Hardcover, 799 pages
English language
Published March 19, 1981 by Reader's Digest Association, Reader's Digest.
Great Short Stories of the World
by W. Somerset Maugham,
Frank O'Connor,
John O'Hara,
O. Henry,
Rabindranath Tagore,
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis,
Wallace Stegner,
Maksim Gorky,
D. H. Lawrence,
Damon Runyon,
Paul Horgan,
Dorothy L. Sayers,
M. R. James,
Henry Lawson,
Bertolt Brecht,
Colette,
Katherine Anne Porter,
Albert Camus,
Irwin Shaw,
Aldous Huxley,
Oscar Wilde,
Joseph Conrad,
Dorothy Parker,
Saki,
Truman Capote,
Rumer Godden,
H. G. Wells,
Mark Twain,
,
Shirley Jackson,
Ernest Hemingway,
Jean Stafford,
Alberto Moravia,
Graham Greene,
John Updike,
Nadine Gordimer,
Stephen Crane,
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Editors of The Reader's Digest,
Guy de Maupassat,
Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes,
Corrado Alvaro,
Lilika Nakos,
Jessamyn West,
Josh Gregory,
Sally Benson,
Thomas Head Raddall,
Sholem Aleichem,
James Joyce,
James Thurber,
Robert Benchley,
Mikhail Zoshchenko,
Santha Rama Rau,
Nigel Balchin,
Leo Kennedy,
Katherine Mansfield,
Marcel Aymé,
Doris Lessing,
Eudora Welty,
Pearl S. Buck,
S. J. Perelman,
John Steinbeck,
Hernando Tellez,
Hjalmar Söderberg,
Max Aub,
Karen Blixen,
Roy, Gabrielle,
Ring Lardner,
Luigi Pirandello,
Anatole France
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The leader of the people / John Steinbeck
Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham
Vanka / Anton Chekhov
The happy prince / Oscar Wilde
The old demon / Pearl S. Buck
The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen
Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley
Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon
Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers
Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat
The open boat / Stephen Crane
My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor
The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway
A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes
The little Bouilloux girl / Colette
The ruby / Corrado Alvaro
Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer
The boarding house / James Joyce
The brute / Joseph Conrad
A double game / Alberto Moravia
Maternity / Lilika Nakos
Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West
God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy
The walker-through-walls / …
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck
Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham
Vanka / Anton Chekhov
The happy prince / Oscar Wilde
The old demon / Pearl S. Buck
The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen
Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley
Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon
Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers
Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat
The open boat / Stephen Crane
My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor
The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway
A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes
The little Bouilloux girl / Colette
The ruby / Corrado Alvaro
Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer
The boarding house / James Joyce
The brute / Joseph Conrad
A double game / Alberto Moravia
Maternity / Lilika Nakos
Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West
God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy
The walker-through-walls / Marcel Ayme
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain
The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht
The overcoat / Sally Benson
Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall
The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France
The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro)
María Concepción / Katherine A. Porter
My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore
The end of the party / Graham Greene
Modern children / Sholom Aleichem
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner
Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez
The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley
The Mezzotint /Montague R. James
The alligators / John Updike
Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko
Haircut / Ring Lardner
The burning city / Hjalmar Söderberg
Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden
The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing
Who cares? / Santha Rama Rau
Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara
Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman
The drover's wife / Henry Lawson
The huntsmen / Paul Horgan
The guest / Albert Camus
Patience / Nigel Balchin
Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote
Admiral's night / Machado de Assis
The bet / Anton Chekhov
The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells
A country love story / Jean Stafford
A worn path / Eudora Welty
The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham
A priest in the family / Leo Kennedy
The cop and the anthem / O. Henry
Marriage á la mode / Katherine Mansfield
The nightingale / Maxim Gorky
The launch / Max Aub
The wreath / Luigi Pirandello
The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw
You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker
Luzina takes a holiday / Gabrielle Roy
Subjects
- Short stories