Great Short Stories of the World
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Author
- Isak Dinesen
- Sholem Aleichem
- Aldous Huxley
- Irwin Shaw
- Reader's Digest Association
- Truman Streckfus Persons
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Ernest Hemingway
- Nigel Balchin
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Santha Rama Rau
- Albert Camus
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Mark Twain
- John Steinbeck
- Anatole France
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
- Nadine Gordimer
- Bertolt Brecht
- Greene, Graham
- Frank O'Connor
- Katherine Mansfield
- Corrado Alvaro
- Sally Benson
- Updike, John.
- Damon Runyon
- Pearl S. Buck
- Jessamyn West
- Jackson, Shirley
- Alberto Moravia
- H. G. Wells
- Lilika Nakos
- Oscar Wilde
- Guy de Maupassat
- Joyce, James
- Conrad, Joseph
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rumer Godden
- Hernando Tellez
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Robert Benchley
- John O'Hara
- S. J. Perelman
- Machado de Assis
- Jean Stafford
- Max Aub
- Roy, Gabrielle
- James Thurber
- Leo Kennedy
- Dorothy Parker
- Crane, Stephen
- Montague Rhodes James
- Максим Горький
- Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes
- Josh Gregory
- Doris May Lessing
- Saki
- Wallace Earle Stegner
- Marcel Aymé
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
- Ring Lardner
- Paul Horgan
- Thomas Head Raddall
- O. Henry
- Luigi Pirandello
- Eudora Welty
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Mikhail Zoshchenko
- Hjalmar Söderberg
- Henry Lawson
Publication
1981 - Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, N.Y., USA, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
199,750 words, Guess
Page Count
799 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivegreatshortstorieplea
- Internet Archivegreatshortstorie00plea
- ISBN-100895770083
- ISBN-139780895770080
- Goodreads53416775
and 7 more
- Library of Congress Control Number72081158
- OCLC Control Number1007576983
- Better World BooksP7-DSM-524
- Better World BooksP6-AIM-510
- Better World BooksT2-ACH-970
- Better World Books112-ABA-753
- Open LibraryOL24938279M
Classifications
- DDC808.831
- LCCPN6014 .G73 1972
- LCCPZ1 .G7986
and 1 more
- LCCPN6014 .G7986
Description
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat The open boat / Stephen Crane My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes The little Bouilloux girl / Colette The ruby / Corrado Alvaro Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer [The boarding house](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073259W/The_Boarding_House) / James Joyce The brute / Joseph Conrad A double game / Alberto Moravia Maternity / Lilika Nakos Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy The walker-through-walls / Marcel Ayme [The lottery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3171085W/Lottery) / Shirley Jackson The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht The overcoat / Sally Benson Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) María Concepción / Katherine A. Porter My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore The end of the party / Graham Greene Modern children / Sholom Aleichem Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley The Mezzotint /Montague R. James The alligators / John Updike Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko Haircut / Ring Lardner The burning city / Hjalmar Söderberg Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing Who cares? / Santha Rama Rau Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman The drover's wife / Henry Lawson The huntsmen / Paul Horgan The guest / Albert Camus Patience / Nigel Balchin Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote Admiral's night / Machado de Assis The bet / Anton Chekhov The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells A country love story / Jean Stafford A worn path / Eudora Welty The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham A priest in the family / Leo Kennedy The cop and the anthem / O. Henry Marriage á la mode / Katherine Mansfield The nightingale / Maxim Gorky The launch / Max Aub The wreath / Luigi Pirandello The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker Luzina takes a holiday / Gabrielle Roy
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