| Description |
xxiv, 1320 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Oedipus Rex / Sophocles -- The tragedy of King Lear / William Shakespeare -- The wild duck / Henrik Ibsen -- The three sisters / Anton Chekhov -- The doctor's dilemma / George Bernard Shaw -- Six characters in search of an author: A comedy in the making / Luigi Pirandello -- Purgatory / William Butler Yeats -- Galileo / Bertolt Brecht -- My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Bartleby the scrivener: A story of Wall Street / Herman Melville -- The grand inquisitor / Fëdor Dostoevski -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoi -- The treasure / William Somerset Maugham -- Duchoux / Guy de Maupassant -- Enemies / Anton Chekhov -- The pupil / Henry James -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The dead / James Joyce -- The Hunter Gracchus / Franz Kafka -- Tickets, please / D.H. Lawrence -- The road from Colonus / E.M. Forster -- Disorder and early sorrow / Thomas Mann -- Di Grasso: A tale of Odessa / Isaac Babel -- The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Summer's day / John O'Hara -- Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling -- The guest / Albert Camus -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud. |
| Subject |
Literature -- Collections.
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