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An edition of The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories, 1945-1985 (1986)

The Penguin book of international short stories

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A compilation of short stories written since World War II by authors from Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and North and South America.

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Penguin
Language
English
Pages
1062

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Subjects

Short stories, Fiction, Fiction, collections, Nouvelles, Roman

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20th century

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Cover of: The Penguin book of international short stories
The Penguin book of international short stories
1989, Penguin
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Cover of: The Penguin book of international short stories
The Penguin book of international short stories
1989, Penguin
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: The art of the tale
The art of the tale: an international anthology of short stories, 1945-1985
1986, Viking
in English
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Page xi
Introduction
Page xiii
The Sacrificial Egg
by Chinua Achebe
Page 1
The Bound Man
by Ilse Aichinger
Page 6
Little Whale, Varnisher of Reality
by Vasily Aksenov
Page 18
Hair Jewellery
by Margaret Atwood
Page 31
Everything
by Ingeborg Bachmann
Page 46
Going to Meet the Man
by James Baldwin
Page 62
The Child Screams and Looks Back at You
by Russell Banks
Page 79
Cortés and Montezuma
by Donald Barthelme
Page 87
Jacklighting
by Ann Beattie
Page 95
First Love
by Samuel Beckett
Page 102
Action Will Be Taken
by Heinrich Böll
Page 119
Do Stay, Giraffe
by Wolfgang Borchert
Page 124
The Aleph
by Jorge Luis Borges
Page 127
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
by Tadeusz Borowski
Page 139
Cowardice
by Abdeslam Boulaich
Page 155
A Distant Episode
by Paul Bowles
Page 157
Greasy Lake
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Page 169
Ceil
by Harold Brodkey
Page 179
Seven Floors
by Dino Buzzati
Page 193
The Adventure of a Traveller
by Italo Calvino
Page 207
The Adulterous Woman
by Albert Camus
Page 220
Children on Their Birthdays
by Truman Capote
Page 235
Fat
by Raymond Carver
Page 252
The Country Husband
by John Cheever
Page 257
Quenby and Ola, Swede
by Robert Coover
Page 281
Bestiary
by Julio Cortázar
Page 295
The Haile Selassie Funeral
by Guy Davenport
Page 310
The Cloak
by Isak Dinesen
Page 316
The Hunter
by E. L. Doctorow
Page 329
I Look Out for Ed Wolfe
by Stanley Elkin
Page 338
Communist
by Richard Ford
Page 363
The Doll Queen
by Carlos Fuentes
Page 379
The Chosen Husband
by Mavis Gallant
Page 394
Order of Insects
by William Gass
Page 412
The Mother
by Natalia Ginzburg
Page 419
The Life of the Imagination
by Nadine Gordimer
Page 429
Two Gentle People
by Graham Greene
Page 442
Why I Transformed Myself into a Nightingale
by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Page 449
One Arm
by Yasunari Kawabata
Page 454
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
by Milan Kundera
Page 470
Gogol's Wife
by Tommaso Landolfi
Page 487
The Habit of Loving
by Doris Lessing
Page 498
The Challenge
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Page 521
The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish
by Naguib Mahfouz
Page 532
The Last Mohican
by Bernard Malamud
Page 539
Eyes of a Blue Dog
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Page 561
The Pilgrimage
by William Maxwell
Page 567
First Love, Last Rites
by Ian McEwan
Page 576
The Deal
by Leonard Michaels
Page 587
Patriotism
by Yukio Mishima
Page 595
Jewellery
by Alberto Moravia
Page 618
Doctor Safi
by Mohammed Mrabet
Page 624
Spring in Fialta
by Vladimir Nabokov
Page 633
Naga
by R. K. Narayan
Page 652
The Tryst
by Joyce Carol Oates
Page 662
Sister Imelda
by Edna O'Brien
Page 675
The Artificial Nigger
by Flannery O'Connor
Page 694
A Set of Variations on a Borrowed Theme
by Frank O'Connor
Page 714
Nomad and Viper
by Amos Oz
Page 740
The Suitcase
by Cynthia Ozick
Page 757
The Contest
by Grace Paley
Page 777
Suicides
by Cesare Pavese
Page 785
The Saint
by V. S. Pritchett
Page 800
Eventide
by James Purdy
Page 813
The Replacement
by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Page 821
Rain
by Mercè Rodoreda
Page 825
In the Garden
by Leon Rooke
Page 832
Talpa
by Juan Rulfo
Page 847
XXII
by Nathalie Sarraute
Page 855
Henne Fire
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Page 857
Unguided Tour
by Susan Sontag
Page 868
Children Are Bored on Sunday
by Jean Stafford
Page 879
A Friend and Protector
by Peter Taylor
Page 889
Death and the Maiden
by Michel Tournier
Page 908
Beyond the Pale
by William Trevor
Page 927
Separating
by John Updike
Page 952
I'm Your Horse in the Night
by Luisa Valenzuela
Page 963
No Place For You, My Love
by Eudora Welty
Page 967
Five-Twenty
by Patrick White
Page 985
Hunters in the Snow
by Tobias Wolff
Page 1008
Big Black Good Man
by Richard Wright
Page 1023
The Best of Everything
by Richard Yates
Page 1036
Biographical Notes
Page 1049
Sources and Acknowledgements
Page 1063

Edition Notes

Cover title: The Penguin book of international short stories 1945 - 1985.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.83/1
Library of Congress
PN6120.2

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi,1062p.
Number of pages
1062

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OL22348797M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0140106510
Library Thing
5809287
Goodreads
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