Short Shorts by João Guimarães Rosa, I.L. Peretz, Sherwood Anderson, Isaac Babel, Luisa Valenzuela, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich von Kleist, Heinrich Böll, Gottfried Keller, Octavio Paz, Mikhail Zoschenko, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Gabriel García Márquez, James Joyce, Ilana W. Howe, Doris Lessing, Jorge Luis Borges, Yukio Mishima, Giovanni Verga, D.H. Lawrence, Jerome Weidman, Maria Luise Kaschnitz, James Thurber, Varlam Shalamov, Grace Paley, Sholom Aleichem, Irving Howe, Katherine Anne Porter, Paula Fox, William Carlos Williams, Luigi Pirandello, Augusto Monterroso, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Stephen Crane

Short Shorts

João Guimarães Rosa, I.L. Peretz, Sherwood Anderson, Isaac Babel, Luisa Valenzuela, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich von Kleist, Heinrich Böll, Gottfried Keller, Octavio Paz, Mikhail Zoschenko, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Gabriel García Márquez, James Joyce, Ilana W. Howe, Doris Lessing, Jorge Luis Borges, Yukio Mishima, Giovanni Verga, D.H. Lawrence, Jerome Weidman, Maria Luise Kaschnitz, James Thurber, Varlam Shalamov, Grace Paley, Sholom Aleichem, Irving Howe, Katherine Anne Porter, Paula Fox, William Carlos Williams, Luigi Pirandello, Augusto Monterroso, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Stephen Crane

262 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging reflective fast-paced

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Short Shorts is a delightful anthology of miniature masterpieces. Here are thirty-eight brief, brilliant flashes of fiction, both classic and contemporary. Each work is superb, intense, and speaks to the human condition in a profound, often provoc...

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