The Penguin book of international short stories
By: edited by Daniel Halpern.
Contributors: Halpern, Daniel, 1945-
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1068
Notes: Originally published as 'The art of the tale', Viking Penguin, 1986.

Cover title: The Penguin book of international short stories, 1945-1985.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction
pagenum: xiii; title: The Sacrificial Egg
pagenum: 1
authors: Chinua Achebe; title: The Bound Man
pagenum: 6
authors: Ilse Aichinger; title: Little Whale, Varnisher of Reality
pagenum: 18
authors: Vasily Aksenov; title: Hair Jewellery
pagenum: 31
authors: Margaret Atwood; title: Everything
pagenum: 46
authors: Ingeborg Bachmann; title: Going to Meet the Man
pagenum: 62
authors: James Baldwin; title: The Child Screams and Looks Back at You
pagenum: 79
authors: Russell Banks; title: Cortés and Montezuma
pagenum: 87
authors: Donald Barthelme; title: Jacklighting
pagenum: 95
authors: Ann Beattie; title: First Love
pagenum: 102
authors: Samuel Beckett; title: Action Will Be Taken
pagenum: 119
authors: Heinrich Böll; title: Do Stay, Giraffe
pagenum: 124
authors: Wolfgang Borchert; title: The Aleph
pagenum: 127
authors: Jorge Luis Borges; title: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
pagenum: 139
authors: Tadeusz Borowski; title: Cowardice
pagenum: 155
authors: Abdeslam Boulaich; title: A Distant Episode
pagenum: 157
authors: Paul Bowles; title: Greasy Lake
pagenum: 169
authors: T. Coraghessan Boyle; title: Ceil
pagenum: 179
authors: Harold Brodkey; title: Seven Floors
pagenum: 193
authors: Dino Buzzati; title: The Adventure of a Traveller
pagenum: 207
authors: Italo Calvino; title: The Adulterous Woman
pagenum: 220
authors: Albert Camus; title: Children on Their Birthdays
pagenum: 235
authors: Truman Capote; title: Fat
pagenum: 252
authors: Raymond Carver; title: The Country Husband
pagenum: 257
authors: John Cheever; title: Quenby and Ola, Swede
pagenum: 281
authors: Robert Coover; title: Bestiary
pagenum: 295
authors: Julio Cortázar; title: The Haile Selassie Funeral
pagenum: 310
authors: Guy Davenport; title: The Cloak
pagenum: 316
authors: Isak Dinesen; title: The Hunter
pagenum: 329
authors: E. L. Doctorow; title: I Look Out for Ed Wolfe
pagenum: 338
authors: Stanley Elkin; title: Communist
pagenum: 363
authors: Richard Ford; title: The Doll Queen
pagenum: 379
authors: Carlos Fuentes; title: The Chosen Husband
pagenum: 394
authors: Mavis Gallant; title: Order of Insects
pagenum: 412
authors: William Gass; title: The Mother
pagenum: 419
authors: Natalia Ginzburg; title: The Life of the Imagination
pagenum: 429
authors: Nadine Gordimer; title: Two Gentle People
pagenum: 442
authors: Graham Greene; title: Why I Transformed Myself into a Nightingale
pagenum: 449
authors: Wolfgang Hildesheimer; title: One Arm
pagenum: 454
authors: Yasunari Kawabata; title: Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
pagenum: 470
authors: Milan Kundera; title: Gogol's Wife
pagenum: 487
authors: Tommaso Landolfi; title: The Habit of Loving
pagenum: 498
authors: Doris Lessing; title: The Challenge
pagenum: 521
authors: Mario Vargas Llosa; title: The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish
pagenum: 532
authors: Naguib Mahfouz; title: The Last Mohican
pagenum: 539
authors: Bernard Malamud; title: Eyes of a Blue Dog
pagenum: 561
authors: Gabriel Garcia Marquez; title: The Pilgrimage
pagenum: 567
authors: William Maxwell; title: First Love, Last Rites
pagenum: 576
authors: Ian McEwan; title: The Deal
pagenum: 587
authors: Leonard Michaels; title: Patriotism
pagenum: 595
authors: Yukio Mishima; title: Jewellery
pagenum: 618
authors: Alberto Moravia; title: Doctor Safi
pagenum: 624
authors: Mohammed Mrabet; title: Spring in Fialta
pagenum: 633
authors: Vladimir Nabokov; title: Naga
pagenum: 652
authors: R. K. Narayan; title: The Tryst
pagenum: 662
authors: Joyce Carol Oates; title: Sister Imelda
pagenum: 675
authors: Edna O'Brien; title: The Artificial Nigger
pagenum: 694
authors: Flannery O'Connor; title: A Set of Variations on a Borrowed Theme
pagenum: 714
authors: Frank O'Connor; title: Nomad and Viper
pagenum: 740
authors: Amos Oz; title: The Suitcase
pagenum: 757
authors: Cynthia Ozick; title: The Contest
pagenum: 777
authors: Grace Paley; title: Suicides
pagenum: 785
authors: Cesare Pavese; title: The Saint
pagenum: 800
authors: V. S. Pritchett; title: Eventide
pagenum: 813
authors: James Purdy; title: The Replacement
pagenum: 821
authors: Alain Robbe-Grillet; title: Rain
pagenum: 825
authors: Mercè Rodoreda; title: In the Garden
pagenum: 832
authors: Leon Rooke; title: Talpa
pagenum: 847
authors: Juan Rulfo; title: XXII
pagenum: 855
authors: Nathalie Sarraute; title: Henne Fire
pagenum: 857
authors: Isaac Bashevis Singer; title: Unguided Tour
pagenum: 868
authors: Susan Sontag; title: Children Are Bored on Sunday
pagenum: 879
authors: Jean Stafford; title: A Friend and Protector
pagenum: 889
authors: Peter Taylor; title: Death and the Maiden
pagenum: 908
authors: Michel Tournier; title: Beyond the Pale
pagenum: 927
authors: William Trevor; title: Separating
pagenum: 952
authors: John Updike; title: I'm Your Horse in the Night
pagenum: 963
authors: Luisa Valenzuela; title: No Place For You, My Love
pagenum: 967
authors: Eudora Welty; title: Five-Twenty
pagenum: 985
authors: Patrick White; title: Hunters in the Snow
pagenum: 1008
authors: Tobias Wolff; title: Big Black Good Man
pagenum: 1023
authors: Richard Wright; title: The Best of Everything
pagenum: 1036
authors: Richard Yates; title: Biographical Notes
pagenum: 1049; title: Sources and Acknowledgements
pagenum: 1063