The world's greatest short stories
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The world's greatest short stories
（Dover thrift editions）
Dover Publications, 2006
- : pbk
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"This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is a new selection of twenty short stories reprinted from standard texts. Please see the acknowledgments for additional bibliographical information. This new anthology includes an introductory Note."--T.p. verso
Contents of Works
- Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville
- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
- The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy
- The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling
- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The fortune-teller / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- The lady with the toy dog / Anton Chekhov
- How old Timofei died with a song / Rainer Maria Rilke
- The path to the cemetery / Thomas Mann
- The Prussian officer / D.H. Lawrence
- Araby / James Joyce
- Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, her son-in-law / Luigi Pirandello
- The mark on the wall / Virginia Woolf
- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka
- The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield
- The grasshopper and the bell cricket / Yasunari Kawabata
- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
- The sacrificial egg / Chinua Achebe
- A & P / John Updike
- Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges