Twenty-One Great Stories

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Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1969-02-01
Publisher(s): Signet
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Summary

An anthology of some of the world's great short fiction.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
War
11(6)
Luigi Pirandello
Eve in Darkness
17(8)
Kaatje Hurlbut
There Will Come Soft Rains
25(7)
Ray Bradbury
Tobermory
32(9)
``Saki''
The Two Bottles of Relish
41(15)
Lord Dunsany
Footfalls
56(23)
Wilbur Daniel Steele
Hook
79(22)
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Wine on the Desert
101(10)
Max Brand
The Lady or the Tiger?
111(8)
Frank Stockton
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
119(12)
Ambrose Bierce
The Cask of Amontillado
131(9)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart
140(6)
Edgar Allan Poe
So Much Unfairness of Things
146(37)
C. D. B. Bryan
The Necklace
183(10)
Guy de Maupassant
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
193(28)
Arthur Conan Doyle
To Build a Fire
221(19)
Jack London
Leiningen Versus the Ants
240(25)
Carl Stephenson
Eveline
265(6)
James Joyce
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
271(7)
James Thurber
What Stumped the Bluejays
278(7)
Mark Twain
The Pearl
285
John Steinbeck

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