The World of the Short Story
A 20th Century Collection
Authors
- Dino Buzzati
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ernest Hemingway
- Bernard Malamud
- Franz Kafka
- Truman Capote
- Gabriel García Márquez
- William Faulkner
- Graham Greene
- Robert Penn Warren
- Jorge Luis Borges
- James Thurber
- Carson McCullers
- John Updike
- Doris Lessing
- Vladimir Nabokov
- D. H. Lawrence
- John Cheever
- Alice Munro
- Raymond Carver
- Donald Barthelme
- Julio Cortázar
- Nadine Gordimer
- Eudora Welty
- Mishima Yukio
- Katherine Anne Porter
- John O’Hara
- E. B. Elwyn Brooks White
- Flannery O. Connor
- Margaret Atwood
- Ann Beattie
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Milan Kundera
- Colette
- Frank O’Connor
- Clifton Fadiman
- Yuri Kazakov
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At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.
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The World of the Short Story, Dino Buzzati, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Bernard Malamud, Franz Kafka, Truman Capote, Gabriel García Márquez, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Jorge Luis Borges, James Thurber, Carson McCullers, John Updike, Doris Lessing, Vladimir Nabokov, D. H. Lawrence, John Cheever, Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Donald Barthelme, Julio Cortázar, Nadine Gordimer, Eudora Welty, Mishima Yukio, Katherine Anne Porter, John O’Hara, E. B. Elwyn Brooks White, Flannery O. Connor, Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera, Colette, Frank O’Connor, Clifton Fadiman, Yuri Kazakov
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- Released
- 1986
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- The World of the Short Story
- Subtitle
- A 20th Century Collection
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Dino Buzzati, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Bernard Malamud, Franz Kafka, Truman Capote, Gabriel García Márquez, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Jorge Luis Borges, James Thurber, Carson McCullers, John Updike, Doris Lessing, Vladimir Nabokov, D. H. Lawrence, John Cheever, Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Donald Barthelme, Julio Cortázar, Nadine Gordimer, Eudora Welty, Mishima Yukio, Katherine Anne Porter, John O’Hara, E. B. Elwyn Brooks White, Flannery O. Connor, Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera, Colette, Frank O’Connor, Clifton Fadiman, Yuri Kazakov
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Released
- 1986
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 847
- ISBN10
- 0395368057
- ISBN13
- 9780395368053
- Series
- Tags
- Short Stories
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.