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75 Short Masterpieces

Seventy-five short masterpieces of fiction.

A wedding without musicians / Sholem Aleichem —

He swung and he missed / Nelson Algren —

Senor Payroll / William E. Barrett —

Houseparty / Walter Bernstein —

How light belief bringeth damage / Bidpai —

A psychological shipwreck / Ambrose Bierce —

The father / Bjornstjerne Bjornson —

Neifile's story / Boccaccio —

I see you never / Ray Bradbury —

The lottery ticket / Ventura Garcia Calderon —

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 / Andre Maurois —

The fiddler / Herman Melville —

The pearl of Toledo / Prosper Merimee —

The sniper / Liam O'Flaherty. The crime on Calle De La Persequida / Palacio Valdes —

How the devil lost his poncho / Richard 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 / Frances 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 —

HoewGrandpa came into the money . Elsa Zantner —

The three veterans / Leane Zugsmith —

Kong at the seaside / Arnold Zweig

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 283
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780553251418
  • Genres
  • fiction, unfinished, classics, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 1985