The World's Greatest Short Stories

Selections from Hemingway, Tolstoy, Woolf, Chekhov, Joyce, Updike and More
Herausgeber: Daley, James

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This outstanding collection features short stories by great writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, writers include Poe, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Faulkner, Pirandello, Mann, and other major writers of world literature. A wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 135mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9780486447162
• ISBN-10: 0486447162
• Artikelnr.: 21750260

Autorenporträt

James Daley is the editor of several Dover editions, including The Book of Green Quotations, Classic Crime Stories, Favorite Christmas Poems, Great Speeches by African Americans, and Great Writers on the Art of Fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Herman Melville
U.S.A. Bartleby the Scrivener (1853) Guy de Maupassant
France The Necklace (1884) Leo Tolstoy
Russia The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) Rudyard Kipling
England The Man Who Would Be King (1888) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
U.S.A. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Brazil The Fortune
Teller (1896) Anton Chekhov
Russia The Lady with the Toy Dog (1899) Rainer Maria Rilke
Germany How Old Timofei Died with a Song (1900) Thomas Mann
Germany The Path to the Cemetery (1901) D. H. Lawrence
England The Prussian Officer (1914) James Joyce
Ireland Araby (1914) Luigi Pirandello
Italy Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, Her Son
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Law (1917) Virginia Woolf
England The Mark on the Wall (1921) Franz Kafka
Czechoslovakia A Hunger Artist (1922) Katherine Mansfield
England The Garden
Party (1922) Yasunari Kawabata
Japan The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket (1924) Ernest Hemingway
U.S.A. A Clean, Well
Lighted Place (1926) Chinua Achebe
Nigeria The Sacrificial Egg (1959) John Updike
U.S.A. A & P (1961) Jorge Luis Borges
Argentina Borges and I (1962)