The Art of the tale : an international anthology of short stories /
edited by Daniel Halpern.
- New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1987.
- xiii, 816, [4] p. ; 24 cm.
"Elisabeth Sifton books."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [817]-[820]).
Sacrificial egg / Bound man / Little whale, varnisher of reality / Hair jewellery / Everything / Going to meet the man / Child screams and looks back at you / Cortes and Montezuma / Jacklighting / First love / Action will be taken / Do stay, giraffe / Aleph / This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Cowardice / A distant episode / Greasy Lake / Ceil / Seven floors / Adventure of a traveler / Adulterous woman / Children on their birthdays / Fat / Country husband / Quenby and Ola, Swede and Carl / Bestiary / Heile Selassie funeral train / C. Achebe -- I. Aichinger -- V. Aksenov -- M. Atwood -- I. Bachman -- J. Baldwin -- R. Banks -- D. Barthelme -- A. Beattie -- S. Beckett -- H. Boll -- W. Borchert -- J.L. Borges -- T. Borowski -- A. Boulaich -- P. Bowles -- T.C. Boyle -- H. Brodkey -- D. Buzzati -- I. Calvino -- A. Camus -- T. Capote -- R. Carver -- J. Cheever -- R. Coover -- J. Cortazar -- G. Davenport. Cloak / Hunter / I look out for Ed Wolfe / Communist / Doll queen / Chosen husband / Order of insects / Mother / Life of the imagination / Two gentle people / Why I transformed myself into a nightingale / One arm / Let the old dead make room for the young dead / Gogol's wife / Habit of loving / Challenge / Conjurer made off with the disk / Last Mohican / Pilgrimage / First love, last rites / The deal / Patriotism / I. Dinesen -- E.L. Doctorow -- S. Elkin -- R. Ford -- C. Fuentes -- M. Gallant -- W. Gass -- N. Ginzberg -- N. Gordimer -- G. Greene -- W. Hildescheimer -- Y. Kawabata -- M. Kundera -- T. Landolfi -- D. Lessing -- M. Vargas Llosa -- N. Mahfouz -- B. Malamud -- W. Maxwell -- I. McEwan -- L. Michaels -- Y. Mishima. (cont.) Jewellery / Doctor Safi / Spring in Fialta / Naga / The tryst / Sister Imelda / Artificial nigger / A set of variations on a borrowed theme / Nomad and viper / Suitcase / Contest / Suicides / Saint / Eventide / Replacement / Rain / In the garden / Talpa / XXII / Henne fire / Unguided tour / Children are bored on Sunday / Friend and protector / Death and the maiden / Beyond the pale / Separating / I'm your horse in the night / No place for you, my love / Five-twenty / Hunters in the snow / Big black good man / Best of everything / A. Moravia -- M. Mrabet -- V. Nabokov -- R.K. Narayan -- J.C. Oates -- E. O'Brien -- F. O'Connor -- F. O'Connor -- A. Oz -- C. Ozick -- G. Paley -- C. Pavese -- V.S. Pritchett -- J. Purdy -- A. Robbe-Grillet -- M. Rodoreda -- L. Rooke -- J. Rulfo -- N. Sarraute -- I. Bashevis Singer -- S. Sontag -- J. Stafford -- P. Taylor -- M. Tournier -- W. Trevor -- J. Updike -- L. Valenzuela -- E. Welty -- P. White -- T. Wolff -- R. Wright -- R. Yates.