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Anthology Title:
The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection • non-genre • anthology by Clifton Fadiman
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 1 • A. V. Laider • (1916) • short story by Max Beerbohm
- 46 • The Dead Man • (1976) • short story by Horacio Quiroga (trans. of El hombre muerto 1920)
- 50 • In the Penal Colony • (1948) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of In der Strafkolonie 1919)
- 124 • The Piano • (1967) • short story by Aníbal Monteiro Machado (trans. of O piano 1944)
- 173 • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius • (1961) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius?Tloen, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius1940)
- 186 • Mysterious Kôr • (1944) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
- 219 • The Door • (1939) • short story by E. B. White
- 322 • The Dead Fiddler • (1968) • novelette by Isaac Bashevis Singer (trans. of Der toyter klezmer 1966)
- 374 • The End of the World • (1983) • short story by Dino Buzzati (trans. of La fine del mondo 1944)
- 413 • The Vertical Ladder • (1944) • short story by William Sansom
- 440 • The Southern Thruway • (1973) • short story by Julio Cortázar?Julio Cortazar(trans. of La autopista del sur 1966)
- 458 • The Jewbird • (1963) • short story by Bernard Malamud
- 502 • Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland • (1941) • short story by Carson McCullers
- 571 • Letter from His Father • (1983) • short story by Nadine Gordimer
- 585 • Miriam • (1945) • short story by Truman Capote
- 638 • Death Constant Beyond Love • (1978) • short story by Gabriel García Márquez?Gabriel Garcia Marquez(trans. of Muerte constante más allá del amor 1970)
- 680 • Game • (1965) • short story by Donald Barthelme
- 753 • How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again • non-genre • (1969) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
- 820 • The Schreuderspitze • (1977) • novelette by Mark Helprin