Twice-Told Tales

by Gerard A. Barker, Jack London, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Katherine Mansfield, Samuel Seabough, Mark Twain, Frank O'Connor, Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O'Connor, D.H. Lawrence, Guy de Maupassant, Isak Dinesen, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Truman Capote, Angus Wilson, Elizabeth Bowne, Shirley Jackson, James Baldwin, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, Conrad Aiken, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Paule Marshall, Eudora Welty, Dan Jacobson, Isaak Babel, Ralph Ellison, John Barth

“an anthology of short fiction”

1966403 pages~7½h read

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Gerard A. Barker, Jack London, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Katherine Mansfield, Samuel Seabough, Mark Twain, Frank O'Connor, Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O'Connor, D.H. Lawrence, Guy de Maupassant, Isak Dinesen, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Truman Capote, Angus Wilson, Elizabeth Bowne, Shirley Jackson, James Baldwin, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, Conrad Aiken, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Paule Marshall, Eudora Welty, Dan Jacobson, Isaak Babel, Ralph Ellison, John Barth

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1966

Pages

403

Language

ENG

ISBN

9780395266359

§ About the book

To build a fire, version 1 / Jack London -- To build a fire, version 2 / Jack London -- An account of the tragic death of the Willey Family -- The ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The child-who-was-tired / Katherine Mansfield -- Sleepy / Anton Chekhov -- From "Tricks and Defeats of Sporting Genius" / Samuel Seabough -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras country / Mark Twain -- Repentance / Frank O'Connor -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- The death in the forest / Sherwood Anderson -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- The geranium / Flannery O'Connor -- Judgement / Flannery O'Connor -- Odour of chrysanthemums, version 1 / D. H. Lawrence -- Odour of chrysanthemums, version 3 / D. H. Lawrence -- Odour of chrysanthemums, version 2, the ending / D. H. Lawrence -- The jewelry / Guy de Maupassant -- Paste / Henry James -- Boule de Suif / Guy de Maupassant -- The heroine / Isak Dinesen -- [That evening sun](https://openlibrary. org/works/OL20080863W) / William Faulkner -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- [An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge](https://openlibrary. org/works/OL14863196W) / Ambrose Bierce -- The secert miracle / Jorge Luis Borges -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- A little companion / Angus Wilson -- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bown -- The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson -- The phantom lover, two excerpts -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Going to meet the man / James Baldwin -- The basement room / Graham Greene -- Next door / Kurt Vonnegut -- [William Wilson](https://openlibrary. org/works/OL16088822W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The eyes / Edith Wharton -- Life isn't a short story / Conrad Aiken -- The potato elf / Vladimer Nabokov -- [A painful case](https://openlibrary. org/works/OL5213767W/A_Painful_Case) / James Joyce -- Barbados / Paule Marshall -- Death of a travelling salesman / Eudora Welty -- Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson -- Awakening / Isaac Babel -- [Young goodman Brown](https://openlibrary. org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The judgement / Franz Kafka -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Night-sea journey / John Barth.

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First published 1966
403 pages · in English
№ 80627

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