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The World's Greatest Short Stories

by Daley, James

ISBN13: 9780486447162
ISBN10: 0486447162
eBook ISBN(s): 9780486114798
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2006-04-28
Publisher: Dover Publications

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Summary

Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, these outstanding short stories include works by great 19th- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Stories by Tolstoy, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Updike, Pirandello, Mann, and thirteen other celebrated figures of world literature.

Table of Contents

HERMAN MELVILLE—U.S.A.

Bartleby the Scrivener (1853)

1

(30)

GUY DE MAUPASSANT—France

The Necklace (1884)

31

(7)

LEO TOLSTOY—Russia

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)

38

(47)

RUDYARD KIPLING—England

The Man Who Would Be King (1888)

85

(28)

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN—U.S.A.

The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

113

(14)

JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSIS—Brazil

The Fortune-Teller (1896)

127

(9)

ANTON CHEKHOV—Russia

The Lady with the Toy Dog (1899)

136

(14)

RAINER MARIA RILKE—Germany

How Old Timofei Died with a Song (1900)

150

(5)

THOMAS MANN—Germany

The Path to the Cemetery (1901)

155

(7)

D.H. LAWRENCE—England

The Prussian Officer (1914)

162

(18)

JAMES JOYCE—Ireland

Araby (1914)

180

(5)

LUIGI PIRANDELLO-Italy

Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, Her Son-in-Law (1917)

185

(7)

VIRGINIA WOOLF—England

The Mark on the Wall (1921)

192

(6)

FRANZ KAFKA—Czechoslovakia

A Hunger Artist (1922)

198

(8)

KATHERINE MANSFIELD—England

The Garden-Party (1922)

206

(13)

YASUNARI KAWABATA—Japan

The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket (1924)

219

(3)

ERNEST HEMINGWAY—U.S.A.

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1926)

222

(4)

CHINUA ACHEBE—Nigeria

The Sacrificial Egg (1959)

226

(4)

JOHN UPDIKE—U.S.A.

A&P (1961)

230

(6)

JORGE LUIS BORGES—Argentina

Borges and I (1962)

236

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