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Klappentext This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories -- each just six or fewer pages in length -- includes such popular tales as Kafka's "A Country Doctor," Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," Chopin's "A Pair of Silk Stockings," plus works by Dickens, O. Henry, Chekhov, Wilde, and many others. Inhaltsverzeichnis Sherwood Anderson The EggAmbrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeWilla Cather The Enchanted BluffAnton Chekhov A MalefactorKate Chopin A Pair of Silk StockingsStephen Crane The VeteranDaniel Defoe The Apparition of Mrs. VealCharles Dickens Nobody's StoryCharlotte Perkins Gilman If I Were a ManThomas Hardy Squire Petrick's LadyBret Harte The Luck of Roaring CampNathaniel Hawthorne Dr. Heidegger's ExperimentJerome K. Jerome A Ghost StorySarah Orne Jewett A White HeronFranz Kafka A Country DoctorRudyard Kipling Wee Willie WinkieNella Larsen SanctuaryD. H. Lawrence Second BestJack London The White SilenceKatherine Mansfield Germans at MeatGuy de Maupassant A Piece of StringH. H. Munro, or Saki The Open WindowO. Henry The Furnished RoomLuigi Pirandello With Other EyesEdgar Allan Poe The Cask of AmontilladoAlexander Pushkin The Coffin-MakerLeo Tolstoy The Three HermitsMark Twain The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyH. G. Wells The Remarkable Case of Davidson's EyesOscar Wilde The Sphinx Without a Secret
