Table
of contents and links to online texts of some of the stories collected in:
The
World's Best Short Short Stories 極短篇名作選
edited
by Roger B. Goodman
1.
Sholom Aleichem:
A Wedding without Musicians
2. William
E. Barrett: Senor
Payroll
3. Bidpa:
How Light Belief Bringeth Damage
4. Ambrose
Bierce: A
Psychological Shipwreck
5. Ray
Bradbury: I See
You Never
6. Samuel
Clemens: Luck
7.
Alphonse
Daudet: A
Game of Billiards
8. Angelica
Gibbs: The Test
9.
Oliver
Goldsmith: The
Disabled Soldier
10. Herbert
Goldstone: Virtuoso
11.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne: The
Hollow of Three Hills
12. Lafcadio
Hearn: The
Boy Who Drew Cats
13. O.
Henry: The
Exact Science of Matrimony
14. Washington
Irving: The
Wife
15. Isaac
Loeb Perez: If Not
Still Higher
16. Michael
McLaverty: The Wild
Duck's Nest
17. Ricardo
Palma: How the Devil
Lost His Poncho
18.
Dorothy Parker:
The Standard of Living
19. Edgar
Allan Poe: The
Oval Portrait
20. Horacio
Quiroga: Three Letters...and
a Footnote
21. August
Strindberg:
An
Attempt at Reform
22. Leo
Tolstoy: The
Three Hermits MP3
(source
page)
23.
Sylvia Townsend
Warner: The Phoenix
24.
E. B. White:
The Hour of Letdown
25. Else
Zantnev: How Grandpa
Came into the Money