James DaleyDover The World's Greatest Short Stories

Good selection of stories

A good simple read that can be put down and picked up at anytime

Good book

A nice easy going short stories that was easy to follow but very entertaining. Shall look for similar in future.

Ce recueil possède de très bons auteurs. J'aime beaucoup.Il contient :Herman Melville--U.S.A.Bartleby the Scrivener (1853)Guy de Maupassant--FranceThe Necklace (1884)Leo Tolstoy--RussiaThe Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)Rudyard Kipling--EnglandThe Man Who Would Be King (1888)Charlotte Perkins Gilman--U.S.A.The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis--BrazilThe Fortune-Teller (1896)Anton Chekhov--RussiaThe Lady with the Toy Dog (1899)Rainer Maria Rilke--GermanyHow Old Timofei Died with a Song (1900)Thomas Mann--GermanyThe Path to the Cemetery (1901)D. H. Lawrence--EnglandThe Prussian Officer (1914)James Joyce--IrelandAraby (1914)Luigi Pirandello--ItalyMrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, Her Son-in-Law (1917)Virginia Woolf--EnglandThe Mark on the Wall (1921)Franz Kafka--CzechoslovakiaA Hunger Artist (1922)Katherine Mansfield--EnglandThe Garden-Party (1922)Yasunari Kawabata--JapanThe Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket (1924)Ernest Hemingway--U.S.A.A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1926)Chinua Achebe--NigeriaThe Sacrificial Egg (1959)John Updike--U.S.A.A & P (1961)Jorge Luis Borges--ArgentinaBorges and I (1962)