Imaginative literature
By: Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, editors in chief ; Clifton Fadiman, associate editor.
Contributors: Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-; Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-
Series: Gateway to the great books -- 3
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Chicago; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 727
Subjects: Literature -- Collections.
Other titles: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Notes: Complements Great books of the western world (AC 1 G7 1952); includes only short works.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: value: Stephen Crane / The open boat; value: Herman Melville / Billy Budd; value: Ivan Bunin / The gentleman from San Francisco; value: Nathaniel Hawthorne / Rappaccini's daughter; value: George Eliot / The lifted veil; value: Lucius Apuleius / Cupid and Psyche (from The golden ass); value: IvanTurgenev / First love; value: Fyodor Dostoevsky / White nights; value: John Galsworthy / The apple-tree; value: Gustave Flaubert / The legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller; value: F. Scott Fitzgerald / The diamond as big as the Ritz; value: Honoré de Balzac / A passion in the desert; value: Anton Chekhov / The darling; value: Isaac Singer / The Spinoza of Market Street; value: Alexander Pushkin / The queen of spades; value: D. H. Lawrence / The rocking-horse winner; value: Henry James / The pupil; value: Thomas Mann / Mario and the magician; value: Isak Dinesen / Sorrow-acre; value: Leo Tolstoy / The death of Ivan Ilyitch. The three hermits. What men live by.