num_pages: 283
description: Seventy-five short masterpieces of fiction.A wedding without musicians / Sholem Aleichem --He swung and he missed / Nelson Algren --Senor Payroll / William E. Barrett --Houseparty / Walter Bernstein --How light belief bringeth damage / Bidpai --A psychological shipwreck / Ambrose Bierce --The father / Bjornstjerne Bjornson --Neifile's story / Boccaccio --I see you never / Ray Bradbury --The lottery ticket / Ventura Garcia Calderon --Daughter / Erskine Caldwell --A wicked boy / Anton Chekhov --Luck / Samuel Clemens --The chaser / John Collier --The upturned face / Stephen Crane --A game of billiards / Alphonse Daudet --Fear / Rhys Davies --The riddle / Walter De La Mare --The jewels of M. Lantin / Guy De Maupassant --The heavenly Christmas tree / Fyodor Dostoevsky --The ghosts / Lord Dunsany --The scoop / James T. Farrell --The bedchamber mystery / C.S. Forester --Mr. Andrews / E.M. Forster --The test / Angelica Gibbs. Truth and consequences / Brendan Gill --The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith --Virtuoso / Herbert Goldstone --Her lover / Maxim Gorky --Proof positive / Graham Greene --The butterfly / James Hanley --Absent-mindedness in a parish choir / Thomas Hardy --The hollow of the three hills / Nathaniel Hawthorne --A question of blood / Ernest Haycox --The boy who drew cats / Lafcadio Hearn --The lost soul / Ben Hecht --The exact science of matrimony / O. Henry --Fard / Aldous Huxley --The wife / Washington Irving --Charles / Shirley Jackson --Then came the legions / Mackinlay Kantor --If not higher / Isaac Loeb Perez --The wild duck's nest / Michael Mclaverty --A toast to Captain Jerk / Russell Maloney --Germans at meat / Katherine Mansfield --Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson --The ant and the grasshopper / Somerset Maugham --The guardian angel / Andre Maurois --The fiddler / Herman Melville --The pearl of Toledo / Prosper Merimee --The sniper / Liam O'Flaherty. The crime on Calle De La Persequida / Palacio Valdes --How the devil lost his poncho / Richard Palma --The standard of living / Dorothy Parker --The oval portrait / Edgar Allan Poe --Three letters- and a footnote / Horacio Quiroga --A dangerous guy indeed / Damon Runyon --Reginald's choir treat / Saki --The kiss / William Sansom --The shepherd's daughter / William Saroyan --The foreigner / Frances Steegmuller --Tom Varnish / Richard Steele --Over the hill / John Steinbeck --An attempt at reform / August Strindberg --The three hermits / Leo Tolstoy --The doctor's heroism / Villiers De L'Isle-Adam --The beggar-woman of Locarno / Heinrich Von Kleist --The phoenix / Sylvia Townsend Warner --Slipping beauty / Jerome Weidman --The hour of letdown / E.B. White --Moonlight sonata / Alexander Woollcott --God / Eugene Ivanovich Zamiatin --HoewGrandpa came into the money . Elsa Zantner --The three veterans / Leane Zugsmith --Kong at the seaside / Arnold Zweig
language: English
title: 75 Short Masterpieces
publisher: Bantam Books Inc.