01798cam a2200217 4500 243215214 TxAuBib 20010105120000.0 851119s1986||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780395368053 $24.95 0395368057 $24.95 TxAuBib The World of the short story [BOOK] : a twentieth century collection / selected and edited by Clifton Fadiman. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986. xiii, 847 p. ; 24 cm. A.V. Laider--Other wife--Facts of life--Dusky Ruth--Dead man--In the penal colony--Odour of Chrysanthemums--Fly--He--Thirst--My first goose--Greatest man in the world--Piano--Bablon revisited--That evening sun--Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius--Mysterious Kor--First love--My old man--Door--Lovers of the lake--Camberwell beauty--Men--Cap for Steve--Drunkard--Cheap in August--Dead Fiddler--Flight--Patented gate and the mean hamburger--End of the world--Death of a traveling salesman--Five forty eight--Living--Vertical ladder--Medal from Jerusalem--Southern Thurway--Jewbird--Silver Dish--Interior Castle--Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland--Gift of the Prodigal--One off the Short List--Supper--Going ashore--Letter from his father--Miriam--Three million yen--Artificial nigger--Nikishka's secrets--Death constant beyond love--Shawl--Complicated nature--Hitchhiking game--Game--Bardon bus--Pigeon feathers--Eli, the fanatic--How I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again--Man from Mars--Small good thing--Weekend --Schreuderspitze. 20010105. Short stories. Fiction 20th century. Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-