50 great short stories /
50 great short stories /
Fifty great short stories
edited by Milton Crane.
- 571 pages ; 18 cm.
- Bantam classic .
"Original Bantam edition published August 1952 ... Bantam Classic reissue September 2005"--Title page verso. Includes index.
The garden party / The three-day blow / The standard of living / The Saint / The other side of the hedge / Brooksmith / The jockey / The courting of Dinah Shadd / The shot / Graven Image / Putois / Only the dead know Brooklyn / A.V. Laider / The lottery / The masque of the Red Death / Looking back / The man higher up / The summer of the beautiful white horse / Katherine Mansfield -- Ernest Hemingway -- Dorothy Parker -- V.S. Pritchett -- E.M. Forster -- Henry James -- Carson McCullers -- Rudyard Kipling -- Alexander Poushkin ; translated by T. Keane -- John O'Hara -- Anatole France -- Thomas Wolfe -- Max Beerbohm -- Shirley Jackson -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Guy de Maupassant -- O. Henry -- William Saroyan. The other two / Theft / A good man is hard to find / The man of the house / The man who shot snapping turtles / The Gioconda smile / The curfew tolls / Father wakes up the village / Ivy Day in the committee room / The chrysanthemums / The door / An upheaval / How beautiful with shoes / A haunted house / The catbird seat / The Schartz-Metterklume method / The death of a Bachelor / The apostate / The Phoenix / That evening sun / Edith Wharton -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Flannery O'Connor -- Frank O'Connor -- Edmund Wilson -- Aldous Huxley -- Stephen Vincent Benet -- Clarence Day -- James Joyce -- John Steinbeck -- E.B. White -- Anton Chekhov -- Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Virginia Woolf -- James Thurber -- H.H. Munro -- Arthur Schnitzler -- George Milburn -- Sylvia Townsend Warner -- William Faulkner. The law / The tale / A girl from Red Lion, PA / Main currents of American thought / The ghosts / The minister's black veil / A string of beads / The golden honeymoon / The man who could work miracles / The foreigner / Thrawn Janet / The chaser / Robert M. Coates -- Joseph Conrad -- H.L. Mencken -- Irwin Shaw -- Lord Dunsany -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- W. Somerset Maugham -- Ring Lardner -- H.G. Wells -- Francis Steegmuller -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- John Collier.
"50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction ..."--Cover.
9780553277456
Short stories--Translations into English.
--Reading book
808.831 / FIF
"Original Bantam edition published August 1952 ... Bantam Classic reissue September 2005"--Title page verso. Includes index.
The garden party / The three-day blow / The standard of living / The Saint / The other side of the hedge / Brooksmith / The jockey / The courting of Dinah Shadd / The shot / Graven Image / Putois / Only the dead know Brooklyn / A.V. Laider / The lottery / The masque of the Red Death / Looking back / The man higher up / The summer of the beautiful white horse / Katherine Mansfield -- Ernest Hemingway -- Dorothy Parker -- V.S. Pritchett -- E.M. Forster -- Henry James -- Carson McCullers -- Rudyard Kipling -- Alexander Poushkin ; translated by T. Keane -- John O'Hara -- Anatole France -- Thomas Wolfe -- Max Beerbohm -- Shirley Jackson -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Guy de Maupassant -- O. Henry -- William Saroyan. The other two / Theft / A good man is hard to find / The man of the house / The man who shot snapping turtles / The Gioconda smile / The curfew tolls / Father wakes up the village / Ivy Day in the committee room / The chrysanthemums / The door / An upheaval / How beautiful with shoes / A haunted house / The catbird seat / The Schartz-Metterklume method / The death of a Bachelor / The apostate / The Phoenix / That evening sun / Edith Wharton -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Flannery O'Connor -- Frank O'Connor -- Edmund Wilson -- Aldous Huxley -- Stephen Vincent Benet -- Clarence Day -- James Joyce -- John Steinbeck -- E.B. White -- Anton Chekhov -- Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Virginia Woolf -- James Thurber -- H.H. Munro -- Arthur Schnitzler -- George Milburn -- Sylvia Townsend Warner -- William Faulkner. The law / The tale / A girl from Red Lion, PA / Main currents of American thought / The ghosts / The minister's black veil / A string of beads / The golden honeymoon / The man who could work miracles / The foreigner / Thrawn Janet / The chaser / Robert M. Coates -- Joseph Conrad -- H.L. Mencken -- Irwin Shaw -- Lord Dunsany -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- W. Somerset Maugham -- Ring Lardner -- H.G. Wells -- Francis Steegmuller -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- John Collier.
"50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction ..."--Cover.
9780553277456
Short stories--Translations into English.
--Reading book
808.831 / FIF