An edition of A treasury of short stories (1947)

A treasury of short stories

favorites of the past hundred years from Turgenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemingway; with biographical sketches of the authors

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An edition of A treasury of short stories (1947)

A treasury of short stories

favorites of the past hundred years from Turgenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemingway; with biographical sketches of the authors

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Containing favorites of the past 100 years from Turenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemmingway.

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Simon and Schuster
Language
English
Pages
849

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Table of Contents

Yermolaï and the miller's wife -- Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
The death of Ivan Ilyich -- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoi [Tolstoy]
A day in the country -- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A passion in the desert -- Honoré de Balzac
A simple heart -- Gustave Flaubert
Two little soldiers -- Guy de Maupassant
The last lesson -- Alphonse Daudet
Our lady's juggler -- Anatole France
The steadfast tin soldier -- Hans Christian Andersen
Germelshausen -- Friedrich Gerstäcker
The Saint Joseph's ass -- Giovanni Verga
A lodging for the night -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Quattrocentisteria -- Maurice Hewlett
The red-headed league -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Without benefit of clergy -- Rudyard Kipling
The tragedy of a comic song -- Leonard Merrick
The money box -- W.W. Jacobs
The secret sharer -- Joseph Conrad
The cask of Amontillado -- Edgar Allan Poe
A horseman in the sky -- Ambrose Bierce
The Hiltons' holiday -- Sara Orne Jewett
The griffin and the Minor Canon -- Frank Stockton
The pace of youth -- Stephen Crane
To build a fire -- Jack London
The coming-out of Maggie -- O. Henry
The altar of the dead -- Henry James
Afterward -- Edith Wharton
Sorrow-acre -- Isak Dinesen
The storyteller -- Frank O'Connor
The old hunter -- Liam O'Flaherty
Sinners -- Sean O'Faoláin
The rocking-horse winner -- D.H. Lawrence
The doll's house -- Katherine Mansfield
Mackintosh -- W. Somerset Maugham
Young Archimedes -- Aldous Huxley
Bella Fleace gave a party -- Evelyn Waugh
Joining Charles -- Elizabeth Bowen
Beware of the dog -- Roald Dahl
The mezzotint -- M.R. James
The story of a panic -- E.M. Forster
The open window -- Saki (H.H. Munro)
The beckoning fair one -- Oliver Onions
A haunted house -- Virginia Woolf
Adam and Eve and pinch me -- A.E. Coppard
The voice in the night -- William Hope Hodgson
Bird of prey -- John Collier
I'm a fool -- Sherwood Anderson
Some like them cold -- Ring Lardner
Blood pressure -- Damon Runyon
Babylon revisited -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Night club -- Katharine Brush
A telephone call -- Dorothy Parker
The snows of Kilimanjaro -- Ernest Hemingway
The leader of the people -- John Steinbeck
Price's always open -- John O'Hara
The tuxedos -- Jerome Weidman
Act of faith -- Irwin Shaw
The secret life of Walter Mitty -- James Thurber
Sacre du printemps -- Ludwig Bemelmans
Seventy thousand Assyrians -- William Saroyan
O'Halloran's luck -- Stephen Vincent Benét
Tom Whipple -- Walter D. Edmonds
Silent snow, secret snow -- Conrad Aiken
Sex education -- Dorothy Canfield
The petrified man -- Eudora Welty
The hound -- William Faulkner
No door -- Thomas Wolfe
Saturday afternoon -- Erskine Caldwell
Almos' a man -- Richard Wright
The old order -- Katherine Anne Porter.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.08
Library of Congress
PZ1.S2877 Tr, PN6014 .K47x

The Physical Object

Pagination
1 online resource (xiii, 849 pages)
Number of pages
849

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32148743M
Internet Archive
treasuryofshorts0000unse
OCLC/WorldCat
646982632

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