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Great short stories of the masters /

Collected here are forty-nine uncommon stories - with introductory notes - drawn from the world's greatest essayists, poets, novelists, playwrights, and short story writers. Selected not only for sheer inventiveness, but also for the power of great literary talent, these selections include favo...

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Other Authors: Neider, Charles, 1915-, Neider, Charles, 1915-2001.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cooper Square Press : Distributed by National Book Network, 2002.
Edition:1st Cooper Square Press ed.
Subjects:
Short stories > Translations into English.
Short stories, American.
Short stories, English.
Translations.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Passover guest / Sholom Aleichem
  • A passion in the desert / Honore de Balzac
  • An evening in spring / Ivan Bunin
  • Vanka / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  • True relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe
  • Savannah-la-mar / Thomas De Quincey
  • The heavenly Christmas tree / Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
  • That evening sun go down / William Faulkner
  • The legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller / Gustave Flaubert
  • My mother / Andre Gide
  • The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith
  • The gray champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • A tale of olden time / Heinrich Heine
  • The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway
  • The history of Krakatuk / E.T.A. Hoffmann
  • The stout gentleman / Washington Irving
  • The great good place / Henry James
  • Araby / James Joyce
  • A country doctor / Franz Kafka
  • The beggar-woman of Locarno / Heinrich von Kleist
  • The outlaws / Selma Lagerlof
  • Two blue birds / D.H. Lawrence
  • Benediction / Lu Hsun
  • The massacre of the innocents / Maurice Maeterlinck
  • A weary hour / Thomas Mann
  • The piazza / Herman Melville
  • Birds of passage / Martin Anderson Nexo
  • Horse in the moon / Luigi Pirandello
  • The imp of the perverse / Edgar Allan Poe
  • Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter
  • Filial sentiments of a parricide / Marcel Proust
  • The undertaker / Alexander Pushkin
  • Twilight / Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
  • The stranger / Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Letter to a hostage / Antoine de Saint Exupery
  • The wall / Jean Paul Sartre
  • Mr. Aristotle / Ignazio Silone
  • Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Generous wine / Italo Svevo
  • The hungry stones / Rabindranath Tagore
  • The three hermits / Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
  • The district doctor / Ivan Turgenev
  • A dog's tale / Mark Twain
  • Solitude / Miguel de Unamuno
  • The duchess and the jeweller / Virginia Woolf
  • A father-to-be / Saul Bellow
  • Idiots first / Bernard Malamud
  • The Vane sisters / Vladimir Nabokov
  • Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor.

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