A World of Great Stories: 115 stories, the best of modern literature

by Hiram Collins Haydn, John Cournos | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0517270749 Global Overview for this book
Registered by eastbaybookmisr of Oakland, California USA on 3/7/2011
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Journal Entry 1 by eastbaybookmisr from Oakland, California USA on Monday, March 7, 2011
1970s Avenel Books hardcover, with dust jacket, of the 1947 collection, 1885-1946, from around the world. I bought this copy way back when from the bookstore at Merritt College.

I can let this go after I read these, and also:
1885 The Green Fly (short story) [read 2010]
1885 Sorrow (Grief) (short story) [read 2010]
1885 The Misfortune (short story) [read 2010]
1886 Agafya (short story) [read 2010]
1887 The Kiss (short story) [read 2010]
1888 Sleepy (short story) [read 2012]
1889 An Interview with Mark Twain [read 2010]
1889 The Bet (short story) [read 2010]
1889 A Dreary Story [A Boring Story] (novella) [read 2010]
1892 In Exile (short story) [read 2010]
1894 The Jungle Book [read 2012]
1895 Overture (short story) [read 2010]
1895 Hiep-Houp (short story) [read 2010]
1895 The Easter Torch (short story) [read 2010]
1899 The Outlaws (short story) [read 2010]
1901 Kim [read 2006]
1902 Just So Stories [read 2012]
1903 The Robe Of Peace (short story) [read 2011]
1903 The Princess and the Puma (short story) [read 2011]
1894-1904 Collected Stories of O. Henry [read 2010]
1904 The Gold That Glittered (short story) [read 2011]
1904 The Furnished Room (short story) [read 2011]
1904 The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein (short story) [read 2011]
1904 The Napoleon of Notting Hill [read 2010]
1904 Reginald (story collection) [read 2010]
1905 Tobermory (short story) [read 2010]
1905 Bluebeard's Daughter (short story) [read 2010]
1905 Tevye Wins a Fortune (short story) [read 2010]
1905 The Abyss (short story) [read 2010]
1905 Children and Old Folk (short story) [read 2010]
1905 The Neighbor (short story) [read 2010]
1905 The Lottery Ticket (short story) [read 2010]
1905 Adultery (short story) [read 2010]
1906 Puck of Pook's Hill [read 2012]
1908 The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare [read 2011]
1885-1909 Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems [read 2012]
1910 Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches (story collection) [read 2010]
1910 The Bolt from the Blue (short story) [read 2013]
1911 Sredni Vashtar (short story) [read 2010]
1911 The Blue Cross (short story) [read 2013]
1913 Sons and Lovers [read 2008]
1914 Odour of Chrysanthemums (short story) [read 2013]
1914 The Open Window (short story) [read 2016]
1914 Araby (short story) [read 2016]
1914 Counterparts (short story) [read 2016]
1914 Grace (short story) [read 2016]
1914 Ivy Day in the Committee Room (short story) [read 2016]
1915 Of Human Bondage [read 2008]
1915 The Metamorphosis (novella) [read 2008]
1915 Alibi Ike (short story) [read 2016]
1916 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [read 2008]
1917 The Woman at Seven Brothers (short story) [read 2016]
1919 The Eye of Allah (short story) [read 2013]
1920 The Cut-Glass Bowl (short story) [read 2010]
1920 Bliss (short story) [read 2016]
1920 Women in Love [read 2013]
1962 The Wild Years (1920s essay collection) [read 2008]
1921 Erik Dorn [read 2010]
1921 Red (short story) [read 2016]
1922 The Golden Honeymoon (short story) [read 2016]
1922 The Horse-Dealer's Daughter (short story) [read 2016]
1922 Miss Brill (short story) [read 2016]
1923 The Fox (novella) [read 2016]
1924 Big Two-Hearted River (short story) [read 2009]
1924 A Hunger Artist (short story) [read 2016]
1924 In the Penal Colony (short story) [read 2016]
1925 Soldier's Home (short story) [read 2009]
1925 Cat in the Rain (short story) [read 2009]
1925 In Our Time (story collection) [read 2009]
1925 The Great Gatsby [read 2010]
1926 The Sun also Rises [read 2009]
1926 The Killers (short story) [read 2010]
1926 The Torrents of Spring [n/a]
1926 A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (short story) [read 2010]
1926 Haircut (short story) [read 2016]
1927 Hills Like White Elephants (short story) [read 2010]
1927 Ten Indians (short story) [read 2010]
1928 Disorder and Early Sorrow (novelette) [read 2016]
1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover [read 2016]
1929 The Sound and the Fury [read 2011]
1929 Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan [read 2008]
1930 Dry September (short story) [read 2013]
1930 The Rocking-Horse Winner (short story) [read 2017]
1932 The Pastures of Heaven [read 2009]
1933 To a God Unknown [read 2010]
1935 Tortilla Flat [read 2011]
1936 The Death of the Heart [read 2009]
1936 In Dubious Battle [read 2011]
1937 The Red Pony (novella) [read 2006]
1942 The Stranger [read 2017]

Edit June 9, 2018: This is a pretty good collection with some gems. But I think I did not enjoy the non-English language ones so much. I am just not very intrigued by Third World peasant cultures enough to do more than skim through those that seemed like place-fillers.

Journal Entry 2 by eastbaybookmisr at LFL - Maybelle Ave (3900) in Oakland, California USA on Sunday, June 10, 2018

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