Title: Designs for reading -- short stories
Description: Contains:
What is required to survive hardship and danger?
Early marriage / Conrad Richter
[Most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W) / Richard Connell
Is it possible to seize happiness from life?
Summer of he beautiful white horse / William Saroyan
Antaeus / borden Deal
How does war distort human relationships?
Sniper / Liam O'Flaherty
Enemy / Pearl Buck
Old man at the bridge / Earnest Hemingway
Can man defy the laws of nature?
Build a fire / Jack London
Interlopers / Saki
Can a man be master of his own conducts?
Quality / John Galsworthy
Heyday of the blood / Dorothy Canfield Fisther
Secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
How does fear affect personality?
Fever dream / Ray Bradbury
Telltale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
What price is paid for pretense?
Necklace / Guy de Maupassant
Cress Delahanty / Jessamyn West
Unlucky winner / Max Shulman
Is it necessary to suffer in order to grow?
Water never hurt a man / Walter D. Edmonds
Visit to grandmother / Willaim Melvin kelley
Gift / John Steinbeck
Subjects: Short story, Short stories, novels, Fiction, Hunting, Islands, survival of the fittest, animal trapping, trapping pits, knouts, hunting dogs, Cossacks, deaf-mutes, snow leopards, jaguars, Juvenile fiction, Hunting stories, Juvenile works, Human hunting, Big game sport, Travel fiction
Places: Caribbean, Amazon rainforest, Ship-Trap Island, Tibet
People: Sanger Rainsford, General Zaroff, Whitney, Ivan, The Great White Czar
Time periods: 20th century