Great short short stories : quick reads by great writers /
Great short short stories : quick reads by great writers /
edited by Paul Negri.
- vii, 193 páginas ; 21 cm.
- Dover thrift editions .
- Dover thrift editions. .
A selection of thirty short stories previously published 1837-1918.
The egg / Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941, American) -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?, American) -- The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather (1873-1947, American) -- A malefactor / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904, Russian) -- A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin (1851-1904, American) -- The veteran / Stephen Crane (1871-1900, American) -- The apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe (1660-1731, English) -- Nobody´s story / Charles Dickens (1812-1870, English) -- If I were a man / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935, American) -- Squire Petrick´s lady / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928, English) -- The luck of Roaring Camp / Bret Harte (1836-1902, American) -- Dr. Heidegger´s experiment / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864, American) -- A ghost story / Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927, English) -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909, American) -- A country doctor / Franz Kafka (1883-1924, Czech) -- Wee Willie Winkie / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936, English) -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen (1891-1964, American) -- Second best / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930, English) -- The white silence / Jack London (1876-1916, American) -- Germans at meat / Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923, English) -- A piece of string / Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893, French) -- The open window / H.H. Munro, or Saki (1870-1916, English) -- The furnished room / O.Henry (1962-1910, American) -- With other eyes / Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936, Italian) -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849, American) -- The coffin-maker / Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837, Russian) -- The three hermits / Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian) -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain (1835-1910, American) -- The remarkable case of Davidson´s eyes / H.G. Wells (1866-1946, English) -- The sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde (1854-1900, Irish).
0486440982 9780486440989
Cuentos--Colecciones.
808.83 / G786a 2005
A selection of thirty short stories previously published 1837-1918.
The egg / Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941, American) -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?, American) -- The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather (1873-1947, American) -- A malefactor / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904, Russian) -- A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin (1851-1904, American) -- The veteran / Stephen Crane (1871-1900, American) -- The apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe (1660-1731, English) -- Nobody´s story / Charles Dickens (1812-1870, English) -- If I were a man / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935, American) -- Squire Petrick´s lady / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928, English) -- The luck of Roaring Camp / Bret Harte (1836-1902, American) -- Dr. Heidegger´s experiment / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864, American) -- A ghost story / Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927, English) -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909, American) -- A country doctor / Franz Kafka (1883-1924, Czech) -- Wee Willie Winkie / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936, English) -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen (1891-1964, American) -- Second best / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930, English) -- The white silence / Jack London (1876-1916, American) -- Germans at meat / Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923, English) -- A piece of string / Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893, French) -- The open window / H.H. Munro, or Saki (1870-1916, English) -- The furnished room / O.Henry (1962-1910, American) -- With other eyes / Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936, Italian) -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849, American) -- The coffin-maker / Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837, Russian) -- The three hermits / Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian) -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain (1835-1910, American) -- The remarkable case of Davidson´s eyes / H.G. Wells (1866-1946, English) -- The sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde (1854-1900, Irish).
0486440982 9780486440989
Cuentos--Colecciones.
808.83 / G786a 2005