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The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age -- Revised

The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age -- Revised

Douglas Angus, Антон Павлович Чехов

4.0(1)on Hardcover

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[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)/ Edgar Allan Poe The jewels / Guy de Maupassant Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov The tree of knowledge / Henry James A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway Youth / Joseph Conrad The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence Bliss / Katherine Mansfield [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) / James Joyce Little Herr Friedemann / Thomas Mann Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson The story of my dovecot / Isaac Babel The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner The metamorphosis (part I) / Franz Kafka The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre Judas / Frank O'Connor Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling The lottery / Shirley Jackson The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall

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OL31417955W

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traditionchangedeathshort storiesallegorynonlinear narrativegentleman's agreementsreclusesMentally ill womenFiction20th century English fictionBritish and irish fictionchristian fictionChristmasChristmas fictionChristmas storiesCriticism and interpretationDaily Express

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