Great short stories from the world's literature.
Publisher: Rinehart
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
Subjects: Short stories.
Table of contents: value: The Passover guest / Sholom Aleichem; value: A passion in the desert / Honore de Balzac; value: An evening in spring / Ivan Bunin; value: Vanka / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; value: True relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal / Daniel DeFoe; value: Savannah-la-mar / Thomas De Quincey; value: The heavenly Christmas tree / Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky; value: That evening sun go down / William Faulkner; value: The legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller / Gustave Flaubert; value: My mother / Andre Gide; value: The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith; value: The gray champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne; value: A tale of olden time / Henrich Heine; value: The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway; value: The history of Krakatuk / E.T.A. Hoffmann; value: The stout gentleman / Washington Irving; value: The great good place / Henry James; value: Araby / James Joyce; value: A country doctor / Franz Kafka; value: The beggar-woman of Locarno / Henrich Von Kleist; value: The outlaws / Selma Lagerlof; value: Two blue birds / D.H. Lawrence; value: Benediction / Lu Hsun; value: The massacre of the innocents / Maurice Maeterlinck; value: A weary hour / Thomas Mann; value: The piazza / Herman Melville; value: Birds of passage / Martin Andersen Nexo; value: Horse in the moon / Luigi Pirandello; value: The imp of the perverse / Edgar Allan Poe; value: Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter; value: Filial sentiments of a parricide / Marcel Proust; value: The undertaker / Alexander Pushkin; value: Twilight / Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont; value: The stranger / Ranier Maria Rilke; value: Letter to a hostage / Antoine De Saint Exupery; value: The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre; value: Mr. Aristotle / Ignazio Silone; value: Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson; value: Generous wine / Italo Svevo; value: The hungry stones / Rabindranath Tagore; value: The three hermits / Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy; value: The district doctor / Uvab Turgenev; value: A dog's tale / Mark Twain; value: Solitude / Miguel De Unamuno; value: The Duchess and the jeweller / Virginia Woolf.