Great short stories of the world
By: selected by the editors of the Reader's Digest
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Montreal; Pleasantville, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 799
Copyright date: 1974
Other titles: Reader's Digest.
Description: Over seventy short stories considered among the finest examples of the storyteller's art.
Table of contents: title: The Leader of the people / John Steinbeck; title: Mr. Know-All / W. Somerset Maugham; title: Vanka / Anton Chekhov; title: The Happy prince / Oscar Wilde; title: The Old demon / Pearl S. Buck; title: The Sailor-Boys's tale / Isak Dinesen; title: Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley; title: Butch minds the Baby / Damon Runyon; title: Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers; title: Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassant; title: The Open boat / Stephen Crane; title: My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor; title: The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway; title: A Letter to God / Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes; title: The Little Bouilloux girl / Colette; title: The Ruby / Corrado Alvaro; title: Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer; title: The Boarding house / James Joyce; title: The Brute / Joseph Conrad; title: A Double game / Alberto Moravia; title: Maternity / Lilika Nakos.; title: Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West; title: God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy; title: The Walker-through walls / Marcel Ayme; title: The Lottery / Shirley Jackson; title: The McWiliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain; title: The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht; title: The Overcoat / Sally Benson; title: Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall; title: The Procurator of Judaea / Anatole France; title: The Open window / Saki (H. H. Monro); title: Maria Concepcion / Katherine Anne Porter; title: My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore; title: The End of the party / Graham Greene; title: Modern children / Sholom Aleichem; title: Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: Carrion Spring / Wallace Stegner; title: Just lather, that's all / Hernando Tellez; title: The Secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber; title: The Rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence; title: The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley; title: The Mezzotint / Montgue Rhodes James; title: The Alligators / John Updike; title: Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko; title: Haircut / Ring Lardner; title: The Burning city / Hjalmar Soderberg; title: Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden.; title: The Old Chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing; title: Who cares? / Santha Rama Rau; title: Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara; title: Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S. J. Perelman; title: The Drover's wife / Henry Lawson; title: The Huntsmen / Paul Horgan; title: The Guest / Albert Camus; title: Patience / Nigel Balchin; title: Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote; title: Admiral's night / Machado de Assis; title: The Bet / Anton Chekhov; title: The Man who could work miracles / H. G. Wells; title: A Country love story / Jean Stafford; title: A Worn path / Eudora Welty; title: The Outstation / W. Somerset Maugham; title: A Prist in the family / Leo Kennedy; title: The Cop and the anthem / O. Henry; title: Marriage a la mode / Katherine Mansfield; title: The Nightingale / Maxim Gorky; title: The Launch / Max Aub; title: The Wreath / Luigi Pirandello; title: The Eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw; title: You were perfectly fine / Dorthy Parker; title: Luzina takes a holiday / Gabrielle Roy.