The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection

It was awesome. Days and days of great reading, and discovery of some authors I hadn't known.

Kafka, Faulkner, Greene, Capote... around 60 authors in all... a very representative collection...

Sixty-two stories from sixteen countries. The editior, Clifton Fadiman, was a New Yorker book reviewer and has been a literary critic since 1931. Stories chosen are more unusual selections from "moderns" to current day.

A.V. Laider; The Other Wife; The Facts of Life; Dusky Ruth; The Dead Man; in the Penal Colony; Odor of Chrysanthemums; The Fly; He; Thirst; My First Goose; The Greatest Man in the World; The Piano; Babylon Revisited; That Evening Sun; Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius; Mysterious Kor; First Love; My Old Man; The Door; Lovers of the Lake; The Camberwell Beauty; Men; a Cap for Steve; The Drunkard; Cheap in August; The Dead Fiddler; Flight; The Patented Gate and the Mean Hamburger; The End of the World; Death of a Traveling Salesman; The Five-Forty-Eight; The Living; The Vertical Ladder; Medal from Jerusalem; The Southern Thruway the Jew Bird; a Silver Dish; The Interior Castle; Mme. Zilensky and the King of Finland; The Gift of the Prodigal; One show more off the Short List; The Supper; Going Ashore; Letter from His Father; Miriam; Three Million Yen; The Artificial Nigger; Nikishka's Secrets; Death Constant Beyond Love; The Shawl; a Complicated Nature; The Hitchhiking Game; Game; Bardon Bus; Pigeon Feathers; Eli the Fanatic; How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life over Again; The Man from Mars; a Small, Good Thing; Weekend; The Schreuderspitze show less