Crane Ed.

"50 Great Short Stories" is a comprehensive selection from the world` s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, White, Saroyan, and O` Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common - the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world` s fiction.

Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories. Edgar Allan Poe`s Ms. Found in a Bottle, Bret Harte`s The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Sherwood Anderson`s Death in the Woods, Stephen Vincent Benet`s By the Waters of Babylon. The Great Writers. Melville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers. The Little-Known Masterpieces. Edith Wharton`s The Dilettante, Finley Peter Dunne`s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman, Charles `s A Dead Issue, James Reid Parker`s The Archimandrite`s Niece.

Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004