That Glimpse of Truth
豆瓣
100 of the Finest Short Stories Ever Written
David Miller (Editor)
简介
Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of the 100 finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. Wide in scope, both beautiful and vast, this is the perfect companion for any fiction lover.
Here are Man Booker Prize winners and Nobel Laureates, childhood favourites and neglected masters, twenty-first century wits and national treasures.
Featuring an all-star cast of authors, including Julian Barnes, Angela Carter, Anton Chekhov, Roald Dahl, Penelope Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Ian McEwan, Alice Munro, V.S. Pritchett, Thomas Pynchon and Muriel Spark, THAT GLIMPSE OF TRUTH is the biggest, most handsome collection of short fiction in print today.
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CONTENTS
Introduction
The Book of Jonah (Anon.)
The Deceitful Marriage (Miguel de Cervantes)
The Children of Hameln (The Brothers Grimm)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Nose (Nokolai Gogol)
The Signal-Man (Charles Dickens)
A Simple Heart (Gustave Flaubert)
Desiree's Baby (Kate Chopin)
The Horla (Guy de Maupassant)
The Lagoon (Joseph Conrad)
Fleet-Footed Hester (George Gissing)
A Scandal in Bohemia (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A Lecture Tour (Knut Hamsun)
Cree Queery and Mysy Drolly (J.M. Barrie)
The Lady with the Dog (Anton Chekhov)
The Cop and the Anthem (O. Henry)
The Other Two (Edith Wharton)
"O Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" (M.R. James)
Mary Postgate (Rudyard Kipling)
The Loaded Dog (Henry Lawson)
A Cold Autumn (Ivan Bunin)
Sredni Vashtar (Saki)
Consequences (Willa Cather)
The Three Horsemen (G.K. Chesterton)
Mr. Know-All (W. Somerset Maugham)
A Little Ramble (Robert Walser)
Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend (P.G. Wodehouse)
Forgotten Dreams (Stefan Zweig)
Solid Objects (Virginia Woolf)
Eveline (James Joyce)
A Hunger Artist (Franz Kafka)
The Ring (Isak Dinesen)
The Rocking-Horse Winner (D.H. Lawrence)
A Married Man's Story (Katherine Mansfield)
The Fall of the Idol (Richmal Crompton)
My First Fee (Isaac Babel)
The Hare and the Tortoise (Aesop)
Babylon Revisited (F.Scott Fitzgerald)
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (Jorge Luis Borges)
Sunday Afternoon (Elizaebth Bowen)
How to Write a Short Story (Sean O'Faolain)
A Family Man (V.S. Pritchett)
Gimpel the Fool (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
Guests of the Nation (Frank O'Connor)
The Red Shoes (Hans Christian Andersen)
Love (William Maxwell)
Petrified Man (Eudora Welty)
The Swimmer (John Cheever)
The Blush (Elizabeth Taylor)
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Delmore Schwartz)
Rashbery Jam (Angus Wilson)
The Last Mohican (Bernard Malamud)
Parson's Pleasure (Roald Dahl)
The Red-Haired Girl (Penelope Fitzgerald)
The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
The Executor (Muriel Spark)
The Smallest Woman in the World (Clarice Lispector)
The Wedding Ring (Mavis Gallant)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (Stephen Crane)
Live Bait (Frank Tuohy)
The Pagan Rabbi (Cynthia Ozick)
Broken Homes (William Trevor)
Dream Cargoes (J.G. Ballard)
The Children Stay (Alice Munro)
Under the Rose (Julia O'Faolain)
The Wine Breath (John McGahern)
ToyFolk (Edith Pearlman)
Private Tuition by Mr Bose (Anita Desai)
Entropy (Thomas Pynchon)
Errand (Raymond Carver)
The Dying Room (Georgina Hammick)
Lizzie's Tiger (Angela Carter)
At the Beach (Benard MacLaverty)
Report on the Shadow Industry (Peter Carey)
The Teacher's Story (Gita Mehta)
Radio Gannet (Shena Mackay)
Marriage Lines (Julian Barnes)
Solid Geometry (Ian McEwan)
Emergency (Denis Johnson)
Let Me Count the Times (Martin Amis)
Cun (Nguyen Huy Thiep)
Unseen Translation (Kate Atkinson)
D'accord, Baby (Hanif Kureishi)
The Tangling Point (Tim Parks)
The Cold Outside (John Burnside)
Summer of '38 (Colm Toibin)
Two Boys (Lorrie Moore)
Boner McPharlin's Moll (Tim Winton)
The Wavemaker Falters (George Saunders)
A Real Doll (R.M. Homes)
The Toymaker and His Wife (Joanne Harris)
Marching Songs (Keith Ridgway)
Mixed Breeding (Nicola Barker)
Beauty's Sister (James Bradley)
Nothing Visible (Siddhartha Deb)
The Deep (Anthony Doerr)
The Thing Around Your Neck (Chimamanda Ngozi)