• Publication: Great Short Stories: Fiction from the Masters of World LiteraturePublication Record # 641892
• Editor: Charles Neider
• Date: 1995-00-00
• ISBN: 0-7867-0268-0 [978-0-7867-0268-8]
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf
• Price:
  $16.95^?$: US dollar
• Pages: xvi+553
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • "First Carroll & Graf edition 1989; Second edition 1995."
  • First printing per number line.
  • Only speculative stories have been listed in the contents here.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 7 • A Passion in the Desert • non-genre • (1898) • short story by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of Une passion dans le désert 1830)
• 39 • True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal • (1946) • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706)
• 48 • Savannah-la-mar • (1845) • short story by Thomas De Quincey
• 73 • The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller • (1924) • novelette by Gustave Flaubert (trans. of La légende de saint Julien l'Hospitalier 1877)
• 108 • The Gray Champion • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 152 • The History of Krakatuk • (1833) • short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Das Märchen von der harten Nuß 1816)
• 174 • The Great Good Place • (1900) • novelette by Henry James
• 205 • A Country Doctor • (1948) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Ein Landarzt 1918)
• 211 • The Beggar-Woman of Locarno • (1934) • short story by Heinrich von Kleist (trans. of Das Bettelweib von Locarno 1810)
• 214 • The Outlaws • (1899) • short story by
  Selma Lagerlöf^?Selma Lagerloef
  Selma Lagerlof
  (trans. of Den fågelfrie 1894)
• 266 • The Massacre of the Innocents • (1925) • short story by Maurice Maeterlinck (trans. of Le massacre des innocents 1886)
• 328 • The Imp of the Perverse • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 356 • The Undertaker • (1936) • short story by
  Александр Пушкин^?Alexander Pushkin
  (trans. of
  Гробовщик^?Grobovshchik
  1831) [as by Alexander Pushkin]
• 368 • The Stranger • (1932) • short story by Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. of Der fremde Mann 1900)
• 417 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 449 • The Hungry Stones • (1916) • short story by
  রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর^?Ravīndranātha Thākura
  (trans. of
  ক্ষুধিত পাষান^?Kshudhita Pashan
  1895) [as by Rabindranath Tagore]
• 461 • The Three Hermits: An Old Legend Current in the Volga District • (1907) • short story by
  Лев Толстой^?Lev Tolstoy
  (trans. of
  Три старца^?Tri startsa
  1886) [as by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy]
• 478 • A Dog's Tale • (1903) • short story by Mark Twain
• 514 • Idiots First • (1961) • short fiction by Bernard Malamud
• 524 • The Vane Sisters • (1951) • short story by Vladimir Nabokov