Great Stories by Nobel Prize Winners

by · 1959

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A Nobel Prize for Literature is the most coveted of literary distinctions. The prize has been given for over 90 years & its recipients are among the most outstanding writers of our time. An anthology of stories selected from the finest work of such writers is inevitably of high caliber. In an introduction the editors give a history of the prize & preface each selection with a biographical sketch. A truly international collection, the book reflects the shifts in literary style &, in many instances, makes available stories no longer easily accessible.

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Preface —

Father / Bjornsterne Bjornsen —

Man who was / Rudyard Kipling —

Outlaws / Selma Lagerlof —

Massacre of the innocents / Maurice Maeterlinck —

Flagman Thiel / Gerhart Hauptmann —

Saved / Sir Rabindranath Tagore —

Fisher nest / Henrik Pontoppidan —

Call of life / Knut Hamsun —

Procurator of Judea / Anatole France —

Crucifixion of the outcast / William Butler Yeats —

Death / Wladyslaw Reymont —

Miraculous revenge / George Bernard Shaw —

Sardinian fox / Grazia Deledda —

Little Lizzy / Thomas Mann —

What that kind of mush gets you / Sinclair Lewis —

Sunstroke / Ivan Bunin —

War / Luigi Pirandello —

Operation / Roger Martin Du Gard —

Lost forests / Johannes V. Jensen —

Within and without / Herman Hesse —

That evening sun / William Faulkner —

Lift that went down into Hell / Par Lagerkvist —

Man of letters / Francois Mauriac —

Lily / Haldor Laxness —

Guest / Albert Camus —

Tratto de Apelle / Boris Pasternak

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