Author:
Goodman, Roger B. ed.
Imprint:New York : Bantam Books, [1961]
Description282 p. ; 17 cm.
Note:A Wedding without musicians / Sholem Aleichem -- He swung and he missed / Nelson Algren -- Señor Payroll / William E. Barrett -- Houseparty / Walter Bernstein -- How light belief bringeth damage / Bidpai -- A Psychological shipwreck / Ambrose Bierce -- The Father / Björnstjerne Björnson -- Neifile's story / Boccaccio -- I see you never / Ray Bradbury -- The Lottery ticket / Ventura García Calderón -- Daughter / Erskine Caldwell -- A Wicked boy / Anton Chekhov -- Luck / Samuel Clemens -- The Chaser / John Collier -- The Upturned face / Stephen Crane -- A Game of billiards / Alphonse Daudet -- Fear / Rhys Davies -- The Riddle / Walter de la Mare -- The Jewels of M. Lantin / Guy de Maupassant -- The Heavenly Christmas tree / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The Ghosts / Lord Dunsany -- The Scoop / James T. Farrell -- The Bedchamber mystery / C.S. Forester -- Mr. Andrews / E.M. Forster -- The Test / Angelica Gibbs -- Truth and consequences / Brendan Gill -- The Disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith -- Virtuoso / Herbert Goldstone -- Her lover / Maxim Gorky -- Proof positive / Graham Greene -- The Butterfly / James Hanley -- Absent-mindedness in a parish choir / Thomas Hardy -- The Hollow of the three hills / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A Question of blood / Ernest Haycox -- The Boy who drew cats / Lafcadio Hearn -- The Lost soul / Ben Hecht -- The Exact science of matrimony / O. Henry -- Fard / Aldous Huxley -- The Wife / Washington Irving -- Charles / Shirley Jackson -- Then came the legions / Mackinlay Kantor -- If not higher / Isaac Loeb Perez -- The Wild duck's nest / Michael McLaverty -- A Toast to Captain Jerk / Russell Maloney -- Germans at meat / Katherine Mansfield -- Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson -- The Ant and the grasshopper / Somerset Maugham -- The Guardian angel / André Maurois -- The Fiddler / Herman Melville -- The Pearl of Toledo / Prosper Mérimée -- The Sniper / Liam O'Flaherty -- The Crime on Calle de al Persequida / Palacio Valdés -- How the devil lost his poncho / Ricardo Palma -- The Standard of living / Dorothy Parker -- The Oval portrait / Edgar Allan Poe -- Three letters ... and a footnote / Horacio Quiroga -- A Dangerous guy indeed / Damon Runyon -- Reginald's choir treat / Saki -- The Kiss / William Sansom -- The Shepherd's daughter / William Saroyan -- The Foreigner / Francis Steegmuller -- Tom Varnish / Richard Steele -- Over the hill / John Steinbeck -- An Attempt at reform / August Strindberg -- The Three hermits / Leo Tolstoy -- The Doctor's heroism / Villiers de L'Isle-Adam -- The Beggar-woman of Locarno / Heinrich von Kleist -- The Phoenix / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Slipping beauty / Jerome Weidman -- The Hour of letdown / E.B. White -- Moonlight sonata / Alexander Woollcott -- God / Eugene Ivanovich Zamiatin -- How grandpa came into the money / Elsa Zantner -- The Three veterans / Leane Zugsmith -- Kong at the seaside / Arnold Zweig.
