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Klappentext This outstanding collection features short stories by great writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, writers include Poe, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Faulkner, Pirandello, Mann, and other major writers of world literature. A wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Herman Melville--U.S.A. Bartleby the Scrivener (1853)Guy de Maupassant--France The Necklace (1884)Leo Tolstoy--Russia The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)Rudyard Kipling--England The Man Who Would Be King (1888)Charlotte Perkins Gilman--U.S.A. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis--Brazil The Fortune-Teller (1896)Anton Chekhov--Russia The Lady with the Toy Dog (1899)Rainer Maria Rilke--Germany How Old Timofei Died with a Song (1900)Thomas Mann--Germany The Path to the Cemetery (1901)D. H. Lawrence--England The Prussian Officer (1914)James Joyce--Ireland Araby (1914)Luigi Pirandello--Italy Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, Her Son-in-Law (1917)Virginia Woolf--England The Mark on the Wall (1921)Franz Kafka--Czechoslovakia A Hunger Artist (1922)Katherine Mansfield--England The Garden-Party (1922)Yasunari Kawabata--Japan The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket (1924)Ernest Hemingway--U.S.A. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1926)Chinua Achebe--Nigeria The Sacrificial Egg (1959)John Updike--U.S.A. A & P (1961)Jorge Luis Borges--Argentina Borges and I (1962)
