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This unusually large collection offers a well-baldnced intro- duction to the short story: American, English, European, and Russian—from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s. The selections include stories by 22 nineteenth-century masters and 26 of the great modern figures. A special section offers 13 contemporary stories representing new or experimental dimensions of short fiction. Brief biographical, notes, a chronology of authors, and an introductory es$aij on the short story are also included. --back cover
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A living relic / Ivan Turgenev ; translated by Constance Garnett --
A Christmas tree and a wedding / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated by P.H. Porosky --
The story of Yemilyan and the empty drum / Leo Tolstoy --
The bet / Anton Chekhov --
Ritter gluck / E.T.A. Hoffmann ; translated by Peter Gontrum --
The taking of the redoubt / Prosper Mérimée --
Consolation / Giovanni Verga ; translated by Giovanni Cecchetti --
The piece of string / Guy de Maupassant ; translated by Jonathan Sturges --
The traveler's story of a terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins --
A tradition of 1804 / Thomas Hardy --
The sisters Qita / Arnold Bennett --
The story of Muhammad Din / Rudyard Kipling --
The lord of the dynamos / H.G. Wells --
The remarkable rocket / Oscar Wilde --
An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad --
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe --
Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte --
A psychological shipwreck / Ambrose Bierce --
Jim Baker's blue-jay yarn / Mark Twain --
The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane --
A deal in wheat / Frank Norris --
The young man who flew past / Arcadii Averchenko ; translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney --
The awakening / Isaac Babel ; translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney --
"Our father who art in heaven" / Valentin Katayev ; translated by Marie Winn --
Tobias Mindernickel / Thomas Mann --
The poet / Hermann Hesse ; translated by Peter Gontrum --
Jackals and Arabs / Franz Kafka ; translated by Willa and Edwin Muir --
The last judgment / Karel Čapek ; translated by Norma Jeanne McFadden and Leopold Pospišil --
The chronicle of an old rose-tree / Strates Myriveles ; translated by Emmanuel Hatzantonis --
The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated by Lloyd Alexander --
Ivy day in the committee room / James Joyce --
The blind man / D.H. Lawrence --
The fly / Katherine Mansfield --
The other side of the hedge / E.M. Forster --
The duchess and the jeweller / Virginia Woolf --
Her table spread / Elizabeth Bowen --
Brother / Graham Greene --
Christmas morning / Frank O'Connor --
"Europe" / Henry James --
While the auto waits / O. Henry --
The egg / Sherwood Anderson --
The long way out / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway --
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
Rope / Katherine Anne Porter --
The benefits of American life / James T. Farrell --
Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle --
The boar hunt / José Vasconcelos ; translated by Paul Waldorf --
The secret miracle / Jorge Luis Borges ; translated by Harriet D. Onís --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
The jewbird / Bernard Malamud --
The life you save may be your own / Flannery O'Connor --
The brigadier / Isaac Rosenfeld --
Happy marriage / R.V. Cassill --
Wedding night / Tommaso Landolfi ; translated by Raymond Rosenthal --
Snow / Ted Hughes --
Us he devours / James B. Hall --
A world ends / Wolfgang Hildesheimer --
The secret room / Alain Robbe-Grillet ; translated by Richard Howard --
Stories and texts for nothing, III / Samuel Beckett ; translated by Anthony Bonner and Samuel Beckett.
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