A treasury of short stories : favorites of the past hundred years from Turgenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemingway; with biographical sketches of the authors /
edited by Bernardine Kielty
- xiii, 849 pages ; 22 cm
Yermola�� and the miller's wife / The death of Ivan Ilyich / A day in the country / A passion in the desert / A simple heart / Two little soldiers / The last lesson / Our lady's juggler / The steadfast tin soldier / Germelshausen / The Saint Joseph's ass / A lodging for the night / Quattrocentisteria / The red-headed league / Without benefit of clergy / The tragedy of a comic song / The money box / The secret sharer / The cask of Amontillado / A horseman in the sky / The Hiltons' holiday / The griffin and the Minor Canon / The pace of youth / To build a fire / The coming-out of Maggie / The altar of the dead / Afterward / Sorrow-acre / The storyteller / The old hunter / Sinners / The rocking-horse winner / The doll's house / Mackintosh / Young Archimedes / Bella Fleace gave a party / Joining Charles / Beware of the dog / The mezzotint / The story of a panic / The open window / The beckoning fair one / A haunted house / Adam and Eve and pinch me / The voice in the night / Bird of prey / I'm a fool / Some like them cold / Blood pressure / Babylon revisited / Night club / A telephone call / The snows of Kilimanjaro / The leader of the people / Price's always open / The tuxedos / Act of faith / The secret life of Walter Mitty / Sacre du printemps / Seventy thousand Assyrians / O'Halloran's luck / Tom Whipple / Silent snow, secret snow / Sex education / The petrified man / The hound / No door / Saturday afternoon / Almos' a man / gThe old order / Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev -- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoi [Tolstoy] -- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov -- Honor�� de Balzac -- Gustave Flaubert -- Guy de Maupassant -- Alphonse Daudet -- Anatole France -- Hans Christian Andersen -- Friedrich Gerst��cker -- Giovanni Verga -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Maurice Hewlett -- Arthur Conan Doyle -- Rudyard Kipling -- Leonard Merrick -- W.W. Jacobs -- Joseph Conrad -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Ambrose Bierce -- Sara Orne Jewett -- Frank Stockton -- Stephen Crane -- Jack London -- O. Henry -- Henry James -- Edith Wharton -- Isak Dinesen -- Frank O'Connor -- Liam O'Flaherty -- Sean O'Faol��in -- D.H. Lawrence -- Katherine Mansfield -- W. Somerset Maugham -- Aldous Huxley -- Evelyn Waugh -- Elizabeth Bowen -- Roald Dahl -- M.R. James -- E.M. Forster -- Saki (H.H. Munro) -- Oliver Onions -- Virginia Woolf -- A.E. Coppard -- William Hope Hodgson -- John Collier -- Sherwood Anderson -- Ring Lardner -- Damon Runyon -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Katharine Brush -- Dorothy Parker -- Ernest Hemingway -- John Steinbeck -- John O'Hara -- Jerome Weidman -- Irwin Shaw -- James Thurber -- Ludwig Bemelmans -- William Saroyan -- Stephen Vincent Ben��t -- Walter D. Edmonds -- Conrad Aiken -- Dorothy Canfield -- Eudora Welty -- William Faulkner -- Thomas Wolfe -- Erskine Caldwell -- Richard Wright -- Katherine Anne Porter