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The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection

Clifton Fadiman

3.8/5 ( ratings)

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

Language: English

Pages: 847

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Release: January 01, 1986

ISBN: 0395368057

ISBN 13: 9780395368053

The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection

Clifton Fadiman

3.8/5 ( ratings)

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

Language: English

Pages: 847

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Release: January 01, 1986

ISBN: 0395368057

ISBN 13: 9780395368053

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