The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age
First Ballantine Books Edition, Fifth Printing
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Publication
1985-07-01 - Fawcett Premier, New York
Language
English
Word Count
83,500 words, Guess
Page Count
334 pages
Physical Format
Library Binding
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebestshortstories00doug
- ISBN-100449300277
- ISBN-139780449300275
- Goodreads7557627
- OCLC Control Number531600179
and 3 more
- Better World BooksT2-BOU-521
- Better World BooksKO-550-565
- Open LibraryOL7568031M
Description
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)/ 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) / 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / 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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