75 Short Masterpieces

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Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1985-01-01
Publisher(s): Bantam
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Summary

Seventy-five short masterpieces of fiction.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
A Wedding Without Musicians
1(4)
Sholem Aleichem
He Swung And He Missed
5(7)
Nelson Algren
Senor Payroll
12(4)
William E. Barrett
Houseparty
16(2)
Walter Bernstein
How Light Belief Bringeth Damage
18(2)
Bidpai
A Psychological Shipwreck
20(4)
Ambrose Bierce
The Father
24(3)
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Neifile's Story
27(2)
Boccaccio
I See You Never
29(3)
Ray Bradbury
The Lottery Ticket
32(3)
Ventura Garcia Calderon
Daughter
35(5)
Erskine Caldwell
A Wicked Boy
40(2)
Anton Chekhov
Luck
42(4)
Samuel Clemens
The Chaser
46(3)
John Collier
The Upturned Face
49(4)
Stephen Crane
A Game Of Billiards
53(4)
Alphonse Daudet
Fear
57(4)
Rhys Davies
The Riddle
61(4)
Walter De La Mare
The Jewels Of M. Lantin
65(6)
Guy De Maupassant
The Heavenly Christmas Tree
71(4)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Ghosts
75(4)
Lord Dunsany
The Scoop
79(3)
James T. Farrell
The Bedchamber Mystery
82(4)
C.S. Forester
Mr. Andrews
86(4)
E.M. Forster
The Test
90(3)
Angelica Gibbs
Truth And Consequences
93(4)
Brendan Gill
The Disabled Soldier
97(4)
Oliver Goldsmith
Virtuoso
101(6)
Herbert Goldstone
Her Lover
107(6)
Maxim Gorky
Proof Positive
113(3)
Graham Greene
The Butterfly
116(4)
James Hanley
Absent-Mindedness In A Parish Choir
120(3)
Thomas Hardy
The Hollow Of The Three Hills
123(4)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Question of Blood
127(4)
Ernest Haycox
The Boy Who Drew Cats
131(3)
Lafcadio Hearn
The Lost Soul
134(4)
Ben Hecht
The Exact Science of Matrimony
138(6)
O.Henry
Fard
144(5)
Aldous Huxley
The Wife
149(7)
Washington Irving
Charles
156(4)
Shirley Jackson
Then Came The Legions
160(4)
Mackinlay Kantor
If Not Higher
164(3)
Isaac Loeb Perez
The Wild Duck's Nest
167(4)
Michael Mclaverty
A Toast To Captain Jerk
171(3)
Russell Maloney
Germans At Meat
174(3)
Katherine Mansfield
Born Of Man And Woman
177(3)
Richard Matheson
The Ant And The Grasshopper
180(4)
Somerset Maugham
The Guardian Angel
184(5)
Andre Maurois
The Fiddler
189(6)
Herman Melville
The Pearl Of Toledo
195(2)
Prosper Merimee
The Sniper
197(4)
Liam O'Flaherty
The Crime On Calle De La Persequida
201(5)
Palacio Valdes
How The Devil Lost His Poncho
206(3)
Ricardo Palma
The Standard of Living
209(5)
Dorothy Parker
The Oval Portrait
214(4)
Edgar Allan Poe
Three Letters...And A Footnote
218(3)
Horacio Quiroga
A Dangerous Guy Indeed
221(3)
Damon Runyon
Reginald's Choir Treat
224(3)
Saki
The Kiss
227(3)
William Sansom
The Shepherd's Daughter
230(2)
William Saroyan
The Foreigner
232(4)
Francis Steegmuller
Tom Varnish
236(2)
Richard Steele
Over The Hill
238(2)
John Steinbeck
An Attempt At Reform
240(3)
August Strindberg
The Three Hermits
243(6)
Leo Tolstoy
The Doctor's Heroism
249(4)
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
The Beggar-Woman of Locarno
253(2)
Heinrich Von Kleist
The Phoenix
255(4)
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Slipping Beauty
259(4)
Jerome Weidman
The Hour Of Letdown
263(4)
E.B. White
Moonlight Sonata
267(3)
Alexander Woollcott
God
270(2)
Eugene Ivanovich Zamiatin
How Grandpa Came Into The Money
272(3)
Elsa Zantner
The Three Veterans
275(3)
Leane Zugsmith
Kong At The Seaside
278
Arnold Zweig

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