Impact
Subtitle: Fifty Short Stories: Second Edition
Edition: Second Edition, printing (15)
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Austin, TX
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780030086236
Copyright date: 1996
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Appointment in Samarra / W. Somerset Maugham --; title: Tales with a twist: Tiger in the house / Ruskin Bond --; title: Rolls for the Czar / Robin Kinkead --; title: Panther: Bedtime story / Pinckney Benedict --; title: Astrologer's day / R.K. Narayan --; title: Colomber / Dino Buzzati --; title: Turning points: Three wise guys: Un Cuento De Navidad-Christmas story / Sandra Cisneros --; title: Trout / Sean O'Faolain --; title: No-guitar blues / Gary Soto --; title: I confess / Wei Wenjuan --; title: War / Luigi Pirandello --; title: Heart of the matter: Home / Gwendolyn Brooks --; title: Success story / James Gould Cozzens --; title: Man to send rainclouds / Leslie Marmon Silko --; title: Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe --; title: Bracelet / Yoshido Uchida --; title: Plot: Revolt of the evil fairies / Ted Poston --; title: Dinner party / Mona Gardner --; title: Stolen day / Sherwood Anderson --; title: Who's there? / Arthur C. Clarke --; title: Interlopers / Saki (H.H. Munro) --; title: Character: Gentleman of Rio En Medio / Juan A.A. Sedillo --; title: Thank you, M'am / Langston Hughes --; title: All the years of her life / Morley Callaghan --; title: Rifles of the regiment / Eric Knight --; title: Charles / Shirley Jackson --; title: Setting: All summer in a day / Ray Bradbury --; title: Sniper / Liam O'Flaherty --; title: Too soon a woman / Dorothy M. Johnson --; title: Wild duck's nest / Michael McLaverty --; title: La Puerta / Jose Antonio Buciaga --; title: Point of view: Day's wait / Ernest Hemingway --; title: Zlateh the goat / Isaac Bashevis Singer --; title: What happened during the ice storm / Jim Heynen --; title: Piece of yarn / Guy de Maupassant --; title: Lady, or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton --; title: Tone: Circuit / Francisco Jimenez --; title: Secret for two / Quentin Reynolds --; title: Princess and the tin box / James Thurber --; title: Top of the food chain / T. Coraghessan Boyle --; title: Just lather, that's all / Hernando Tellez --; title: Theme: Emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Anderson --; title: Nincompoop / Anton Chekhov --; title: Ambush / Tim O'Brien --; title: Game of catch / Richard Wilbur --; title: Return / Ngugi wa Thiong'o --; title: Total effect: Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: August heat / William Fryer Harvey --; title: Luck / Mark Twain --; title: Gift of the magi / O. Henry --; title: Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz.