The art of the tale
Subtitle: an international anthology of short stories, 1945-1985
By: edited by Daniel Halpern.
Contributors: Halpern, Daniel, 1945-
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 816
Subjects: Short stories.; Fiction -- 20th century.
Description: A compilation of short stories written since World War II by authors from Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and North and South America.
Notes: "Elisabeth Sifton Books."
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: xi; title: The Sacrificial Egg
pagenum: 5; title: The Bound Man
pagenum: 9; title: Little Whale, Varnisher of Reality
pagenum: 18; title: Hair Jewellery
pagenum: 28; title: Everything Going to Meet the Man
pagenum: 40; title: Going to Meet the Man
pagenum: 52; title: The Child Screams and Looks Back at You
pagenum: 65; title: Cortés and Montezuma
pagenum: 71; title: Jacklighting
pagenum: 77; title: First Love
pagenum: 82; title: Action Will Be Taken
pagenum: 94; title: Do Stay, Giraffe
pagenum: 98; title: The Aleph
pagenum: 100; title: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
pagenum: 110; title: Cowardice
pagenum: 122; title: A Distant Episode
pagenum: 124; title: Greasy Lake
pagenum: 133; title: Ceil
pagenum: 141; title: Seven Floors
pagenum: 152; title: The Adventure of a Traveler
pagenum: 163; title: The Adulterous Woman
pagenum: 173; title: Children on Their Birthdays
pagenum: 184; title: Fat
pagenum: 197; title: The Country Husband
pagenum: 201; title: Quenby and Ola, Swede and Carl
pagenum: 219; title: Bestiary
pagenum: 230; title: Funeral Train
pagenum: 241; title: The Cloak
pagenum: 246; title: The Hunter
pagenum: 256; title: I Look Out for Ed Wolfe
pagenum: 263; title: Communist
pagenum: 282; title: The Doll Queen
pagenum: 294; title: The Chosen Husband
pagenum: 305; title: Order of Insects
pagenum: 318; title: The Mother
pagenum: 323; title: The Life of the Imagination
pagenum: 331; title: Two Gentle People
pagenum: 341; title: Why I Transformed Myself into a Nightingale
pagenum: 347; title: One Arm
pagenum: 351; title: Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
pagenum: 364; title: Gogol's Wife
pagenum: 376; title: The Habit of Loving
pagenum: 385; title: The Challenge
pagenum: 402; title: The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish
pagenum: 411; title: The Last Mohican
pagenum: 417; title: Eyes of a Blue Dog
pagenum: 433; title: The Pilgrimage
pagenum: 438; title: First Love, Last Rites
pagenum: 445; title: The Deal
pagenum: 453; title: Patriotism
pagenum: 459; title: Jewellery
pagenum: 476; title: Doctor Safi
pagenum: 481; title: Spring in Fialta
pagenum: 488; title: Naga
pagenum: 502; title: The Tryst
pagenum: 509; title: Sister Imelda
pagenum: 519; title: The Artificial Nigger
pagenum: 533; title: A Set of Variations On a Borrowed Theme
pagenum: 548; title: Nomad and Viper
pagenum: 567; title: The Suitcase
pagenum: 580; title: The Contest
pagenum: 595; title: Suicides
pagenum: 601; title: The Saint
pagenum: 612; title: Eventide
pagenum: 622; title: The Replacement
pagenum: 629; title: Rain
pagenum: 633; title: In the Garden
pagenum: 638; title: Talpa
pagenum: 650; title: XXII
pagenum: 656; title: Henne Fire
pagenum: 658; title: Unguided Tour
pagenum: 666; title: Children Are Bored on Sunday
pagenum: 675; title: A Friend and Protector
pagenum: 683; title: Death and the Maiden
pagenum: 697; title: Beyond the Pale
pagenum: 711; title: Separating
pagenum: 730; title: I'm Your Horse in the Night
pagenum: 739; title: No Place For You, My Love
pagenum: 742; title: Five-Twenty
pagenum: 756; title: Hunters in the Snow
pagenum: 774; title: Big Black Good Man
pagenum: 786; title: The Best of Everything
pagenum: 796; title: Biographical Notes
pagenum: 806