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Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham
Vanka / Anton Chekhov
The happy prince / Oscar Wilde
The old demon / Pearl S. Buck
The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen
Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley
Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon
Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers
Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat
The open boat / Stephen Crane
My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor
The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway
A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes
The little Bouilloux girl / Colette
The ruby / Corrado Alvaro
Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer
The boarding house / James Joyce
The brute / Joseph Conrad
A double game / Alberto Moravia
Maternity / Lilika Nakos
Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West
God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy
The walker-through-walls / Marcel Ayme
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain
The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht
The overcoat / Sally Benson
Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall
The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France
The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro)
María Concepción / Katherine A. Porter
My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore
The end of the party / Graham Greene
Modern children / Sholom Aleichem
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner
Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez
The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley
The Mezzotint /Montague R. James
The alligators / John Updike
Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko
Haircut / Ring Lardner
The burning city / Hjalmar Söderberg
Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden
The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing
Who cares? / Santha Rama Rau
Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara
Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman
The drover's wife / Henry Lawson
The huntsmen / Paul Horgan
The guest / Albert Camus
Patience / Nigel Balchin
Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote
Admiral's night / Machado de Assis
The bet / Anton Chekhov
The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells
A country love story / Jean Stafford
A worn path / Eudora Welty
The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham
A priest in the family / Leo Kennedy
The cop and the anthem / O. Henry
Marriage á la mode / Katherine Mansfield
The nightingale / Maxim Gorky
The launch / Max Aub
The wreath / Luigi Pirandello
The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw
You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker
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Short stories, fiction, Mothers and daughters, Horror stories, Rites and ceremonies, Manners and customs, Villages, Stoning, Lotteries, short story, American literature, black spot, scapegoat, mob mentality, family, rules, NouvellesPeople
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