The world of the short story : a twentieth century collection

Author(s)

• Fadiman, Clifton

Bibliographic Information

The world of the short story : a twentieth century collection

selected and edited by Clifton Fadiman

Houghton Mifflin, 1986

Contents of Works

• A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm
• The other wife / Colette
• The facts of life / Somerset Maugham
• Dusky Ruth / A.E. Coppard
• The dead man / Horacio Quiroga
• In the Penal colony / Franz Kafka
• Odour of chrysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence
• The fly / Katherine Mansfield
• He / Katherine Anne Porter
• Thirst / Ivo Andrić
• My first goose / Isaac Babel
• The greatest man in the world / James Thurber
• The piano / Aníbal Monteiro Machado
• Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
• That evening sun / William Faulkner
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis tertius / Jorge Luis Borges
• Mysterious Kôr / Elizabeth Bowen
• First love / Vladimir Nabokov
• My old man / Ernest Hemingway
• The door / E.B. White
• Lovers of the lake / Sean O'Faolain
• The Camberwell beauty / V.S. Pritchett
• Men / Kay Boyle
• A cap for Steve / Morley Callaghan
• The drunkard / Frank O'Connor
• Cheap in August / Graham Greene
• The dead fiddler / Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Flight / John O'Hara
• The patented gate and the mena Hamburger / Robert Penn Warren
• The end of the world / Dino Buzzati
• Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty
• The five-forty-eight / John Cheever
• The living / Mary Lavin
• The vertical ladder / William Sansom
• Medal from Jerusalem / Irwin Shaw
• The southern thruway / Julio Cortázar
• The jewbird / Bernard Malamud
• A silver dish / Saul Bellow
• The interior castle / Jean Stafford
• Madame Zilensky and the king of Finland / Carson McCullers
• The gift of the prodigal / Peter Taylor
• One off the short list / Doris Lessing
• The supper / Tadeusz Borowski
• Going ashore / Mavis Gallant
• Letter from his father / Nadine Gordimer
• Miriam / Truman Capote
• Three million yen / Yukio Mishima
• The artificial Nigger / Flannery O'Connor
• Nikishka's secrets / Yuri Kazakov
• Death constant beyond love / Gabriel García Márquez
• The shawl / Cynthia Ozick
• A complicated nature / William Trevor
• The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera
• Game / Donald Barthelme
• Bardon bus / Alice Munro
• Pigeon feathers / John Updike
• Eli, the fanatic / Philip Roth
• How I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates
• The man from Mars / Margaret Atwood
• A small, good thing / Raymond Carver
• Weekend / Ann Beattie
• The Schreuderspitze / Mark Helprin

• NCID: BA26693336
• ISBN:
  • 0395368057
• LCCN: 85027292
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: mul
• Place of Publication: Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 847 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN6120.2
  • DC19 : 808.83/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Short stories
  • LCSH : Fiction -- 20th century