The World's Greatest Short Stories: Selections from Hemingway, Tolstoy, Woolf, Chekhov, Joyce, Updike and More

by James Ryan Daley

Book Overview

Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe.
Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; "A & P," John Updike's most anthologized story and one of his most popular; "Borges and I," typical Jorge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486447162
• ISBN13: 9780486447162
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.9"

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