75 Short Masterpeices Author:Roger Goodman (Editor) A wedding without musicians / Sholem Aleichem -- — He swung and he missed / Nelson Algren -- — Senor Payroll / William E. Barrett -- — Houseparty / Walter Bernstein -- — How light belief bringeth damage / Bidpai -- — A psychological shipwreck / Ambrose Bierce -- — The father / Bjornstjerne Bjornson -- — Neifile's story / Boccaccio -- — I see you nev... more »er / Ray Bradbury --
The lottery ticket / Ventura Garcia Calderon --
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 / Andre Maurois --
The fiddler / Herman Melville --
The pearl of Toledo / Prosper Merimee --
The sniper / Liam O'Flaherty. The crime on Calle De La Persequida / Palacio Valdes --
How the devil lost his poncho / Richard 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 / Frances 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 --