Modern Short Stories

Résumé du livre

The facts of life / W. Somerset Maugham -- Fifty pounds / A.E. Coppard -- The last day in the field / Caroline Gordon -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- That evening sun / William Faulkner -- What we don't know hurts us / Mark Schorer -- Shivaree before breakfast / Jessamyn West -- Part of the act / Sidney Alexander -- A little cloud / James Joyce -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- Effigy of war / Kay Boyle -- Sailor off the Bremen / Irwin Shaw -- Personal letter / William March -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley -- The basement room / Graham Greene -- The great fog / H.F. Heard -- The ape / V.S. Pritchett -- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- Mr. Andrews / E.M. Forster -- The apostate / George Milburn -- The forks / J.F. Powers -- The new dress / Virginia Woolf -- The lovely lady / D.H. Lawrence -- The use of force / William Carlos Williams -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann.