1001 Great Stories: Volume 2

Edited, with a Note, by Douglas Messerli

See Volume 1

Series No.: Collection of Stories

ISBN: 978-1-931243-98-8, Pages: 220

World Literature, Fiction

Volume 2 of 1001 Great Stories features…

Djuna Barnes, “A Night Among the Horses” (USA)

Mohammed Dib, “Beneath the Black Veil” (Algeria/France)

Andreas Embiricos, “Excelsior, or the Rose of Isfahan”

Daniela Fischerová, “The Thirty-Sixth Chicken of Master Wu” (Czech Republic)

Oliverio Girondo, “Lunarlude” (Argentina)

Hagiwara Sakutarō, “Cat Town” (Japan)

Georg Heym, “An Afternoon” (Germany)

Aldous Huxley, “Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers” (England/USA)

Lojze Kovačič, “A Story of the Dead Ljudmila” (Slovenia)

Niccolò Tucci, “Hey!” (Italy/USA)

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