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Art of the Tale : An International Anthology of Short Stories, 1945-1985

ISBN: 9780140079494 | 0140079491
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Pub. Date: 8/1/1989

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Eighty-one masterpieces by the world's best writers--a surprising, irresistible collection of short stories from around the world.
Introductionxi
The Sacrificial Egg
5(4)
Chinua Achebe
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The Bound Man
9(9)
Ilse Aichinger
Little Whale, Varnisher of Reality
18(10)
Vasily Aksenov
Hair Jewellery
28(12)
Margaret Atwood
Everything
40(12)
Ingeborg Bachmann
Going to Meet the Man
52(13)
James Baldwin
The Child Screams and Looks Back at You
65(6)
Russell Banks
Cortes and Montezuma
71(6)
Donald Barthelme
Jacklighting
77(5)
Ann Beattie
First Love
82(12)
Samuel Beckett
Action Will Be Taken
94(4)
Heinrich Boll
Do Stay, Giraffe
98(2)
Wolfgang Borchert
The Aleph
100(10)
Jorge Luis Borges
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
110(12)
Tadeusz Borowski
Cowardice
122(2)
Abdeslam Boulaich
A Distant Episode
124(9)
Paul Bowles
Greasy Lake
133(8)
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Ceil
141(11)
Harold Brodkey
Seven Floors
152(11)
Dino Buzzati
The Adventure of a Traveler
163(10)
Italo Calvino
The Adulterous Woman
173(11)
Albert Camus
Children on Their Birthdays
184(13)
Truman Capote
Fat
197(4)
Raymond Carver
The Country Husband
201(18)
John Cheever
Quenby and Ola, Swede and Carl
219(11)
Robert Coover
Bestiary
230(11)
Julio Cortazar
The Haile Selassie Funeral Train
241(5)
Guy Davenport
The Cloak
246(10)
Isak Dinesen
The Hunter
256(7)
E. L. Doctorow
I Look Out for Ed Wolfe
263(19)
Stanley Elkin
Communist
282(12)
Richard Ford
The Doll Queen
294(11)
Carlos Fuentes
The Chosen Husband
305(13)
Mavis Gallant
Order of Insects
318(5)
William Gass
The Mother
323(8)
Natalia Ginzburg
The Life of the Imagination
331(10)
Nadine Gordimer
Two Gentle People
341(6)
Graham Greene
Why I Transformed Myself into a Nightingale
347(4)
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
One Arm
351(13)
Yasunari Kawabata
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
364(12)
Milan Kundera
Gogol's Wife
376(9)
Tommaso Landolfi
The Habit of Loving
385(17)
Doris Lessing
The Challenge
402(9)
Mario Vargas Llosa
The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish
411(6)
Naguib Mahfouz
The Last Mohican
417(16)
Bernard Malamud
Eyes of a Blue Dog
433(5)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Pilgrimage
438(7)
William Maxwell
First Love, Last Rites
445(8)
Ian McEwan
The Deal
453(6)
Leonard Michaels
Patriotism
459(17)
Yukio Mishima
Jewellery
476(5)
Alberto Moravia
Doctor Safi
481(7)
Mohammed Mrabet
Spring in Fialta
488(14)
Vladimir Nabokov
Naga
502(7)
R. K. Narayan
The Tryst
509(10)
Joyce Carol Oates
Sister Imelda
519(14)
Edna O'Brien
The Artificial Nigger
533(15)
Flannery O'Connor
A Set of Variations on a Borrowed Theme
548(19)
Frank O'Connor
Nomad and Viper
567(13)
Amos Oz
The Suitcase
580(15)
Cynthia Ozick
The Contest
595(6)
Grace Paley
Suicides
601(11)
Cesare Pavese
The Saint
612(10)
V. S. Pritchett
Eventide
622(7)
James Purdy
The Replacement
629(4)
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Rain
633(5)
Merce Rodoreda
In the Garden
638(12)
Leon Rooke
Talpa
650(6)
Juan Rulfo
XXII
656(2)
Nathalie Sarraute
Henne Fire
658(8)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Unguided Tour
666(9)
Susan Sontag
Children Are Bored on Sunday
675(8)
Jean Stafford
A Friend and Protector
683(14)
Peter Taylor
Death and the Maiden
697(14)
Michel Tournier
Beyond the Pale
711(19)
William Trevor
Separating
730(9)
John Updike
I'm Your Horse in the Night
739(3)
Luisa Valenzuela
No Place For You, My Love
742(14)
Eudora Welty
Five-Twenty
756(18)
Patrick White
Hunters in the Snow
774(12)
Tobias Wolff
Big Black Good Man
786(10)
Richard Wright
The Best of Everything
796(10)
Richard Yates
Biographical Notes806
Daniel Halpern is the author of eight collections of poetry, and has received numerous grants and awards (including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the 1993 PEN Publisher Citation). For twenty-five years he edited the literary magazine Antaeus. He is currently Editorial Director of The Ecco Press/HarperCollins and divides his time between Princeton, New Jersey and New York City.


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