| Description |
576 pages ; 19 cm |
| Contents |
The psychiatrist / Machado de Assis -- The Bourgeois king / Ruben Dario -- Yzur / Leopoldo Lugones -- The alligator war / Horacio Quiroga -- The devil's twilight / Romulo Gallegos -- The gauchos' hearth / Richardo Guiraldes -- Why reeds are hollow / Gabriela Mistral -- Major Aranda's hand / Alfonso Reyes -- On the other side of life and death / Cesar Vallejo -- The piano / Anibal Monteiro Machado -- The other death / Jorge Luis Borges -- Tatuana's tale / Miguel Angel Asturias -- One sunday afternoon / Roberto Arlt -- Like the night / Alejo Carpentier -- A pine-cone, a toy sheep... / Pablo Neruda -- As I am...As I was / Lino Novas-Calvo -- The drum dance / Arturo Uslar Pietri -- The third bank of the river / Joao Guimaraes Rosa -- Jacob and the other / Juan Carlos Onetti -- The beautiful soul of Don Damian / Juan Bosch -- The tree / Maria-Luisa Bombal -- Tarciso / Dinah Silveira de Queiroz -- Warma Kuyay / Jose Maria Arguedas -- How Porciuncula the mulatto got the corpse off his back / Jorge Amado -- End of the game / Julio Cortazar -- My life with the wave / Octavio Paz -- Miracles cannot be recovered / Adolfo Bioy-Casares -- Encounter with the traitor / Augusto Roa Bastos -- Marcario / Juan Rulfo -- Madness / Armonia Somers -- The switchman / Juan Jose Arreola -- Concerning Senor de la Pena / Eliseo Diego -- The dogs / Abelardo Diaz Alfaro -- The smallest woman in the world / Clarice Lispector -- Marmosets / Clarice Lispector -- In the beginning / Humberto Costantini -- Paseo / Jose Donoso -- The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- A nest of sparrows on the awning / Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- The two Elenas / Carlos Fuentes -- Weight-Reducing diet / Jorge Edwards -- Sunday, Sunday / Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Subject |
Short stories, Spanish American -- Translations into English.
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Short stories, Spanish American. |
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Short stories, English.
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Short stories, English. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, English.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0380001632 (paperback) $2.95 |
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