Contributor
Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon), 1900-1997.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1981.
Descriptionxiv, 547 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott. - The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne. - The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe. - The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain. - The iliad of Sandy Bar / Bret Harte. - The coup de grâce / Ambrose Bierce. - Paste / Henry James. - Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson. - The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad. - The record of Badalia herodsfoot / Rudyard Kipling. - Telemachus, friend / O. Henry. - Sredni Vashtar / Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) - The open boat / Stephen Crane. - An ideal craftsman / Walter de la Mare. - An official position / W. Somerset Maugham. - I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson. - The field of mustard / A.E. Coppard. - Grace / James Joyce. - The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence. - Who dealt? / Ring Lardner. - The woman at the store / Katherine Mansfield. - Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne porter. - The tent / Liam O'Flaherty. - Dry September / William Faulkner. - Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway. - The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen. - Many are disappointed / V.S. Pritchett. - Sinners / Sean O'Faoláin. - Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor. - The runaway / Morley Callaghan. - Never / H.E. Bates. - A horse and two goats / R.K. Narayan. - A visit of charity / Eudora Welty. - Various temptations / William Sansom. - My vocation / Mary Lavin. - Five-twenty / Patrick white. - Goodbye, my brother / John Cheever. - Mrs. Fortescue / Doris Lessing. - Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor. - Going home / William Trevor. - Lifeguard / John Updike.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
