| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 1439 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
the Egg / Sherwood Anderson -- Sonny’s Blues / James Baldwin -- Lost in the funhouse / John Barth -- a shower of gold / Donald Barthelme -- Looking for Mr. Green / Saul Bellow -- the garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges -- the demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- getting on in the world / Morley Callaghan -- the guest / Albert Camus -- the swimmer / John Cheever -- the lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- the story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- the secret woman / Colette -- youth / Joseph Conrad -- the gingerbread house / Robert Coover -- the open boat / Stephen Crane -- sorrow-acre / Isak Dinesen -- the adventure of the speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle -- king of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- the bear / delta autumn / pantaloon in black / William Faulkner -- winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- the other side of the hedge / E.M. Forster -- the sea of lost time / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- the yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- the nose / Nikolai Gogol – is there nowhere else where we can meet? / Nadine Gordimer -- fly paper / Dashiell Hammett -- a song outside / John Hawkes -- young Goodman Brown / my kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway -- the lottery / Shirley Jackson -- the turn of the screw / the pupil / the beast in the jungle / Henry James -- Araby / a little cloud/ the dead / James Joyce -- the hunter Gracchus / Franz Kafka -- the man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling -- lost letters / Milan Kundera. |
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to set our house in order / Margaret Laurence -- the fox / the Prussian officer / the rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- vaster than empires and more slow / Ursula K. Le Guin -- the old chief Mshlanga / one off the short list / he temptation of Jack Orkney / Doris Lessing -- to build a fire / Jack London -- the outsider / H.P. Lovecraft -- the magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- death in Venice / Tonio Kroger / Gladius Dei / Thomas Mann -- the garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- the necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- patriotism / Yukio Mishima -- how I met my husband / Alice Munro -- Spring in Fialta / Vladimir Nabokov -- a Christmas story / V.S. Naipau l-- in the region of ice / Joyce Carol Oates -- a good man is hard to find / everything that rises must converge / Flannery O’Connor -- guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- Istand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- distance / Grace Paley -- the fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allen Poe -- flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- the valiant woman / J.F. Powers -- the secret room / Alain Robbe-Grillet -- Defender of the faith / Philip Roth -- the wall / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Gimpel the Fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer - the right hand / -Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- the secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- the death of Evan Hych / Leo Nikolaievich Tolstoy -- the notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County/ Mark Twain -- A & P / John Updike -- tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- a worn path / Eudora Welty -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- the new dress / Virginia Woolf -- the man who was almost a man / Richard Wright. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- Collections.
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| Added Author |
Richter, David H., 1945-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Borzoi book of short fiction. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1983 (OCoLC)647096090 |
| ISBN |
0394328108 paperback $13.95 |
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9780394328102 paperback |
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