Great Short Stories of the World
By: selected by the editors of the Reader's digest
Edition: 5th printing
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association; Reader's Digest
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Pleasantville, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 799
ISBN-13: 9780895770080
Copyright date: 1978
Subjects: Short stories
Table of contents: title: The leader of the people / John Steinbeck; title: Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham; title: Vanka / Anton Chekhov; title: The happy prince / Oscar Wilde; title: The old demon / Pearl S. Buck; title: The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen; title: Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley; title: Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon; title: Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers; title: Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat; title: The open boat / Stephen Crane; title: My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor; title: The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway; title: A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes; title: The little Bouilloux girl / Colette; title: The ruby / Corrado Alvaro; title: Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer; title: The boarding house / James Joyce; title: The brute / Joseph Conrad; title: A double game / Alberto Moravia; title: Maternity / Lilika Nakos; title: Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West; title: God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy; title: The walker-through-walls / Marcel Ayme; title: The lottery / Shirley Jackson; title: The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain; title: The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht; title: The overcoat / Sally Benson; title: Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall; title: The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France; title: The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro); title: María Concepción / Katherine A. Porter; title: My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore; title: The end of the party / Graham Greene; title: Modern children / Sholom Aleichem; title: Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner; title: Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez; title: The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber; title: The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence; title: The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley; title: The Mezzotint /Montague R. James; title: The alligators / John Updike; title: Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko; title: Haircut / Ring Lardner; title: The burning city / Hjalmar Söderberg; title: Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden; title: The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing; title: Who cares? / Santha Rama Rau; title: Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara; title: Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman; title: The drover's wife / Henry Lawson; title: The huntsmen / Paul Horgan; title: The guest / Albert Camus; title: Patience / Nigel Balchin; title: Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote; title: Admiral's night / Machado de Assis; title: The bet / Anton Chekhov; title: The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells; title: A country love story / Jean Stafford; title: A worn path / Eudora Welty; title: The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham; title: A priest in the family / Leo Kennedy; title: The cop and the anthem / O. Henry; title: Marriage á la mode / Katherine Mansfield; title: The nightingale / Maxim Gorky; title: The launch / Max Aub; title: The wreath / Luigi Pirandello; title: The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw; title: You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker; title: Luzina takes a holiday / Gabrielle Roy.