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xiii, 849 pages ; 22 cm |
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age Children |
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Yermolaï and the miller's wife / Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev -- Death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoi [Tolstoy] -- A day in the country / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov -- A passion in the desert / Honoré de Balzac -- A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert -- Two little soldiers / Guy de Maupassant -- Last lesson / Alphonse Daudet -- Our lady's juggler / Anatole France -- Steadfast tin soldier / Hans Christian Andersen -- Germelshausen / Friedrich Gerstäcker -- Saint Joseph's ass / Giovanni Verga -- A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Quattrocentisteria / Maurice Hewlett -- Red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Without benefit of clergy / Rudyard Kipling -- Tragedy of a comic song / Leonard Merrick -- Money box / W.W. Jacobs -- Secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce -- Hiltons' holiday / Sara Orne Jewett -- Griffin and the Minor Canon / Frank Stockton -- Pace of youth / Stephen Crane -- To build a fire / Jack London -- Coming-out of Maggie / O. Henry -- Altar of the dead / Henry James -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- Sorrow-acre / Isak Dinesen -- Storyteller / Frank O'Connor -- Old hunter / Liam O'Flaherty -- Sinners / Sean O'Faoláin -- Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Doll's house / Katherine Mansfield -- Mackintosh / W. Somerset Maugham -- Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley -- Bella Fleace gave a party / Evelyn Waugh -- Joining Charles / Elizabeth Bowen -- Beware of the dog / Roald Dahl -- Mezzotint / M.R. James -- Story of a panic / E.M. Forster -- Open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- Beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -- A haunted house / Virginia Woolf -- Adam and Eve and pinch me / A.E. Coppard -- Voice in the night / William Hope Hodgson -- Bird of prey / John Collier -- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson -- Some like them cold / Ring Lardner -- Blood pressure / Damon Runyon -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Night club / Katharine Brush -- A telephone call / Dorothy Parker -- Snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- Leader of the people / John Steinbeck -- Price's always open / John O'Hara -- Tuxedos / Jerome Weidman -- Act of faith / Irwin Shaw -- Secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- Sacre du printemps / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Seventy thousand Assyrians / William Saroyan -- O'Halloran's luck / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Tom Whipple / Walter D. Edmonds -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- Sex education / Dorothy Canfield -- Petrified man / Eudora Welty -- Hound / William Faulkner -- No door / Thomas Wolfe -- Saturday afternoon / Erskine Caldwell -- Almos' a man / Richard Wright -- Old order / Katherine Anne Porter. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Short stories.
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| Subject |
Short stories -- Juvenile fiction.
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Short stories. |
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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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| Subject |
Short stories.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Kielty, Bernardine. Treasury of short stories. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1947 (OCoLC)646982632 |
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