25+ The World's Greatest Short Stories.Vol 2. Illustrated
The short story is to-day our most common literary product. It is read by everyone. Not every boy or girl will read novels after leaving school, but every boy or girl is certain to read short stories. It is important in the high school to guide taste and appreciation in short story reading, so that the reading of days when school life is over will be healthful and upbuilding. Here is a collection that is entirely modern. The authors represented are among the leading authors of the day, the stories are principally stories of present-day life, the themes are themes of present-day thought. The students who read this book will be more awake to the present, and will be better citizens of to-day.The great number of stories presented has given opportunity to illustrate different types of short story writing:Washington Irving: Rip Van WinkleEdgar Allan Poe: The Murders In The Rue MorgueFyodor Dostoevsky: Notes From The UndergroundFranz Kafka: The MetamorphosisCharles Dickens: The ChimesIvan Turgenev: MumuFrancis Scott Fitzgerald: The Curious Case Of Benjamin ButtonJoseph Conrad: Heart Of DarknessAmbrose Bierce: ChickamaugaArthur Conan Doyle: A Study In ScarletH. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of MadnessNathaniel Hawthorne: Roger Malvin's BurialGuy de Maupassant: NecklaceLeo Tolstoy: God Sees The Truth, But WaitsAnton Chekhov: The Lottery TicketVirginia Woolf: The Mark On The WallKatherine Mansfield: The Garden PartyH.G. Wells: The StarStendhal: Vanina VaniniHonoré De Balzac: The Unknown MasterpieceMark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyAldous Huxley: Crome YellowErnest Hemingway: Up In MichiganNikolay Gogol: A May NightO. Henry: The Ransom Of Red ChiefJack London: To Build a Fire
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Издательство: Мультимедийное издательство Стрельбицкого
Переводчики: Constance Garnett, Mary Fox, C.K. Scott-Moncrieff
Бумажных страниц: 1418
