The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection

NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_cloth spine. VeryGood/VeryGood. 6.4"x9.5" 847 pgs. Black boards. Black cloth spine w/silver letters. Author photo by J. Ross Baughman. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (no price).Soil ring on back board. Moderate edge wear to DJ w/small rubs & tears. Pencil writing on bottom edge. Extra postage covered in price. Secure ship w/tracking number. At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka; D. H. Lawrence; Katherine Ann Porter; Vladimir Nabokov; E. B. White; Frank O'Connor; Isaac Bashevis Singerr; John O'Hara; Dino Buzzati; Eudora Welty; Julio Cortazar; Bernard Malamud; Carson McCuller; Doris Lessing; Nadine Gordimer; Truman Capote; Yukio Mishima; Flannery O'Connor; Yuri Kazakov; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Milan Kundera; Margaret Atwood; Raymond Carver; Ann Beattie; Max Beerbohm; Somerset Maugham; A. E. Coppard; Haroacio Quiroga; Franz Kafka; Katherine Mansfield; Ivo Andric; Anibal Monteiro Machado; Elizabeth Bowen; Sean O'Faolain; V. S. Pritchett; Kay Boyle; Morley Callaghan; Mary Lavin; William Sansom; Irwin Shaw; Saul Bellow; Jean Stafford; Peter Taylor; Tadeusz Borowski; Mavis Gallant; Nadine Gordiimer; Cynthia Ozick; William Trevor; Philip Roth; Joyce Carol Oates; Mark Helprin; Alice Munro; Isaac Babel; F. Scott Fitzgerald; William Faulkner; Ernest Hemingway; John Cheever; Sean O'Faolain; Graham Greene; Robert Penn Warren; Colette; John Updike; Donald Barthelme; and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.