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Tell-tale Heart/ Edgar Allan Poe
The jewels / Guy de Maupassant
Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov
The tree of knowledge / Henry James
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
Youth / Joseph Conrad
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield
The dead / James Joyce
Little Herr Friedemann / Thomas Mann
Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson
The story of my dovecot / Isaac Babel
The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
The metamorphosis (part I) / Franz Kafka
The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre
Judas / Frank O'Connor
Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall

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Fawcett Premier
Language
English
Pages
334

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Subjects
tradition, change, death, short stories, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, Fiction, 20th century English fiction, British and irish fiction, christian fiction, Christmas, Christmas fiction, Christmas stories, Criticism and interpretation, Daily Express, Domestic fiction, English fiction, family life, Family reunions, Short story, Stories (texts), The Lass of Aughrim, Three Graces, West Britons, Irish literature, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder
People
Gabriel Conroy, Kate Morkan, Julia Morkan, Mary Jane Morkan, Lily, Gretta Conroy, Molly Ivors, Mr Browne, Freddy Malins, Mrs Malins, Bartell D'Arcy, Patrick Morkan, Michael Furey, PEOPLE Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris, Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekov, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Shirley Jackson, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Lionel Trilling
Places
Ireland, Galway, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County
Times
Antebellum era
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The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age
October 1999, Tandem Library
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Best Short Stories of the Modern Age
1993, Fawcett Premier
in English
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The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age
1993, Paw Prints
in English - Revised Edition
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The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age
1985-07, Fawcett Premier
Library Binding in English - First Ballantine Books Edition, Fifth Printing
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The best short stories of the modern age
1982, Fawcett Premier
in English - 1st Ballentine Books ed.
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The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age
1974, Fawcett Publications
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The best short stories of the modern age
1974, Fawcett Publications
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Table of Contents

Introduction
The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
The jewels / Guy de Maupassant
Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov
The tree of knowledge / Henry James
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
Youth / Joseph Conrad
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield
The dead / James Joyce
Little Herr Friedemann / Thomas Mann
Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson
The story of my dovecot / Isaac Babel
The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
The metamorphosis (part I) / Franz Kafka
The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre
Judas / Frank O'Connor
Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall

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Copyright Date
1974

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Format
Library Binding
Pagination
xii, 334p.
Number of pages
334

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7568031M
Internet Archive
bestshortstories00doug
ISBN 10
0449300277
ISBN 13
9780449300275
OCLC/WorldCat
531600179
Library Thing
32059
Goodreads
7557627

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