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World's Greatest Short Stories_James Daley_TPB_2006
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Short Stories
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780486447162
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486447162
ISBN-13
9780486447162
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15069211619
Product Key Features
Book Title
World's Greatest Short Stories
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Anthologies (Multiple Authors)
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories Ser.
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
6.2 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-056014
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
808.3/1
Table Of Content
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-in-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)
Synopsis
Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; "A & P," John Updike's most anthologized story and one of his most popular; "Borges and I," typical Jorge Luis Borges -- imaginative, philosophical, and mysterious; as well as short masterpieces by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, Guy de Maupassant, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D. H. Lawrence, and ten other great writers. Prime examples of the classic short story, these enduring literary treasures will be invaluable to students and teachers as well as to anyone who appreciates the finely turned tale., 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., Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, this wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology includes Tolstoy, Kipling, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Pirandello, Mann, Updike, Borges, and other major writers of world literature.
LC Classification Number
PN6120.2W6637 2006
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