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Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo

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Born January 1, 1912
Died January 1, 1955 (43 years old)
Samrala, Dominion of Pakistan
Also known as: Saʻādat Ḥasan Maṇto, Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo
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Manṭo ke mutanāzʻah afsāne

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Stories, based on social themes.

Manṭo aur mizāh

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Collection of the works of Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo, 1912-1955, a noted short story writer from Pakistan.

Gañje phariśte

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Sketches of some Indian film actors and actresses.

The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997

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Stories and excerpts of novels from India since the country attained its independence in 1947. The subjects range from religious strife, to the assault on the senses of the many people one is surrounded by.

Bombay stories

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This sometimes shocking collection of short stories about life in mid-20th-century Bombay captures the city's seedy underbelly of prostitutes, pimps and gangsters as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame.

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George Meredith, Clarice Lispector, Herman Melville, Alexandre Dumas, O. Henry, Virgilio Piñera, Robert Walser, Steve Frazee, Montague Rhodes James, Thomas, Gwyn, Henry James, Dylan Thomas, Guy de Maupassant, Kay Boyle, Louisa May Alcott, María Luisa Bombal, Colette, Manoj Das, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Louis Stevenson, Washington Irving, Bruce Jay Friedman, Heinrich Böll, Wallace Stegner, Nadine Gordimer, Tadeusz Borowski, Seán O'Faoláin, Shūsaku Endō, Aldous Huxley, Joseph Hergesheimer, Vasiliĭ Makarovich Shukshin, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Stephen Crane, Elizabeth Bowen, John Steinbeck, Voltaire, Willa Cather, Giovanni Verga, Juan Benet, Noël Coward, Wright Morris, T. Coraghessan Boyle, James Thurber, Francisco Coloane, Howard Mumford Jones, Basheer, Vaikom Muhammad, Mark Twain, Patrick O'Brian, Theodore Dreiser, Ambrose Bierce, Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo, Langston Hughes, Stefan Zweig, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Norman Duncan, Bernard Malamud, Bret Harte, Richard Yates, Olive Schreiner, J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, John McGahern, Louis L'Amour, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, H. G. Wells, Fitz-James O'Brien, Rabindranath Tagore, Anthony Trollope, E. L. Doctorow, Pádraic H. Pearse, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Isaac Babel, Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, Ousmane Sembène, Honoré de Balzac, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Horacio Quiroga, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Haroldo Conti, Chester Himes, Лев Толстой, E. M. Forster, Yury Valentinovich Trifonov, Frederick Faust, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Oscar Wilde, Isaak Babel, Иван Сергеевич Тургенев, Robert Graves, אברהם ב. יהושע, Kamala Das, Константи́н Гео́ргиевич Паусто́вский, Théophile Gautier, Luigi Pirandello, Josef Škvorecký, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Denis Diderot, Juan Carlos Onetti, William Faulkner, Irwin Shaw, Hjalmar Söderberg, Иван Алексеевич Бунин, Siegfried Lenz, Hermann Hesse, Munshi Premchand, Николай Васильевич Гоголь, John O'Hara, Thomas Wolfe, Clare Boylan, Padraic Colum, Torgny Lindgren, Kate Chopin, V. S. Pritchett, William Merritt Sale, Ruth Rendell, Donald Barthelme, F. Scott Fitzgerald, André Dubus, Bertolt Brecht, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Anna Maria Ortese, Caroline Gordon, Antonia White, Антон Павлович Чехов, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Virginia Woolf, Reynolds Price, Jack London, Sholem Aleichem, Katherine Mansfield, H. E. Bates, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Prosper Mérimée, Frank Tuohy, Frank R. Stockton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, William Somerset Maugham, Amanda Cross, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Fakir Mohan Senapati, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Peter Hillsman Taylor
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Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving [Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Fall of the House of Usher]( / Edgar Allan Poe The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte [Damned Thing]( / Ambrose Bierce The turn of the screw / Henry James The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett The gift of the Magi / O. Henry The moving finger / Edith Wharton The open boat / Stephen Crane Lou, the prophet / Willa Cather The men of Forty Mile / Jack London Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald [A rose for Emily]( William Faulkner Big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway Flight / John Steinbeck