Short story masterpieces
By: edited by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskin
Contributors: Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.; Erskine, Albert.
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
Subjects: Short stories.
Description: Thirty-five short stories by authors that include Conrad Aiken, John Cheever, Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty.
Table of contents: title: Impulse / Conrad Aiken; title: A bottle of milk for mother / Nelson Algren; title: The egg / Sherwood Anderson; title: Torch song / John Cheever; title: Witch's money / John Collier; title: An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad; title: The third prize / A.E. Coppard; title: The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane; title: Open winter / H.L. Davis; title: Barn burning / William Faulkner; title: Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: Soldier's home / Ernest Hemingway; title: The three of knowlege / Henry James; title: The boarding house / James Joyce; title: Liberty Hall / Ring Lardner; title: The horse dealer's daughter / D.H Lawrence; title: Virca Vay & Allan Cedar / Sinclair Lewis; title: Marriage à la mode / Katherine Mansfield; title: The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham; title: "Cruel and barbarous treatment" / Mary McCarthy; title: The sojouner / Carson McCullers; title: The open window / "Saki" (H.H. Munro); title: My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor; title: Innocence / Seán O'Faoláin; title: The nightingales sing / Elizabeth Parsons; title: Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter; title: The valiant woman / J.F. Powers; title: The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw; title: A country love story / Jean Stafford; title: Flight / John Steinbeck; title: A red-letter day / Elizabeth Taylor; title: A spinster's tale / Peter Taylor; title: You could look it up / James Thurber; title: Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty; title: The use of force / William Carlos Williams.