23 Great Stories

23 Great Stories
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ISBN-10 : 9780451532336
ISBN-13 : 0451532333
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Book Synopsis 23 Great Stories by : David Leavitt

Download or read book 23 Great Stories written by David Leavitt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe “To Build a Fire” by Jack London “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant “The Man Who Would Be King” by Rudyard Kipling “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry “The South” by Jorge Luis Borges “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor “The Blind Dog” by R. K. Narayan and Fifteen Other Classic Tales in One Volume Masterpieces by some of the finest writers ever to make words come alive on paper, the stories in this volume have been selected to represent the full spectrum of the storyteller’s art. Here are works of suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama. Given sharpened focus through insightful editorial commentary, each of these tales is distinctive in style and vision—and each is uniquely memorable.


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