| Description |
xiv, 547 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Two drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- Birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- Iliad of Sandy Bar / Bret Harte -- Coup de grâce / Ambrose Bierce -- Paste / Henry James -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Record of Badalia Herodsfoot / Rudyard Kipling -- Telemachus, friend / O. Henry -- Sredni Vashtar / Hector Hugh Munro ('Saki') -- Open boat / Stephen Crane -- Ideal craftsman / Walter De La Mare -- Official position / W. Somerset Maugham -- I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- Field of mustard / A.E. Coppard -- Grace / James Joyce -- Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Who dealt? / Ring Lardner -- Woman at the store / Katherine Mansfield -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- The tent / Liam O'Flaherty -- |
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Dry September / William Faulkner -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Many are disappointed / V.S. Pritchett -- Sinners / Sean O'Faolain -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- Runaway / Morley Callaghan -- Never / H.E. Bates -- Horse and two goats / R.K. Narayan -- Visit of charity / Eudora Welty -- Various temptations / William Sansom -- My vocation / Mary Lavin -- Five-twenty / Patrick White -- Goodbye, my brother / John Cheever -- Mrs. Fortescue / Doris Lessing -- Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor -- Going home / William Trevor -- Lifeguard / John Updike. |
| Subject |
Short stories, English.
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Short stories, American.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Indexed Term |
Short stories in English, 1800-1980 - Anthologies |
| Added Author |
Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon), 1900-1997.
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| ISBN |
0192141163: $19.95 |
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