Screen LibraryThe world's greatest short stories /
This ... collection features short stories by great writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Ranging from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, writers include Poe, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Faulkner, Pirandello, Mann, and other major writers of world literature.
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Dover Publications,
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| Publisher Address: | Mineola, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dover thrift editions
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This ... collection features short stories by great writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Ranging from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, writers include Poe, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Faulkner, Pirandello, Mann, and other major writers of world literature. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 236 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780486447162 0486447162 |
| Index Number: | PN6120 |
| CLC: | I14 |
| Call Number: | I14/W927-2 |
| Contents: | 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. |