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9780449300589

Best Short Stories of the Modern Age

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  • ISBN13:

    9780449300589

  • ISBN10:

    0449300587

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1987-08-12
  • Publisher: Fawcett

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Summary

The short-stroy form continues to be a rich and fertile vein of literary expression. Collected in this remarkable volume are twenty renowned writers of the modern age who brilliantly mastered the distinctive power and beauty of the form--each bringing his or her own unique vision to the page. This powerful collection includes the work of: Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekov, Joseph Conrad, Shirley Jackson, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Lionel Trilling, and many more.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
The Tell-Tale Heart
1(6)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Jewels
7(7)
Guy de Maupassant
Gooseberries
14(11)
Anton Chekhov
The Tree of Knowledge
25(15)
Henry James
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
40(5)
Ernest Hemingway
Youth
45(30)
Joseph Conrad
The Rocking-Horse Winner
75(16)
D. H. Lawrence
Bliss
91(13)
Katherine Mansfield
The Dead
104(41)
James Joyce
Little Herr Friedemann
145(22)
Thomas Mann
Sophistication
167(9)
Sherwood Anderson
The Story of My Dovecot
176(11)
Isaac Babel
The Devil and Daniel Webster
187(15)
Stephen Vincent Benet
A Rose for Emily
202(10)
William Faulkner
The Metamorphosis (Part I)
212(15)
Franz Kafka
The Wall
227(18)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Judas
245(10)
Frank O'Connor
Of This Time, Of That Place
255(38)
Lionel Trilling
The Lottery
293(10)
Shirley Jackson
The Ledge
303
Lawrence Sargent Hall

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