Edited by: Milton Crane text New York Bantam Books 1952 monographic eng

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470 p. The garden party—katherine mansfield ................ 1 The three-day blow—ernest hemingway ................ 14 The standard of living—dorothy parker ............... 22 The saint—v. S. Pritchett ............................... 27 The other side of the hedge—e. M. Forster ........... 38 Brooksmith—henry james ................................... 43 The jockey—carson mccullers ........................... 58 The courting of dinah shadd—rudyard kipling ......... 63 The shot—alexander poushkin (translated by t. Keane) 82 Graven image—john o’hara ................................ 93 Putois—anatole france (translated by frederic chapman) 97 Only the dead know brooklyn—thomas wolfe ........... 109 A. V. Laider—max beerbohm ............................... 113 The lottery—shirley jackson ........................... 130 The masque of the red death—edgar allan poe ......... 138 Looking back—guy de maupassant (translated by h. N. P. Sloman) 143 The man higher up—o. Henry .............................. 148 The summer of the beautiful white horse—william saroyan 159 The other two—edith wharton ............................. 165 Theft—katherine anne porter ............................. 182 For esmé—with love and squalor—j. D. Salinger ........ 188 The man of the house—frank o’connor ................... 206 The man who shot snapping turtles—edmund wilson ..... 214 The gioconda smile—aldous huxley ........................ 224 The curfew tolls—stephen vincent benét ................ 250 English 50--Great--Short--Stories 808.83 A81 (pbk) 260604 20260604170114.0