Great Short Stories of the World
By: selected by the editors of the Reader's digest.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Pleasantville, N.Y.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 799
Copyright date: 1972
Subjects: Short stories
Other titles: Reader's digest.
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'Conner --; 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 --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. 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 R. 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 take a holiday / Gabrielle Roy.