75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature by group of authors..From the back: "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. PROOF POSITIVE by Graham Green is spine-chilling. Leo Tolstoy's THE THREE HERMITS has a beauty which is moving and spiritual,
John Collier's THE CHASER is shocking and hilarious. Selected from the literature of the world, and including writers from Boccaccio through Sylvia Townsend Warner, this volume is a class anthology of great stories.
CONTENTS
A wedding without musicians / Sholem Aleichem --
He swung and he missed / Nelson Algren --
Señor payroll / William E. Barrett --
Houseparty / Walter Bernstein --
How light belief bringeth damage / Bidpai --
A psychological shipwreck / Ambrose Bierce --
The father / Björnstjerne Björnson --
Neifile's story / Boccaccio --
I see you never / Ray Bradbury --
The lottery ticket / Ventura Garcia Calderón --
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 / André Maurois --
The fiddler / Herman Melville --
The pearl of Toledo / Prosper Mérimée --
The sniper / Liam O'Flaherty --
The crime on Calle de la Persequida / Palacio Valdés --
How the devil lost his poncho / Ricardo 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 / Francis 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 --
How Grandpa came into the money / Elsa Zantner --
The three veterans / Leane Zugsmith --
Kong at the seaside / Arnold Zweig
