A world of great stories /
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New York :
Crown Publishers,
©1947.
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Table of Contents:
- AMERICAN AND BRITISH SECTION. The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein / O. Henry ; Hands / Sherwood Anderson ; Ten Indians / Ernest Hemingway ; A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner ; The Man Who Saw Through Heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele ; The Baby Party / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Ex Parte / Ring Lardner ; Circus at Dawn / Thomas Wolfe ; Flight / John Steinbeck ; Snowfall in Childhood / Ben Hecht ; A Day's Work / Katherine Anne Porter ; Petrified Man / Eudora Welty ; Act of Faith / Irwin Shaw ; The Blue Cross / G.K. Chesterton ; The Eye of Allah / Rudyard Kipling ; Red / Somerset Maugham ; The Open Window / Saki ; The Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence ; Fanfare for Elizabeth / Edith Sitwell ; Sunday Afternoon / Elizabeth Bowen ; Desire / James Stephens ; The Boarding House / James Joyce ; The Sniper / Liam O'Flaherty ; The Old Wife / Morley Jamieson ; Keep up appearances / Rhian Roberts ; Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield ; The Gray Horse / Katharine Susannah Prichard ; A Sick Call / Morley Callaghan
- ROMANCE LANGUAGE SECTION. Madame de Luzy / Anatole France ; Deliverance / Romain Rolland ; Overture / Marcel Proust ; The Gentle Libertine / Colette ; A Crime Without a Motive / André Gide ; May on Lake Asquam / Jean Giraudoux ; Man's Fate / André Malraux ; The Wall / Jean-Paul Sartre ; The Funeral / Albert Camus ; Hiep-Hioup / Georges Eekhoud ; An Unbeliever / Azorin ; Blasa's Tavern / Pio Baroja ; The Woman of Samaria / Gabriel Miro ; Horse in the Moon / Luigi Pirandello ; The Travelers / Ignazio Silone ; The Story of My Death / Lauro de Bosis ; The Last Faun / Aquilino Ribeiro
- GERMANIC AND SCANDINAVIAN SECTION. Disorder and Early Sorrow / Thomas Mann ; The Tale of the Hands of God / Rainer Maria Rilke ; The Married Couple / Franz Kafka ; Moonbeam Alley / Stefan Zweig ; Kong at the Seaside / Arnold Zweig ; The Dead Are Silent / Arthur Schnitzler ; Darkness at Noon / Arthur Koestler ; Harry's Loves / Herman Hesse ; Bluebeard's Daughter / Louis Couperus ; The Suspicion / Johannes L. Walch ; Birds of Passage / Martin Andersen Nexo ; The Sailor-Boy's Tale / Isak Dinesen ; The Death of Kristin Lavransdatter / Sigrid Undset ; The Shark / Johan Bojer ; The Outlaws / Selma Lagerlöf ; In Spite of Everything / Sigfrid Siwertz ; The Burning City / Hjalmar Söderberg.
- RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN SECTION. In Exile / Anton Chekhov ; One Autumn Night / Maxim Gorky ; Tevye Wins a Fortune / Sholom Aleichem ; Hide and Seek / Feodor Sologub ; The Abyss / Leonid Andreyev ; The Gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin ; Vasily Suchkov / Alexey Tolstoy ; His Only Son / Konstantin Simonov ; Death / Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont ; The Emperor and the Devil / Joseph Wittlin ; Selma Koljas / F.E. Sillanpaa ; Money / Karel Capek ; Vertigo / Egon Hostovsky ; The Silver Hilt / Ferenc Molnar ; The Green Fly / Kalman Mikszath ; Children and Old Folk / Ivan Cankar ; The Neighbor / Antun Gustav Matos ; The Easter Torch / I.L. Caragiale ; The Little Coin / Angel Karalitcheff ; Maternity / Lilika Nakos
- ORIENTAL SECTION. Medicine / Lu Hsun ; Spring Silkworms / Mao Tun ; Mr. Hua Wei / Chang T'Ien-i ; Ah Ao / Sun Hsi-chen ; Growth of Hate / Wang Hsi-yen ; The Dog-Meat General / Lin Yutang ; Doomsday / Younghill Kang ; The Handkerchief / Ryunosuke Akutagawa ; My Lord, the Baby / Rabindranath Tagore ; Drought / S. Raja Ratnam ; The Jealous Wife / Helen Davidian ; A Deserted Street / Tawfiq Al-Hakim ; Hillbred / Arreph El-Khoury ; The Pig / Constant Zarian ; The Gray Donkey / Refik Halid ; Tales of a Burmese Soothsayer / Saw Tun ; The Cock / Tao Kim Hai ; My Thai Cat / Pratoomratha Zeng ; The Horse of the Sword / Manuel Buaken
- LATIN AMERICAN SECTION. The Woman of Mystery / Mariano Latorre ; Lucero / Oscar Castro Z. ; Valley Heat / José de la Cuadra ; The Well / Augusto Cespedes ; Cross Over, Sawyer! / Jesus del Corral ; The Failure / Jorge Ferretis ; The Lottery Ticket / Ventura García Calderón ; Adultery / Enrique López Albújar ; The sorrel Colt / Benito Lynch ; The Servant Girl / Alfonso Hernández-Catá ; Three Letters ... And a Footnote / Horacio Quiroga ; Ovejon / Luis Manuel Urbaneja Achelpohl ; The Funny-Man Who Repented / Monteiro Lobato.