Great Short Stories of the World
First published 1972
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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’Connor 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 Ayme 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 Rama 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.
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Reader's Digest Association · 799 pages
- Publisher
- Reader's Digest Association
- Pages
- 799
- ISBN
- 978-0-89577-008-0
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- Publisher
- Reader's Digest Association
- Pages
- 799
- ISBN
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- 978-0-89577-008-0
- Author
- Dinesen, Isak · Aleichem, Sholem · Huxley, Aldous · Shaw, Irwin, 1913–1984 · Association, Reader’s Digest · Capote, Truman, 1924–1984 · Sayers, Dorothy L., 1893–1957 · Hemingway, Ernest, 1899–1961 · Balchin, Nigel · Maugham, William Somerset · Rau, Santha Rama · Camus, Albert, 1913–1960 · Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890–1980 · Twain, Mark, 1835–1910 · Steinbeck, John, 1902–1968 · France, Anatole · Gordimer, Nadine, 1923–2014 · Brecht, Bertolt · Greene, Graham · O’Connor, Frank · Mansfield, Katherine, 1888–1923 · Alvaro, Corrado · Benson, Sally · Updike, John, 1932–2009 · Runyon, Damon · Buck, Pearl S., 1892–1973 · West, Jessamyn, 1902–1984 · Jackson, Shirley, 1916–1965 · Moravia, Alberto · Wells, H. G., 1866–1946 · Nakos, Lilika · Wilde, Oscar · Maupassat, Guy de · Joyce, James, 1882–1941 · Conrad, Joseph · Tagore, Rabindranath · Godden, Rumer · Tellez, Hernando · Lawrence, D. H. · Benchley, Robert · O’Hara, John, 1905–1970 · Perelman, S. J. · Machado de Assis, 1839–1908 · Stafford, Jean, 1915–1979 · Aub, Max · Roy, Gabrielle · Thurber, James, 1894–1961 · Kennedy, Leo · Parker, Dorothy · Crane, Stephen · James, Montague Rhodes · Fuentes, Gregorio Lopez y · Gregory, Josh · Lessing, Doris, 1919–2013 · Saki, 1870–1916 · Stegner, Wallace, 1909–1993 · Aymé, Marcel · Colette · Lardner, Ring · Horgan, Paul, 1903–1995 · Raddall, Thomas Head · Henry, O., 1862–1910 · Pirandello, Luigi · Welty, Eudora, 1909–2001 · Fitzgerald, F. Scott · Zoshchenko, Mikhail · Söderberg, Hjalmar · Lawson, Henry
- Statement
- Great Short Stories of the World / Isak Dinesen, Sholem Aleichem, Aldous Huxley, Irwin Shaw, Reader’s Digest Association, Truman Capote, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, Nigel Balchin, William Somerset Maugham, Santha Rama Rau, Albert Camus, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Anatole France, Nadine Gordimer, Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, Frank O’Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Corrado Alvaro, Sally Benson, John Updike, Damon Runyon, Pearl S. Buck, Jessamyn West, Shirley Jackson, Alberto Moravia, H. G. Wells, Lilika Nakos, Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassat, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Rabindranath Tagore, Rumer Godden, Hernando Tellez, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Benchley, John O’Hara, S. J. Perelman, Machado de Assis, Jean Stafford, Max Aub, Gabrielle Roy, James Thurber, Leo Kennedy, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, Montague Rhodes James, Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Josh Gregory, Doris Lessing, Saki, Wallace Stegner, Marcel Aymé, Colette, Ring Lardner, Paul Horgan, Thomas Head Raddall, O. Henry, Luigi Pirandello, Eudora Welty, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Hjalmar Söderberg and Henry Lawson.
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- Dublin
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- Mrs. Mooney
- Polly Mooney
- Mr. Doran