1001 Great Stories: Volume 1

Edited, with a Note, by Douglas Messerli

See Volume 2

Series No.: Collection of Stories

ISBN: 1-931243-94-8, Pages: 256

World Literature, Fiction

Volume 1 of 1001 Great Stories features…

Mario Benedetti, "The Budget" (Uruguay)

Can Xue, "The Date" (China)

José Maria Eça de Quieroz, "A Lyric Poet" (Portugal)

Nikolai Gogol, "The Overcoat" (Russia)

Tommaso Landolfi, "Gogol’s Wife" (Italy)

Valery Larbaud, "Rachel Frutiger" (France)

Yuri Olyesha, "Love" (USSR / now Russia)

Virgilio Piñera, "The Face" (Cuba)

Arno Schmidt, "Cows in Half Mourning" (Germany)

Mikhail Zoshchenko, "The Overshoe" (USSR / now Russia)

This entertaining and educational series will help English-language readers discover international writing and recognize their own writers within that context.