Seventy-five] 75 short masterpieces : Stories from the World's literature : [24. print

Seventy-five short masterpieces of fiction. A wedding without musicians / Sholem Aleichem -- He swung and he missed / Nelson Algren -- Senor Payroll / William E. Barrett -- Houseparty / Walter Bernstein -- How light belief bringeth damage / Bidpai -- A psychological shipwreck / Ambrose Bierce -- The father / Bjornstjerne Bjornson -- Neifile's story / Boccaccio -- I see you never / Ray Bradbury -- The lottery ticket / Ventura Garcia Calderon -- Daughter / Erskine Caldwell -- A wicked boy / Anton Chekhov -- Luck / Samuel Clemens -- The chaser / John Collier -- The upturned face / Stephen Crane -- A game of billiards / Alphonse Daudet -- Fear / Rhys Davies -- The riddle / Walter De La Mare -- The jewels of M. Lantin / Guy De Maupassant -- The heavenly Christmas tree / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The ghosts / Lord Dunsany -- The scoop / James T. Farrell -- The bedchamber mystery / C.S. Forester -- Mr. Andrews / E.M. Forster -- The test / Angelica Gibbs. Truth and consequences / Brendan Gill -- The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith -- Virtuoso / Herbert Goldstone -- Her lover / Maxim Gorky -- Proof positive / Graham Greene -- The butterfly / James Hanley -- Absent-mindedness in a parish choir / Thomas Hardy -- The hollow of the three hills / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A question of blood / Ernest Haycox -- The boy who drew cats / Lafcadio Hearn -- The lost soul / Ben Hecht -- The exact science of matrimony / O. Henry -- Fard / Aldous Huxley -- The wife / Washington Irving -- Charles / Shirley Jackson -- Then came the legions / Mackinlay Kantor -- If not higher / Isaac Loeb Perez -- The wild duck's nest / Michael Mclaverty -- A toast to Captain Jerk / Russell Maloney -- Germans at meat / Katherine Mansfield -- Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson -- The ant and the grasshopper / Somerset Maugham -- The guardian angel / Andre Maurois -- The fiddler / Herman Melville -- The pearl of Toledo / Prosper Merimee -- The sniper / Liam O'Flaherty. The crime on Calle De La Persequida / Palacio Valdes -- How the devil lost his poncho / Richard Palma -- The standard of living / Dorothy Parker -- The oval portrait / Edgar Allan Poe -- Three letters- and a footnote / Horacio Quiroga -- A dangerous guy indeed / Damon Runyon -- Reginald's choir treat / Saki -- The kiss / William Sansom -- The shepherd's daughter / William Saroyan -- The foreigner / Frances Steegmuller -- Tom Varnish / Richard Steele -- Over the hill / John Steinbeck -- An attempt at reform / August Strindberg -- The three hermits / Leo Tolstoy -- The doctor's heroism / Villiers De L'Isle-Adam -- The beggar-woman of Locarno / Heinrich Von Kleist -- The phoenix / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Slipping beauty / Jerome Weidman -- The hour of letdown / E.B. White -- Moonlight sonata / Alexander Woollcott -- God / Eugene Ivanovich Zamiatin -- HoewGrandpa came into the money . Elsa Zantner -- The three veterans / Leane Zugsmith -- Kong at the seaside / Arnold Zweig The seventy-five short masterpieces of fiction in this volume represent the finest accomplishments in a difficult and special art form. Each creates a microcosm in which the very compactness of the story gives it power and emotional impact much more dramatic than could have been achieved in a longer or more explicit work. Selected from the literature of the world, and including writers from Boccaccio through Sylvia Townsend Warner, this volume is a classic anthology of great stories. -- From publisher's description