / Santha R. Rau
- Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara
- Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman
- The drover's wife / Henry Lawson
- The huntsmen / Paul Horgan
- The guest / Albert Camus
- Patience / Nigel Balchin
- Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote
- Admiral's night / Machado de Assis
- The bet / Anton Chekhov
- The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells
- A country love story / Jean Stafford
- A worn path / Eudora Welty
- The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham
- A priest in the family / Leo Kennedy
- The cop and the anthem / O. Henry
- Marriage à la mode / Katherine Mansfield
- The nightingale / Maxim Gorky
- The launch / Max Aub
- The wreath / Luigi Pirandello
- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw
- You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker
- Luzina take a holiday / Gabrielle Roy.
- Notes:
- Title page printed in black and red.
- "Because of their length, the following stories have been condensed: Young Archimedes, The open boat, The brute, Babylon revisited, Fireworks for Elspeth, Who cares?, The huntsman, A priest in the family and The nightingale."--T.p. verso.
- Facsimile of author's autograph under title of each story.
- OCLC:
- 729579804
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