The Oxford book of short stories/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York:
Oxford University Press,
1981
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Table of Contents:
- The two drovers/ Sir Walter Scott
- The birthmark/ Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The fall of the house of Usher/ Edgar Allan Poe
- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras Country/ Mark Twain
- The Iliad of Sandy bar/ Bret Harte
- The coup de Grace/ Ambrose Bierce
- Paste/ Henry James
- Thrawn Janet/ Robert Louis Stevenson
- The secret sharer/ Joseph Conrad
- The record of Badalia Herodsfoot/ Rydyard Kipling
- Telemachus, friend/ O. Henry
- Sredni Vashtar/ Hector Hugh Munro (ʹSakiʹ)
- The open boat/ Stephen Crane
- An ideal craftsman/ Walter de la Mare
- An official position/ W. Somerset Maugham
- I want to know why/ Sherwood Anderson
- The field of Mustard/ A. E. Coppard
- Grace/ James Joyce
- The rocking-horse winner/ D. H. Lawrence
- Who dealt?/ Ring Lardner
- The woman at the store/ Katherine Mansfield
- Flowering Judas/ Katherine Anne Porter
- The tent/ Liam OʹFlaherty
- Dry September/ William Faulkner
- Hills like white elephants/ Ernest Hemingway
- The demon lover/ Elizabeth Bowen
- Mary are disappointed/ V. S. Pritchett
- Sinners/ Sean OʹFaolain
- Guests of the nation/ Frank OʹConnor
- The runway/ Morley Callaghan
- Never/ H. E. Bates
- A horse and two goats/ R. K. Narayan
- A visit of charity/ Eudora Welty
- Various temptations/ William Sansom
- My vocation/ Mary Lavin
- Five-twenty/ Patrick White
- Goodbye, my brother/ John Cheever
- Mrs Fortescue/ Doris Lessing
- Parkerʹs back/ Flannery OʹConnor
- Going home/ William Trevor
- Lifeguard/ John Updike