Great Short Stories of the World
The leader of the people / Mr. Know-All / Vanka / The happy prince / The old demon / The sailor-boy's tale / Young Archimedes / Butch minds the baby / Suspicion / Hautot and his son / The open boat / My cedipus complex / The snows of Kilimanjaro / A letter to God / The little Bouilloux girl / The ruby / Six feet of the country / The boarding house / The brute / A double game / Maternity / Lead her like a pigeon / God sees the truth, but waits / The walker-through-walls / The lottery / The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / The Augsburg chalk circle / The overcoat / Blind MacNair / The procurator of Judaea / The open window / Maria Concepcion / My Lord, The baby / The end of the party / Modern children / Babylon revisited / Carrion spring / Just lather, that's all / The secret life of Walter Mitty / The rocking-horse winner / The Sunday menace / The mezzotint / The alligators / Pelageya / Haircut / The burning city / Fireworks for Elspeth / The old Chief Mshlanga / Who cares? / Over the river and through the wood / Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / The Drover's wife / The huntsmen / The guest / Patience / Among the paths to Eden / Admiral's night / The bet / The man who could work miracles / A country love story / A worn path / The outstation / A priest in the family / The cop and the anthem / Marriage a la mode / The nightingale / The launch / The wreath / The eighty-yard run / You were perfectly fine / Luzina takes a holiday.
FictionAnthologies (multiple authors)
RELEASED1972
PUBLISHERReader's Digest Association
LENGTH799
LANGUAGEEN
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Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) wrote works both in Danish and in English. She is best known, at least in English, for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya, and one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into highly acclaimed, Academy Award-winning motion pictures. In Denmark she is best known for her works Out of Africa (Danish Den afrikanske Farm) and Seven Gothic Tales (Danish Syv fantastiske Fortællinger; from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Blixen).
Great Short Stories of the World
by Reader's Digest Association
The leader of the people / Mr. Know-All / Vanka / The happy prince / The old demon / The sailor-boy's tale / Young Archimedes / Butch minds the baby / Suspicion / Hautot and his son / The open boat / My cedipus complex / The snows of Kilimanjaro / A letter to God / The little Bouilloux girl / The ruby / Six feet of the country / The boarding house / The brute / A double game / Maternity / Lead her like a pigeon / God sees the truth, but waits / The walker-through-walls / The lottery / The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / The Augsburg chalk circle / The overcoat / Blind MacNair / The procurator of Judaea / The open window / Maria Concepcion / My Lord, The baby / The end of the party / Modern children / Babylon revisited / Carrion spring / Just lather, that's all / The secret life of Walter Mitty / The rocking-horse winner / The Sunday menace / The mezzotint / The alligators / Pelageya / Haircut / The burning city / Fireworks for Elspeth / The old Chief Mshlanga / Who cares? / Over the river and through the wood / Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / The Drover's wife / The huntsmen / The guest / Patience / Among the paths to Eden / Admiral's night / The bet / The man who could work miracles / A country love story / A worn path / The outstation / A priest in the family / The cop and the anthem / Marriage a la mode / The nightingale / The launch / The wreath / The eighty-yard run / You were perfectly fine / Luzina takes a holiday.
FictionAnthologies (multiple authors)
RELEASED1972
PUBLISHERReader's Digest Association
LENGTH799
LANGUAGEEN
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) wrote works both in Danish and in English. She is best known, at least in English, for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya, and one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into highly acclaimed, Academy Award-winning motion pictures. In Denmark she is best known for her works Out of Africa (Danish Den afrikanske Farm) and Seven Gothic Tales (Danish Syv fantastiske Fortællinger; from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Blixen).
