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Great Modern European Short Stories

by Sylvia Angus (Editor), Douglas Angus (Editor)

Other authors: Karel Čapek (Contributor), Isaac Babel (Contributor), Heinrich Böll (Contributor), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (Contributor), Heinz Huber (Contributor)8 more, Yuri Kazakov (Contributor), Tommaso Landolfi (Contributor), Mary Lavin (Contributor), Jakov Lind (Contributor), Thomas Mann (Contributor), Alberto Moravia (Contributor), Luigi Pirandello (Contributor), Alan Sillitoe (Contributor)

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Included in this brilliant collection are twenty-five stories of twentieth-century Europe by some of the greatest writers of the era. Unique in their range of insights, these pieces reflect the vast upheavals of their time, etching o fascinating and very thorough spiritual record of Europe's recent cultural evolution.… (more)
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Contents:

The Kiss by Anton Chekhov
Her First Ball by Katherine Mansfield
Araby by James Joyce
The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
The Infant Prodigy by Thomas Mann
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence
The Colonel’s Lady by W. Somerset Maugham
The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Adulterous Woman by Albert Camus
Jackals and Arabs by Franz Kafka
Sorrow-Acre by Isak Dinesen
In the Basement by Isaac Babel
Bitter Honeymoon by Alberto Moravia
The Last Judgement by Karel Čapek
Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer
War by Luigi Pirandello
A World Ends by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Journey Through the Night by Jakov Lind
The New Apartment by Heinz Huber
Murke’s Collected Silences by Heinrich Böll
Gogol’s Wife by Tomasso Landolfi
Autumn in the Oak Woods by Yuri Kazakov
Isaac Starbuck by Alan Sillitoe
First Confession by Frank O’Connor
The Great Wave by Mary Lavin
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Angus, SylviaEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Angus, DouglasEditormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Čapek, KarelContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Babel, IsaacContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Böll, HeinrichContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hildesheimer, WolfgangContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Huber, HeinzContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kazakov, YuriContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Landolfi, TommasoContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lavin, MaryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lind, JakovContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Mann, ThomasContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Moravia, AlbertoContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Pirandello, LuigiContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Sillitoe, AlanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Included in this brilliant collection are twenty-five stories of twentieth-century Europe by some of the greatest writers of the era. Unique in their range of insights, these pieces reflect the vast upheavals of their time, etching o fascinating and very thorough spiritual record of Europe's recent cultural evolution.

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