The World's Greatest Short Stories: Selections from Hemingway, Tolstoy, Woolf, Chekhov, Joyce, Updike and more

by James Daley (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486447162
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	04/28/2006
Series:	Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	84,786
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

James Daley is the editor of several Dover editions, including The Book of Green Quotations, Classic Crime Stories, Favorite Christmas Poems, Great Speeches by African Americans, and Great Writers on the Art of Fiction.

Table of Contents

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)