Impact
Fifty Short Stories
Tales with a twist: Tiger in the house / Ruskin Bond -- Rolls for the Czar / Robin Kinkead -- Panther: Bedtime story / Pinckney Benedict -- Astrologer's day / R.K. Narayan -- Colomber / Dino Buzzati -- Turning points: Three wise guys: Un Cuento De Navidad-Christmas story / Sandra Cisneros -- Trout / Sean O'Faolain -- No-guitar blues / Gary Soto -- I confess / Wei Wenjuan -- War / Luigi Pirandello -- Heart of the matter: Home / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Success story / James Gould Cozzens -- Man to send rainclouds / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe -- Bracelet / Yoshido Uchida -- Plot: Revolt of the evil fairies / Ted Poston -- Dinner party / Mona Gardner -- Stolen day / Sherwood Anderson -- Who's there? / Arthur C. Clarke -- Interlopers / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- Character: Gentleman of Rio En Medio / Juan A.A. Sedillo -- Thank you, M'am / Langston Hughes -- All the years of her life / Morley Callaghan -- Rifles of the regiment / Eric Knight -- Charles / Shirley Jackson -- Setting: All summer in a day / Ray Bradbury -- Sniper / Liam O'Flaherty -- Too soon a woman / Dorothy M. Johnson -- Wild duck's nest / Michael McLaverty -- La Puerta / Jose Antonio Buciaga -- Point of view: Day's wait / Ernest Hemingway -- Zlateh the goat / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- What happened during the ice storm / Jim Heynen -- Piece of yarn / Guy de Maupassant -- Lady, or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton -- Tone: Circuit / Francisco Jimenez -- Secret for two / Quentin Reynolds -- Princess and the tin box / James Thurber -- Top of the food chain / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Just lather, that's all / Hernando Tellez -- Theme: Emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Anderson -- Nincompoop / Anton Chekhov -- Ambush / Tim O'Brien -- Game of catch / Richard Wilbur -- Return / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Total effect: [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- August heat / William Fryer Harvey -- Luck / Mark Twain -- Gift of the magi / O. Henry -- Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz.
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Nonfiction, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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Nonfiction · Fiction
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-0300-8623-6
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL9225399M
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