23 Great Stories

402 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe“To Build a Fire” by Jack London“The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant“The Man Who Would Be King” by Rudyard Kipling“The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry“The South” by Jorge Luis Borges“Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor“The Blind Dog” by R. K. Narayanand Fifteen Other Classic Tales in One VolumeMasterpieces by some of the finest writers ever to make words come alive on paper, the stories in this volume have been selected to represent the full spectrum of the storyteller’s art. Here are works of suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama. Given sharpened focus through insightful editorial commentary, each of these tales is distinctive in style and vision—and each is uniquely memorable.

• Reihe: Penguin Publishing Group
• ISBN: 9780451532336
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.08.2013
• Größe: 172 x 108 mm
• Verlag: Random House
• Herausgegeben von: David Leavitt, Aaron Thier