The World’s Greatest Short Stories ed. James Daley (Dover Books, 2006, 978-0-486-44716-2, $3.50, 236pp, tp, an)
Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson.
- v · Note · James Daley · in
- 1 · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.
- 31 · The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)
translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884).
- 38 · The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r)
- 85 · The Man Who Would Be King · Rudyard Kipling · nv The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling, Wheeler, 1888
- 113 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892
- 127 · The Fortune-Teller · Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis · ss (r)
- 136 · The Lady with the Toy Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)
- 150 · How Old Timofei Died with a Song · Rainer Maria Rilke · ss (r)
translated from the German.
- 155 · The Path to the Cemetery · Thomas Mann · ss (r)
- 162 · The Prussian Officer · D. H. Lawrence · nv The English Review August 1914, as “Honour and Arms”
- 180 · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- 185 · Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, Her Son-in-Law · Luigi Pirandello · ss (r)
- 192 · The Mark on the Wall · Virginia Woolf · ss Two Stories by Virginia & L. S. Woolf, The Hogarth Press, 1917
- 198 · A Hunger Artist · Franz Kafka; translated by Ian Johnston · ss 2003
translated from the German.
- 206 · The Garden-Party · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Saturday Westminster Gazette February 4 1922 (+2)
- 219 · The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket · Yasunari Kawabata; translated by Lane Dunlop & J. Martin Holman · vi Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, North Point Press, 1988
translated from the Japanese.
- 222 · A Clean, Well-Lighted Place · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1933
- 226 · The Sacrificial Egg · Chinua Achebe · ss Girls at War and Other Stories by Chinua Achebe, Pearson Education, 1972
- 230 · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961
- 236 · Borges and I · Jorge Luis Borges; translated by James E. Irby · vi Labyrinths by Jorge Luís Borges, New Directions, 1962
translated from the Spanish (“Borges y yo”, La Biblioteca, January 1957).
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