50 great short stories
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: A Bantam classic
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
Subjects: Short stories; Short stories, American; Short stories, English
Table of contents: title: 1
label: The Garden Party—Katherine Mansfield; title: 14
label: The Three-Day Blow—Ernest Hemingway; title: 22
label: The Standard of Living—Dorothy Parker; title: 27
label: The Saint—V. S. Pritchett; title: 38
label: The Other Side of the Hedge—E. M. Forster; title: 43
label: Brooksmith—Henry James; title: 58
label: The Jockey—Carson McCullers; title: 63
label: The Courting of Dinah Shadd—Rudyard Kipling; title: 82
label: The Shot—Alexander Poushkin (translated by T. Keane); title: 93
label: Graven Image—John O'Hara; title: 97
label: Putois—Anatole France (translated by Frederic Chapman); title: 109
label: Only the Dead Know Brooklyn—Thomas Wolfe; title: 113
label: A. V. Laider—Max Beerbohm; title: 130
label: The Lottery—Shirley Jackson; title: 138
label: The Masque of the Red Death—Edgar Allan Poe; title: 143
label: Looking Back—Guy de Maupassant (translated by H. N. P. Sloman); title: 148
label: The Man Higher Up—O. Henry; title: 159
label: The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse—William Saroyan; title: 165
label: The Other Two—Edith Wharton; title: 182
label: Theft—Katherine Anne Porter; title: 188
label: For Esmé—With Love and Squalor—7. D. Salinger; title: 206
label: The Man of the House—Frank O'Connor; title: 214
label: The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles—Edmund Wilson; title: 224
label: The Gioconda Smile—Aldous Huxley; title: 250
label: The Curfew Tolls—Stephen Vincent Benét; title: 264
label: Father Wakes Up the Village—Clarence Day; title: 269
label: Ivy Day in the Committee Room—James Joyce; title: 282
label: The Chrysanthemums—John Steinbeck; title: 292
label: The Door—E. B. White; title: 296
label: An Upheaval—Anton Chekhov; title: 302
label: -How Beautiful with Shoes—Wilbur Daniel Steele; title: 320
label: A Haunted House—Virginia Woolf; title: 322
label: The Catbird Seat—James Thurber; title: 330
label: The Schartz-Metterklume Method—"Saki" (H. H. Munro); title: 334
label: The Death of a Bachelor—Arthur Schnitzler; title: 344
label: -The Apostate—George Milburn; title: 348
label: -The Phoenix—Sylvia Townsend Warner; title: 352
label: That Evening Sun—William Faulkner; title: 367
label: The Law—Robert M. Coates; title: 371
label: The Tale—Joseph Conrad; title: 386
label: A Girl from Red Lion, P.A.—H. L. Mencken; title: 392
label: Main Currents of American Thought—Irwin Shaw; title: 400
label: The Ghosts—Lord Dunsany; title: 404
label: The Minister's Black Veil—Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: 415
label: A String of Beads—W. Somerset Maugham; title: 421
label: The Golden Honeymoon—Ring Lardner; title: 435
label: The Man Who Could Work Miracles—H. G. Wells; title: 449
label: The Foreigner—Francis Steegmuller; title: 452
label: Thrawn Janet—Robert Louis Stevenson; title: 461
label: The Chaser—John Collier; title: 465
label: Title Index; title: 467
label: Author Index