Short shorts : an anthology of the shortest stories /

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Other Authors: Howe, Irving, Howe, Ilana Wiener
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, Mass. : D.R. Godine, 1982.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • The three hermits; Alyosha the pot / Leo Tolstoy
  • The beggarwoman of Locarno / Heinrich von Kleist
  • A little legend of the dance / Gottfried Keller
  • After the theatre / Anton Chekhov
  • The wolf / Giovanni Verga
  • An episode of war / Stephen Crane
  • An old man / Guy de Maupassant
  • The third bank of the river / Joao Guimaraes Rosa
  • A Yom Kippur scandal / Sholom Aleichem
  • If not higher / I. L. Peretz
  • Eveline / James Joyce
  • A sick collier / D. H. Lawrence
  • The soft touch of grass / Luigi Pirandello
  • The hunter Gracchus; First sorrow / Franz Kafka
  • The untold lie; Paper pills / Sherwood Anderson
  • A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
  • Joy and the law / Guiseppe di Lampedusa
  • Magic / Katherine Anne Porter
  • The death of Dolgushov / Isaac Babel
  • The bathhouse / Mikhail Zoschenko
  • The use of force / William Carlos Williams
  • Swaddling clothes / Yukio Mishima
  • If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber
  • Homage for Isaac Babel / Doris Lessing
  • The dead man / Jorge Luis Borges
  • In the night / Varlam Shalamov
  • The blue bouquet / Octavio Paz
  • My father sits in the dark / Jerome Weidman
  • Wants / Grace Paley
  • Bitterness for three sleepwalkers / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The eclipse / Augusto Monterroso
  • The laughter / Heinrich Boll
  • News from the world / Paula Fox
  • Going to Jerusalem / Maria Luise Kaschnitz
  • The censors / Luisa Valenzuela.