The Art of the tale: an international anthology of short stories, 1945-1985

The sacrificial egg / Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) The bound man / Ilse Aichinger (Australia) Little Whale, varnisher of reality / Vasily Aksenov (Russia) Hair jewellery / Margaret Atwood (Canada) Everything / Ingeborg Bachmann (Austria) Going to meet the man / James Baldwin (United States The child screams and looks back at you / Russell Banks (United States) Cortés and Montezuma / Donald Barthelme (United States) Jacklighting / Ann Beattie (United States) First love / Samuel Beckett (Ireland) Action will be taked / Heinrich Böll (Germany) Do stay, giraffe / Wolfgang Borchert (Germany) The aleph / Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski (Poland) Cowardice / Abdeslam Boulaich (Morroco) A distant episode / Paul Bowles (United States) Greasy lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle (United States) Ceil / Harold Brodkey (United States) Seven floors / Dino Buzzati (Italy) The adventures of a traveler / Italo Calvino (Italy) The adulterous woman / Albert Camus (France) Children on their birthdays / Truman Capote (United States) Fat / Raymond Carver (United States) The country husband / John Cheever (United States) Quenby and Ola, Swede and Carl / Robert Coover (United States) Bestiary / Julio Cortázar (Argentina) The Haile Selassie funeral train / Guy Davenport (United States) The cloak / Isak Dinesen (Denmark) The hunter / E. L. Doctorow (United States) I look out for Ed Wolfe / Stanley Elkin ( United States)

Communist / Richard Ford (United States) The doll queen / Carlos Fuentes (Mexico) The chosen husband / Mavis Gallant (Canada) Order of insects / William Gass (United States) The mother / Natalia Ginzburg (Italy) The life of the imagination / Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) Two gentle people / Graham Greene (England) Why I transformed myself into a nightingale / Wolfgang Hildesheimer (Germany) One arm / Yasunari Kawabata (Japan) Let the old dead make room for the young dead / Milan Kundera (Czechoslovakia) Gogol's wife / Tommaso Landolfi (Italy) The habit of loving / Doris Lessing (England) The challenge / Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) The conjurer made off with the dish / Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) The last Mohican / Bernard Malamud (United States) Eyes of a blue dog / Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia) The pilgrimage / William Maxwell (United States) First love, last rites / Ian McEwan (England) The deal / Leonard Michaels (United States) Patriotism / Yukio Mishima (Japan) Jewellery / Alberto Moravia (Italy) Doctor Safi / Mohammed Mrabet (Morocco) Spring in Fialta / Vladimir Nabokov (Russia) Naga / R. K. Narayan (India) The tryst / Joyce Carol Oates (United States) Sister Imelda / Edna O'Brien (Ireland) The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor (United States) A set of variations on a borrowed theme / Frank O'Connor (Ireland) Nomad and Viper / Amos Oz (Israel) The suitcase / Cynthia Ozick (United States) The contest / Grace Paley (United States) Suicides / Cesare Pavese (Italy) The saint / V. S. Pritchett (England) Eventide / James Purdy (United States) The replacement / Alain Robbe-Grillet (France)

Rain / Mercè Rodoreda (Spain)

In the garden / Leon Rooke (Canada)

Talpa / Juan Rulfo (Mexico)

XXII / Nathalie Sarraute (France)

Henne Fire / Isaac Bashevis Singer (Poland)

Unguided Tour / Susan Sontag (United States)

Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford (United States)

A friend and protector / Peter Taylor (United States)

Death and the maiden / Michel Tournier (France)

Beyond the Pale / William Trevor (Ireland)

Separating / John Updike (United States)

I'm your horse in the night / Luisa Valenzuela (Argentina)

No place for you, my love / Eudora Welty (United States)

Five-twenty / Patrick White (Australia)

Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff (United States)

Big black good man / Richard Wright (United States)

The best of everything / Richard Yates (United States).