| Description |
464 pages ; 18 cm |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- Three-day blow / Ernest Hemingway -- Standard of living / Dorothy Parker -- Saint / V.S. Pritchett -- Other side of the hedge / E.M. Forster -- Brooksmith / Henry James -- Jockey / Carson McCullers -- Courting of Dinah Shadd / Rudyard Kipling -- Shot / Alexander Poushkin -- Graven Image / John O'Hara -- Putois / Anatole France -- Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe -- A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Masque of the Red Death / Edgar Allan Poe -- Looking back / Guy de Maupassant -- Man higher up / O. Henry -- Summer of the beautiful white horse / William Saroyan. The Summer of the beautiful white horse / William Saroyan. |
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Other two / Edith Wharton -- Theft / Katherine Anne Porter -- A Good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Man of the house / Frank O'Connor -- Man who shot snapping turtles / Edmund Wilson -- Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley -- Curfew tolls / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Father wakes up the village / Clarence Day -- Ivy Day in the committee room / James Joyce -- Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Door / E.B. White -- An Upheaval / Anton Chekhov -- How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- A Haunted house / Virginia Woolf -- Catbird seat / James Thurber -- Schartz-Metterklume method / H.H. Munro -- Death of a Bachelor / Arthur Schnitzler -- Apostate / George Milburn -- Phoenix / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- That evening sun / William Faulkner. |
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The law / Robert M. Coates -- Tale / Joseph Conrad -- A Girl from Red Lion, PA / H.L. Mencken -- Main currents of American thought / Irwin Shaw -- Ghosts / Lord Dunsany -- Minister's black veil / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A String of beads / W. Somerset Maugham -- Golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner -- Man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells -- Foreigner / Francis Steegmuller -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Chaser / John Collier. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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Short stories, English.
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| Added Author |
Crane, Milton, 1917-1985
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| Added Title |
Fifty great short stories. |
| ISBN |
0553277456 paperback $4.95 (In Canada $5.95) |
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