01289nam a2200169Ia 4500003000500000005001700005008004100022040001400063041000800077050001300085245012400098260004200222300002900264520074500293650004701038700003401085449920250107150428.0200820s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  cB000bspa  aeng  aPZ1bS75 4aThe pocket book of short stories :bAmerican, English, and Continental masterpieces /ceditado por Morris Edmund Speare  aEstados Unidos :bPocket Books,c1941  a428 p. :c12.5 x 16.4 cm  aTwenty-two stories, lond and short, serious and grave, light and humorous, poignant tales of love, and stories of the bizarre, the horrible, the unusual, are gathered here from twenty-two masters of the short-story art. This is an unusually representative collection from the works of the world's greatest story-tellers. Three Nobel Prize-Winners are represented here: Thomas, Mann, Anatole France, and Ivan Bunin. Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, Saki, W. W. Jacobs and Stevenson are among the English masters included. From Americans are some of the finest stories of Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Stephen Vincent Benét, Sherwood Anderson, Ring Lardner, Dorothy Parker, and of an earlier period, Twain, Herte, O. Henry, and Poe.  aLiteraturaxFicción en inglésxCuentos  aSpeare, Morris Edmundeeditor