The World's Greatest Short Stories: Selections from Hemingway, Tolstoy, Woolf, Chekhov, Joyce, Updike and more
- ISBN-10
- 0486114791
- ISBN-13
- 9780486114798
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-03-05
- Publisher
- Courier Corporation
- Author
- James Daley
Description
Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, this wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology includes Tolstoy, Kipling, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Pirandello, Mann, Updike, Borges, and other major writers of world literature.
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