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Title The World of the short story : a twentieth century collection / selected and edited by Clifton Fadiman.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Storage  SC WORLD    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  808.83 WOR    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  808.83 FAD    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  808.83    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  808.32 F12W    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  808.83 WOR    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 847 pages ; 24 cm
Contents A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm -- Other wife / Colette -- Facts of life / Somerset Maugham -- Dusky Ruth / A.E. Coppard -- Dead man / Horacio Quiroga -- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- Odour of chrysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence -- Fly / Katherine Mansfield -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- Thirst / Ivo Andrić -- My first goose / Isaac Babel -- Greatest man in the world / James Thurber -- Piano / Aníbal M. Machado -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- That evening sun / William Faulkner -- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / Jorge L. Borges -- Mysterious Kôr / Elizabeth Bowen -- First love / Vladimir Nabokov -- My old man / Ernest Hemingway -- Door / E.B. White -- Lovers of the Lake / Sean O'Faolain -- Camberwell beauty / V.S. Pritchett -- Men / Kay Boyle -- Cap for Steve / Morley Callaghan -- Drunkard / Frank O'Connor -- Cheap in August / Graham Greene -- Dead fiddler / Isaac B. Singer -- Flight / John O'Hara -- Patented gate and the mean hamburger / Robert P. Warren -- End of the world / Dino Buzzati -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- Five-forty-eight / John Cheever -- Living / Mary Lavin --
Vertical ladder / William Sansom -- Medal from Jerusalem / Irwin Shaw -- Southern thruway / Julio Cortázar -- Jewbird / Bernard Malamud -- Silver dish / Saul Bellow -- Interior castle / Jean Stafford -- Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland / Carson McCullers -- Gift of the prodigal / Peter Taylor -- One off the short list / Doris Lessing -- Supper / Tadeusz Borowski -- Going ashore / Mavis Gallant -- Letter from his father / Nadine Gordimer -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- Three million yen / Yukio Mishima -- Artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor -- Nikishka's secrets / Yuri Kazakov -- Death constant beyond love / Gabriel G. Márquez -- Shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Complicated nature / William Trevor -- Hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera -- Game / Donald Barthelme -- Bardon bus / Alice Munro -- Pigeon feathers / John Updike -- Eli, the fanatic / Philip Roth -- How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce C. Oates -- Man from Mars / Margaret Atwood -- A small, good thing / Raymond Carver -- Weekend / Ann Beattie -- Schreuderspitze / Mark Helprin.
Subject Short stories.
Fiction -- 20th century.
Added Author Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.
ISBN 0395368057: $24.95
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