Short shorts : an anthology of the shortest stories
By: edited by Irving Howe and Ilana Wiener Howe ; with an introduction by Irving Howe.
Contributors: Howe, Irving.; Howe, Ilana Weiner.
Publisher: Bantam Books; Random House Publishing Group
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Short stories
Table of contents: title: The three hermits ; Alyosha the pot / Leo Tolstoy; title: The beggarwoman of Locarno / Heinrich von Kleist; title: A little legend of the dance / Gottfried Keller; title: After the theatre / Anton Chekhov; title: The wolf / Giovanni Verga; title: An episode of war / Stephen Crane; title: An old man / Guy de Maupassant; title: The third bank of the river / João Guimarães Rosa; title: A Yom Kippur scandal / Sholom Aleichem; title: If not higher / I.L. Peretz; title: Eveline / James Joyce; title: A sick collier / D.H. Lawrence; title: The soft touch of grass / Luigi Pirandello; title: The hunter Gracchus ; The first sorrow / Franz Kafka; title: The untold lie ; Paper pills / Sherwood Anderson; title: A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway; title: Joy and the law / Giuseppe di Lampedusa; title: Magic / Katherine Anne Porter; title: The death of dolgushov / Isaac Babel; title: The bathhouse / Mikhail Zoschenko; title: The use of force / William Carlos Williams; title: Swaddling clothes / Yukio Mishima; title: (cont.) If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber; title: Homage for Isaac Babel / Doris Lessing; title: The dead man / Jorge Luis Borges; title: In the night / Varlam Shalamov; title: The blue bouquet / Octavio Paz; title: My father sits in the dark / Jerome Weidman; title: Wants / Grace Paley; title: Bitterness for three sleepwalkers / Gabriel García Márquez; title: The eclipse / Augusto Monterroso; title: The laugher / Heinrich Böll; title: News from the world / Paula Fox; title: Going to Jerusalem / Maria Luise Kaschnitz; title: The censors / Luisa Valenzuela.