The world of the short story : a twentieth century collection

Fadiman, Clifton 1904-1999 (Author). Fadiman, Clifton 1904-1999 (Added Author). Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956 (Added Author). Colette, 1873-1954 (Added Author). Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 (Added Author). Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878-1957 (Added Author). Quiroga, Horacio. (Added Author). Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 (Added Author). Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 (Added Author). Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 (Added Author). Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 (Added Author). Andrić, Ivo, 1892-1975 (Added Author). Babel£, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940 (Added Author). Thurber, James, 1894-1961 (Added Author). Machado, Aníbal, 1894-1964 (Added Author). Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 (Added Author). Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 (Added Author). Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 (Added Author). Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973 (Added Author). Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 (Added Author). Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 (Added Author). White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985 (Added Author). O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991 (Added Author). Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon), 1900-1997 (Added Author). Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 (Added Author). Callaghan, Morley, 1903-1990 (Added Author). O'Connor, Flannery. (Added Author). Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 (Added Author). Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991 (Added Author). O'Hara, John, 1905-1970 (Added Author). Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Added Author). Buzzati, Dino, 1906-1972 (Added Author). Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 (Added Author). Cheever, John. (Added Author). Lavin, Mary, 1912-1996 (Added Author). Sansom, William, 1912-1976 (Added Author). Shaw, Irwin, 1913-1984 (Added Author). Cortázar, Julio. (Added Author). Malamud, Bernard. (Added Author). Bellow, Saul. (Added Author). Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979 (Added Author). McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 (Added Author). Taylor, Peter. (Added Author). Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013 (Added Author). Borowski, Tadeusz, 1922-1951 (Added Author). Gallant, Mavis. (Added Author). Gordimer, Nadine. (Added Author). Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 (Added Author). Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970 (Added Author). Kazakov, Yuri. (Added Author). García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014 (Added Author). Ozick, Cynthia. (Added Author). Trevor, William, 1928-2016 (Added Author). Kundera, Milan. (Added Author). Barthelme, Donald. (Added Author). Munro, Alice, 1931- (Added Author). Updike, John. (Added Author). Roth, Philip. (Added Author). Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- (Added Author). Atwood, Margaret, 1939- (Added Author). Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988 (Added Author). Beattie, Ann. (Added Author). Helprin, Mark. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0395368057
Physical Description: 847 pages
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Publisher: Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, [1986]
Copyright: ©1986

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The shawl -- A complicated nature -- The hitchhiking game -- GAme -- Bardon bus -- Pigeon feathers -- Eli, the fanatic -- How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again -- The man from Mars -- A small, good thing -- Weekend -- The Schreuderspitze.